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Posted: 12 August 2025 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Found a post grumbling about my “tendency” to forget Tigra’s tail.

“Oh, come on!” I thought. “That’s really stretching to make a Bad Byrne story!”

Then I google and—holy katnip, Batman! There are a LOT of my drawings out there where Ms Nelson is minus her feline appendage!

Where was my head??

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Ryan Maxwell
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Posted: 12 August 2025 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
She didn’t have one for a while. I almost want to say you’re the one that gave it back to her, but I could be wrong.  
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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 12 August 2025 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
She didn't have one starting with her first appearance... 


-C!
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Posted: 12 August 2025 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Now I don’t feel so bad.

Another case of the accusation coming without backup!

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 12 August 2025 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
I believe she didn't have a tail at all until Steve Engelhart gave her one in WEST COAST AVENGERS.
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Matt Hawes
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Posted: 12 August 2025 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Yeah, Tigra didn't sport a tail during her first decade, or so. Before posting, I double-checked and see didn't even have a tail in the early issues of "West Coast Avengers." So, yeah... more unfair BS to foist upon JB. He no more "forgot" than Al Milgrom, Bob Hall, etc.

This issue of her tail was actually addressed over on CBR:
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Posted: 13 August 2025 at 9:58am | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Yep, i think it was either you or Englehart/Milgrom who gave it to her in West Coast Avengers. Probably them, but you made her even more féline.
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 13 August 2025 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
According to the link Matt posted, it was Englehart/Milgrom.
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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 20 August 2025 at 5:03am | IP Logged | 9 post reply
Funny thing--as an artist who likes to practice drawing everybody, I find that Tigra (and just about every other cat person in comics) looks exactly like a vampire in the b&w pencil or ink stage!  A tail sure helps in that case!
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