Saturday, November 9, 2019

Robin and Zelda the Great

Robin and Zelda the Great

Robin and Zelda the Great 2

Robin and Zelda the Great 3

Robin and Zelda the Great 4

Robin the Boy Wonder is the eager, youthful sidekick of Batman, the Caped Crusader, the vigilante crime-fighting alias of millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne.  Introduced in 1940 as orphaned acrobat Dick Grayson in the DC comic book series Batman, Robin was played by Burt Ward in the 1966 television series on ABC.

Due to his youth, inexperience, and smaller size, the Boy Wonder is clearly the weak link in the Dynamic Duo, which their opponents often seek to exploit.  Robin is also cocky, enthusiastic, and overly eager to prove his independent crime-fighting abilities, especially to Batman.  He is often in trouble and in need of rescue.

The four-picture series "Robin, and Zelda the Great by bondageincomics" was commissioned from an artist through DeviantART in 2019.  


This picture was inspired by the episode "A Death Worse Than Fate", featuring one-time villain Zelda the Great, a fading magician.  Zelda stole $100,000 from Gotham City National Bank in order to pay for a new escape act.  After a newspaper story is published stating that the money was counterfeit, she kidnaps Aunt Harriet in order to ransom her back to the Wayne Family.  Robin appears on television with Bruce Wayne to announce that the newspaper story was fake and that the money is real.  Zelda agrees to release Aunt Harriet.

In this whimsical alternative, Zelda is angered by the deception and demands that Robin deliver notarized confirmation that the money is real.  Using Aunt Harriet as bait, the magician lures the cute, cocky, colorful, crime-fighting sidekick into a trap.  Robin is then bound and gagged and used as bait to lure Batman into the same trap.  Hopefully, the Caped Crusader will be more successful in escaping the trap than the Boy Wonder was.


This picture is fan art and intended to promote the appreciation of Burt Ward's portrayal of Robin in the 1966 television series "Batman".  This is an original scene and did not appear in the movie, the television series, or any other derivative material.


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