The cover to Detective Comics #38 is fucking wacky. The pageantry of the introduction of Robin is just too much. I understand it was a different time, but even in the early 1940s I'd like to think I'd have thought, "what the fuck?!"
Dick Grayson is great. Tough to beat the first Robin. But for my money I'm going with Tim Drake, the third Robin. Tim didn't have the dark backstory that mirrored Batman's, and he wasn't a troubled youth like Jason Todd. He certainly wasn't a homicidal douchebag like Damian Wayne. Tim was just a normal kid. IQ and acrobatic skills off the charts, but a normal kid.
He had his parents for the majority of his history (until DC writers killed them off), went to school, had normal friends and friends in the Teen Titans. Seeing a character that wasn't tied up in a dramatic comic book backstory was refreshing. AND he found out who Bruce Wayne was on his own. #skillz
Tim Drake lasted from 1989 to 2011, when during the New 52 DC reboot, got his entire history turned around. It was written that he was never really Robin, opting for the name Red Robin. And he wasn't as likable. The pre-New 52 Tim Drake was our real entry point into the fantastic world of comics.
Normal kid that could do every thing Dick Grayson could do, but without all the baggage. How can you not root for a kid like that?
-Gint
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