Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Batgirl Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: July 11, 2007 Direct Market Date July 11, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #4 (#220)

Direct Market Date July 11, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 552
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Phantom Bullfighter"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Batgirl (of Earth-1)

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Don Heck
Inker: Dick Giordano

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #408 (1971)

Feature Character(s)

• Batgirl (last appearance in Detective Comics #407; next appearance in Detective Comics #409)

Other Character(s)

• Don Alvarado (no further appearances)
• El Granados (a champion bullfighter; no further appearances)
• Manolo El Viejo (a former bullfighter; no further appearances)
• Paco (an aspiring bullfighter; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Detective Comics #409.

Synopsis:
Barbara Gordon visits Spain to meet Don Alvarado who is donating an original manuscript to the library by a prize-winning novelist. During her stay, Babs attends a bull fight with Alvarado. The champion bull fighter El Granados is nearly killed, but a young fighter named Paco intervenes. Both the bull fighter and his mentor Manolo El Viejo are displeased that the boy has stolen their honor.

Later Babs visits Alvarado's ranch. During the night a cloaked man steals El Granados's sword and uses it to kill a prize bull. Batgirl tried to stop him, but she failed. The next day another sword is stolen, leading Babs to conclude that the man will strike again.