That Laughing Young Daredevil,  Dick Grayson  Kai Axel Jansson
When considering the idea that the comic-book characters, Batman
and Robin, had real-life counterparts on whom their four-color
adventures were loosely based (see Asimov's Northwestward), a
few questions come to mind. What were their real names? Are any
of the later comic-book stories at all based in reality? If Dick
Grayson was Robin the Boy Wonder in the early 1940s, what became
of him after he became an adult? The former questions will be
answered elsewhere, but I'll attempt to explain the fate of the
man we know as Dick Grayson after his career as the "Boy Wonder"
ended.  According to Batman #10, in the story entitled, "The
Isle That Time Forgot!", cover-dated April-May 1942, Dick
Grayson was then fourteen years old, as there were fourteen
candles on his birthday cake. And according to the 1976 Super DC
Calendar, Dick Grayson's birthday is on November 11. Therefore,
his date of birth is most likely November 11th, 1927. If Al
Schroeder's theor