The notion of an analytic-geometric category was introduced by v. d. Dries and Miller in [Lou van den Dries and Chris Miller, Geometric categories and o-minimal structures, Duke Math. J. 84 (1996), no. 2, 497–540.]. It is a category of subsets of real analytic manifolds which extends the category of subanalytic sets. This paper discusses connections between the subanalytic category, or more generally analytic-geometric categories, and complex analytic geometry. The questions are of the following nature: We start with a subset A of a complex analytic manifold M and assume that A is an object of an analytic-geometric category (by viewing M as a real analytic manifold of double dimension). We then formulate conditions under which A, its closure or its image under a holomorphic map is a complex analytic set.