A fan artist shares designs for a really completely different costume than typical for Tim Drake, homaging Batman’s in-universe inspiration the Grey Ghost.
Tim Drake has worn just a few completely different costumes through the years as Robin and Red Robin, however now a fan artist has imagined a fancy dress for him referencing Batman’s unique (in-universe) inspiration: The Grey Ghost.
Reddit person u/Hunkerdown_son shared their idea artwork for a Tim Drake model of a Grey Ghost costume, designed to incorporate parts of Tim’s common uniforms equivalent to a glider cape and someplace to place his collapsible bo workers. The art work exhibits Tim from a number of angles, each with and with out the cape and utility belt customary to all Bat-uniforms.
Who Is DC Comics’ Grey Ghost?
The Grey Ghost is a reputation that has belonged to some completely different characters within the DC universe, together with a bunch of Jonah Hex villains and a short-lived supporting character from Stephanie Brown’s time as Batgirl. It is also the title of the fictional crime-fighting vigilante that Bruce Wayne watched on tv along with his father as a toddler and in the end impressed him to develop into Batman. Created by Tom Ruegger, this Grey Ghost received his begin within the DC Animated Universe and first appeared within the 1992 Batman: The Animated Collection episode “Beware the Grey Ghost.” Batman teamed up with the then-aging actor who had performed the function on the present, Simon Trent, to cease a prison copycatting a scheme the Grey Ghost thwarted on the present.
Trent/The Grey Ghost was voiced by the late Adam West, star of the Nineteen Sixties Batman tv sequence and spinoff film. The function parodied West’s personal profession as a former superhero tv actor whose fame had waned, and Batman: The Animated Collection creators Bruce Timm and Paul Dini have beforehand shared that The Grey Ghost wouldn’t have existed if West hadn’t needed to play the half. West would go on to voice an identical character in an episode of Disney Channel’s Kim Doable, a retired actor who had as soon as performed “The Fearless Ferret.”
Episodes of Justice League Limitless and Batman Past additionally referenced the Grey Ghost, and the character has made his manner into the comics with numerous references, film posters showing as background Easter eggs and an look by Simon Trent within the Gotham Academy comics because the drama instructor on the titular faculty. On this continuity, Trent nonetheless starred in The Grey Ghost tv sequence and in addition had a long-standing rivalry with fellow actor Basil Karlo/ Clayface. He first appeared in Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher and Karl Kerschl’s Gotham Academy #4 (2015).
Supply: Reddit