New Batgirl Gets New Costume

Robot 6 at Comic Book Resources has a look at the new costume for latest Batgirl, Stephanie Brown: http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/09/hello-new-batgirl-good-by e-creepy-fetish-mask/. The new outfit was designed by Batgirl series artist Lee Garbett and will officially debut on the cover of Batgirl #4 in November 2009: http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2009/09/08/new-batgirl-check-new-batgirl- costume/.

Stephanie is the daughter of career criminal Arthur Brown, the Cluemaster. She made her costumed debut as Spoiler in order to interfere with her father's crimes. She was the fourth Robin for a while (before Tim Drake returned to the costume) and went back to being Spoiler until Cassandra Cain quit as the previous Batgirl (replacing Barbara Gordon after Babs becomes Oracle).

Stephanie supposedly died during the "War Games" story-arc that ran through the Batman titles from October 2004 to January 2005. Her death was revealed to have been faked by Dr. Leslie Thompkins in order to convince Batman to stop taking on teen partners.

BATMAN: Do me a favor and lose the sense of humor.
SUPERMAN: Do us both a favor and buy one.