Posted by Red-Five on October 8, 2001, 8:01 am Compiled by Red-Five --- Author's Notes: --- Batgirl guests in main strip in 359 (origin),363,369,371,503 Batgirl backup story in 384,385,388,389,392,393,396,397,404-424, Batgirl and Robin in 400,401,489 Black Canary in 442 (reprint),464 --- Further notes: You'll notice that some of the entries have question marks at the start --- #359 : Barbara's first transformation, shown as a sequence of four #369 : ? Batgirl appears. #363 : Another transformation similar in format to the original one in #371 : Classic stuff. A horrified Babs ducks into an alleyway in one #384 : ? First issue without hair up as Babs Gordon. #385 : Barbara wears hair down. #388 : ? #389 : ? #392 : Part two of a backup strip. Batgirl helps Barbara Gordon's new #393 : ? #396 : ? #397 : ? #404 : ? #405 : ? #406 : Small but lovely image of Barbara sitting at her makeup table
Detective Comics
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481-488,490-499,501,502,505,506,508-510,512-517
of them. This is information taken from an old database of comicbooks,
with sparse and crypting details. I added this information without
re-checking the comicbooks themselves for transformations. These
entries need expanding and verification therefore.
images of the various parts of her clothing being switched into her
Batgirl outfit, Takes up over half a page. Good stuff. But before
that is a cute sequence in which she dons her costume (designed for a
masquerade ball) for the first ever time. We see Babs in her trademark
skintight black catsuit vanish into a closet converted into a dressing
room, and emerge as the sexy Batgirl. "The whole world thinks I'm
just a plain Jane...", she says.
issue 359. This one is smaller and more crampt, however, but still
beautifully drawn. Unlike the original, the captions are narrated by
Barbara herself. "I bring down the rolled brim of my beret... Roll up
my boot flaps..." and so on.
panel, and then comes springing out as Batgirl in the next. No actual
mid-point shown, but what's there is drawn so dynamically that the
absence of a mid shot hardly spoils things. Moments later Batgirl's
mask is almost ripped from her face by a spinning bicycle pedal. Later
in the story, Babs attends an outdoor fancy dress party as Queen
Victoria (in yellow, not black) and swings up into a tree to transform.
"I've been so anxious for another chance I wore my Batgirl costume
underneath" she thinks. No mid-shot sadly.
boyfriend during an incident at a ball game. As the two separate,
Batgirl much switch quickly to Barbara and sprint back to her seat
before her boyfriend arrives and notices she is gone. No actual
transformation shown.
pulling on her second Batgirl glove. No mask or cape. Very flattering
pose.
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