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Batgirl: Year One

by Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon · 2003

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A look into the action-packed origin of the original Batgirl, Barbara Gordon! This volume collects the 9-issue miniseries that uncovered Gordon's transformation from average citizen into costumed super-heroine.

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