Description
Batgirl’s Bronze Age tales are collected in their entirety, beginning here in BATGIRL: THE BRONZE AGE OMNIBUS VOL. 1!
Batgirl started her vigilante career when mild-mannered librarian Barbara Gordon, daughter of famed police commissioner Jim Gordon, attended a costume party gone awry. It wasn’t long before the teenage genius crime-fighter became a regular feature of Batman’s world and an icon to generations of young readers.
Beginning with the million-dollar debut of Barbara Gordon in 1967, BATGIRL: THE BRONZE AGE OMNIBUS VOL. 1 collects Batgirl features from DETECTIVE COMICS, BATMAN and BATMAN FAMILY through the mid-1970s and features writers and artists Frank Robbins, Elliot S. Maggin, Don Heck, Mike Grell, Carmine Infantino, Gardner Fox, Gil Kane, Bob Rozakis and more. Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #359, #363, #369, #371, #384, #385, #388, #389, #392, #393, #396, #397, #400, #401, #404-424; BATMAN #197; and BATMAN FAMILY #1, #3-7, #9-11. The story of one the greatest comics characters of all time begins here!
About the Author
Gardner Francis Cooper Fox was an American writer known best for creating numerous comic book characters for DC Comics. Comic book historians estimate that he wrote more than 4,000 comics stories, including 1,500 for DC Comics.Fox is known as the co-creator of DC Comics heroes the Flash, Hawkman, Doctor Fate and the original Sandman, and was the writer who first teamed those and other heroes as the Justice Society of America. Fox introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story "Flash of Two Worlds!"Pseudonyms:Gardner F. Fox,Jefferson Cooper, Bart Sommers, Paul Dean, Ray Gardner,Lynna Cooper,Rod Gray, Larry Dean, Robert Starr, Don Blake, Ed Blake, Warner Blake, Michael Blake, Tex Blane, Willis Blane, Ed Carlisle, Edgar Weston, Tex Slade, Eddie Duane,Simon Majors,James Kendricks,Troy Conway,Kevin Matthews