Chuck Dixon's Original Plans For "Robin"

[Skyknight]

Batman Examiner: Any stories that you weren't able to tell (Batman, Nightwing, Birds or Robin) that you can reveal? Any stories that originally had a different ending but it went in another direction?

Dixon: Nothing I can think of right now except that my plans leading to ROBIN 100 and beyond were pretty cool and I regret not being able to do that story. My plan was to have Tim quit as Robin and become the new Blue Beetle under Ted Kord’s guidance. Batman would pick Steph to take on Robin’s role. Tim would then be featured in a six-issue mini as Blue Beetle until events in the Batbooks would bring him back to the fold. The idea coming out of this would be a BB ongoing in which Ted gets the idea to create what amounts to a Blue Beetle franchise. He creates what amounts to Blue Beetle Inc and has a representative in every DCU city. I was shot down on this one over and over. As soon as I left the title they did a kind of pale version of the story I had been proposing for more than a year.

http://www.examiner.com/x-6770-Batman-Examiner~y2009m3d30-Chatting-with-Chuck-Dixon

Tim as the next Blue Beetle? Not sure if I'm sold on that one, but Dixon could have made it work.

A Blue Beetle Inc title however, is MONEY.

 

[GI_Josh]

They should call it Blue Beetle Corps.

 

[Keith Justice]

Who's Steph?

 

[Ragna "D" BloodEdge]

Stephanie Brown, aka Spoiler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoiler_(comics)

 

[Rainboy]

I don't know....Tim as BB just doesn't make sense. There's absolutely no reason why he would take up that mantle over continuing to be Robin. Although if they brought back the classic BB costume, I probably would have been sold, lol.

 

[Eldar]

They should call it Blue Beetle Corps.

Already done.