BIOGRAPHY - Page 3
After Doc Tumolo’s death, Tigra was at loose ends over what to do with her life. One day, she received a powerful summons compelling her to visit Avengers Mansion in New York. The arrogant psychic Moondragon had taken it upon herself to host a membership drive for her one-time teammates. Tigra felt driven to display her prowess against the high-flying Angel. The Avengers didn’t take kindly to Moondragon’s intrusion, even if they were in the middle of a membership shake-up. Once the self-proclaimed goddess from Titan was driven off, Tigra had the 
guts to ask if the team really was looking for members. Despite the circumstances, her boldness in the fray led former member Hercules to support her membership, and Greer was soon sworn in as the newest recruit for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. [Avengers (1st series) #211]
Greer had an interesting time adjusting to life with the Avengers. She took up residence at the mansion and was surprised to learn that the team’s financier Tony Stark paid a weekly stipend for active members who wished it. Tigra playfully enjoyed teasing the team’s butler, Jarvis, whose allergy to felines and stiff upper lip made him an easy target. Tragically, Tigra joined during one of the team’s darker periods. Her fellow “new” member was the returning founder, Hank Pym, Yellowjacket. Having failed to find success as a hero or scientist outside the team, Pym was short-tempered and with something to prove when he rejoined their ranks. After conduct unbecoming of 
an Avenger during their fight with the Elfqueen, Yellowjacket was brought before a court-martial by Captain America. Tigra had less than a week’s experience as an Avenger, but she was asked to vote on the expulsion of a founding member. Yellowjacket’s fraying mental health led him to strike his wife, the Wasp, and build a robot to attack his trial (in order to look like a hero). An utter failure on all accounts, Pym soon left the team and his wife behind. [Avengers (1st series) #212-213]
In the days that followed, the Wasp also reasonably asked for leave in order to finalize her divorce. For Tigra’s sake, though, this meant the team’s newest member stood alone alongside Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, a daunting line-up for a cat-lady from Chicago. Tigra wasn’t sure if she was up to her teammates’ level of heroics. In a fight with the wild Ghost Rider, Tigra and Captain America’s very souls were burned by his hellfire. Tigra wasn’t certain she could face the hellfire again, until Captain America gave a speech about putting one’s fears aside, rather than letting them dictate your actions. Tigra went back into action, but she remained skittish and cognizant of how little she contributed to the final skirmish. [Avengers (1st series) #214]
The Avengers were summoned by the Silver Surfer to deal with the threat of the Molecule Man. Owen Reese was a nerd whose power over molecules made him one of the most powerful beings on Earth, limited only by his lack of drive and imagination. Unfortunately, a conversation with the Surfer led Molecule Man to try to eat the planet, like the Surfer’s old master Galactus. He first built an ostentatious castle for himself out of the molecules of Netcong, New Jersey and the surrounding forest, sealed behind a dome of solidified air molecules to prevent anyone from interfering. Tigra stood by impotently as the power of Thor, Iron Man and the Silver Surfer battered the dome to gain entry. When a small gap temporarily opened in the field, Tigra agilely leapt through to scout the area while her teammates made the gap wide enough for them to pass. Tigra found the Molecule Man and got him talking, in order to find out why he was menacing the world. Owen liked the attention and was happy to babble on about how his mother never wanted him and the kids at school hated him.
Tigra’s friends eventually pierced the Molecule Man’s defenses, but they were no match for his power. With a wave of his hand, Owen dispersed the molecules of Captain America’s shield, Thor’s hammer, the Surfer’s board and Iron Man’s armor. He snared the heroes atop a platform with a giant foot, set to crush them to death. He liked talking to Tigra, though, so he offered not to kill her too if she said she liked him back. Terrified of the Molecule Man’s power and seeing no 
other choice, Greer begged for her life and told Owen she liked him too. Satisfied that he had at least one friend to talk to, the Molecule Man dropped the giant foot and seemingly killed the other four heroes. [Avengers (1st series) #215]
Tigra could hardly bear the grief and fear competing in her heart as the Molecule Man kept boasting about his power. He declared her his pet and made up a giant cat’s bed for her to sleep in. That night, Tigra decided she had to kill Owen in order to avenge her friends and save the world from his intentions. She stalked his bedside and was ready to strike, but ultimately couldn’t bring herself to commit cold blooded murder. (Unbeknownst to Greer, Owen was awake and ready for her, so he was surprised when she turned away without trying to hurt him.) Thankfully, Tigra 
soon learned her friends were still alive. The Silver Surfer had burned through the execution platform moments before they would have been crushed, dropping them to the floor below. Deprived of their hammer and armor, Tigra was further surprised to learn Thor and Iron Man were secretly Don Blake and Tony Stark.
The Molecule Man caught them planning to strike back, and Tigra wasn’t going to let her fear rule her anymore. She lashed out at the Molecule Man physically and emotionally, keeping his attention by calling him a nerd and playing on his insecurities. After Owen was knocked out momentarily, the other Avengers had the same debate as Tigra over whether killing Owen Reese 
was the only answer to someone that powerful. Meanwhile, Tigra spoke to Owen directly and helped him see that abusing power didn’t make him any better than the bullies who hurt him. Her plea actually got through to him, and the Molecule Man gave up. He restored the molecules of New Jersey and the heroes’ unique items before turning himself in to the authorities in the hopes that a therapist could help him find a purpose and personal contentment. Tigra was happy to have contributed to such a major victory, but she was spent emotionally. The Avengers just operated on a different level of heroics than she was comfortable with, and she wanted to leave on a high note. Greer said good-bye to the boys and dear Jarvis before moving on with her career. [Avengers (1st series) #216]
Seeking purpose herself, Tigra got a gig as a model working for a Kwikkee burger campaign. She also helped an NYPD patrol officer named Carl Kronsky deal with a group of hoodlums. Greer impulsively asked the cute patrolman out on a date, though later on she worried she might be living in the past by recreating her relationship with Bill Nelson. At dinner with Carl later, Tigra saw how much Carl was like Bill, and yet how little she still resembled the demure housewife Greer. Their meal was interrupted by Zabo, who miraculously survived his first encounter with the Cat and now wanted revenge. Tigra was surprised to learn Zabo was actually Mal Donalbain’s brother, considering how the financier treated him like a slave. Tigra tried to reason with Zabo, as she and a passing Spider-Man fought to keep him from causing damages. Greer finally got Zabo to see that his late brother only used him and didn’t deserve to be avenged. Realizing that both she and Zabo had been living in the past, Tigra said good-bye to Carl as well. [Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #125]
Tigra decided to continue a career as a model but wasn’t having much luck on the east coast. She 
traveled out west to San Francisco in the hopes of finding better opportunities. Just after getting off the bus, she crossed paths with a runaway named Mickey Silk. Mickey was a scared kid with a burgeoning mutant “poltergeist” power. The police suspected him as a pyromaniac and his adopted parents hired Jessica Drew to track him down. Tigra defending Mickey from her convinced Spider-Woman to listen that Mickey was innocent of what others thought of him. Before they could make a plan forward, though, Tigra and Poltergeist suddenly disappeared. [Spider-Woman (1st series) #49]
Jessica Drew discovered a number of super-beings and costumed figures in the California area had disappeared, and she was soon one of them. A disgruntled escape artist called Lockdown felt threatened by the attention super-beings took from his show, and he started capturing them to remove them from the public eye. Tigra, Mickey and Spider-Woman joined other figures (like the Werewolf, Shroud and Gypsy Moth) in escaping the escape artist. At a celebration afterwards, however, Jessica Drew was targeted by her old foe, Morgan le Fay, and nearly killed. [Spider-
Woman (1st series) #50] Tigra found Spider-Woman in a comatose state and got her to the hospital. They were “haunted” by the ghost of Jessica Drew, so Greer called in the Avengers for assistance. [Avengers (1st series) #238] Together, they battled Morgan le Fay on the astral plane so that Jessica’s astral form was free to return to her body. She lost her powers as Spider-Woman but Jessica lived on, despite her arch-nemesis’ efforts. [Avengers (1st series) #240-241]