Cover Theme Day!
Jim Gordon on Batman/Detective Comics covers (plus one Shadow of the Bat)!!!!!
Isn't it funny that Gordon didn't appear on a cover until 1969, and when he finally DID, he appeared in back-to-back issues!!!
And then, right after, he made his Detective cover debut...
Okay, so that's not MUCH of a debut...hehe.
Then he showed up in support of his daughter a bunch of years later...
He couldn't miss Joker's birthday party!!
Uh oh...trouble for Babs!!
This was the first of three straight only Detective covers...
including this sorta remake of his FIRST cover appearance!
Year One Gordon was next...
and then a rare John Byrne Batman story...
This was a sad one...
The ol' CIGARS WILL KILL 'YA!! issue.
Gordon's only Shadow of the Bat cover was a memorable one...
Uh oh, Gordon is in trouble!!
Some MORE trouble!!
His last cover appearance as the commish...
And his last cover appearance period...
Feel free to point out ones that I've missed!!
Isn't it funny that Gordon didn't appear on a cover until 1969, and when he finally DID, he appeared in back-to-back issues!!!
And then, right after, he made his Detective cover debut...
Okay, so that's not MUCH of a debut...hehe.
Then he showed up in support of his daughter a bunch of years later...
He couldn't miss Joker's birthday party!!
Uh oh...trouble for Babs!!
This was the first of three straight only Detective covers...
including this sorta remake of his FIRST cover appearance!
Year One Gordon was next...
and then a rare John Byrne Batman story...
This was a sad one...
The ol' CIGARS WILL KILL 'YA!! issue.
Gordon's only Shadow of the Bat cover was a memorable one...
Uh oh, Gordon is in trouble!!
Some MORE trouble!!
His last cover appearance as the commish...
And his last cover appearance period...
Feel free to point out ones that I've missed!!
posted by Brian Cronin at 10:05 PM
3 Comments:
OK, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with Commissioner Gordon's cover appearances, but...
...can I just say how much cooler Batman looks with the yellow-and-black chest oval symbol than he does nowadays with just the black bat on the chest? Because if I can, I will say that the yellow-and-black symbol is a ZILLION times cooler. I mean, is this even a debatable point?
You missed my three favorite Gordon cover apperances, all from a single storyline in 1975 – Detective numbers #444, 445 and 448.
The image of Gordon shooting Batman in the back ha stuck in my mind since I was ten. Beautiful, dramatic work from the late, great Jim Aparo.
Damn, I miss Commissioner Gordon. Retirement is retirement, though, and I can't see them smoothly reinstating him using anything short of a retcon at this point.
And Chris, though I'll no doubt be pilloried for saying so, I actually liked the "all black" Batman costume best, associated though it was with some pretty awful stories. That one included the yellow chest oval, though, didn't it?
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