Batgirl

Batgirl
Barbara Gordon as Batgirl. Cover of Batgirl: Futures End #1 (November 2014); art by Clay Mann.
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Batman #139 (April 1961)
Created by	Bill Finger (writer) Sheldon Moldoff (art)
Characters	Betty Kane ("Bat-Girl") Barbara Gordon Helena Bertinelli Cassandra Cain Stephanie Brown
Batgirl
	Batgirl #1 (April 2000) Featuring the Cassandra Cain version of the character. Art by Damion Scott.
Series publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	List (vol. 1, 3-5) Ongoing series (vol. 2) Limited Series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	List (vol. 1) April 2000 – April 2006 (vol. 2) September 2008 – February 2009 (vol. 3) July 2009 – August 2011 (vol. 4) September 2011 – May 2016 (vol. 5) July 2016 – present
Number of issues	List (vol. 1): 73 + 1 Annual (vol. 2): 6 (vol. 3): 24 (vol. 4): 53 (#1-52, 0) + 3 Annuals (vol. 5): 6 (as of December 2016)
Main character(s)	List (vol. 1-2) Cassandra Cain (vol. 3) Cassandra Cain Stephanie Brown (vol. 4, 5) Barbara Gordon
Creative team
Writer(s)	List (vol. 1) Kelley Puckett Dylan Horrocks Andersen Gabrych (vol. 2) Adam Beechen (vol. 3) Bryan Q. Miller (vol. 4) Gail Simone Cameron Stewart Brendan Fletcher (vol. 5) Hope Larson
Penciller(s)	List (vol. 1) Damion Scott Adrian Sibar Rick Leonardi Ale Garza Pop Mhan (vol. 2) Jim Calafiore (vol. 3) Lee Garbett Pere Perez Dustin Nguyen (vol. 4) Ardian Syaf Ed Benes Daniel Sampere Fernando Pasarin Babs Tarr (vol. 5) Rafael Albuquerque Christian Wildgoose
Inker(s)	List (vol. 1) Robert Campanella Andy Owens Jesse Delperdang (vol. 3) Trevor Scott Dereck Fridolfs (vol. 4) Vicente Cifuentes Jonathan Glapion
Colorist(s)	List (vol. 1) Jason Wright (vol. 2) Nathan Eyring (vol. 3) Guy Major (vol. 4) Ulises Arreola Kevin Senft Maris Wicks (vol. 5) Dave McCaig

Batgirl is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, depicted as female counterparts to the superhero Batman. Although the character Betty Kane was introduced into publication in 1961 by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff as Bat-Girl, she was replaced by Barbara Gordon in 1967, who later came to be identified as the iconic Batgirl. Depicted as the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon, she debuted in Detective Comics #359, titled "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!" (1967) by writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino. As Batgirl, the character operates primarily in Gotham City, allying herself with Batman and the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as well as other prominent heroes in the DC Universe.

Batgirl makes regular appearances in Detective Comics, Batman Family and several other books produced by DC until 1988. That year, she appears in Barbara Kesel's Batgirl Special #1, in which she retires from crime-fighting. She subsequently appears in Alan Moore's graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke where, in her civilian identity, she is shot by the Joker and left paraplegic. Although she is recreated as the computer expert and information broker Oracle by editor Kim Yale and writer John Ostrander the following year, her paralysis sparked debate about the portrayal of women in comics, particularly violence depicted toward female characters.

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