{"id":4355,"date":"2022-08-10T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2022-07-11T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T01:30:19","slug":"788-bat-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/788-bat-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"788 &#8211; Bat-Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-1.png\" alt=\"The first Bat-Girl in Batman #139, February 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4356\" width=\"568\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-1.png 568w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-1-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The first Bat-Girl in Batman #139, February 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Batman #139 (Feb 1961), the creators try to improve the supporting cast of the Batman &#8220;family&#8221; by adding Bat-Girl. Betty Kane, the niece of Kathy Kane, discovers her aunt is actually Bat-Woman and decides to help out with crime-fighting. Batman encourages her to train her sidekick as a stalling tactic, but it actually seems to take and she joins the dynamic &#8220;trio&#8221; on adventures and to make Robin feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Batman #139, February 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-2.png 550w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196102-bat-girl-2-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Batman #139, February 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This version of Bat-Girl only lasts for a few adventures before both Bat-Woman and Bat-Girl are &#8220;retired&#8221; to make way for a more serious version of Batman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Batman #139 (Feb 1961), the creators try to improve the supporting cast of the Batman &#8220;family&#8221; by adding Bat-Girl. Betty Kane, the niece of Kathy Kane, discovers her aunt is actually Bat-Woman and decides to help out with crime-fighting. Batman encourages her to train her sidekick as a stalling tactic, but it actually seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,713,40,583,14,145,437],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-batgirl","tag-batman","tag-batwoman","tag-dc","tag-robin","tag-sidechicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}