Alternative Versions of Barbara Gordon - Mainstream Continuity - 52 Multiverse

52 Multiverse

In March 2006, DC Comics launched a year-long weekly maxi-series entitled 52. In 52 Week 52, it was revealed that an entirely new "Multiverse" system was now in existence, composed of 52 alternate Earths, featuring variations of well-known DC Comics characters both in tribute to the old Multiverse system and a number of published Elseworlds stories and televised DC Comics adaptations.

• New Earth: The designated home of the Barbara Gordon who is featured in regular DC Comics continuity.
• Earth One: Inhabited by modernized interpretations of Superman and Batman, featured in the Batman: Earth One graphic novel, in which a young Barbara Gordon is a 17-year-old library assistant inspired to become Batman's crime fighting partner, after he saved her from serial killer Ray Salinger, a.k.a. "The Birthday Boy", with her father and Harvey Bullock. She begins studying martial arts and criminology for that goal, and starts drawing herself in a female version of Batman's costume on her sketchpad. It is also implied that her mother was murdered under the order of Oswald Cobblepot.
• Earth-12: This universe mirrors the animated television series Batman Beyond, wherein Barbara Gordon is police commissioner of Gotham City.
• Earth-31: The official home of Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Universe" which consists of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again and All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder, in which a young Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl at age fifteen.
• Earth-33: A world of magicians - this version of Barbara Gordon is a true Oracle, able to see the future.
• Earth-37: This universe closely follows the Elseworlds limited series Thrillkiller set in the 1960s in which Barbara and Dick Grayson target corrupt cops as Batgirl and Robin. Bruce Wayne is a detective on the GCPD who assumes the mantle of Batman after Grayson is killed.
• Earth-43: This universe continues the story of the Elseworlds graphic novel Batman & Dracula: Red Rain, where Barbara Gordon is a vampire who is eventually staked by Dick Grayson.