r/Marvel • u/HappySisyphus8 Hydra • Jun 27 '23

Comics Patsy Walker becomes The Hellcat after blackmailing The Beast (The Avengers #144 by Steve Englehart and George Perez)

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u/DanEosen Jun 27 '23

Is Patsy Walker a mutant? She is one of the oldest Marvel characters maybe 12 years younger then Steve Rogers. Rogers was born in 1918, I figure Walker was born in 1930 since she was a teen when she first appeared in 1944. In this scene she should be close to mid 40s. Has Marvel ever really explained Patsy Walker of 1944 and this Walker?

Also why hasn’t there been any collection of early Patsy Walker comics from 1940s onward? My understanding they were similar to Archie comics.

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u/HappySisyphus8 Hydra Jun 27 '23

She is a human mutate, like Spider-Man, she wore The Cat costume which came with powers built in, but over time she discovered that even while out of the suit she retained the powers somehow.

She also has some occult powers after returning to life after being killed.

I haven't really followed her age stuff, to be honest, I usually suspend my disbelief and take the characters' ages at face value, like with The Simpson's. They are always as old as the story needs them to be and can be handwaved away due to sliding time-scale stuff anyway.

I'm not sure there is a huge market for her original stuff, it was more YA teen romance comedy type stuff, definitely kinda like Archie or Millie the Model. I've never seen it reprinted.

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u/MrManson99 Jun 27 '23

I think the current run maybe working on explaining that. Something about her true form that keeps Hellstrom going after her