It may seem strange that
the first boy sidekick to a superhero was Robin — hardly a match for a somber masked
manhunter like Batman.
But as I recall from my
introduction to the characters, when I was 5 or 6, the contrasting colors of
their exciting caped costumes — mysterious blue and gray against vivid red,
yellow and green — were a primary source of my fascination. Superman’s colorful
costume was a big draw, and here were two of them for the same dime. The
costume convention in superhero stories is the residual effect from their
decades-long need to catch the eye of small children. And in any case, as for
the world’s only 74-year-old Boy Wonder, you can hardly argue with success.
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