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Tigra (Greer Grant Nelson) is a fictional American comic book superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. Introduced as the non-superpowered crime fighter The Cat in ''Claws of the Cat'' #1 (Nov. 1972), she was co-created by writer-editor Roy Thomas and artist Wally Wood (Marie Severin was then brought in to help layout the art), with her early adventures written by Linda Fite. She mutated into the super powered tiger-woman Tigra in ''Giant-Size Creatures'' #1 (July 1974), by writer Tony Isabella and penciller Don Perlin. Tigra was ranked 61st in ''Comics Buyer's Guide's'' "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list. ==Publication history== The Cat was introduced in one of a trio of Marvel Comics aimed at a female audience, alongside ''Night Nurse'' and ''Shanna the She-Devil''. Marvel writer-editor Roy Thomas recalled in 2007 that editor-in-chief Stan Lee... The series lasted four issues, each with a different art team. Severin was teamed with acclaimed 1950s EC Comics artist Wally Wood as inker for the premiere, followed by Severin and inker Jim Mooney in issue #2; newcomer Paty Greer co-penciling with 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books legend Bill Everett, who also inked, in issue #3; and Jim Starlin and Alan Weiss co-penciling the finale, with Frank McLaughlin inking. A fifth issue of the series was drawn by Ramona Fradon but the title was canceled due to lack of sales on previous issues. Severin attributes the character's sensual appearance to Wood: "I remember saying, 'My God, I drew this woman and Wally inked her like she’s wrapped in Saran Wrap.' His storytelling always had lovely inking, nice blacks and everything, but I didn’t have her that revealing. The boys loved his work, though." The Cat appeared alongside Spider-Man in ''Marvel Team-Up'' #8 (April 1973) during her series's brief run. After a year's absence, she was revamped as the super powered, part-animal Tigra in a two-part story in ''Giant-Size Creatures'' #1 (July 1974; "Giant-Size" refers to the comic's page-count, not giant creatures) and ''Werewolf by Night'' #20 (Aug. 1974). Writer Tony Isabella recounted "My memory may be a bit shaky here, but I recall the Giant-Size books were approved and put on the schedule without a lot of lead time... I think I got the assignment one day, pitched the idea on the next, and one day later was sitting down with Roy () and Gil Kane to work out what Tigra would look like."〔 He also names Don Perlin and John Romita, Sr. as having a hand in Tigra's appearance, and credits Thomas with coming up with the name.〔 Tigra made her solo-feature debut with a 15-page story in the black-and-white horror-comics magazine ''Monsters Unleashed'' #10 (Feb. 1975), followed by a brief run in the umbrella series ''Marvel Chillers'' #3-7 (Feb.-Oct. 1976), and one more solo story in ''Marvel Premiere'' #42 (June 1978). Like ''The Cat'', ''Marvel Chillers'' was cancelled due to struggling sales.〔 Tigra went on to guest star throughout the Marvel line, often appearing in issues of the superhero-team comic ''The Avengers'' and later in the cast of the spin-off ''West Coast Avengers''. She starred in the four-issue miniseries ''Tigra'' (May-Aug. 2002) by writer Christina Z. and artist Mike Deodato, and has since guest starred in ''She-Hulk'', ''Civil War'', various Avengers comics, and elsewhere. Tigra appeared as a supporting character in ''Avengers Academy'' from issue #1 (Aug. 2010) through its final issue #39 (Jan. 2013). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tigra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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