Curated playlist
DC Comics sidekicks
- Dick GraysonDick Grayson, the DC Comics hero who first appeared in Detective Comics #38 in April 1940, has changed more often than almost any character in superhero comics. He began as a child performer in a circus family. Since then he has carried at…
- Tim DrakeTim Drake was a small boy in the audience at a circus on the night Dick Grayson's parents were murdered. His own mother and father had just asked the Flying Graysons to pose for a photograph with them. That moment gave the two boys a brief…
- Barbara GordonBarbara Gordon is a DC Comics heroine who has worn two very different identities, Batgirl and Oracle. The artist Carmine Infantino helped create her, and he summed up her beginnings with a boast. In Infantino's words, "Julie and I came up…
- Cassandra CainCassandra Cain is a DC Comics superheroine who first appeared in Batman #567, published in July 1999. Writer Kelley Puckett and penciler Damion Scott are generally credited with inventing her. They gave her a trait that is rare among comic…
- Jason ToddJason Todd, the second Robin in DC Comics, had his life or death decided by a telephone poll in 1988. Readers of the Batman comics were handed two 1-900 numbers. One meant the boy would live. The other meant he would die. They had only a…
- Robin (character)Robin, the young partner of Batman in DC Comics, once had his fate decided by a telephone poll. In 1988, DC invited readers to call a 1-900 number and choose whether the second Robin, Jason Todd, should die. The count came in at 5,343…
- Harley QuinnHarley Quinn, the DC Comics character, first appeared on screen on the 11th of September 1992, in the 22nd episode of Batman: The Animated Series. The episode was called Joker's Favor, and she was supposed to appear in it once and never…
- Damian WayneDamian Wayne, a hero published by DC Comics, reached Batman's world through a lie. His mother, Talia, was engaged to Bruce Wayne. When she became pregnant, she broke off the engagement and told Bruce she had miscarried. He did not learn…
- Jimmy OlsenJimmy Olsen may have made his debut in Action Comics No. 6, dated November 1938, as a nameless office boy in a bow tie. The story was called "Superman's Phony Manager." Later readers counted that boy as Jimmy, though some argue he is a…
- Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)Supergirl, whose Kryptonian name is Kara Zor-El, first appeared in Action Comics #252 in May 1959. Writer Otto Binder created her, and artist Al Plastino designed her and drew that debut. Her story begins on Argo City, a fragment of…
- SupergirlSupergirl died in issue #7 of Crisis on Infinite Earths, published in October 1985, and the aftermath was stranger than the death. Inside the story's world, nobody remembered that she had ever lived. A shift in editorial policy at DC…