"... Nor Iron Bars a Cage"
    Having relocated from the East Coast to the West Coast and moved to San
Francisco Tigra ran into the first Spider Woman (aka Jessica Drew) thanks to
a kid named Mickey Silk in Spider Woman #49.  Mickey was (presumably) a mutant 
with an uncontrollable psionic talent that caused chaos around him whenever he 
got upset.  After an incident during a school baseball game that got him 
charged with arson he escaped police custody and ran into Tigra.  Recognising 
that the kid wasn't bad, just scared and misunderstood she found him a hiding
place while she tried to sort out what to do.  Things got complicated as 
Private Eye Jessica Drew had been hired by Mickey's parents to find him.  This
lead to a cat fight between the two heroines which ended abruptly as Mickey's 
powers went haywire.  Coming around to Tigra's opinion Spider Woman diverted
the police who had come to investigate the commotion only to find that both
Mickey and Tigra had disappeared.
     This had been happening a lot to Spider Woman, her friend Jack Russel
(aka Werewolf by Night) and defeated supervillains Gypsy Moth and Daddy
Longlegs had disappeared when her back was turned.  It was in Spider Woman 50
(her final issue) that she discovered what was going on.  It seemed a mad 
escape artist calling himself The Locksmith had set up his own private prison 
for paranormals.  He seemed to think the decline of interest in human 
achievement (most noteably his escape act) was caused by the public being 
distracted by superheroes and supervillains.  So remove them and he could 
become a star again.  Anyway he had been using special stage sets to get close 
enough to his targets to grab them.  Yes that's really farfetched but this is 
comicbooks after all.  So cue the women in prison music.





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     As you can see Tigra didn't deal well with confined and was a prime 
candidate for going stir crazy.  She had to get out but unfortunately she
hadn't reckoned on her captor's prescient assistant.



     Foiled by Tick Tock's ability to see a minute into the future she tried
making escape plans with Spider Woman.

     Spider Woman's attempts to rouse The Shroud failed but the two heroines 
came up with an alternative.

     The short version of what followed is that Spider Woman and Gypsy Moth's
cells were blasted open, they managed to switch places before being gassed  
and easliy broke out of cells designed to neutralise each other's powers.
Tigra was last seen in that issue trying to talk Mickey into being a superhero 
but the kid wasn't interested.  After which Spider Woman died to wrap up her
series but it turned out she hadn't died of anything serious so she came back 
a little later.  Tigra became a charter member of the West Coast Avengers and
far as I know stayed with them until all that Heroes Reborn alternate universe
stuff.  What she'd up to nowadays I have no idea. 




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