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Leslie Thompkins (Physician heal thyself…and Gotham)

So what did everyone think of Gotham’s first episode back (Rogues’ Gallery)?  What about Dr. Leslie Thompkins?  She plays a big part in the Batman legend.  Leslie Thompkins first appeared in Detective Comics #457 (March 1976).  A close friend and colleague of Bruce Wayne’s father Thomas, Leslie Thompkins was not only there for Bruce the night his parents were murdered, but would become a kind of surrogate mother figure to Bruce.  Even though Batman would visit her for years on the anniversary of the Wayne murders, Dr. Thompkins would not discover his identity until...