What are some great Barbara stories that aren't Batgirl Year One?
My gf is a huge Barbara fan to the point of where she bought Arkham Knight just for the DLC. She asked me for good comics featuring her but I could honestly only think of Batgirl: YO which she's already read.
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Babs has Year One, bits in Ostrander's Suicide Squad, and Birds of Prey.
That's it.
The Killing Joke
Buy her Cass's run instead
There's a couple of Kelley Puckett one-shots, a Nicieza/Maguire Batman Confidential series with Catwoman that's fun, some appearances in the animated series books (including Batgirl Adventures oneshot) but actually not a ton of Babs as Batgirl quality stories. She's way better as Oracle.
Look for comics where she is Oracle like Birds of Prey or the first Batgirl ongoing with Cassandra Cain.
She's great as a mentor to both Cassandra and Stephanie in their respective Batgirl series.
>bought Arkham Knight just for the DLC
Not sure whether to applaud her dedication or call her an idiot.
Now I'm curious, what are her thoughts on Oracle?
She already owns Puckett's Cass run.
She likes Barbara as a character, not just as Batgirl, so she likes Oracle too. (she still played all of AK, it was just the Batgirl DLC that convinced to get it when she saw it was on sale for like $10)
Lego Batman movie.
No, really.
I think your girlfriend has a waifu.
And you're seeking out material of said waifu for her to read. Just putting that out there.
she's also bi and super into Poison Ivy. I'm pretty sure I can get a threesome out of this if I find a hot redhead
>getting cucked by Batgirl
>in denial about it
Oh, your poor bastard.
Batgirl: the Cat and the Bat is pretty fun. And she spends half the book running around stark naked chasing an equally naked Catwoman in Gotham's most elite Fetish Club, so your girlfriend will probably enjoy it.
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Are there any good Bronze Age Batgirl stories? I never really see them brought up despite it being a thing for like 20 years
Batman Family had some fun stories of Batgirl and Robin teaming up. Kinda goofy, but it's the only time anybody really gave a shit about her pre-Killing Joke
>obligatory girl/girl fight
Any recs from that series? It's note exactly an easy thing to Google
Wait are threesomes cucking now? I've lost track
>She likes Barbara as a character, not just as Batgirl, so she likes Oracle too
Just tell her the truth - she debuted in 1966, so most of Babs' appearances as Batgirl were campy Adam West/Silver Age fare. By the 80s she was basically written out of the Bat-books, so she was already pretty much retired when The Killing Joke happened, and was only de-crippled relatively recently, so the vast majority of Babs stories that hold up are the ones featuring her as Oracle.
Film Adaptation when?
This. Her solo back-up strips were pretty mediocre-to-dire, but to be fair, so were Robin's. At least when they teamed up, they had a fun chemistry.
I'll storytime some in a minute.
DC just released their Batgirl: A Celebration of 50 Years collection. I don't know offhand what's in it, but that probably has a good assortment. It's going to include all Batgirls and not just Babs though.
Remember the time Batgirl and Robin teamed up to defeat Benedict Arnold?
>"Think for yourselves, kids!"
>Yeah! Don't hate Twinkies because TV tells you to, LOVE Twinkies because comics tell you to!
...who was also Satan?
>Man-Bat is part of the Bat family
huh.
Oh yeah, this takes place during the period of the Bronze Age when Barbara was a U.S. Representative.
>Grell on art
Neat!
Yeah, that's the weirdest thing about him! You assume he's always been a SCREEESNARRRL monstar/tragic scientist ala Curt Connors, cuz that's what BTAS established. But originally, Kirk was totally aware of his transformation and could speak, he made the Man-bat serum deliberately not to cure deafness or whatever, but simply so that he could be a superpowered Bat-vigilante. He was legit pushed as a member of the Bat-family, a Marvel style angsty antihero who's hated and feared by those he'd protect.
It was really fuckin' lame, although after years of feral, out-of-control Man-Bat, it might be fun to see again...
Oh and Alfred is a moon-powered werebeast supervillain. Yeah the Bronze Age was a weird time.
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>It was really fuckin' lame
Fuck you the original Frank Robbins Man-Bat saga was great
That's technically Silver Age. The only Outsiders associated with Batman in the Bronze Age were Metamorpho, Black Lightning, Halo, Geoforce, Katana... the redheaded one...
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What the hell, Satan?
What did I miss?
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I second this!
>it's the silver age so therefore it's nothing but campy schlock.
Get fucked
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While that doesn't always hold true, based on the story that was just storytimed here (which wasn't even the Silver Age) I'm willing to believe most of her stories were pretty campy schlock
Yes, you're right, this is deep philosophical literature right here.
>he made the Man-bat serum deliberately not to cure deafness or whatever, but simply so that he could be a superpowered Bat-vigilante.
I love shit like that.
I wish I could say otherwise, but they really weren't all that great. For the longest time, Babs seemed to be a controversial figure because she represented the first Silver Age addition to the Bat-family after trimming the fat of Bat-Woman, Bat-Girl, Bat-Mite, Bat-Hound etc., and because her back-up strips were not that great.
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I like how Benedict Arnold knows what a TV camera is.
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>Hey, is that one of those new EE-LEC-TRONIC KEY-CARDS? With the MAG-NET-IC CODE STRIP?
We've come a long way.
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So these Batgirl stories. They're uh... they're not the best.
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Sorry about the delay.
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>Batgirl and Robin undressing in the halls
Shit I thought the CCA was supposed to censor such lewd and unchristian scenes.
Such a fun story.
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All the scintillating campaign trail excitement you expect from Detective Comics!
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It includes a good helping of Barbara (Silver Age, New 52 and various), Cassandra (first appearance in the costume, two issues from her ongoing), Stephanie (three issues from her ongoing), and Bette.
The Barbara stuff has a good chunk of her as Batgirl, while reprints a few Birds of Prey issues.
Batman #139 (1st Bette as Bat-Girl)
Detective Comics #359 (1st Barbara as Batgirl), 371, 422-424, 518-519
Batman Family #9
Batgirl Spec #1
Batman Chronicles #5
Birds Of Prey #8
Legends Of The Dark Knight (1st Cassandra as Batgirl) #120
Batgirl (Cassandra) #8, 45
Batgirl Year One #4
Batgirl (Stephanie) #9, 13
Batgirl (New 52): #0, 35
Surprisingly, I'm shocked Batgirl: Future's End wasn't in this. Or any "Burnside".
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And after that, she pretty much only appeared in Batman Family for a little over two years, then disappeared until TKJ.
It's crazy how famous a character she became given how small of a presence she actually had in the comics pre-TKJ. Was it really all just because of the TV show?
Pretty much. She appeared in the Filmation Batman cartoon too, which had West & Ward reprising their roles but on the downside, no Yvonne Craig.
On the upside, she had a qt design somewhere between her comic book and Yvonne Craig looks.
I'm a big fan of her story with Wonder Woman and Zatanna, where they take her out clubbing because Zatanna has predicted the tragedy to come, and wants Babs to enjoy dancing one last time.
I think it was in Waid's Brave and the Bold?
Looked it up, it's JMS and Chiang.
>I think it was in Waid's Brave and the Bold?
JMS', and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I have mixed feelings about that Booster Gold issue where he travels back to stop TKJ and fails repeatedly, too, even though it lead to one of my all-time favorite Bat-moments... I just don't think it's a good idea to highlight that the story takes place in a world of actual magicians and time-travelers with future tech, because it makes us being asked to take its consequences as serious, permanent business that much harder to swallow.
>she's also bi
You both HAVE to read Birds of Prey.
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>have bi gf
>she's huge fan of Black Widow
>made her hair look like Johansson's in Avengers
>bought a black catsuit
Shit's great
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