The Statue of Justice is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed woman that is located on a small island in Gotham Harbor and overlooks the docklands. It is sometimes also called Lady Gotham and is Gotham City’s analogue to the Statue of Liberty in New York City.

In the early comics, Batman’s place of operations was originally established as New York City. Comics like Detective Comics #63 therefore also featured locations like the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. In Batman #4, Batman’s home base was first named as Gotham City and slowly distanced from New York City in the following years, essentially retconning it as a separate city.

After their confrontation at the Second National Bank of Gotham, Batman was left dangling on a cable attached to Two-Face’s helicopter. In order to finally kill Batman, Dent used a steering wheel lock to fly the helicopter straight into the Lady Gotham statue in Gotham Harbor. Two-Face used a parachute to escape while Batman was able to leap off of the helicopter into the water below moments before it crashed into the giant harbor statue and exploded. The Lady Gotham was set on fire and heavily damaged when the left side of its face was destroyed by the helicopter once it collided with it.