Aunt Harriet Cooper

Aunt Harriet Cooper is a female comic character that features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

Aunt Harriet came to live at Wayne Manor in order to oversee the household and help raise her nephew after the apparent death of Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth.

Wayne seems successful in throwing her off by using trick photography to create a picture of Wayne and Grayson talking to Batman and Robin Harriet's involvement during that issue also helps Batman defeat the Cluemaster.

After Alfred returns from the dead in Detective Comics #356, Harriet stays at Wayne Manor at Alfred's insistence. A recurring health problem first mentioned in Detective Comics #371 grows into a crisis and, in #373, she is rushed to Gotham General for emergency cryosurgery, which ultimately requires parts from Mr. Freeze's cold gun.

Harriet makes her final appearance as an ongoing series character in Detective Comics #380 (1968) some time after Alfred's return from the dead, although she stays in contact as when she sends Wayne an Oriental gong as a housewarming gift for his new penthouse apartment (Batman #226). Her last appearance comes in a holiday story in 1975's Batman Family #4. Recently in the Batman run done by Grant Morrison Aunt Harriet seemed to appear again carving a turkey for a Wayne family Thanksgiving but it was actually Bruce's Aunt Agatha who preceded Harriet in the Batman books

Overview

Personality and attributes

The character is depicted as intelligent with growing suspicions that Wayne and Grayson might be Batman and Robin, often noting odd things that occur at Wayne Manor (as shown in Detective Comics #340, Batman #184, World's Finest Comics #168), culminating in her discovery of the Batcave under Wayne Manor in Detective Comics #351.

Notes

• Aunt Harriet Cooper was created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff where she made her first appearance in Detective Comics v1 #328 (June 1964).

Appearances

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