(Batman: The Cult #1, 2) - Gordon contacted Batman when a number of criminals were found brutalized. The violence of the attacks escalated, and soon criminals were found cut into pieces. Batman investigated, and was captured by those responsible, Deacon Blackfire and his cult. Robin contacted Gordon, worried about Batman, who always communicated him, even when he was away on a case. Blackfire's holy mission was a cover for taking over Gotham City with his new power base, and Gordon issued an arrest warrant for Blackfire. This decision proved to be unpopular, as most of Gotham's citizens said they felt safer with Blackfire massacring the criminal element. Blackfire preached that all of Gotham had to burn since the GCPD had proved themselves to be sinners for condemning him. Batman had broken Blackfire's programming after weeks of torture, but this resulted in the cultists shooting him, and a badly wounded Batman floated in the sewers until he arrived at the mass grave where the bodies of Blackfire's enemies were left to rot. Robin had followed him into the sewers, but Batman was incoherent, ranting that he was in Hell for doubting Blackfire.

(Batman: The Cult #3, 4) - Batman snapped back to reality, and as Gotham fell under marshal law, the Dynamic Duo battled Blackfire's cultists in the underworld. The national guard went into the sewers, and headed straight into an ambush. The governor evacuated Gotham, and Blackfire urged his men to claim the surface, announcing a brand new day for them. Batman and Robin called Alfred, and Batman said he was leaving Gotham, because Blackfire owned it now. Batman had a dream about the ghosts of Thomas and Martha Wayne urging him to save Gotham, and he woke ready to fight. He ordered armaments from the Stiles Foundation, building a new tanklike Batmbobile, and arming himself and Robin with tranquilizer guns. Batman rolled into Gotham with the U.S. army following him, and fought his way to Gotham Central, the center of Blackfire's domain. Blackfire decided he would end his career as a religious savior by becoming a martyr, so he welcomed Batman, and urged him to kill him with a gun. Batman refused, and goaded Blackfire into attacking him. Batman beat Blackfire near death, striking painful blow after painful blow until Blackfire begged for mercy. Blackfire's cultists, seeing him humbled, turned against him, ripping him to pieces as Batman hurried Robin away, saying there was nothing they could do to help. The cultists broke up, and most left Gotham with Blackfire's death.

(Green Arrow III #7) - Spectre gave Green Arrow a tour of Heaven, and they saw Robin swinging in the Elysium fields.

(Batman: Gotham County Line #3) - Batman was tricked into helping Gotham County serial killer Radmuller commit suicide. Radmuller's death had created a fold in time that made Gotham county a unique time and space between the living and the dead, and as the dead rose they fell under Radmuller's control. - Batman fought the undead, but they were relentless, and Radmuller told him they were the dead that he failed to save, and they all hated him, wondering where the hero of Gotham was when they died. The undead Jason Todd appeared, and helped Batman fend them long enough for him to flee. Batman found himself in Radmuller's basement with his dead parents, and learned his deepest secret, he'd killed his parents and blamed it on robbers, but had come to believe his lie. Deadman appeared with the Phantom Stranger, and were pleased that Batman finally realized he was being used by Radmuller to sustain his hellish realm. With their help he went back in time and undid Radmuller's death, undoing his work.

(Green Arrow III #69-71) - Red Hood went to Star City to pick up hi-tech armaments, but their delivery to crimelord Brick was disrupted by Green Arrow and Speedy. Red Hood and his gang came looking for Brick, when his cronies mouthed off to Brick, Red Hood shot them all for their lack of civility. Red Hood offered to go after Green Arrow with Brick, so they could get his weapons back. Brick declined, so Red Hood engaged him in intense combat until he agreed to give it a shot. They set up ambushes at the drop locations for the hi-tech weapons, and got the drop on Arrow and Batman, who’d come to Star in search of the Hood. The villains switched their normal combatants, with Brick going after Batman and Hood going after Arrow. When Hood and Arrow’s battle led to a swordfight they were both thrilled at testing each other’s skills. Green Arrow seemed to win the contest, but Hood revealed that his attack was just a distraction so his thugs could kidnap Speedy. Hood wanted to send a message to Arrow for daring to interfere in his feud with Batman, but he also identified with Speedy and her relationship with her mentor. He forced her to duel with him, and got inside her head. He knew her history as a street kid, and told her that they were very much the same. He’d done horrible, shameful things just to survive on the streets as well. He defeated her in combat, but released her, confident that he’d planted doubts in her mind about Arrow.

(Azrael: Death’s Dark Knight #3) - Oracle and Nightwing kept tabs on the new Batman. Their new ally Azrael, the former Bat-Devil, wanted to go after “Batman” for stealing his armor, but they told him he wasn’t ready for such a confrontation.

Comments: Created by Gerry Conway and Don Newton.

In the pre-Crisis DCU Robin was a circus acrobat (much like Dick Grayson, the first Robin) whose parents were killed by Killer Croc. The pre-Crisis Robin also lacked the willfulness and anger of the post-Crisis Jason Todd.

Robin received profiles in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #19 and Who's Who Update '87 #5. Red Hood received a profile in Batman Villains Secret Files and Origins 2005.