Superman Through the Ages! Forum

   I found this on a JSA board. This is the second time I saw this rumor this week so I figure it has to be coming from somewhere. It looks like Earth 2 Robin makes his return to the DC Universe in JSA books and announces that him and Huntress are still alive. Wow!


http://www.comicboards.com/jsa/view.php?trd=070321223918

I guess I just don't keep up but this is an Earth 2 that is on an arrested time frame that escaped Crisis?

Thank gawd for the simplified post 1986 DC universe that the fans can understand... ::)

I always liked E2 Robin; he had the best Robin costume(not that horrible almalgamated Batman/Robin one).

come now... be fair  the post crisis universe didnt use to be THIS confusing

IM CONFUSED. EARTH2 IS GOLDEN AGE EARTH THESE DAYS? WHAT EARTH DO I LIVE ON? EARTH 1? EARTH PRIME? EARTH FILET? ???

Klar, I think you live on that Earth where everything written about in the Weekly World News actually happened.

That would be Earth-B (for "Bat-Boy").

There already is an Earth-B  :P

B for Boltinoff, I know.  But if Bat-Boy ever appeared in a DC comic, it would have been edited by Murray.  And written by Bob Haney, no doubt.

And yet former DC stalwarts Paul Kupperberg and Robert Greenberger are both at Weekly World News and have both written about Bat-Boy so hmmmm.....y'never know.

I only wrote about Boy-Bat. Like Red Bull, he has wiiings.  ;)

Maybe Earth-BB, named for both Bat-Boy and BB-Eyes, the Dick Tracy villain!

The idea of bringing back Earth-2 Robin being a bad idea notwithstanding, I don't particularly care for his grown-up costume, but it's a far cry better than his attempt to mix Batman's costume (and chest symbol) with his Robin cape (and chest symbol).

He got his own action figure:

(http://www.dccomics.com/media/products/3108_180x270.jpg)

and of course this one:

http://members.tripod.com/~YJFAN/elseworldrobin6.html

As you may know, E-2 Robin's costume (as shown on the action figure above) was designed by Neal Adams back in the mid-70s as a possible replacement for (Earth-1) Dick Grayson's bare-legged look.  Even then the marketing department was becoming a force to be reckoned with, however, and no doubt thinking of all those Mego dolls, sheet sets and SuperFriends lunchboxes on the shelves, DC opted to keep poor Dick in his officially licensed shortpants well into his 20s. :-[

Earth-2 Robin inherited his outfit, instead.  Which was okay because his first suit was, as noted above, pretty much an eyesore.

Anyway, I never could get used to a gray-haired Robin in that Adams outfit, as it was obviously intended for a more youthful character.

speaking of "the costume looking too young for the character" did anyone read "the autobiography of Bruce Wayne"? the reason i bring this up because despite the fac that it was set in 1955 Robin still looked about 10... i figure he would have been about 25 by then... and too old for short pants (those pants and hairy legs.. ick)

That Neal Adams design is one of the best looking Robin supersuits, I also really like the current look, which is really great.