Revealed: DC Comics Was to Have Featured Rape and Torture of Batgirl

Townhall.com Staff

Posted: Dec 09, 2013 4:44 PM

A controversial 1988 comic book in which the DC Comics' villain Joker character tortured and crippled Batgirl and sent photos of her naked and injured to her father has just gotten a new shot of controversy. We now know the original comic was to have more explicitly shown Batgirl's battered body hinting that Joker had not only tortured but raped her.