Paula Brooks

Prior to the Crisis on Infinite Earths, she battled Helena Wayne (who had become the new Huntress) and was defeated.[1]

During this time, an Earth-One Huntress and Sportsmaster are revealed. They fight Batgirl and Robin in Batman Family #7 and then challenge the Earth-1 superheroes to a baseball game between heroes and villains. When the heroes win, the Earth-One Huntress and Sportsmaster reform and are never seen again.[2][3]

After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Earth-One versions ceased to exist and the Golden Age versions became the dominant versions in the new unified universe.

Paula Brooks never uses the Tigress name or her real name during her Pre-Crisis adventures.

In the pages of Young All-Stars she was retroactively renamed the Tigress. These stories took place prior to her villainous career as the Huntress.[4]

At this point, the young Paula Brooks (approximately age 18-19) is a superheroine and fights both Nazis and criminals alongside Iron Munro, the first Fury, Neptune Perkins, Tsunami and Dan the Dyna-Mite. During these stories, Paula expresses a fan worship of Paul Kirk, the Manhunter I.[5] She frequently makes a play for Iron Munro as well. During a battle with the Nazi warriors known as Axis Amerika, the Tigress is attacked and seemingly killed by the Valkyrie known as Gudra. She was revived (it is unclear if she really was actually dead) with a new attitude, which eventually leads to her becoming the villainous Huntress. In the late 1990s JSA Returns miniseries, the Tigress has yet to fully embrace her villainous attitude and was still operating as a heroine and companion of the Manhunter I.

A full-page panel of Sensation Comics #68 (Aug. 1947), featuring Paula Brooks' debut

Upon donning a tiger-skin costume and becoming the Huntress years later, Paula Brooks tracked down Wildcat and trapped him in her private zoo as part of her plan to capture people who would throw people in prison. Wildcat became the first person she caught to break out.[6]

The Huntress returned where she plotted to capture Ted Grant and replace him with a double so that she would bet on his opponent and get money when the double lost. When the Huntress captured "Stretch" Skinner, she drew the attention of Wildcat. The Huntress and Wildcat fought to a draw as Wildcat and Skinner escaped her ship. When Ted won his bout, a disguised Huntress watched the match and later slipped away.[7]

Due to her reputation of fighting Wildcat, the Huntress was invited to join the Injustice Society. In a competition to see who would lead the group, the Huntress managed to steal Plymouth Rock and nearly defeated the Atom and the Flash.[8]

The Huntress and her men kidnapped Ted Grant and his opponent Mike Baily and held them for ransom. Ted broke out of his trap, became Wildcat, and brought the Huntress to justice.[9]

In 1949, the Huntress and the Sportsmaster rejoined the Injustice Society where they captured the members of the Justice Society. Some of its former members, like Wildcat, united to rescue them and defeat the Injustice Society.[10]

They fight the Black Canary and Starman in the 1960s, as well as continuing to serve as members of the Injustice Society.[11]

The Huntress and the Sportsmaster later got engaged and had a daughter named Artemis who took part in the family business.[12] Artemis worked to free her parents from Empire State Detention Center, only to be thrown into a wall by Solomon Grundy who was protecting Jade.[13] When Wildcat was poisoned during the Justice Society's next fight with the Injustice Society, the Huntress fought her own daughter.[14] As Wildcat was dying from the poison, the Justice Society worked to come up with an antidote while fighting the Huntress, the Sportsmaster, and the Thorn.[15]

Paula Brooks is later seen out of uniform in Young Justice at an Olympics-type event, where her daughter Artemis competes on behalf of Zandia, a country that harbors super-villains.[16]

In 2016, DC Comics implemented another relaunch of its books called DC Rebirth, which restored its continuity to a form much as it was prior to The New 52. When Hawkman and Hawkgirl recount their time with the Justice Society and the day that they fought the Injustice Society, the Tigress was seen as a member of the Injustice Society. Wildcat was the one who faced off against the Tigress and defeated her.[17]

• Paula Brooks / the Tigress makes a cameo appearance in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Aquaman's Outrageous Adventure!"
• A Vietnamese character inspired by Paula Brooks named Paula Nguyen appears in Young Justice, voiced by Kelly Hu. Introduced in the episode "Downtime", she had previously operated as the Huntress before she was confined to a wheelchair. Nguyen lives with her younger daughter, Artemis Crock, in a rundown apartment in Gotham City, and is aware of her eldest daughter Jade Nguyen's activities as an assassin.
• The mother of Evelyn Crawford Sharp / Artemis appears in the fourth season of Arrow as an unnamed woman who became involved with Damien Darhk and his syndicate the H.I.V.E. The Green Arrow and his team find Sharp's parents, but are unable to save them before they die of hypoxia and Malcolm Merlyn destroys the facility. The parents' bodies are later recovered from the wreckage.
• Paula Brooks / the Tigress appears in Stargirl, portrayed by Joy Osmanski.[21] This version is a member of the Injustice Society of America (ISA) who works as Blue Valley High School's gym teacher. In the pilot episode, she joined the ISA in attacking the Justice Society of America (JSA) before reluctantly going into retirement. In "The Justice Society", Brooks and the Sportsmaster come out of retirement to overpower Stargirl and her friends when they attempt to intercept an ISA operation, only to be driven off by S.T.R.I.P.E. In the two-part Season 1 finale "Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.", Brooks and the Sportsmaster assist the ISA in enacting Project: New America, only to be foiled by Stargirl's JSA. In "Summer School: Chapter Thirteen", Artemis Crock breaks Brooks and the Sportsmaster out of prison so they can help Cindy Burman and the JSA fight Eclipso. Following this, the Crock family move in next door to the Whitmore-Dugan family at the end of Season 2. In Season 3, Brooks and the Sportsmaster work with the JSA to investigate the Gambler's death and find the person responsible for spying on Blue Valley's citizens until they are killed by the Icicle.

Paula Brooks / the Tigress makes a cameo appearance in the DC Super Hero Girls episode "Welcome to Super Hero High".