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The Canon Batman Timeline

I tried my best.

It's important to me that even comic characters can age and grow.

TLDR: I think the best way to plot out a Batman timeline is to pay attention to the ages of characters over time.

Long version:

Batman: Year One, Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper, The Long Halloween and Dark Victory all take place consecutively and over the course of Batman's first 5 years.

Bruce Wayne is 25 when he returns to Gotham on Jan 4, Year One, and likely turns 26 that year. Selina Kyle is 19 during Year One.

Dick Grayson becomes Robin at 13 in Dark Victory, towards the end of Year Five and spends 6 years as Robin.

Adapted Silver Age stories follow Dark Victory.

Dinah Lance becomes Black Canary and co-founds the JLA at 19, early in the Silver Age.

Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl at 18, after the Teen Titans have formed, likely around around Year Eight. She is in-between Dick and Dinah's ages.

Adapted Bronze Age stories begin in Year Ten, after Dick leaves for college at 18.

Helena Bertinelli becomes a vigilante at the end of summer in Year Eleven, after turning 21, returns to Gotham and begins calling herself The Huntress in Year Twelve, after Ash Wednesday. She meets a 29 year-old Catwoman, who she's around 8 years younger than.

Dick is fired by Bruce at the end of Year Eleven at 19. Dick becomes Nightwing and Jason becomes Robin in early Year Twelve.

Crisis happens in Year Twelve and the Modern Age begins. Dick turns 20 around this time.

In Year Thirteen, Death in the Family, Killing Joke, Huntress (1989), A Lonely Place of Dying and Cry of the Huntress occur.

Barbara becomes Oracle, Tim Drake becomes Robin at 13, Stephanie Brown becomes The Spoiler at 15 around Labour Day, and Jean-Paul Valley becomes Azrael as a post-graduate student. Dick is 21.

Knightfall takes place, over the course of 6 months between Year Thirteen and Fourteen.

In Year Fourteen, Prodigal, Contagion, Legacy, Cataclysm and Aftershock occur consecutively.

It is also in this year that Helena and Barbara join the JLA, Barbara forms the Birds of Prey, adding Dinah, and Tim co-founds Young Justice.

The entirety of Year Fifteen is the No Man's Land year.

Helena becomes The Bat, in Batman's absence, while also moonlighting as the Huntress.

Stephanie Brown has a baby at 16 and Cassandra Cain becomes Batgirl at 17.

The Titans form again, Donna Troy turns 23 and she is the same age as Dick.

Year Sixteen begins with New Gotham and ends with Infinite Crisis. Cry for Blood, Outlaws, Joker: Last Laugh, Fugitive/Murderer and Family occur in this year.

Renee Montoya turns 29, Cassandra turns 18, Tim turns 16 and Jason would have turned 18.

Helena joins the Birds of Prey, Tim joins the Teen Titans, Dick joins the Outsiders and Stephanie has a stint as Robin.

Jean-Paul dies.

Year Seventeen is the 52 year and is largely a timeskip. Kate Kane becomes Batwoman and Renee becomes The Question.

Year Eighteen opens with One Year Later.

Final Crisis occurs and Bruce "dies". Battle for the Cowl occurs.

Dick becomes Batman and Damian becomes Robin, at 10. Dick joins the JLA.

Stephanie becomes Batgirl at 19 and attends university, and Tim becomes Red Robin.

Michael Lane becomes Azrael at around 30 and Kate turns 32.

In Year Nineteen, Bruce Wayne returns and begins Batman Inc.. Cassandra becomes Black Bat.

The Black Mirror, Gates of Gotham and Leviathan Strikes occur.

The Convergence timeskip begins.

Towards the end of Year Twenty, Convergence concludes and so does Post-Crisis continuity.

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The Huntress earns Wonder Girl’s respect (or Helena Bertinelli’s disarming effect on kids)

Wonder Woman (1987) #166-67

Helena’s great at balancing an authoritative and almost snide voice with talking to kids as if they are the adults they want to be treated as.

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One of my favourite comic fights is The Huntress’ raw, single-handed, gadget-less takedown of Killer Croc as she “realises” Tim Drake is dead.

Joker: The Last Laugh #5

Talk about a big sister.

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Cheap red wine. Something they drink in the country because they don't know any better.🍷

Huntress: Year One #3

I might need some of that shitty wine too, Helena.

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Clea Dessendre really is the eldest daughter of all-time

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

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I’m sorry but I despise Post-Flashpoint DC comics.

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Adolescence is phenomenal.

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You want some Helena Bertinelli lore that no one talks about? How about four pages from Gotham Central #18 (2004) that have me SPIRALING

Detective Sergeant Vincent Del Arrazio, one of Gordon's picks on the GCPD Major Crimes Unit and a minor character in the Gotham Central series overall, has some kind of history with Huntress---one we've never seen on panel. (Believe me, I checked.)

Like Helena, Vince has Family connections: the Inzerillos are one of the Five Families in the Sicilian syndicate. Like Helena, he stays as distant as possible. Huntress apparently knows this "damn well" per their unspecified past.

On a hint from Huntress, Vince uses his connections to get information potentially pertinent to a murder investigation.

Vince calls bullshit on a pharmaceutical exec's money laundering arrangement. He also shares that he was in Sicily during the Maxi Trials.

Yeah. THESE TRIALS. (Cry for Blood #4) GREG RUCKA ARE YOU TELLING ME WHAT I THINK YOU'RE TELLING ME

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- Paul on George after his passing

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The Huntress' stories often feature reckonings or experiences with wider social issues, albeit in a comic-booky way. TWs.

Youth Drug Problems (related to organised crime):

Batman vs Predator: Bloodmatch & Catwoman (1993) #51-52

Street Children & Youth Issues (Neglect, Exploitation, Abuse, Criminality, & Sexual Assault):

"Who'd think little voices could sound so loud." is such a great line. I have a longer post about this story here.

Batman Chronicles #19

At-Risk Children:

Batman: No Man's Land Novel

Child Physical Abuse and Harmful Masculinities:

Showcase '93 #9-10

Rape and Sexual Trauma:

Huntress (1994)

Corruption in Disaster Management:

Batman Chronicles #15

Politics of Organised Crime (the Mafia's Long Reach):

Nightwing/Huntress

The Beauty Industry (maybe a stretch):

Green Arrow (1987) #83

@dchuntress

if someone can please reblog this with panels from 90s comics that show them tackling social issues (homophobia, racism, etc etc) before 11:59 today that would be great please and thank you

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Five year-old cousin named her new pokemon plush “Luis Díaz”😭

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can someone tuck me in and read me huntress comics

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If I had a nickel for every time...

Shadow of the Bat #94, Green Arrow (1988) #83 & Nightwing/Huntress #1

So, Helena's like 23 and half Ollie's age in that issue but, if you ask me, that's pretty on brand behaviour for him. A great one-shot issue btw!

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Go and serve cunt, girl!

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