Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #507474 in Books
• Published on: 1991-12-31
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 23 pages

Customer Reviews

Essential for all Robin fans
This is where we are first introduced to Tim Drake, the latest Robin.

The story takes place right after A Death In The Family, which is where the second Robin (Jason Todd) is killed by The Joker.

We see a darker side to The Batman without a Robin, and also how this Robin tracks the Batman down rather than vice versa.

For anyone who read Death in the Family and liked it then read this,you will love it.

Bit outdated now.
Not long after he started his career as a crimefighter, Batman took on a partner, a boy who had lost his parents at the hands of a murderer, just like Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne did. But the first Robin, Dick Grayson, grew up and left, to become Nightwing of the New Titans (see the graphic novel The New Titans:Judas Contract). So a new Robin was created by new orphan Jason Todd. But Jason's fight against crime came to an abrupt end (see Batman:A Death in the Family). Batman has now become erratic, unthinking, brutal. Who can restore the faith in the Batman? Only a new Batman. But someone is stalking the dark Knight Detective and the former Boy Wonder. Someone who has deduced their secret identities. Someone who may be their only hope of defeating a resurgent Two Face...
This is basically a continuation of Death in the Family, so no point iin reading it unless youread that book first. It's ok, it brings in a third Robin character who will prove to be a very different sidekick than the previous two, so much so that he gets two miniseries (see Robin A hero reborn for the first miniseries in tpb) and even his own comic series. Two Face is not so important, just someone for Btaman to but heads against; it is very funny, seeing them trying to outwit each other, desperately trying to lure the other into a trap and then going right past each other, with Two Face obsessing on how to commit a crime with his usual dual motif.
If you want to get into Batman, then it is usueful to buy this with Daeth in the Family as well as Batman:Year One and also Year TWo. That will set you up for most batman graphic novels in the future.