This one isn't fanfiction. This is my attempt at an age timeline for Batman characters, focussing on the adoption and/or appearance of each of Bruce's children.
This isn't going to work on mobile because of all the pictures, so I guess it's computer view only.
This is a post-crisis timeline (1985-2011), so it stops before the New 52 and everything after that. Here are the events discussed:
1. Bruce's parents die
2. Bruce becomes Batman
3. Dick's parents die
4. Dick becomes Robin
5. Jason becomes Robin and is adopted
6. Jason dies
7. Tim becomes Robin
8. Cass appears
9. Dick is adopted
10. Tim is adopted
11. Cass is adopted
12. Damian becomes Robin
I will be explaining myself to the best of my ability, citing issues, and including panels.
1. This is a post-crisis timeline (1986-2011). I’ll be referencing a few pre-crisis panels, but I won’t be touching the New 52 or anything after it. That’s a different game of ball with its own, extremely bad, timeline.
2. Crisis on Infinite Earths is a 1985-1986 series that rebooted the DC timeline and altered some backstories, including Jason’s. Pre-crisis, his backstory was almost identical to Dick’s. Post-crisis, he changed to the “steal the wheels off the Batmobile” origin. Anything written before 1986 is a weak source for my purposes.
3. My original question centered around Bruce’s age through the process of meeting and acquiring his children. In this timeline, those children are (1) Dick Grayson, (2) Jason Todd, (3) Cassandra Cain, (4) Tim Drake, and (5) Damian Wayne. I was envisioning an interview where the kids explain their family timeline to outsiders. I did not anticipate the project taking this long.
4. We’re talking about 72 years of content here, which means decades of contradiction, conflation, and rewrites. I’m pretty satisfied with my work product, but please understand that there are no perfect answers. I’m going to cite my sources, and I’ll do my best to explain why I chose those sources specifically, but it’s pretty likely that for every panel I pull, there will be others with different numbers. We’re all going to have to live with that.
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I apologize for the quality of some of these images. The archive only allows users to post images from websites, not personal storage, and the only website I have access to is Tumblr. Tumblr isn't known for it's image quality.
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