Pamela Isley created the alter ego of Poison Ivy to strike out against men, whom she despised save for one lone male, and in order to obtain immense wealth. Initially, she had two solo outings in Gotham City, the first of which she used to compete with three other costumed criminals of the female persuasion. The second time, she sought to escape prison by mesmerizing the object of her affection and the man who caught her, Batman. Thankfully, his sidekick Robin helped him defeat her.
Poison Ivy began her crooked career by moving to Gotham City, where she faced Earth-One's Batman and Robin a couple times, using plant themed weaponry. Among her natural abilities were an immunity to all poisons and the ability to scale any structure like an ivy. Her horticulture aptitude allowed her to genetically manipulated her chauffeur Igor and other henchmen into plant-man hybrids, as well as guns armed that shoot deadly thorns.
Years later, Ivy refined her schemes, such as when she tried to take control of Wayne Foundation by mind controlling its stockholders, including owner Bruce Wayne! When this failed, she returned to gaining riches through other crimes.
Doctor Poison was secretly Princess Maru, a member of the royal family ruling Imperial Japan during World War II. Using her extensive knowledge in poison gases, she concocted a pair of diabolical chemical cocktails to interfere with the American military. The first was the drug labeled Reverso, which caused any exposed to it to act the exact opposite to how they were directed. This caused massive disciplinary proceedings in the United States' armed services. Her future arch-foe Wonder Woman and Captain Steve Trevor along with Etta Candy and the Holliday Girls were able to outmanuever Maru and her Axis minions.
Maru escaped her imprisonment, and soon organized another subversive attack. Under the cover as a professional dancer in China, Doctor Poison used her second chemical cocktail to damage airplane engines, grounding the Allied Air Fleet. Despite capturing Steve Trevor as she had during their first encounter, she still proved unable to outwit the Amazing Amazon. Taken prisoner in the Amazonian Transformation, or Reformation, Island... it was hoped Princess Maru would forsake her life as Doctor Poison, This proved not to be the case, as Wonder Woman learned later.
Ivy's chauffer Ivor Evan tirelessly and faithfully ferried around his mistress Pamela. Unlike his Earth-One counterpart Chuck, the chauffer of vigilante (and secret criminal) Tom "Spider" Hallaway who drove the all-terrain Black Widow vehicle for his employer, Ivor drove only a standard limousine. While Chuck had a lengthy career serving Hallaway, just prior to the Spider leaving Earth-Two for Earth-X with the other Freedom Fighters. Ivor's association with Ivy was much shorter in duration, cut short by his transformation into a hideous human-plant hybrid that Isley spawned as a weapon against Batman. Shortly after Ivor's death, Ivy would partner up with Hallaway's doppleganger on her Earth, the Black Spider.
Ivy started out as brilliant college student Pamela Isley, who immersed herself in the study of botany. She was led into a life of crime by her college professor boyfriend Marc LeGrand. After he betrayed her following her theft of rare herbs, after which he tried poisoning her, this traumatic experience scarred her for life. Isley adopted the alias of Poison Ivy and forsook any further romance with the opposite sex. Except for Batman, and Bruce Wayne, though "both" spurned her.
The original Huntress took Doctor Poison's place in the Earth-Two's Injustice Society, just as Poison Ivy took the place of her world's Huntress on Earth-One's Injustice Gang, as sole female members of these infamous groups.
Ivy was also a one-time member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains for a brief period. She fought other heroes such as Thorn, Flash, and various members of the League. At one point, while a brief member of another criminal group known as the Super Foes, Ivy recruited a young protegee in the girl named Honeysuckle, though she betrayed Ivy to the Super Friends, turning over a new leaf!
Maru herself reappeared years later as a member of Villany, Inc., a band of supervillianess led by Eviless of Saturn, all former prisoners on Reformation Island. They proved unsuccessful in vanquishing their mutual foe, Wonder Woman, and returned to island prison once more. During her stay on this Transformation Island, Princess Maru would've met another femme fatale, Rose "Thorn" Canton, a foe of Wonder Woman's fellow Justice Society member, the Flash.
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