Character Corner - A Podcast On Your Favorite Comic Book Characters

It's been a while but....WE'RE BACK! Feels like a while since we've done a Character Corner. But we're back now and it's time to enter once again into the Bat-Family, this time with the mantle of Batgirl. To the uninitiated, the Batgirl mantle might just seem like the female-version of the Robin mantle. But that couldn't be further from the truth.  We start this two-part series exploring the most well known Batgirl, Barbara Gordon and her journey from the daughter of a Police Commissioner to Batgirl then to Oracle and back to Batgirl. We then move on to Stephanie Brown who held both the title of Robin (albeit short) and Batgirl as well as coming into her own as Spoiler. Next show we're talking Cassandra Cain, Helena Bertinelli and Kate Kane Barbara Gordon Detective Comics #359 – First appearance Batgirl Year One The definitive Batgirl origin story Batgirl Special #1 by Barbara Kesel (1988) Barbara retires The Killing Joke (1988) - only because it's significant not because it's good Su