Robin's Oath

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

sun_soraya Requested Dick's Oath scene a while back, and I posted it in comments but wanted to give it its own post, too. I think it deserves it. Also, I was just rereading some other great stuff in "Untold Legends of the Batman"--really like that story! And it's related.

The Original Version, from Detective #48, 1940--Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson



From Untold Legends of the Batman #2--Story by Len Wein, Art by Jim Aparo











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Comments

[retro_nouveau.insanejournal.com]

That's weird. When Dick first started out, his hair was like Jason's, but later he parts it in the same way Bruce does.

I think it's important that the gaudy red and yellow with green short pants should be attributed to the Flying Graysons' costumes. Otherwise, Bruce seems a little creepy.

[mysteryfan.insanejournal.com]

Oh! I left out the part where we see that Bruce made that costume for himself and wore it for a time when he was a kid.

So he's got it handy and is passing it down. Costumes are a big element in this story, because it's about Thomas Wayne's original bat costume, then the Robin costume.

Personally, I do prefer that it's a Flying Grayson's costume, myself. It's one of the two things I really am not crazy about in this story, the other --that I like less--being the revisiting of a change in the violence visited on Bruce's parents--a change from a random mugging to specific murder.

But in fairness to the writer of this story, both elements (the murder versus mugging and the 'Bruce as a kid wore the Robin outfit while he learned Detective work') were there in 1950s stories, and then got re-included in 'Untold Legends of the Batman'.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

No, Jason's hair was modelled on Dick's original look, around 45 years previously.