Katherine Kane (Earth-Two)

Real Name: Katherine "Kathy" Kane Nicknames: Kathy Former Aliases: No known former aliases Other Current Aliases: No other known current aliases

Status
Occupation: None independently wealthy Legal Status: Erased from existence Kane was a citizen of the United States on Earth-Two with no criminal record. Identity: Secret Marital Status: Single Group Affiliation: Former assocaited partner of Batman and Robin of Earth-Two; Occasional former partner of Earth Two Bat-girl Base of Operations: Gotham City, Earth-Two

Origin
Origin of character unknown.

Place of Birth: Specific place of birth on Classic Earth-Two is unknown Place of Death: Presumed killed in Gotham City of Classic Earth-Two by the destruction of Earth-2 in the Crisis on Infinite Earths Known Relatives: No known biological relatives First Appearance: Historic: Detective Comics #233 (July 1956) Final Appearance: As Earth-2 specific: Brave and the Bold 182 Suggested killed with the complete destruction and historic elimination of Earth-Two in Crisis on Infinite Earths #11

History
The specific history of why Katherine "Kathy" Kane became Batwoman was undisclosed. It was suggesed that she was extremely infatuated with Batman to the point that she assumed the costume identity in order to get close to him and hopefully engage in an emotional relatiuonship with him. It worked but not quite in the way she had hoped as the Earth-Two Batman wanted her to retire from the role fearing that she would be hurt in her costumed exploits. Kane would continue to operate in her costumed identity until around the early-1950s when she learned that Batman had become deeply emotionally interested in someone in his unmasked identity. While Wayne never revealed his identity to her or explicitly told her of his private life she said she knew of his change in his attitude to her and assumed as such. She largely retired from her costumed role soon after this, though she continued to "help out" Batman on occasion not realizing that Grayson had replaced Wayne in the role after Wayne retired from the role or at least not specifically referring to it directly to Grayson.

She later returned to the role before the Earth-One Batman came to Earth-Two but immediately recognized that he was not the love of her life reborn, but was a completely new person. She finally realized that her chance at loving Batman was over and retired from the role and settled down to a civilian life. (Brave and the Bold 182)

If she had not died in the intervening years since that meeting with the Earth-One Batman, she was killed along with everyone else on his native Earth-Two in the Crisis on Infinite Earths and completely erased from history.