Writer: Various, but includes Gardner Fox, Cary Bates, Bob Haney, Frank Robbins, Robert Knaigher, Mike Friedrich
Pencils: Various, but includes Carmine Infantino, Curt Swan, Gil Kane, Bob Brown, Don Heck, Neal Adams
Inks: Various, but includes Don Heck, Dick Giordano, Vince Coletta, Murphy Anderson.
Publisher: DC
What's it about?
Batgirl, lady crimefighter extraordinare! Barbara Gordon has a PHD, a brown belt in Judo, and she can best just about any criminal you put her in front of her. She's the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon and by day she works as a librarian. When invited to the police masquerade ball she decides to attend in a homemade Batgirl outfit. However, a series of coincidences lead her to take up the superhero mantle.
The closest thing Barbara Gordon has to
superpowers is a photographic memory. Mostly, her talent and
ingenuity come from her personality and her athletic skill. As mentioned above, she's
accomplished at judo and she's inherited her detective father's
investigative nature. Using her Bat themed motorcycle to get around,
she solves crimes and thwarts evil doers, on her own, without help from anyone else.
