QUOTE: Uh... Isn't Tim Drake supposed to be, like, 15 years old at MOST?

Not if we go by what's explicitly stated in the books.

15 at the time he became Robin (and, thanks to a hardship driver's license due to Jack Drake's medical condition at the time, the recipient of the Redbird)

Celebrated a 16th birthday in his own title.

At least 17 now, since it's One Year Later.

QUOTE: Tim was 13 when he became Robin. Check out the story line "A Lonely Place of Dying," in which he first showed up and donned the Robin suit.

You are indeed correct.  Guess I was mentally combining that intro and the first issue of the regular series, establishing his hardship license (so they could introduce the Redbird), which (in most states, anyway) would put him at 15.

Just clarification-you want him to be alive and it not referred to as "he came back to the dead"-basically forget he ever died in the first place

or you want it ignored that he came back from the dead and keep him dead and buried or at least unmentioned?

"One more thing that makes a difference now: there's an entire journalism/gossip industry built around comic books and their readers."

Well, that's no different from movies or TV or other forms of entertainment.  The difference is those mediums have large, mainstream audiences who don't pay obsessive attention to that stuff.  Imagine if the only people who paid to watch movies were a couple hundred thousand wannabe film students - that's comics today.

Mike 

Oh ok.  Thanks Glenn.  BTW, you are a real nice guy on this forum and very informative.  Hopefully one day we can see you (if you want) on a Spider-man or Hulk book soon. Do you read Planet Hulk?

It's funny-I first started collecting Batman more or less when Jason Todd died.  I heard about it somehow, and remember seeking those issues out but I couldn't get the ones (at the newstand) where he died for some reason so I didn't know what happened.  I had to wait until later when they reprinted.  The whole thing was fasinating and weird, because all I knew was Dick Grayson but this wasn't him. And Dick was a guy called Nightwing.

I think having introudced Tim Drake (I was around for that) they should have klept him young, and then they would have had the grown up Grayson, and kid Robin and with a more human Batman, could have had an interesting thing going. Oh well. Instead, Robin has aged and Batman and Nightwing until recently have mostly not got along.