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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. The character debuted in Detective Comics #359, titled "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!" (January 1967) by writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino, introduced as the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon. Batgirl operates in Gotham City, allying herself with Batman and the original Robin, Dick Grayson, along with 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 reimagined 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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One of the truly most disturbing villains and the most psychologically painful to Batgirl has to be James Gordon, Jr. The son of Commissioner Gordon and his wife Barbara, James was a diagnosed sociopath with the lack of an ability to empathize with others. Despite his sister Barbara loving him, he grew resentful of her natural gifts and the love their father showered on her. After taking many lives, it was revealed he was instrumental in Barbara’s initial paralyzation, as it was revealed he arranged to have Barbara taken to the Joker in exchange for their mother. Barbara threw a batarang at her brother and he fell off the roof but survived.

 

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