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TIL when Alan Moore was preparing to write ‘The Killing Joke’, he asked DC Comics editor Len Wein if they had any problem with crippling Barbara Gordon (Batgirl). Wein replied, 'Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch.’ “It was probably one of the areas where they should’ve reined me in, but they didn’t.”

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