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Comic buffs: What is the point of Robin?
To me, Batman is a lone protector in the shadows, almost a dark legend to scare people onto the straight and narrow. He’s more an idea than a man. He has this gravitas because he doesnt parade around and few people are really sure he exists, chinese whispers passed down the criminal line.
So why does a man like this need a side-kick? Especially one so young and flamboyant. I understand that maybe Robin balances the Batman’s darker moments , but wheres the fun in being balanced (as a reader)?
It seems to me that for someone who controls the streets by being an ideal that transcends being human – even if that ideal invokes feelings of fear rather than positives – then he shouldn’t have a human counterpart to bring him down to being only human (humans can be hurt, killed etc).
I should also say I haven’t read the comic books, so I’m more than willing to be educated if my ideas are incorrect.
Robin was introduced back in the 40s and since then has become a key character in the Batman mythos.
Comics back in the 1940s where very different and the “boy wonder” character didn’t seem so out of place then.
Robin isn’t the silly character you know from the early cartoons, TV show and the more recent films. There have been 3 main Robins, Dick Grayson (who is now known as Nightwing), Jason Todd (thought killed by the Joker only to reappear as the Red Robin) and Tim Drake (the current Robin).
I know with Tim Drake, Bruce Wayne made him travel around the world and carry out the same training that he did. The characters outfit has also changed, it is darker (no longer with shorts!), and is mostly red now with only a little green.
Even when Batman has been “re-imagined” by gritty comic book writers such as Frank Miller, Robin has still appeared. He has become part of Batman – you have to remember that Batman only existed in comic book form for a year before Robin was introduced.
Comic Parade 09
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WALT DISNEY CHRISTMAS PARADE # 7 WITH POSTER Gold Key Comic Book 1962 FN-VF $4.89 |
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WALT DISNEY CHRISTMAS PARADE # 9 Silver Age Gold Key Comic Book 1962 FN-VF $3.49 |
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VINTAGE WALT DISNEY’S VACATION PARADE COMIC BOOK ISSUE #5 GIANT DELL COMICS 1954 $7.99 |
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Lot of 4 Simpsons Comic Books Complete Guide Beefy Bk Beach Blanket Bongo Parade $0.99 |
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Comics On Parade #7 Oct 1938 $49.99 |
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Parade with Fireworks 1-2 Complete Comic Lot Run Set Image Collection NM $1.50 |
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Comics on Parade Captain And the Kids No. 49 $15.00 |
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COMICS ON PARADE (1938-1955 UF) 76 FINE NANCY & SLUGGO $13.08 |
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COMICS ON PARADE (1938-1955 UF) 76 VG-F NANCY & SLUGGO $11.33 |
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Nancy-Comics On Parade no. 71-April-May 1950-Fair-good condition $5.00 |
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COMICS ON PARADE (1938-1955 UF) 75 VG-F NANCY & SLUGGO $16.19 |
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Comics On Parade #88 Nancy & Sluggo Bushmiller VG 1953 $5.99 |
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Comics on Parade 52 Captain and the Kids 1946 $9.99 |
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SAD SACK ARMY LIFE PARADE # 37 Bronze Age HARVEY GIANT Comic Book 1971 FN- $1.39 |
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1952 Dell Giant Comic CHRISTMAS PARADE no 4 VG $20.00 |
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Looney Tunes: Golden Collection, Vol. 6 $24.36 Fifteen cartoons dating from World War II give Volume 6 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection more focus than previous sets. Many of the 1940′s cartoons remain very funny. Bugs Bunny dresses up as Brunnhilda and rides in to the strains of “Tannhauser” in “Herr Meets Hare” (1945), a gag Chuck Jones re-used to greater effect in “What’s Opera, Doc” a dozen years later. In “Russian Rhapsody” (1940… |
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Wonder Woman: The Complete First Season $12.99 “In your satin tights / Fighting for your rights / And the old Red, White, and Blue!… / Wonder Woman!” Could anyone who grew up in the ’70s ever forget that super-catchy theme song? Originally packaged as the female version of the Batman TV show (producer Stanley Ralph Ross penned 32 of the caped crusader’s episodes), Wonder Woman ended up redefining the campy, comic book genre. The primetime sh… |
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Harvey Toons – The Complete Collection $10.04 Join Casper the Friendly Ghost and his cartoon comrades–Wendy the Good Little Witch, oversized duckling Baby Huey, playful Little Audrey, and cat-and-mouse cut-ups Herman and Katnip–in this fun-filled collection of 52 classic animated shorts made by Paramount’s Famous Studios in the 1940s and ’50s. 19 hrs. total on four discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono…. |
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Child Red Hero Cape Set ~ Halloween Costume Accessories (STC11508) $8.88 … |
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Star Wars Shirt Storm Parade – Large $16.99 Star Wars Shirt – Storm Parade – It might not be the Macy’s day parade, but Storm Troopers on Parade is just as awesome…. |
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Mcfarlane Toys Infernal Parade Action Figure Golem Elijah the Wildman Figure $13.50 From the Infernal Parade comes THE GOLEM ELIJAH! Golem Elijah… |
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Mcfarlane Toys Infernal Parade Action Figure the Sabbaticus Beast Tamer $9.00 Mcfarlane Toys Infernal Parade Action Figure the Sabbaticus Beast Tamer… |
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The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: a Field Guide to Japanese Yokai $35.99 Yokai â monsters from Japanese folklore â are some of the zaniest and wildest things ever imagined up. From the mists of Japanese prehistory, through the medieval ages, up to today, the bestiary of Japanese folklore contains a wide range of monsters. There are women with extra mouths in the backs of their heads, water goblins whose favorite food is human anus, elephant-dragons which feed… |
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The Night Bookmobile $10.95 Audrey Niffenegger, the New York Times bestselling author of The Time Travelerâs Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, has crafted her first graphic novel after the success of her two critically acclaimed ânovels-in-pictures.â First serialized as a weekly column in the UKâs Guardian newspaper, The Night Bookmobile tells the story of a wistful woman who one night encounters a mysteriou… |
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