Tag Archives: Frank Robbins

On Barbara Gordon, Batgirl

Posted on June 22, 2015 by I.M. Baytor

          Leave it to comics to take a completely perfunctory and derivative concept and actually do loads of fascinating stuff with it. The best example I can think of is Batgirl, aka Barbara ‘Babs’ Gordon, who … Continue reading →

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On Dick Grayson, the Teen Wonder

Posted on June 2, 2015 by I.M. Baytor

If Dick Grayson’s childhood was pretty unusual, his adolescence was totally out there. While Detective Comics didn’t promote him from Boy Wonder to Teen Wonder until 1970, in the mid-60s Robin became a founding member of the Teen Titans:           … Continue reading →

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Frank Robbins’ oddball Batman

Posted on November 17, 2014 by I.M. Baytor

The 1970s were a great time for the Caped Crusader, even if, looking back, we did miss out on the chance to see Batman with a turtleneck or Catwoman with an afro (problem solved). After the kitsch of the ’60s … Continue reading →

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Batman comics and the Cold War détente

Posted on September 22, 2014 by I.M. Baytor

While access to new sources and archives, not to mention shifting paradigms and the cultural turn, have helped produce a historiography on the Cold War that moved beyond orthodox, revisionist, and neorealist interpretations to embrace, among others, constructivist, postcolonial, pericentric, … Continue reading →

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