THE BRAINSTORMS

A series of Star-Spangled stories! Robin starts out, continues on, and ends up the same way in most people’s eyes: an iconic character, but one forever tied to Batman. This is appropriate, considering the majority of adventures featuring a hero named Robin appear in the Batman comics (Detective Comics and Batman are close in number, probably, but the decades in which Batman issues had 3 Bat-stories compared to the one Batman and Robin story in Detective Comics may give Batman

But wait, where's the giant penny? When we think of Batman’s trophies in the Batcave, we see in our minds a life-sized T-Rex, a giant penny, a Joker card, and more. This makes sense, because for decades that’s the image we see and have seen. It’s the nostalgia bait, the obvious callback to the past, the hallmarks of iconic cases and people even if you haven’t read anything where he got those trophies from. Would you believe me if, the first time we hear any mention, let alon