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Batman: Gotham Adventures #7, 19, 29, 42, 54
Batman Adventures: Robin, The Boy Wonder
Robin takes the lead in this series of stories set in the beloved world of Batman: The Animated Series! A criminal uncovers Robin’s secret identity-and attempts to profit from his discovery! Plus, when Batman’s poisoned, Robin only has six hours to find the cure-and Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are standing in his way. Collects Batman: Gotham Adventures #7, #19, #29, #42, #54, and Batman Adventures #9.
148 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 5, 2021
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Ty Templeton
219 books21 followersTyrone Templeton is a Canadian comic book artist and writer who has drawn a number of mainstream titles, TV-associated titles, and his own series.
He is the brother of internet pioneer and entrepreneur Brad Templeton, and son of Canadian celebrities Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy. He lives in Ontario, Canada.
He is the brother of internet pioneer and entrepreneur Brad Templeton, and son of Canadian celebrities Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy. He lives in Ontario, Canada.
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June 11, 2025
”Chapter 1: Dagger’s Secret” starts in a low-life bar where Dagger Dixon, an ex-con is telling people that he got a Batman tattoo to teach him that he’s not the toughness mug in the world and to keep him straight.
Batman and Robin come in looking for a particular Tommy Silk and no one else.
Of course, they don’t have to do anything he says cause he’s not the law. So they’re going to rough him up instead.
”Uh-oh. … They’re gonna try to take ‘em. They never learn… ”
Dagger Dixon recognizes that Robin is Tim and actually helps out in fight so Robin doesn’t get hurt and earns the thanks of Batman as he’s dragging Tommy Silk out the door.
Later Dagger calls Tim and asks for money, but Tim says he can’t give him any.
So Dagger decides to ask the Penguin for some advice on how to blackmail a millionaire. But Penguin decides to just torture the blackmail secret out of him instead.
Dagger keeps him mouth shut and finds a way to escape the Penguin. He figures the only place he can go now is to see Tim at Wayne Manor.
But of course, the Penguin and his crew follow Dagger.
This was a lot of fun and actually is one of the better Tim Drake stories. Giving him a life from before being Robin. Great characters and great artwork. 5 stars.
”Chapter 2: A Little Thing” has Robin fighting a thug with a machine gun in Chuck E. Cheese! Gotta admire a good start to a story!
Nightwing and Batgirl are there an later chide him for jumping into the fight without a plan.
Robin’s just made at all the crooks with ‘gun fixations’. He longs for the ‘good old days’ when you just fought kooky criminals in colorful costumes, like he’s heard the first Robin got to enjoy…
So Nightwing and Batgirl come up with a plan….
Lucy Ricardo would be proud. They decide to pretend to be the kind of supervillains Robin wants to fight.
That was just an out-and-out blast to read! 5 stars, great art, fun story and character driven.
”Chapter 3: Six Hours to Kill” has Batman coming to the batcave after having been mysteriously away for hours.
”Oolong, young sir. Earl Grey is a breakfast tea.”
Chuck Dixon, Joe Staton and Terry Beatty. All-star team!
Batman stumbles out of the Batmobile saying he was poisoned and has six hours to live.
Alfred draws blood and hands it to Robin.
”We already know of an expert toxicologist. It will up to you to find her. And there’s very little time.”
Robin does find Poison Ivy and Harley (”The Boy Hostage!”). He convinces them to help, but they can only tell him it’s an animal toxin.
This was fun. Great art! A little too quickly paced, it could have been longer and I wouldn’t have minded. But very well done and something I haven’t seen before. 3 stars.
And seeing Poison Ivy labeled a ‘Biohazard Risk’ is pretty funny.
”Chapter 4: Tuesday Night” has Batman and Robin checking the top floors of a burning building to see if anyone is trapped there. There have been two other big fires the same night. It’s getting suspicious.
Then they get a call for another fire. They get there and start pulling kids from the flames.
The track down the contractor who worked on several of these buildings. A fourth building he worked on might go up in flames too.
They get there just in time to put the fire out and resuscitate a security guard who had a heart attack.
That was a fun story. The title kind of gives it away, but it was still a 5 star story.
”Chapter 5: Masterwork” starts with some woman writing a Batman TV show/comic book/film script?
The Batman she is writing arms himself with a gun and a knife and a bullet loaded bandoleer.
”Okay, let’s get him to the crime scene, blah, blah, blah, figure out later how he got there…”
”Every tiny hint of a clue gets tossed into the blender of his mind, to whir and frappe and marinate until finally a glorious soup of knowledge comes pouring out and he has his prey.. ”
Okay, this made me laugh.
She is quite shocked when the real Batman shows up behind her.
Apparently a lot of original manuscripts have been stolen from libraries. And the author Miss Staines keeps contaminating the crime scenes.
”I heard you overwriting. I thought I warned you to stay away.”
Okay. Two things. The story didn’t quite work. It could have been smoother.
The second thing is that this story had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Robin?! So it makes no sense to be in this collection!
But it’s still 5 stars. 2 for weirdness, 2 for laugh out loud weirdness. 1 for swinging for the fences.
”Chapter 6: Death-Trap A-Go-Go” has Batman and Robin facing their own mortality.
”Robin, you have to put the situation in perspective. Deathtraps like this are part of the job, and trust me - - I’ve seen much worse.”
So Batman regales Robin with tales of the much tougher death-traps he’s escaped from and how he did it.
”He should be designing amusement parks rides. But it’s in one ear and out the other with criminals.”
”And opened up a big bat-can of whup- … ”
” Language, Robin. ”
That was a cute, if weird story. I’d like to see some better artists try it. The art was okay and told the story, but not impressive.
4 stars though.
There is a ‘Swamp Kid’ story at the end of the book, but honestly it was pretty lame.
All around a good 4 star book.
Batman and Robin come in looking for a particular Tommy Silk and no one else.
Of course, they don’t have to do anything he says cause he’s not the law. So they’re going to rough him up instead.
”Uh-oh. … They’re gonna try to take ‘em. They never learn… ”
Dagger Dixon recognizes that Robin is Tim and actually helps out in fight so Robin doesn’t get hurt and earns the thanks of Batman as he’s dragging Tommy Silk out the door.
Later Dagger calls Tim and asks for money, but Tim says he can’t give him any.
So Dagger decides to ask the Penguin for some advice on how to blackmail a millionaire. But Penguin decides to just torture the blackmail secret out of him instead.
Dagger keeps him mouth shut and finds a way to escape the Penguin. He figures the only place he can go now is to see Tim at Wayne Manor.
But of course, the Penguin and his crew follow Dagger.
This was a lot of fun and actually is one of the better Tim Drake stories. Giving him a life from before being Robin. Great characters and great artwork. 5 stars.
”Chapter 2: A Little Thing” has Robin fighting a thug with a machine gun in Chuck E. Cheese! Gotta admire a good start to a story!
Nightwing and Batgirl are there an later chide him for jumping into the fight without a plan.
Robin’s just made at all the crooks with ‘gun fixations’. He longs for the ‘good old days’ when you just fought kooky criminals in colorful costumes, like he’s heard the first Robin got to enjoy…
So Nightwing and Batgirl come up with a plan….
Lucy Ricardo would be proud. They decide to pretend to be the kind of supervillains Robin wants to fight.
That was just an out-and-out blast to read! 5 stars, great art, fun story and character driven.
”Chapter 3: Six Hours to Kill” has Batman coming to the batcave after having been mysteriously away for hours.
”Oolong, young sir. Earl Grey is a breakfast tea.”
Chuck Dixon, Joe Staton and Terry Beatty. All-star team!
Batman stumbles out of the Batmobile saying he was poisoned and has six hours to live.
Alfred draws blood and hands it to Robin.
”We already know of an expert toxicologist. It will up to you to find her. And there’s very little time.”
Robin does find Poison Ivy and Harley (”The Boy Hostage!”). He convinces them to help, but they can only tell him it’s an animal toxin.
This was fun. Great art! A little too quickly paced, it could have been longer and I wouldn’t have minded. But very well done and something I haven’t seen before. 3 stars.
And seeing Poison Ivy labeled a ‘Biohazard Risk’ is pretty funny.
”Chapter 4: Tuesday Night” has Batman and Robin checking the top floors of a burning building to see if anyone is trapped there. There have been two other big fires the same night. It’s getting suspicious.
Then they get a call for another fire. They get there and start pulling kids from the flames.
The track down the contractor who worked on several of these buildings. A fourth building he worked on might go up in flames too.
They get there just in time to put the fire out and resuscitate a security guard who had a heart attack.
That was a fun story. The title kind of gives it away, but it was still a 5 star story.
”Chapter 5: Masterwork” starts with some woman writing a Batman TV show/comic book/film script?
The Batman she is writing arms himself with a gun and a knife and a bullet loaded bandoleer.
”Okay, let’s get him to the crime scene, blah, blah, blah, figure out later how he got there…”
”Every tiny hint of a clue gets tossed into the blender of his mind, to whir and frappe and marinate until finally a glorious soup of knowledge comes pouring out and he has his prey.. ”
Okay, this made me laugh.
She is quite shocked when the real Batman shows up behind her.
Apparently a lot of original manuscripts have been stolen from libraries. And the author Miss Staines keeps contaminating the crime scenes.
”I heard you overwriting. I thought I warned you to stay away.”
Okay. Two things. The story didn’t quite work. It could have been smoother.
The second thing is that this story had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Robin?! So it makes no sense to be in this collection!
But it’s still 5 stars. 2 for weirdness, 2 for laugh out loud weirdness. 1 for swinging for the fences.
”Chapter 6: Death-Trap A-Go-Go” has Batman and Robin facing their own mortality.
”Robin, you have to put the situation in perspective. Deathtraps like this are part of the job, and trust me - - I’ve seen much worse.”
So Batman regales Robin with tales of the much tougher death-traps he’s escaped from and how he did it.
”He should be designing amusement parks rides. But it’s in one ear and out the other with criminals.”
”And opened up a big bat-can of whup- … ”
” Language, Robin. ”
That was a cute, if weird story. I’d like to see some better artists try it. The art was okay and told the story, but not impressive.
4 stars though.
There is a ‘Swamp Kid’ story at the end of the book, but honestly it was pretty lame.
All around a good 4 star book.
October 12, 2024
I really love reading Batman Comics to my kids especially if it is set in the world of the 90s Batman Animated Series. Here’s another one! This volume as a trade paperback collects Batman: Gotham Adventures that has Batman and Robin together; specifically it collects Batman: Gotham Adventures #7, #19, #29, #42, #54, and Batman Adventures #9.
There are six chapters in this book, and they are the six issues that the volume have compiled together. The first chapter is on “Dagger’s Secret” and I liked it for telling a story of a criminal that Batman has fought before but now he wants to do the right thing so that he would not be thrown back in jail again; but he battles his evil desire that lead him to want to blackmail Bruce Wayne’s ward. Dagger stupidly went to Penguin to get his advice on how to blackmail which only prompt Penguin to want to know the secret himself. I did like how in the last moment Dagger did the right thing; its nice to read a story that has redemption. The next chapter is titled “A Little Thing.” It deals with a Robin who is bored with tackling common criminals and various heroes in Batman team tries to cheer him up by pretending to be some sort of psycho villains. Chapter three is “Six Hours to Kill” and this one is one I really like from this volume. Batman is poisoned and it is up to Robin to figure out what is the antidote needed. Up next is a story titled “Tuesday Night.” There are fires happening to many buildings across Gotham and the world’s greatest detective and his sidekick is out to figure out what’s going on and things turn out to be less than sinister as the cause; still the duo is out to save lives. Chapter five on “Masterwork” tells the story of a story writer setting things up criminally only for Batman to stop her. Chapter six is called “Death A-Go-Go” which begins with Batman and Robin tied up in metal chain and Robin says this is it, they are going to die. Batman says he’s working on freeing them and then gives accounts of various near deaths and how he’s able to escape them. There’s a bit of comedy since both are close to death and Robin is responding with his humor.
Overall this was a fun read. I like how each chapter are stand-alone stories where you don’t need to know the previous chapter in order to enjoy the present chapter. It made me think about the 90s Batman Animated Series. I recommend it.
There are six chapters in this book, and they are the six issues that the volume have compiled together. The first chapter is on “Dagger’s Secret” and I liked it for telling a story of a criminal that Batman has fought before but now he wants to do the right thing so that he would not be thrown back in jail again; but he battles his evil desire that lead him to want to blackmail Bruce Wayne’s ward. Dagger stupidly went to Penguin to get his advice on how to blackmail which only prompt Penguin to want to know the secret himself. I did like how in the last moment Dagger did the right thing; its nice to read a story that has redemption. The next chapter is titled “A Little Thing.” It deals with a Robin who is bored with tackling common criminals and various heroes in Batman team tries to cheer him up by pretending to be some sort of psycho villains. Chapter three is “Six Hours to Kill” and this one is one I really like from this volume. Batman is poisoned and it is up to Robin to figure out what is the antidote needed. Up next is a story titled “Tuesday Night.” There are fires happening to many buildings across Gotham and the world’s greatest detective and his sidekick is out to figure out what’s going on and things turn out to be less than sinister as the cause; still the duo is out to save lives. Chapter five on “Masterwork” tells the story of a story writer setting things up criminally only for Batman to stop her. Chapter six is called “Death A-Go-Go” which begins with Batman and Robin tied up in metal chain and Robin says this is it, they are going to die. Batman says he’s working on freeing them and then gives accounts of various near deaths and how he’s able to escape them. There’s a bit of comedy since both are close to death and Robin is responding with his humor.
Overall this was a fun read. I like how each chapter are stand-alone stories where you don’t need to know the previous chapter in order to enjoy the present chapter. It made me think about the 90s Batman Animated Series. I recommend it.
June 27, 2021
Loved every single page of it. Honestly, it´s the best comic book based TV show tie-in comic I´ve ever read. Great story, phenomenal art and bonus points for the main focus of this book, my favourite DC character of them all, Robin. He was depicted as he should be, not like an edgy emo teenager droping F-bombs on Batman, as they depict him nowadays, but an actuall deep character with smile on his face in every situation, that keeps Batman (kinda) sane on his crusade...
January 27, 2026
Again, just simple little stories. These are geared more towards kids specifically (maybe except the first issue collected here), and more in-line with The New Batman Adventures over BTAS, evident immediately by the art style. But I enjoyed it. I’m reading these as popcorn fare and that’s what they’re good for. These could be much more than that, like the show often was, and it’s not really aiming to be — but it’s entertaining. For that, I give it 3/5, but I liked this a good bit.
April 26, 2021
If you're a fan of "Batman: The Animated Series," you'll have a great time reading some extra stories with these characters. And, if you're a Robin fan like me, then you'll have an extra fun time since he's the star of each tale.
November 4, 2023
An enjoyable romp through the fun side of the animated Batman universe. The tales are not too grim, but do hit on some interesting philosophical points, even if only briefly. And that's what I want from Batman stories: the psychological and philosophical undertones.
June 5, 2021
This was well done for the most part. Entertaining one-and-done stories.
September 2, 2025
the last story was actually really funny, bumped it up in rating for me
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