James Gordon Batman Year One
As a child jj.
James gordon batman year one. Lieutenant james gordon moves to gotham with his pregnant wife barbara after a transfer from chicago. An infant james in batman. Year one gordon claims not to see the unmasked batman well whom his wife at that time barbara also sees because he doesnt have his glasses on.
Showed tendencies of a sociopath. Gordon goes from being an angst ridden new hire to a cold blooded avenger taking the law into his own hands against detective flass to a guilt ridden father and husband involved in an affair to a newly promoted self assured captain confident in marriage counseling and his burgeoning relationship with batman. Both are swiftly acquainted with the corruption and violence of gotham city with gordon witnessing his partner detective arnold flass assaulting a teen for fun.
Gordon suspects early on that bruce wayne may be batman though he never follows up on his suspicions although sarah essen is correct in her suspicions even guessing bruces motivation. The man who laughs following up on gordon informing batman about the joker and thus recounting their first official encounter. He was said to be currently living with his mother in chicago until scott snyder s skeleton cases story.
Year one bruce wayne returns home to gotham city after 12 years abroad training for his eventual one man war on crime. He left gotham and subsequently disappeared. Two other stories batman and the monster men and batman and the mad monk tie into the same time period of batmans career filling in the gap between.