In putting together my DC Universe Trade Paperback Timeline, one era of books that have caught my attention are those surrounding Batman: Death in the Family. More, perhaps, than worlds living and dying in Crisis on Infinite Earths, the death of Jason Todd in writer Jim Starlin’s Death in the Family has become so much a fabric of the being of modern DC Universe readers. For twenty years, the name of the second Robin became synonymous with his death and the controversy that surrounded it, drowning out any of the character’s other accomplishments, if there were any; it took no small amount of time for Jason to step out of that shadow post-resurrection.
