World's Finest Three: When Kon and Tim met for the first time

[sun_soraya]

mllesays asked for early interactions between Tim and Conner, so I'm posting a few pages from the World's Finest Three mini-series (1996), where they met for the first time.





What happened so far: Metallo got tired of destroying Metropolis and tries out Gotham for a change. Oh, and he stole a nuclear reactor. Unfortunately, Batman is out of town and Robin has to take care of a big, tank-like Metallo on his own, which - he fears - is a bit out of his league.







Poor Timmy... though Superboy is totally busy kissing "Miss Kryptonite"-contestants, he takes off to Gotham when he hears that Metallo is on the rampage there.
And as if all that isn't already trouble enough, Poison Ivy felt danger approaching the city, got sick, manipulated the meds taking care of her on their way to the hospital and is now running around freely.
In the meantime Tim tracked down Metallo...



(Ok, I admit that I only posted this scan because of the combination of metallic tentacles and a Robin. *cough*)
A~and Kon arrives!













Kon manages to destroy the currently blind Metallo, but brings the building down as well.













Time for Tim to pack out the kryptonite ring.

If there's interest, I could also post scans of the second part tomorrow.

Comments

[angel_gidget]

He's not kidding. At the time, Batman & co. were trying to be low-profile superheros, keeping out of public eye and avoiding the press. They were trying to build up the idea that they were more "urban legends" than human guys in costumes fighting crime. But as a Super, Kon had to know about Batman. But that didn't mean that he got the 411 on all the sidekicks.

The Flying Graysons, however, was just a famous circus act.

[ravenous_raven]

They were trying to build up the idea that they were more "urban legends"

That went along for a while, didn't it? I seem to recall a YJ story where the team goes to the Summer Olympics to watch Arrowette shoot and a disguised Tim gets introduced to Empress as "Robin, the surburban legend," to which Tim corrects, "Urban."

When did the the Batclan stop being so subtle with the butt-kicking?

[angel_gidget]

I believe Deadman made a moot point of their Bat-secrets during Young Justice: Sins of Youth. At least, that's when Robin started letting some of his guard down a bit.

[icon_uk]

Except even after Sins of Youth he lied about his identity for months, on Batman's orders he used his Alvin Draper identity with them (Kon called him on it immediately on the grounds that no kid Tim's age would call themselves Alvin, they'd be Al, or Vinnie)

It was only War Games that brought the Batclan back into the open, despite it being a dumbass move to retcon their existence in the first place, most notably with Dick having publicly led the Titans for YEARS, but then, for example, having to stay out of sight at the Obsidian Age JLA newsconference despite being the team leader, because apparently no Batclan member ever went in front of a camera.

[sun_soraya]

One question that always bugged me: how did Batman's JLA-membership fit into the "urban legend"-time? Wasn't he an official member?

[sistermagpie]

Ah yes, I remember the urban legend period. Which I don't actually hate as a concept, though it's hard given the high profile in other places. I think I was just surprised because it doesn't seem like famous circus acts would be that widely familiar to somebody like Kon.

But now I realize there's a couple of ways that could go. They could be known like the Flying Wallendas, almost as an expression, the Flying Wallendas having also died in a similar way. What's sick is that I kind of now want Kon to make a really tasteless joke about them in Nightwing's presence.