Joker Series Proves Jim Gordons Detective Skills

Joker Series Proves Jim Gordon’s Detective Skills

While Jim Gordon might not be the World’s Greatest Detective, The Joker comic series proves that Gordon is pretty good when not compared to Batman.

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Joker Series Proves Jim Gordons Detective Skills

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for The Joker #2.

The latest issue of The Joker confirmed that former Police Commissioner Jim Gordon is a mighty fine detective, having used his powers of deduction to deduce some of the biggest secrets in Gotham City, including his daughter’s secret identity. This point is often overlooked, given that Gordon is most frequently seen working alongside Batman and rarely gets the chance to showcase his own skills as a detective.

It’s a sad fact that Jim Gordon is rarely afforded any respect, both among comic readers and in the modern day DC Universe. In his reality, Gordon is looked down upon by many of his fellow law enforcement officials, who view Gordon’s support of a vigilante like Batman as a sign of weakness. On a metatextual level, some writers reduce Gordon to the level of the dim-witted Watson or Lestrade figure from Sherlock Holmes stories, who exists only so that Batman’s Holmes can show off his cleverness by disproving his colleague’s otherwise reasonable theories. In some adaptations, such as the animated Harley Quinn series, Gordon is presented as a comedic figure who is incredibly bad at his job.

The Joker series, written by James Tynion IV with art by Guillem March, presents a decidedly different take on Jim Gordon, who has been offered a chance to hunt down and kill Joker by a mysterious wealthy woman. Skeptical about the offer and still uncertain that he can play the assassin even when the target is Joker, Gordon reaches out to Batman and informs him of the offer while not saying that he is considering following through on killing his target. Batman agrees to offer Gordon intelligence support but insists on his having a disapproving Oracle act as his chaperone. This leads Gordon to play a card he has held in reserve for years, hoping to distract both Batman and Oracle from this refusal to commit to taking Joker alive by revealing that he knows Oracle is his daughter, Barbara Gordon.

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The question of whether or not Jim Gordon has knowledge of his daughter’s double life has varied as much as the question of his competence. In the aforementioned Harley Quinn cartoon, Gordon is completely unaware until Barbara tells him the truth to bring him out of a drunken depression. In the pre-Crisis comics and the DCAU, it was implied that Gordon knew, but kept that fact hidden from his daughter. In Gail Simone’s Birds of Prey series, Barbara reveals herself to her father, only to learn that while he had figured out that she was Batgirl years earlier, he had no idea she had become the master hacker Oracle.

The other big takeaway from this issue of The Joker is that Jim Gordon may have figured out Batman’s secret identity as well, but he’s characteristically cagey upon that point. As Batman and Oracle react to the news that Jim knows that Oracle is his daughter, Gordon thinks to himself, with a smug smile on his face, that he “can hear the gears turning in Batman’s mind, trying to guess how long I’ve known” before musing that Batman will soon “be asking himself what else I’ve put together.” While this isn’t an outright confirmation that Jim Gordon knows that Bruce Wayne is Batman, the fact that he is able to figure out that his daughter is Oracle is still proof that Jim Gordon is quite the detective, even if he isn’t the World’s Greatest Detective.

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