Date: 2009-08-01 03:23 am (UTC)
That's a better way of putting it, really: the Batman as we know him today was really the work of Denny O'Neil's work in the '70s and (grumble) Miller in the '80s.

(I loved DKR. Not so wild about the two decades of ramping up Bruce's Asshole Factor that followed.)

What I was trying to convey before I started drowning in the stream of consciousness was that the introduction of Robin allowed Batman to survive long enough to get there.

And yes, Robin saved Batman -- not just from poor sales at the time, but from drowning in his own particular sea of fellow pulp-adventure holdovers.

Potential fodder for another post: since Denny bundled Dick off to college back in 1970, The Batman has slowly accrued more and more of the trappings of other, forgotten pulp characters. A lot of people still think of Batman as a loner, but he's got so many sidekicks, apprentices, and auxiliary characters nowadays that the "Batman Family" is really one of the larger super-teams in the DCU.

And that's NOT including the Outsiders in their number.

Incidentally, back in the Pre-Crisis Universe, when Dick first gave up the Robin identity to (eventually) become Nightwing, it was all very cordial. He and Bruce were on fine terms. Dick's rationale was that "Robin would always be the second part of 'Batman and...'" -- and HE'S the one who gave the old costume to Jason Todd.
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