DETECTIVE COMICS # 875

[superfangirl1]

We learn more of jim jr past: such as a young boy he had a diagnostic evaluation at Arkham Asylum, was suspected of sending a football player to the hospital by unknown means and the disappearance of Barbara friend.

James Gordon wonders if the incident where he was dropped from a bridge as a baby and not being there for him while growing up had anything to do with jim jr unusualness.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

James' birth mother, Barbara, divorced Jim and left him for Chicago, taking James with her.

And considering how smaller James looks, I think it's still established that Barbara is older than James.

[espanolbot]

Barbara is technically only Jim's adopted daughter, while bing his biological niece, she was already about 12...ish when she moved to Gotham to stay with Jim after her biological father and mother died in a carcrash.

At least this is how it used to be, and in one of Jim Sale's post-Long Halloween stories (so... Batman year... three or so?) it had Babs moving to Gotham to live with Jim, and she was already in either her early teens or something.

[darkknightjrk]

That doesn't sound like those two need to contradict--early teens are around 13, so having Barbara be around 12-14 and James around 7 or 8 would work.

Granted, there are some continuity boo-boos in this issue, such as Sarah being James' wife that close to the "Year One" era when she married him around Knightfall, but the ages probably could work if you squint at them at the right way.