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by **LOLtron** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:01 pm

The legendary creator of Robin, The Joker, and creator rights advocate was 89.

Comic Book Resources (Who cites Graphic NYC) is reporting that Jerry Robinson passed away last night in his sleep, less than a month shy of his ninetieth birthday.

Robinson was born in Trenton New Jersey on January 1, 1922 and was still a college student at New York's Columbia University when he started to work for Bob Kane and National Comics. Before long, he was working with Kane and Bill Finger on establishing so much of what we know about the Batman mythos today, including adding a sidekick character in Robin, and an enduring villain in The Joker (though Bob Kane disputed Robinson's contribution). He spent much of the 1950's and 1960's working on newspaper comic strips (including the Batman daily and his own creation, entitled True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs). He re-emerged in the superhero scene in the 1970's when he, along with Neal Adams, helped broker a pension and credit agreement between DC Comics and Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster for their creation of Superman.

Robinson also worked on curating museum exhibits relating to comic book art and served as a historian for the medium.

The Outhouse sends condolences to Mr. Robinson's loved ones.

Source: RIP Jerry Robinson, Joker Creator and Comics Ambassador
Written or Contributed by: Royal Nonesuch

http://173.199.169.70/index.php/news/comics-news/17548-jerry-robinson-1922-2011.html/

by **Starlord** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:42 pm

R.I.P

You created my Dick and for that I will be eternally grateful.

by **Amoebas** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:17 pm

A true comic legend deserving of FAR more credit than he ever recieved.

Thank you sir. Thank you.

by **MistaT** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:24 pm

Starlord wrote:
You created my Dick and for that I will be eternally grateful.

wow, just...wow. :lol:

by **chap22** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:32 pm

Amoebas wrote:A true comic legend deserving of FAR more credit than he ever recieved.

Thank you sir. Thank you.

This.The man created my favorite fictional character ever, and I'm sorry that a shout-out here is probably the best I can do to thank him.

R.I.P.

by **Spidey-Man** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:33 pm

Actually the Joker and Robin were co-creations at least been Finger, Kane and Robinson and Robinson's role is disputed. Certainly Robinson. who never wrote Batman, would be at the least a co-creator, not a creator since he did not write the personality of the character,

anyway, RIP.

Pretty much only Stan left from that time now.

by **GHERU** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:40 pm

Starlord wrote::cry: R.I.P

You created my Dick and for that I will be eternally grateful.

dude was only 89
no way he was around when your dick was created

by **chap22** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:44 pm

Spidey-Man wrote:Actually the Joker and Robin were co-creations at least been Finger, Kane and Robinson and Robinson's role is disputed. Certainly Robinson. who never wrote Batman, would be at the least a co-creator, not a creator since he did not write the personality of the character,

anyway, RIP.

Pretty much only Stan left from that time now.

a co-creator is still a creator.

by **GLX** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:46 pm

RIP Jerry.

by **Amoebas** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:57 pm

Spidey-Man wrote:Pretty much only Stan left from that time now.

I'd hardly call Lee 'from that time'.

At least not when people like Will Eisner, Joe Simon, Joe Kubert, Robert Kanigher, Alex Toth, Sheldon Moldoff and Irv Novick (and others) are still out there.

by **Drcharles** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:11 pm

Very sad to hear the news,
He was a great artist, and Im really enjoying how great he was when Im reading these Batman Chronicles..........

Far too many of these legends are passimg on, its so sad.............

by **Punchy** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:15 pm

Amoebas wrote:I'd hardly call Lee 'from that time'.

At least not when people like Will Eisner, Joe Simon, Joe Kubert, Robert Kanigher, Alex Toth, Sheldon Moldoff and Irv Novick (and others) are still out there.

Most of those guys are dead.

RIP Jerry Robinson.

by **Spidey-Man** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:19 pm

chap22 wrote:a co-creator is still a creator.

meh

by **Spidey-Man** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:20 pm

Amoebas wrote:I'd hardly call Lee 'from that time'.

At least not when people like Will Eisner, Joe Simon, Joe Kubert, Robert Kanigher, Alex Toth, Sheldon Moldoff and Irv Novick (and others) are still out there.

He started working in 1940 about six months after Robinson :lol: