As the last survivor of a crime family eliminated by bloody rivalries among the mobs of Gotham City, the orphaned Helena Bertinelli grew into the mysterious vigilante known as the Huntress. New writer Ivory Madison shines a light on the dark underbelly of the mob world spanning from Gotham to Sicily, exploring exactly what led Helena away from a life in the Cosa Nostra criminal society and set her on a path of vigilantism. Also, find out more about Batman's first meeting with the fledgling female crime-fighter and why, to this day, they struggle to see eye-to-eye.
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As the last survivor of a crime family eliminated by bloody rivalries among the mobs of Gotham City, the orphaned Helena Bertinelli grew into the mysterious vigilante known as the Huntress. New writer Ivory Madison shines a light on the dark underbelly of the mob world spanning from Gotham to Sicily, exploring exactly what led Helena away from a life in the Cosa Nostra criminal society and set her on a path of vigilantism. Also, find out more about Batman's first meeting with the fledgling female crime-fighter and why, to this day, they struggle to see eye-to-eye.
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About Ivory
Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief Ivory Madison founded Red Room. Madison is a writer, editor, and entrepreneur living in her hometown of San Francisco. A former management consultant to startups...
Published Reviews
May.19.2008
By positioning the Huntress's origin in relation to Batman's origin (and, once again, this is implied through the storytelling similarities, not through any specific mention or illustration of Batman...
May.19.2008
This issue is a very dense and intense retelling of Helena Bertinelli’s early childhood and it does not waste any time getting into the thick of things. Her family’s role in the mob and fall from grace is...
Member Reviews
Feb.04.2009
i hope huntress year two will come quickly,so as not to keep us in suspension for long.
why did you want to kill USA Nobel laureate,please tell me .
Feb.08.2009
Once upon a time, when the world was young, I taught a workshop in writing comics. Let me tell you about one that really has stayed with me.
I’ve...
Apr.22.2009
by Randy Wong
Year One stories have one goal - to explain the intellectual and psychological/emotional underpinnings of what defines a character. Madison takes...
May.07.2009
I grew up in a time when Batman was not really The Dark Knight, but more of a dark caped version of Superman, all true-blue and shiny. As an adult,...


















I write a lot of stories about women who happen to be failed assasins, and to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a failed assasin is just a failed assasin. But this one winds up a superhero, and has some great dialogue with Batman. Named best graphic novel of the decade by one person on Twitter.