Contents
“Death of the Family: A Courtship of Razors” -- 20 pages
- written by Gail Simone
- pencils by Ed Benes and Daniel Sampere
- inks by Ed Benes, Daniel Sampere, Mark Irwin (pages 11-12), and Vicente Cifuentes (pages 13-20)
- Barbara Gordon gets a phone call and believes the disguised voice on the other end, who insinuates that he knows her secret identity, to be the Joker
- Batgirl stops an ambush at her house, then searches for the Joker
- when Batgirl finds the Joker, he says he’ll kill her mother unless Barbara marries him, and he shows her her mother’s ring finger, cut from her hand
- the first 11 pages of this story must occur before or during Batman Vol. 2 #15 (in which Barbara mentions her mother’s kidnapping), while the final 9 pages of this story begin a sequence that runs to the end of Batgirl Vol. 4 #16 (her final appearance before Batman Vol. 2 #16-17)
Additional Images
The first page of Batgirl Vol. 4 #14 (Jan 2013).
Page 12 of Batgirl Vol. 4 #14 (Jan 2013).
The final page of Batgirl Vol. 4 #14 (Jan 2013).
The second printing of Batgirl Vol. 4 #14 (Jan 2013), published on 19 Dec 2012.
See It in Context on the Continuity Pages:
DC Relaunch Batman: “Death of the Family” (2012-2013)
A year after DC relaunched its entire continuity, the Joker hadn’t been seen since its first month, when Detective Comics Vol. 2 #1 had stirred discussion by having the Joker’s face cut off. 12 months… [more]
