Batman Incorporated issue eight goes on sale on Wednesday 27 February. Superman quits the Daily Planet. Superman and Wonder Woman hook up. Batman 'sets box office record'. X-Men duo plan same sex wedding. Comic giants battle for readers. Image source, Getty Images. Staff at the company had been toying with the idea of using a then-cutting edge phone-polling system to allow DC readership real input on a story.
It had to be one that DC editorial genuinely wanted reader input on, and — since each phone call would cost a reader all of 50 cents — it had to be one that fans genuinely cared about. Jason was something very familiar in our current age: The first rebooted version of an idea backed by 40 years of fan nostalgia.
In the early s, Dick Grayson, having aged out of the Robin identity, became Nightwing , leaving Batman without a partner for the first time since Created by Gerry Conway and Don Newton, Jason was introduced in as as a carbon copy of Grayson, another circus kid with a heart of gold. But a few years later, when the Crisis on Infinite Earths offered an opportunity to reimagine anything and everything in the DC Universe, Jason was significantly reimagined.
Now he was a street urchin who met Batman for the first time when he attempted to jack the tires from the Batmobile; a hard-hearted and rebellious kid who Bruce encouraged to be Robin in the hopes that it would keep him from a life of crime. Where Dick Grayson quipped, Jason Todd sneered, and where Dick was the more empathic side of the Dynamic Duo, now it was Batman who was reigning in reckless impulses of his protege. Fans were split on Jason, at least from what DC editorial could tell.
Was he new take on Robin that offered pathos, drama, and a challenge for Batman? The result was Jason Todd, a Dick Grayson copycat from 'the other side of the tracks' who soon donned the red suit and green shorts as the new Boy Wonder. Jason's backstory was rewritten in in the aftermath of the Crisis on Infinite Earths epic.
O'Neil had a very different approach to Batman, drawn to a darker style that came to define the Dark Knight for generations to come. And Robin began to seem increasingly incongruous. Matters came to a head in , in what proved to be one of the most controversial comic book stories of all time. The decades would make it a part of accepted comic canon, and more or less reversed.
Comic books were getting darker and more mature, and Denny O'Neil wanted Batman at the forefront of the movement understandable. He brought on board a new writer, Thanos creator Jim Starlin , who frankly wasn't at all interested in Robin. Speaking at a New York Comic Con panel in , Starlin explained that from the costumes alone, " going out and fighting crime in a grey and black outfit while you send out a kid in primary colors was kind of like child abuse. His version of Jason was a little more aggressive, and his morality was a LOT more questionable.
In Batman , even the Dark Knight himself suspected Jason may have pushed one criminal to his death. While DC had received complaints regarding Jason Todd, they had no idea how widespread the opinion really was. The letters increased in number while Starlin was writing Batman , and all involved took note. Jason was likely still killed by a crowbar, and he looks to be in an advanced state of decomposition.
Dick's body looks bloated. Tim is full of bullet holes. This issue was part of the War Games arc. This comic was released in and written by Bill Willingham. The beloved character, Stephanie Brown, was only Robin for a brief window of time before her untimely death. When Stephanie accidentally ignites a gang war, she ends up plunging Gotham into chaos.
She gets her life-threatening injuries after Black Mask beats her, a direct response to her actions. Leslie Thomkins tries to save her life, but she ultimately has to inform the Bat-Family that Stephanie is going to die. Dick Grayson was orphaned by the vampiric version of Batman. Dick is out for revenge. In search of information, Dick ends up killing Barbara Gordon. Barbara was able to point him in the right direction though.
Dick makes his way to the vampire's layer. Dick hesitates before killing Batman, ending up getting killed himself. Dick rises as a member of the undead, becoming Robin. The comic was released in and featured the death of Damian Wayne.
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