Frank Miller Reinvents the Commissioner
February 1987: Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s classic “Batman: Year One” storyline in Batman #404-407 put the spotlight squarely on the young Jim Gordon for the first time. Nearly all subsequent appearances of Gordon draw heavily on the way he was portrayed here.
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