Real name: Barbara Gordon aka Oracle
Occupation: Information Broker
Base of Operations: Gotham City
Marital Status: Single
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 126
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
First Appearance: DETECTIVE COMICS #359 (January, 1967)
Barbara Gordon is no stranger to fighting a clandestine war on crime. After all, she was the first Batgirl - a vigilante vixen inspired by the Dark Knight, one of his small but trusted team of "seconds" in the crusade to help the helpless of Gotham City.
The Joker, however, ended all that when he shot Barbara Gordon through the spine in his mad scheme to abduct and drive insane her adopted father, then G.C.P.D. Commissioner James Gordon.
Batgirl's wings were clipped. But partial paralysis did little to ground Barbara's perseverance or hobble her dedication to justice. Though limited in mobility, she retrained herself to fight from her wheelchair. A computer savant before the attack, Barbara opted to use the digital domain as her new staging ground in battling evil. With a wealth of information stored in her Gotham Clocktower databases, Barbara began phase two of her crime-fighting career as the |
