World's Finest Comics Issue #269
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World's Finest Comics Issue #269
the first "Kal-El is adopted by the Waynes" AU in Superman (1939) #353
Oracle: The Cure Issue #1.
I cannot help but find it very sweet when Babs refers to Jim as 'daddy' to herself. The daddy's girl of all time.
“A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.”
Batman (2025) #1
Batgirl (2011) Issue #22.
Gail Simone's Batgirl run was pretty good on it's own merits, I can't lie.
Batgirl (2011) Issue #22.
My dad and daughter duo.
detective comics (1940) #405
Do you have any Jim Gordon and Batman comic recs? Like obscure stuff or just anything that’s really really good that you like
Oooo, I’m always nervous to rec something “obscure” bc I’m pretty out of the loop for what’s in/not 😅 so here’s just some recs of comics where I really love the Jim x Bruce dynamic:
The Joker (2021) -> A GREAT Jim Gordon story that has literally like 15 panels where the Joker actually appears. Really interesting introspection on the Joker’s impact on Gordon/his life (particularly drawing from Killing Joke as well as the murder of his second wife Sarah Essen) as well as his troubled relationship with Jim Jr. (exploring the fallout of Black Mirror). SUPER GOOD
Batman: Turning Points (2001) -> THE JimxBruce comic. Each issue explores a different point in their literal comic (and personal) history (from Miller’s Year One through NML and beyond). Super cutesy and just perfect.
Batman: Kings of Fear (2018) -> Very fun Batman story with very cute BrucexJim moments.
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989, issues #159 - #161: Loyalties) -> A JimxBruce story set early into their relationship, so good!!
Batman Eternal (2014) -> not my fav Batman story but some absolutely unforgettable Jim and Bruce moments.
The Untold Legend of Batman (1980) - an original story remix inset in a fun mystery. Lots of very fun Bruce + Jim early interactions contrasted with their later, deeper partnership.
Batman and the Mad Monk (2006) + Batman ans the Monster Men (2006) - a nice subplot abt Jim doubting his partnership w/Bruce but being affirmed later.
Batman: Officer Down - One of the more famous stories I’m listing. A crossover arc where Jim gets shot and Bruce mopes, very sweet.
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989, issues #11 - #15: Prey) -> More early Jim and Bruce settling into a partnership and learning to trust one another.
Batman (1940) #433 - #435 “The Many Deaths of Batman” - Some Gordon mourning over what he believes to be a dead Batman and some fun Jim + Bruce Wayne identity interactions.
Elseworlds: I like their brief interactions in Injustice (Year 2, I think is the bulk of them), Batman: The First Knight, Batman: Gotham Noir,
Random Issues: Brave and the Bold (1955) #197, Dective Comics (2016) #1027 (the “As Always” story), Detective Comics (2016) #1066, The Road Home: Commissioner Gordon, Batman (1940) #484, Batman (1940) #459 - #461
Thanks for the ask!!
lots of thoughts about these panels and what they say about the state of batman and commissioner jim gordon’s partnership during no man’s land
batman: legends of the dark knight (1989) #125
i found it a very interesting exchange between these two that encapsulates their working relationship quite well. it’s a give and take, an agreement built off mutual need, but over time batman became less of an urban legend existing only to do what gordon couldn’t and more of a friend.
put it this way: there are only a small handful of people batman trusts with his identity. but what’s even better, is that gordon doesn’t even want it! though the trust was broken and their relationship broke down, they’ve been working together too long for their not to be something there regardless.
gordon doesn’t need his identity because of that trust, not in spite of it.
regardless of whether he could figure out batman’s identity if he wanted to, the point is that he won’t try because it’s batman, and that’s all he needs.
also i thought this was hilariously accurate (and what i had been saying since the beginning):
batman: legends of the dark knight (1989) #125
dredging up some memories as well, huh
Batman: Shadow of the Bat #2 by Alan Grant
Characters: Commissioner Gordon, Batman
JIM GORDON in JOKER/HARLEY: CRIMINAL SANITY (2019)
Batgirl (2016-) #21.
I am not immune to Babs working with her dad, I'm weak to them.
Birds of Prey 1999 #73
jim gordon most dad to ever dad confirmed
Bruce calling Gordon dad. The first time he called him that it was a complete accident, like when u call ur teacher mom! But well, Gordon simply didn’t seem to mind and didn’t comment on it. Alfred wasn’t always very fatherly to him so it never seemed right to call him that, though it felt okay to do it with Gordon so it eventually stuck.
Jim stomps onto the roof in a huff. He needs to get home, he promised his little girl (teenager) that he wouldn't get caught up in work and they could have dinner together, and he wants to keep that promise. He really does.
But the Bat never showed up to answer the signal, so he had to organise a raid instead, is already running half-an-hour late, and also had to come back to turn off the signal before they got complaints about the brightness again.
Stupid Batman, always doing what he wants and— bleeding out of the roof.
Jim pauses, staring, then shakes himself out of it. "Oi, Batman," he barks, turning the lump of armour over. Blood gushes out of a wound between his armour plates, and Jim winces before bearing his weight down and forcing that armour back, putting pressure on the wound. It earns him a pained groan, and the Bat seems to wake, shifting slowly. The cowl turns towards him, and his lips part slightly, panting.
"Dad?" He whispers, and Jim's blood runs cold.
He knows that pained rasp.
....He knows that jawline.
That drive for justice.
"You are grounded," he hisses, furious. His son is Batman, and he missed it. He didn't miss Barbara, he knows all about her nightly activities she can't hide it for the life of her, but... He can give himself some leeway, Bruce doesn't live with him, but how can he have missed this?
"Dad," Bruce croaks, and it feels like Jim's heart has been torn from his chest. "It hurts."
"I'll fix it. I— I'll fix it, kiddo. You just stay nice and quiet, okay?"
Bruce nods weakly, and Jim reaches around him, undoing the clip to his belt. He'd stolen Barb's from her room once, and spent hours memorising the layout of all those little pouches, in case he came across an injured Batgirl on shift, and he has to assume they're at least somewhat similar.
Sure enough, the same pouch holds thick packets of gauze, and he rips them open with his teeth so he can shove them into the wound. Bruce whimpers and Jim bows his head, shoving bloody his son's blood his son's blood his son's blood fingers into another pouch, pulling out a spare comm unit.
"Batman's down," he barks. "GCPD rooftop, immediate med evac needed. Preliminary first aid administered, in and out of consciousness," he adds, watching Bruce go limp. "And in the morning, we're going to have a serious talk about all the vigilantism in the family, Batgirl. Robin."
"ETA five minutes," Barb gasps, relief in her voice, echoed by Dick giving his own report. The fucking thirteen year old. Jesus. "Thanks, Dad. We've been looking all night."
He just grunts, not really able to say much more before he either starts yelling or crying.
Sure enough, five minutes later exactly, a blur of purple hurtles onto the roof, and Barbara doesn't even glance and him, pressing a button on the cowl that retracts the white lenses with a quiet snick, and checks his pupilary response, working with an efficiency he's never seen from his daughter as she moves down his body, checking things that didn't even occur to Jim while he maintains pressure on the blood-soaked gauze.
"Sorry, Dad," she mutters eventually, sitting back on her haunches and opening a pouch on the side of her belt.
Smelling salts his mind fills in, and sure enough she tears open a small packet and holds it under Bruce's nose. He comes awake with a groan, and Jim shushes him automatically, stroking the small stretch of cheek he can reach.
Bruce turns into the touch, sighing, and Jim feels his heart clench. How many times has he seen the Bat injured and done nothing but watch from a distance?
"What made you think this was a good idea, B?" Barb snaps, and Bruce's cool blues glare at her without moving away from Jim's touch.
"Someone had to put Bane back in Arkham."
"If you just—"
"No." Bruce gains back some of his fire, spitting the denial, and the two of them glare at each other. "You don't go near him."
Jim looks between them, spotting the same bitter only-I-can-fuck-with-you attitude they've always sported since Jim found himself unable to let go that little boy in a bloodsoaked alley.
"We'll discuss this later," he says, listening to the familiar purr of the Batmobile down at street-level.
"Yes, Dad."
"Yes, Dad."
JIM GORDON + TALKING about BRUCE WAYNE/BATMAN in THE UNTOLD LEGEND OF BATMAN (1980)
JIM GORDON in BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT (2011)