James Gordon Jr

James 'jimbo' 'robin' Gordon jr was the son of James Gordon sr. He became the second robin at the tender age of fourteen and was adopted my bruce wayne and cared by (for the most part) alfred. Gordon became batmans accomplis in 1942's issue #349 of the batman series 'the detectives heir' after his father's untimely death at the hands of the joker.

Gordon has many significant roles in the early batman series including saving batman from The Penguin after his and other criminals hold over the arkum sector of Gotham cirty. But his story comes to a close when Matthew McRoy, (head illustrator at dc comics) decided that his character and personality became outdated and felt that it was time for the batman legacy to take a step forward. His long reign as Robin came to a sudden end after over 120 issues in 1950 when poison ivy cleverly seduced him into giving away the batmans true identity and put the whole of Gotham city in jeopardy doing so. Gorden decided to end his own life in shame, feeling that he had dishonoured his fathers legacy as chief inspector of gotham city.

Gordons role was replaced by Giles Redman, a Gotham city police officer and later bacame the batman in 1965's summer 'spin off' series 'The batman returns'.