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| James Gordon | |
| Aliases: | Commissioner Gordon James Worthington Gordon |
| Continuity: | DC Universe |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Type: | Law enforcement |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Gotham City Chicago, Illinois |
| Relatives: | Barbara Eileen Gordon Barbara Gordon Sarah Essen James Gordon, Jr. |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | Detective Comics #27 |
James Worthington "Jim" Gordon, often referred to simply as Commissioner Gordon, is a fictional law enforcement officer in comic book titles published by DC Comics. He is a major supporting character in the Batman family of comic titles and first appeared in Detective Comics, Volume 1 #27 in May, 1939.
Overview[]
In most incarnations of the Batman mythos, Gordon is the police commissioner of Batman's home of Gotham City. He shares the hero’s deep commitment of ridding the dark and corrupting city of crime. In Golden and Silver age comics and on the 1960s Batman television show, Gordon fully trusts, and is even somewhat dependent on Batman. In most modern stories, he is somewhat skeptical of Batman's vigilante method but recognizes the necessity of Batman and the two have a mutual respect and tacit friendship. He was the husband of Barbara Kean Gordon and Sarah Essen Gordon. Gordon is also the father or adoptive father, depending on the continuity, of Barbara Gordon, the original Batgirl and later Oracle, and James Gordon Jr.