A Star at Last
December 1996: Fifty-seven years into his career, Gordon finally got his own miniseries: the four-issue Batman: Gordon’s Law, by Chuck Dixon and Klaus Janson. It was followed in 1998 by another four-issue mini, Batman: Gordon of Gotham, by Dennis O’Neil, Dick Giordano and Gotham, and in early 2001 by a five-issue mini, Batman: Turning Points, which featured three writers and a lot of artists.
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