Batgirl

Batgirl is a DC Comics superhero, a female crime-fighter modeled after and associated with Batman. more...

Although a lesser-known Bat-Girl appeared in Batman comic books of the early 1960s, the most well-known Batgirl was a collaboration between DC editors and the producers of the Batman television series and debuted in both mediums in 1967. She was Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gotham City Police Commissioner James Gordon. This version of Batgirl played a large role in the final season of the 1960s Batman television series and was featured in most subsequent other media adaptations of Batman.

However, in the 1988 one shot comic book The Killing Joke, The Joker shot her in the spine, leaving her paraplegic; she later reinvented herself as Oracle, the premiere information broker of the DC’s superhero community.

In 1999, the martial arts prodigy Cassandra Cain became the new Batgirl, under the tutelage of Batman and Oracle. She was the first to be star in an eponymous monthly series, which was cancelled in 2006 when Cain gave-up the title and moved away from the Batman family.

Currently, there is no active Batgirl in the DC universe.

Betty Kane

Bat-Girl was Betty Kane (first appearance: Batman #139, 1961), the niece of Kathy Kane, Batwoman. Batwoman and Bat-Girl were created to be romantic interests for Batman and Robin as much as crime-fighting associates. Bat-Girl appeared seven times between 1961 and 1964, but then disappeared in 1964 (along with Batwoman, Ace the Bat-Hound, and Bat-Mite) when new Batman editor Julius Schwartz decided these characters were too silly.

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