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Batgirl Cured!
By Aaron Broverman
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January 2012
Miracle cure or plausible comic storyline? When DC comics announced that Barbara Gordon would resume the Batgirl identity as part of its company-wide relaunch, the disability community reached for their pitchforks and torches. The problem is, Barbara Gordon has been a paraplegic since 1988, when The Joker broke into her house and shot her at point-blank range, during the Killing Joke storyline. But when September’s new first issue arrived, Gordon could walk again — as if...

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