Dr. Leslie Thompkins (sometimes spelled Tompkins) is a fictional character from the Batman mythos. Created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Dick Giordano, she first appeared in Detective Comics #457 (March 1976). Her character draws partial inspiration from Dorothy Day.
Close friends with his parents, Leslie serves as a godparent, along with Alfred Pennyworth, and close confidante to Bruce Wayne. In DC continuity, she goes into exile for allowi...
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Dr. Leslie Thompkins (sometimes spelled Tompkins) is a fictional character from the Batman mythos. Created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Dick Giordano, she first appeared in Detective Comics #457 (March 1976). Her character draws partial inspiration from Dorothy Day.
Close friends with his parents, Leslie serves as a godparent, along with Alfred Pennyworth, and close confidante to Bruce Wayne. In DC continuity, she goes into exile for allowing the death of Stephanie Brown, a.k.a. Spoiler. After fan outrage about DC's portrayal of women, however, this was mended so that Leslie simply helps to fake Stephanie's death and takes her to Africa.
Leslie is portrayed as having been a close friend of Thomas Wayne. She took it upon herself to look after Wayne's son, Bruce, after the boy's parents were murdered, often acting with the family butler, Alfred Pennyworth, as a parental figure and guardian.
Leslie disapproves of Bruce's vigilantism, and feels partly responsible for his...
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