Bette Kane and Barbara Gordon


Bette Kane



To understand her, she was the sidekick of Batwoman in the Golden Age of Comics and having said that her codename is Bat Girl and I want to emphasize the space between the small "t" and the big "G" of her code name and that's make her an unique character of her own rights and having said that - I felt that she was out of place in the Teen Titans of having her being set in the Bronze Age of Comics



To me, they kind of place her in that group to give her additional exposure but to me, I was thinking about it the other day and I felt they retcon her in this group (I may not be using the right word here) but her presence in this group picture above you showing Wonder Girl, Robin, and Bat Girl front and center here kind of threw me a curve ball and I did enjoy her part in the Teen Titans and having said that - she should had stayed in the Golden Age of Comics as a sidekick of Batwoman.




Barbara Gordon



For me, she is the original Batgirl and always has been and one of the most celebrated one indeed and I did not spend a whole lot of time when she was Oracle and I never, ever embrace her in that role and I felt that DC Comics did her a disservice when she was brutally attacked by the Joker and I was very sadden when they did this and never, ever forgave DC Comics for doing this at all.

Going back to her Oracle persona ...



I felt weird about it and I know that she supposed to be the information gatherer for the various DC Comics Heroes and Heroines that needed her for information and all but to me this bothers me a lot and that's why I felt that they should had revived her back to Batgirl and leave her alone.

I have mixed feelings about this character the way she was handled by and it's also bothers me that she was a US Congresswoman at a young age of 25 when I read that here in this forum. I was chuckling along when I was picking up a comic book and she ended up hiring Dick (Robin) Grayson as his aide.

She is a fascinating character and played many roles in her comic book days and one role that made her famous - Batgirl!

Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown


Note to All: These two characters are so distant to me and I hardly knew them at all except Stephanie as the Spoiler and I did not even attempt to relate to her as Batgirl. I know there were a character by the name of Black Bat but these two were created in the early to mid 2000's and I didn't do a whole lot of reading back then. I'm not going to give you much and I try my best to accommodate you in my understanding of both Cassandra and Stephanie.


Cassandra Cain as Batgirl


As Black Bat



To be honest with all of you here - I don't know anything about her role as Batgirl and Black Bat and having said that my knowledge of Batgirl is problematic because I felt that DC Comics did a tremendous disservice of recreating her in all these forms and that why I did not care for the Bat Family after 1990 because it's became a mess of it's own rights.


Stephanie Brown as Batgirl


As Spolier



I only saw two issues of Stephanie Brown as Batgirl and I can't come to a conclusion of how she got panned out as Batgirl and I didn't even care for her costume either and that alone made a big difference of ignoring her altogether. To me, she is a D List Character that I didn't care for at all. Her costume alone was a big turn off at the time that I read her in 2005 picking up back issues of her as Batgirl. Later on, the relaunch her in 2009 that I believe and this time she was the Spoiler and it's baffled me when they reinvented her and having said that she was better known than Cassandra as Black Bat. Spoiler was hit among the younger generation in my area in certain degree and I wasn't really in-tune of her colorful outfit and I was talking to my dear friend today that Stephanie Brown was Batgirl from 2009 to 2011 and what really adds the confusion back then that my Local Comic Store was selling at the same time issues/comic books that Stephanie Brown as Batgirl and the Spoiler at the same time and that alone cause Stephanie to have her downfall and people that I know at store started to ignore her altogether.

Batgirl Yvonne Craig


Shaxper had a thread devoted to Batgirl

CCF Link - Batgirl Unaired Plot


I wrote a piece concerning her clout of designing her mask.





When, I think of Batgirl - Yvonne Craig will be the first person that I can think of and Barbara Gordon in the Comic Books in the sixties 2nd and the all the rest a distant 3rd. Craig did only 26 episodes and most of them in my opinion weren't as good as the episodes in the 1st and 2nd seasons of Batman. In my own mind, there are three shows that I considered the best of Yvonne Craig as Batgirl.


Number 1 - The Wail of the Siren


It was basically Batgirl and Robin working together and she was the central character of this show of which she was in charge of the situation and the problem is Batman is not available and only one other person can help her is Robin. I find this show very good and the way she exercised her will and all and trying to make amends and all is heroic. I liked the moment of which she called Batman on the Red Phone in Commissioner Gordon office is excellent.


Number 2 - Surf Up! Joker Under!


This show was expressively designed to bring in more young viewers in and they wanted to have it a mod factor of which they trying to capture the Beach Blanket Bingo rage back then and capture some of the appeal (sex) of Yvonne Craig has at the moment. It was a fun show for her to do and when I did had a chance to talk to her - she said it this show is one of her favorites. I like the beach scenes and the sunglasses that both Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara wore.




Number 3 - Enter Batgirl, Exit Penquin

It was the 1st show of the 3rd Season of Batman and it was a very inexpensive way of doing it and basically get the viewers a peek of what Yvonne Craig in the next 25 shows that finalized Adam West's run as Batman. I find this show quite good and this started a relationship of Barbara Gordon and Alfred unique relationship of which Alfred volunteered to take place of the Minister of which Penquin hatch a plan to marry Barbara Gordon so that he can have immunity from all of his criminal misgivings and that's what his plan involved.




Those were the best three shows that I can think of and I find her to be very fascinating and she developed a lot of Ballet in this show and I liked the way she used her legs to emphasis her uniqueness and flair.




This is a pretty cool video showing the Best and Worst of Batgirl in Season 3 of Batman.

Dina Meyer - Birds of Prey Television Series 2002-03




Alicia Silverstone - Batman & Robin Movie 1997





Dina Meyer

She was the leader of this show and most importantly a mentor to Huntress and a daughter (metahuman) to the original Black (Lori Loughlin) and having said that ... I felt that she more like Oracle than Batgirl. I haven't watch her show in 10 years and I still have the original DVD's and I was felt that this show was forgotten and did not leave me a lasting impression either. Her costume as Batgirl was horrible beyond description and I did not seem to care for it. I like her initially as Oracle but I felt that she was too pretty to be Batgirl and that's why I feel differently about her. I just wanted to share that.

Right now, I really have no desires to re-watch this show and I just wanted to say that.


Alicia Silverstone

I just find her performance a joke and I consider George Clooney Movie of Batman and Robin one of my all time least favorite movie despite Arnold's appearance as Mr. Freeze and Uma Thuman as Poison Ivy. Hated her costume and she a blonde a big fat no no.The Bane in this movie is a Joke.

I'm going to do #26 on Thursday and give myself tomorrow time to prepare for it and it's another Marvel Comics Character and one of my favorites.


That's all I'm covering for Batgirl and a new avatar will appear on Thursday to honor #26!


And, a sneak preview of my NEW JUGGERNAUT AVATAR for one day ... and I will start that now!

I wasn't thinking at first and I'm truly sorry that I said this earlier and I should had written that in the first place. I felt that Dina Meyer was an excellent Oracle and for her to be Batgirl in flashback moments was too bizarre to be Batgirl because I felt that her costume was ill-designed in the first place - she is a very pretty actress and I like her a lot when she had her moments in NCIS as Holly Snow and both Yvonne Craig and Dina Meyer are very good in the roles they played - Craig as Batgirl and Meyer as Oracle.

Both of them are very attractive in their own rights and I have no favorites here and I'm taking back what I said here earlier.

I felt Dina Meyer was better suited as Oracle and somewhat miscast as Batgirl. By the way, I did not care for her costume at all and my major complaints is her gloves and boots - bad design in my own opinion. 

Sorry, hope I corrected myself here and I'm truly sorry that I've mislead you and anyone else here of my previous comments.