The last character of age I could discover is Carrie Kelley, tried as I might I just couldn’t find anything to suggest Alfred’s age and could only come up with vague guesses but with Carrie there seems to be some specifics to her age. This allows me to establish her age for specific story points in the Frank Miller Batman Canon. The age difference between her and Bruce is only 12 years. This gives the final puzzle piece.Įven learning Barbara’s age the math becomes pretty simple. What makes this information important is that in “Batman #408” where we meet Post Crisis Jason Todd, we also see Batman fire 19-year-old Dick Grayson for incompetence after Dick is shot in the shoulder by the Joker, and nearly dies. The next major piece of information is discovered way into the Future of “Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again” (DKS) where, in confrontation with Dick Grayson, Batman reveals he fired him for incompetence. This is certified as Detective Comics #790 it’s revealed Jason’s Birthday is August 16th. This revealed that Jason Todd’s tenure as Robin lasted roughly 3-to-3 ½ years. In “Batman #413” were in the letter pages it’s established Jason Todd became Robin at 12 Years old. The Date of April 27th was provided by Batman Annual #25, released in 2006. I looked up the death certificate for Jason Todd discovering that he died at Age 15, on April 27th. It wasn’t until reading on a DC Wiki there was actually a death certificate with an age. The reason I looked into the age of Jason Todd in BDF was to give a parallel to what his age would have been in BLC. To get to this I looked up Jason Todd’s death, looking for any clues from “Batman: A Death in the Family” (BDF) but found little to no information that assisted me. To fill in certain gaps I researched post crisis canon, since Batman Year One was written as the official Post Crisis Batman Origin. Unfortunately, not every single answer I needed was available from the six Frank Miller written Books I’ve been looking at, and I had to use information detailed out by the post crisis canon. I started with the few basics from Year One and The Dark Knight Returns and it led me down a weird rabbit hole where I ended up working on the ages of several Batman Characters in relation to Frank Miller’s works. In the comics his age has been a pretty big question and I recently decided to take Frank Miller’s Batman works and decipher his age. Recently, I have been re-reading Frank Miller Dark Knight Series (including All Star Batman and Robin) and I’ve been curious about Batman’s age through out the series. Today, reader Bob Garlen wrote in and wanted to share some exhaustive research he did into Batman's age during Frank Miller's various Batman comic book stories and Bob did such a fine job that I am more than willing to share it with you all.

Knowledge Waits is a feature where I just share some bit of comic book history that interests me.

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