Pamela Isley

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Poison Ivy
Aliases:	Poison Ivy; Pamela Lillian Isley ^[1]; Paula Irving
Continuity:	Batman
Notability:	Antagonist
Type:	Supervillain
Gender:	Female
Race:	Altered human
Location:	Gotham City
Status:	Alive
First:	Batman, Vol. 1 #181

Poison Ivy is a fictional comic book supervillain featured in the Batman family of comic book titles published by DC Comics. She first appeared in Batman #181, cover-dated June, 1966 and was created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Sheldon Moldoff. She made only a few appearances during the 1960s and 1970s, but really came into her own as a viable foil to Batman during the mid-1980s. From there, she has evolved to become one of the Dark Knight's deadliest adversaries.

Overview[]

Pamela Isley was once a botanist from Seattle, Washington who studied under Professor Jason Woodrue. Woodrue's bizarre obsessions however led him to experiment on Isley, which mutated her on a genetic, and possibly even mystical level, giving her an immunity to all poisons and toxins, and also gifted her with the abiity to produce pheromones. This drove Isley insane and soon after she adopted the costumed identity of Poison Ivy. Over time, Poison Ivy discovered that she had a mystical connection to The Green and could control the growth of other plant life. As her sanity diminished even further, Ivy developed an obsessive desire to see plants eventually consume the world.

Highlights[]

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Ivy's first major spectacle in Gotham City was when she challenged three other femme fatales, Dragonfly, Silken Spider and Tiger Moth for the title of most dangerous female criminal. She went up against Batman and Robin and briefly seduced Batman, but he managed to fight past her effects and arrest her. (Batman 181)

"Hush"[]

Poison Ivy used her pheromones to take control of Catwoman. She had Catwoman steal a ransom reward of ten million dollars, which had originally been acquired by Killer Croc. She then handed it over to Hush. (Batman: Hush 1)

Poison Ivy used Kryptonite lipstick to render Superman under her control. He was to be her muscle to take on Batman and Catwoman. Batman got through to Superman by staging an incident that placed Lois Lane's life in danger. After he was free of her control, Catwoman decided to get her own small measure of revenge by punching Ivy in the face, knocking her out. (Batman: Hush 1)

New 52[]

Poison Ivy went to the beach at Coney Island to help Harley Quinn determined who has been hired to kill her. She used her pheromone control to force two muscle-heads to massage their feet and give them pedicures, though Harley seemed more appreciative of this than Ivy was. Ivy spent the night at Harley's place to determined who had been using her computer to arrange the hit. She discovered that Harley had been sleepwalking and subconsciously put the hit out on herself. (Harley Quinn Vol 2 7)