Batgirl (comic book)
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Barbara Gordon as Batgirl on the cover of Batgirl: Futures End #1 (November 2014); art by Clay Mann
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Batman #139 (April 1961) |
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Bill Finger (writer) Sheldon Moldoff (art) |
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Barbara Gordon Betty Kane ("Bat-Girl") Helena Bertinelli Cassandra Cain Stephanie Brown |
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Batgirl #1 (April 2000) Featuring the Cassandra Cain version of the character. Art by Damion Scott. |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
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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. She debuted in Detective Comics #359, titled "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!" (1967) by writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino, introduced as the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon. As Batgirl, she operates in Gotham City, allying herself with Batman and the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as well as other masked vigilantes.
The character appeared regularly in Detective Comics, Batman Family, and several other books produced by DC until 1988. That year, Barbara Gordon appeared in Barbara Kesel's Batgirl Special #1, in which she retires from crime-fighting. She subsequently appeared 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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