Batman, the dark knight.A mysterious, solitary individual. He strikes fear into the hearts of the cowardly criminals with his ominous and dark appearance. BEHOLD HIS NEW PARTNER IN CRIMEFIGHTING ROBIN! He scares the criminals with his bright colors and bare legs

>>136847437 (OP)

>Batman, the dark knight.A mysterious, solitary individual. He strikes fear into the hearts of the cowardly criminals with his ominous and dark appearance.

batman didn't become this until the burton movies and BTAS

>>136847437 (OP)

You'd shit your pants if a built 12 year old jumped you while giggling.

>That eerie figure of the night

>The Batman

>His young aide

>That laughing dare-devil

>That young Robin Hood of today

>Robin the Boy Wonder

A cackling, cocky, mouthy little shit, not even in his teens, charging into gunfire and beating up grown men while a tank of a man in a giant bat costume taunts you and smiles approvingly? 

Early Robin was fucking terrifying.

Yes, you four grown men, come fight this circus child I rescued and put in a Robin Hood costume.

>>136847437 (OP)



can't fight if you're aroused

>>136847437 (OP)

that was the point

Also Batman encourages children to fight grown men if they catch them committing crimes. Real.

Especially if he looked like Alex Ross' take on Dick Sprang's Robin

bullshit

You guys need to deal with the fact that Batman's original intended audience is closer to that of some shonen action manga where 12 year olds save the world, than it is to some HBO drama. 

7 year old Robin is flipping around and beating the shit out of grown criminals.

>>136847437 (OP)

Two issues before Batman was fighting Hugo Strange and his monster men 



Later that year he'd be fighting the Joker and Catwoman, in the same book even



Batman was not a real character before 1940, he was a shittier version of the Shadow



People who decry Robin as incongruous with the character are stupid

i just storytimed an issue of Detective Comics :D

>>136847437 (OP)

to be fair Dick is literally the best gymnast alive and any actual good gymnast is freakishly fucking strong and fast. And when you mix that with little martial arts on top of being a small target you get a colorful somersaulting ball of pain coming your way.

I want to fuck Dan Mora's Dick Robin so bad /co/

>shittier version of the Shadow

more raz0rcuck contrarianism. 

Only tec 27 is lifted from a Shadow story, Batman is aesthetically and spiritually closer to Sherlock Holmes, Van Helsing, and Zorro than to Shadow from tec 29 onwards

>Batman: Dark Victory

>Batman: The Gauntlet

>Robin Annual #4

>Robin: Year One

>LOTDK #149-153

>Teen Titans Year One

>Batman and Robin Annual #2

>Robin and Batman

>Batman/Superman: World's Finest

>World's Finest: Teen Titans



Are there any other modern stories with Dick as Robin that's at least one issue long (ie not just random flashback pages)?

I'm pretty sure the people who complain about Robin never actually read the early stories.

Because for every story where Robin was the boy hostage, there was another where he went absolutely apeshit.

Legends of the DC Universe #6

All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder

Year One: Batman/Scarecrow

Batman: The Audio Adventures

>>136847437 (OP)

Dick was supposed to be an audience self-insert

Use bare legs instead of tights, cowards
