>>149513786
Mmn, reading through this I'm noting that my autism was less weaponized that I thought. At the start I was constructing an actual alternate history, but around the halfway point I seem to have given up and just copy/pasted Batman's publication history and changed some names.
God dammit, past me, you're a lazy fuck.
Well, anyway, basic idea is that in this alternate history, The Cat character was popular enough among girls to cause a notable sales bump whenever she appeared in a comic, which meant DC comics gave The Cat her own comic line in the Golden Age, which girls liked and read, which lead to other Golden Age superhero comics intended to appeal to girls, which had the knockoff effect of superhero stories never being considered primarily for boys.
Silver Age Catwoman ran headfirst into the Comics Code Authority not letting Catwoman be morally gray, so she gets revamped as a modern Robin Hood-type character, stealing from gangsters and supervillains. Eventually she goes sci-fi just like Batman did. Notably, however, she doesn't get a proper origin story in the Golden or Silver Ages other than vague allusions to having traveled the world (and stolen stuff).
Spider-man still ends the CCA as per canon; the Brozne Age has Catwoman finally get a proper origin story. She can finally steal from people who don't deserve it again (museums and rich folk, though, never the poor/average people) and is even given actual, diagnosed kleptomania. Freed from CCA restraints, though, the comic ends up going a little TOO voluptuous and sexy.
She has a full-on Dark Age in the '80s and Frank Miller runs a train over her the way he did Batman in our timeline. He rewrites her origin to make her have been a prostitute for a while, which badly harms her image and led to declining sales until a Tim Burton movie in the late '80s/early '90s revitalized her.
And finally, the Modern Age. And all the nonsense that's happened over the past 20 years.
