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Bill Catellier
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Although I grew up with he flat wraparound, I prefer the pointed version.
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Aaron Smith
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Alan Davis draws my favorite Robin!
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Davis's Robin is awesome. The other day I went looking for my copy of his Batman graphic novel, FULL CIRCLE. I think I accidentally sold it along with some crappy comics!
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Stephen Churay
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I'm impartial. I think it depends on the artist. I do think, as a basic rule,
The wrap around mask skews Robin to look younger for some reason.
Alan Davis is an obvious exception.
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David Plunkert
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Animated Robin looks like he would have problems lifting his heavy metal enclosed feet.
No preference on the masks.....hough I've always liked those Kane smiles!
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Christian Mock
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Flavio commented: The Teen Titans cartoon also presented an excellent Robin! Not sure if he's Dick Grayson or Tim Drake, though...
My kids bought all five seasons for a long car trip...it is a family favorite. There are lots of hints that it is Dick Grayson...same with the spin-off comic. | |
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Peter Martin
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Both types work for me, but I prefer the pointed one, I think, provided it isn't a tiny little domino mask.
That said, I think the Burt Ward Robin costume is one of the most perfectly realised live action super-hero costumes ever produced.
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Gundars Berzins
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Blame it on tv but when I think of Robin, I think of Burt Ward in his Robin costume.
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John Byrne
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Blame it on tv but when I think of Robin, I think of Burt Ward in his Robin costume.•• Except for the flesh colored tights, Robin's costume on the TV show was, like Batman's, remarkably faithful to the comics. They even got the "flat" mask right!
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Matt Hawes
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Looking over the older comics covers online, it seems that the "flat" mask version started to change in the late 1960's. I thought at first that it was during the start of "New Look" Batman & Robin starting in 1964, but the change was actually closer to 1968, or so. At about that point, Robin's mask on covers of "Detective Comics," "Batman," and "Teen Titans" started to show some arching at the top of each eye, but the mask still was drawn as wrapping around Robin's head.
It looks like it was the 1970's when Robin's mask appeared to be attached with spirit gum, and looked like a traditional domino mask.
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Bob Simko
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Except for the flesh colored tights, Robin's costume on the TV show was, like Batman's, remarkably faithful to the comics. They even got the "flat" mask right!
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This just made me think...was there ever anything in the comics to indicate either way whether the character did or did not have flesh colored tights? Wouldn't be uncommon for an acrobat in a circus, I would suppose...
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John Byrne
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Now that you mention it, no, there was no clear indication that Robin wasn't wearing tights that I can recall. Just never occurred to me as a kid! And it was SO obvious on the show.
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Matt Hawes
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I didn't get the impression that Robin in the comics was supposed to be wearing flesh-colored tights. Being a kid, and school kids wearing "short pants," I figured it was one way to show that Robin was a youth. As for the TV show, I figured the tights were used, oddly enough, for the same reason in a different way: To hide Burt Ward's leg hairs. After all, he wouldn't appear to be that young of a kid if he had hairy legs (and Ward was playing a teen-ager who still didn't have a driver's license in the beginning of the series).
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