Per Gardner Fox himself, who i met at a convention in the eaqrly 80's (FIRST CONVENTION WOO!), Batgirl was created due to the urging of the TV show.
The timeline was (as insinuated by Gardner Fox), TV Execs said they wanted a female protagonist for the show, Gardner wrote it up in a story that they could throw away if need be (if the TV show went sour or they decided to abandon the Batgirl idea), and once the comic book version was there they wrote the TV script. So even though she was *published* first, she was created FOR television.
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Date: 2011-08-03 06:51 pm (UTC)Per Gardner Fox himself, who i met at a convention in the eaqrly 80's (FIRST CONVENTION WOO!), Batgirl was created due to the urging of the TV show.
The timeline was (as insinuated by Gardner Fox), TV Execs said they wanted a female protagonist for the show, Gardner wrote it up in a story that they could throw away if need be (if the TV show went sour or they decided to abandon the Batgirl idea), and once the comic book version was there they wrote the TV script. So even though she was *published* first, she was created FOR television.
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