Batman's closest affiliates

[Chubaka]

I am asking which characters are considered Batman's "blood", posse, crew, pals, or whatever, in order of closeness?

Is Dick Grayson closer to Batman than Superman?
Is Barbara Gordon closer to Batman than Catwoman?
Is Alfred really Batman's best friend?
How tight are Lucious Fox and Bruce Wayne beyond the business world?
Is Catwoman the only enemy (or pseudo-enemy) that truly knows Batman inside and out?

[Brack360]

I am asking which characters are considered Batman's "blood", posse, crew, pals, or whatever, in order of closeness?

Is Dick Grayson closer to Batman than Superman?

Yes, Dick Grayson is Bruce Wayne's adopted son and was his full-time partner for several years.

Is Barbara Gordon closer to Batman than Catwoman?

At the moment, I would say no. Batman and Catwoman have been involved in an on/ off romantic relationship for several years and are now friends and allies. Barbara Gordon has been estranged from Batman since "War Games."

Is Alfred really Batman's best friend?

No, Alfred is more like a father figure than a friend. I would consider Jim Gordon to be Batman's best friend.

How tight are Lucious Fox and Bruce Wayne beyond the business world?

Bruce has been shown to visit the Fox family at home, especially after Lucius had his stroke. However, they don't seem all that close. Lucius seems to suspect that there is more to Bruce than the bumbling playboy, but he has no clue that Bruce is Batman.

Is Catwoman the only enemy (or pseudo-enemy) that truly knows Batman inside and out?

Ra's al Ghul, Talia, and Bane also know Batman very well.

[Gaspard]

I think the Joker knows Batman pretty well.

[Kaos]

Dick, Alfred, Tim and Gordon are prolly his cloest peoples.

[The Zapper]

The Joker probably knows Bats better than any of his enemies. Those two have a long twisted history.

[Damo]

From wiki...

Alfred Pennyworth is Batman’s butler and confidant, and the man who raised him after his parents were killed.

Nightwing, Dick Grayson, was an orphaned child acrobat who originally served as Batman’s sidekick Robin and became Bruce Wayne's ward and later adopted son. As an adult, he took up the identity of Nightwing, and served as Blüdhaven's protector, Gotham's ugly sister city to the south, until he left due to a crisis of conscience. He is now living in New York and is leader of the Outsiders.

Oracle, Barbara Gordon, is the daughter of Gotham police commissioner James Gordon, and was the original Batgirl. After she was left paraplegic by the Joker, she became Oracle, an Information Broker, and founded a covert team of female operatives in the Birds of Prey comics. Barbara relocated to Metropolis after the events of "War Games."

Robin, currently Tim Drake, is another teenaged crime fighter who took-up the mantle of Robin to assist Batman. He is a member and leader of the Teen Titans.

Jason Bard was hired by the Dark Knight after the One Year Later jump. He is Batman's daytime liaison.

Batgirl, Cassandra Cain, is a martial arts prodigy and daughter of the assassin David Cain. Batman and Oracle trained her as the next Batgirl. As of the last issue of Batgirl, she has given up the Batgirl mantle (although she has apparently returned to it). She later faked her own death, framed Robin for her murder, and is now the leader of the late Ra's Al Ghul's organization, the League of Assassins.

Jason Todd was apprehended by Batman while attempting to steal the tires off the Batmobile. Recognizing promising skills in the troubled youth, Batman took Jason in and trained him to become the second Robin. He later was killed by the Joker on a quest to find his mother. Years later, he was resurrected and adopted the identity of the second Red Hood, which the Joker held prior to the incident that transformed him from failing comedian into the Clown Prince of Crime. Todd posed as Nightwing in New York City after the events in Infinite Crisis, but returned the mantle to Grayson shortly after Grayson moved to New York.

Selina Kyle (Catwoman) was one of Batman's early adversaries. She severed contact with Batman after Zatanna informed her that her mind was being manipulated along with the rest of the Secret Society. Apparently, this was why she had given up her life of crime to align herself with Batman and the Batman Family. One year after the events in Infinite Crisis, she retired and gave birth to a baby girl and is again friends with Batman. A new Catwoman has surfaced, Holly Robinson, Selina's protege'.

James ("Jim") Gordon: The police commissioner of Gotham City, with whom Batman has a strong (though secret and unofficial) working relationship. Gordon, like other characters, has changed considerably over the years. Of particular note, is that in the early days of the characters, Gordon was not allied with Batman, and was more antagonistic towards him. However, he was a friend of Bruce Wayne. In "Batman: Year One", Gordon is portrayed as one of the few honest, non-corrupt Gotham cops. During "No Man's Land", Bruce offered him the knowledge of his secret identity, but Jim (still angry for Batman's early abandonment of Gotham in the days near the beginning of NML) refused to look and find out, hinting he may already know. Jim retired several months after NML, but returned to duty following the OYL jump.

[DonC]

Yes, no, yes, not very, no.