| Alley-Kat-Abra | |
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Alley-Kat-Abra, holding Magic Wanda. From Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #7 (September 1982). Art by Scott Shaw! and Al Gordon. |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | New Teen Titans #16 (February 1982) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas Scott Shaw! |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Felina Furr |
| Team affiliations | The Zoo Crew |
| Abilities | Levitation, limited precognition, matter transmutation, mystic force bolts, telepathy, teleportation. Also a highly trained martial artist. |
Alley-Kat-Abra (Felina Furr) is a fictional anthropomorphic cat in the DC Comics universe. Alley-Kat-Abra is a superheroine who lived on the otherdimensional world of Earth-C (now Earth-26), an alternate Earth populated by sentient animals. Her first appearance was in a special insert in The New Teen Titans #16 (February 1982).
Felina Furr was a martial arts instructor in the city of Mew Orleans (a parody of New Orleans, Louisiana); while engaging in a meditation session, a meteor launched by Starro the Conqueror crashed into a pot with a stirring stick in it, imbuing Felina with magical powers and transforming the stick into a magic wand (which Felina called "Magic Wanda"). Teaming up with other super-powered animals affected by the meteor, Alley-Kat-Abra and the others (with the aid of Superman) defeated Starro, and decided to form the superhero team called the Zoo Crew.
Felina tended to be friendly, though sometimes engaged in spats with the other female team member of the Zoo Crew, Yankee Poodle. She also has a romantic relationship with Captain Carrot, which included a few dates and some quiet jealousy when she and the Captain work with Wonder Wabbit of Earth-C-.
In Teen Titans #30–31 (December 2005–January 2006), Alley-Kat-Abra appears in a series of pages purporting to be a Zoo Crew comic published in the mainstream DC Universe, and follows the adventures of the Zoo Crew teammates in a grimmer, darker version of Earth-C. This parodied the eighties trend toward "grim and gritty" superhero comics. In these pages, Felina is shown as having become a famous magician, but has also become villainous. By the end of the series of pages, she has been arrested, was responsible for murdering teammate Little Cheese (as "cats hate mice"), and also sent teammate Fastback into the future.
In Captain Carrot and the Final Arc, it is revealed that these crimes were actually committed by Dark Alley, an evil duplicate created by Feline Faust. The real Alley had been imprisoned by her evil twin, and was recently freed by the Zoo Crew. Initially disbelieving her story, the Crew decide to let Alley rejoin their ranks, albeit in a probationary status. At the miniseries end, Alley and the rest of the Zoo Crew are stranded on New Earth. Alley is now an ordinary cat, with no way of accessing Wanda's power.
As of Final Crisis #7, Alley's humanity and powers, along with those of her Zoo Crew teammates, are restored by the renegade Monitor Nix Uotan.
Alley-Kat-Abra possesses various mystical powers, all of them amplified by or requiring the use of Magic Wanda; these powers include levitation, teleportation, telepathy, limited precognition, matter transmutation, and mystical force bolts. She is also a highly trained martial artist, including being skilled in the martial art of "Kat-Fu" (a parody of kung fu).