{"id":888,"date":"2019-04-12T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=888"},"modified":"2021-11-27T00:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T08:56:43","slug":"109-robin-the-boy-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/109-robin-the-boy-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"109 &#8211; Robin, the Boy Wonder!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/robin-the-boy-wonder-1024x752.png\" alt=\"The first appearance of Robin, the Boy Wonder in Detective Comics #38, March 1940\" class=\"wp-image-889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/robin-the-boy-wonder-1024x752.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/robin-the-boy-wonder-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/robin-the-boy-wonder-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/robin-the-boy-wonder.png 1332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The first appearance of Robin, the Boy Wonder in Detective Comics #38, March 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Detective Comics #38 (March 1940), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batman\">Batman<\/a> gains a youthful sidekick as he rescues the newly orphaned <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Grayson\">Dick Grayson<\/a> and trains him to become <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robin_(character)\">Robin, the Boy Wonder<\/a>.  Robin was co-created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Kane\">Bob Kane<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Finger\">Bill Finger<\/a> and inker <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Robinson\">Jerry Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue marks the start of shift to a lighter tone for Batman, one in which he and Robin begin to make wise-cracks while fighting criminals&#8230;  Hell, Batman even smiles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-smiling.png\" alt=\"Batman smiles for the first time in Detective Comics #38, March 1940\" class=\"wp-image-890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-smiling.png 490w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-smiling-156x300.png 156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><figcaption>Batman smiles for the first time<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is odd to me, because only a few weeks later, DC gives Batman his own comic book, meaning he must have already been a big hit like Superman <em>before the introduction of Robin and the lighter tone<\/em>.  So why the big change in story direction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Detective Comics #38 (March 1940), Batman gains a youthful sidekick as he rescues the newly orphaned Dick Grayson and trains him to become Robin, the Boy Wonder. Robin was co-created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and inker Jerry Robinson. This issue marks the start of shift to a lighter tone for Batman, one in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,596,40,78,56,39,32,146,506,145,147],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-bat-family","tag-batman","tag-bill-finger","tag-bob-kane","tag-detective-comics","tag-firsts","tag-jerry-robinson","tag-milestone","tag-robin","tag-sidekick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}