Poison Ivy (Dr. Pamela Lillian Isley, Ph.D., Sc.D,) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman. Created by Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff, the character made her first appearance in Batman #181 (June 1966).
Poison Ivy is one of Batman’s most enduring enemies and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up Batman’s rogues gallery.
Poison Ivy is depicted as one of the world’s most notorious eco-terrorists. She is obsessed with plants, botany, ecological extinction and environmentalism. She uses toxins from plants and mind-controlling pheromones for her criminal activities, which are usually aimed at protecting endangered species and the natural environment.
