Batman '89 Just Killed Bruce Wayne's Oldest Ally
Warning: Contains spoilers for Batman '89 #6
The final issue of Batman ’89 includes the death of a major Batman character who, thanks to deleted content from the famous Tim Burton movie, is one of Bruce Wayne’s oldest allies.
Recently, DC made waves with the return of Michael Keaton's Batman in the pages of Batman '89. Commissioner James Gordon is a key supporting character in the Batman mythos, having debuted along with the Dark Knight himself in the same 1939 issue of Detective Comics. Gordon’s tragic death in the Batman ’89 finale is a saddening loss for both Bruce and Batman, as Gordon offered assistance to a young Bruce Wayne the night his parents were murdered.
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Issue 6 of Batman ’89, by Sam Hamm and Joe Quinones, concludes its epic storyline, ending the stories of both Two-Face, and longtime Batman ally Commissioner Gordon. Having been mortally wounded by Two-Face in the previous issue, Gordon finally succumbs to the gunshots early on, but Batman is unable to mourn the loss due to his own critical injuries. Although Gordon had a relatively small role in Batman and Batman Returns, his expanded importance in Batman ’89 and a small detail in the original 1989 movie make his already-tragic death far sadder. Sam Hamm, who wrote the script for the original 1989 Batman film and the story treatment for Batman Returns, proposed that Commissioner Gordon arrived on the scene of Thomas and Martha Wayne’s murder, comforting a traumatized Bruce. While this detail didn’t make it to the final cut of the 1989 film, newspaper photos of the crime scene includes a police officer standing by Bruce, who is confirmed to be Gordon by Pat Hingle who plays an
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