Cassandra Cain Reading Order (Batgirl, Orphan, Black Bat)
Created by Kelley Puckett and Damion Scott, Cassandra Cain is a member of the Batfamily who made her first appearance in Batman #567 (July 1999), during the No Man’s Land event (see reading order here). She then became Batgirl and got her own solo series. She’s also known as Black Bat and Orphan.
Cassandra Cain is the most lethal member of the Batfamily. The daughter of assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva, she was raised to become a killer. Most accurately, she was conditioned to become the world’s greatest assassin. To achieve that, she was deprived of speech and human contact during her childhood in order to develop an incredible ability to interpret body language to the point of reading complex thoughts – basically, body movement is her first language, and she didn’t talk for a long time. Her unique way of communicating made her an expert martial artist like no other.
Batman took her under his wing, and she soon became the new Batgirl with Barbara Gordon’s blessings. That was before the New 52 era. She got a new origin story after being reintroduced in the DCU in the Batman & Robin Eternal series.
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