How many times has Jason Todd tried to murder Tim Drake?
Answer: Jason Todd has tried one (1) time to murder Tim Drake AND Damian Wayne. And it was not "The Titans Tower Incident".
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Attack I: Hush by Jeph Loeb
Attack II: Teen Titans (2003) #29 by Geoff Johns (AKA the "Titans Tower Incident")
Attack III: Battle for the Cowl by Tony Daniel
Hush
Did Jason try to murder Tim in Hush?
Batman #617 (writer: Jeph Loeb)
Jason cuts Tim's neck!
Batman #618 [writer: Jeph Loeb]
...Oh, wait, it actually isn't that bad.
Tim could use some non-urgent stitches, but he is still fully awake and walking on his own two feet. Batman sends Tim back to the Batcave unaccompanied, and tells him to continue working on their case.
♢ Verdict: Nah, Jason did not try to murder Tim in Hush. It wasn't theatrical and climactic enough.
(*Side note: Hush reveals that this Jason is supposedly just an impersonation by Clayface. But Batman Annual #25 later changes the lore so that the real Jason did initially appear here. After the part when the real Jason takes Tim hostage, Batman chases him through a dark and rainy graveyard—and the real Jason then takes the opportunity to switch out with Clayface as his body double. It's confusing, I know!)
Teen Titans (2003) #29
Did Jason try to murder Tim in Teen Titans (2003) #29? (Also known as "THE Titans Tower Incident", as opposed to all the other Titans Tower incidents in which Titans died and the Tower was destroyed.)
Teen Titans (2003) #29 [writer: Geoff Johns]
Jason beats up Tim with a bo staff and punches. No blades or guns involved. Tim blacks out. Tim later wakes up and gets to his feet when the other Titans come to help him.
Raven explains, "Jason was always aggressive. He was determined to one day be better than all of us. Especially Batman." This story confirms that Jason has always been an overcompensating jerkwad, and death didn't make him any nicer—he's bullying Tim in a jealous fit to prove he's better than him, and not out of murderous intent.
Teen Titans (2003) #47 [writer: Adam Beechen] - "The guy attacked all of us once just to prove he was better than me!"
Straight from Tim's own mouth—Jason infiltrated Titans Tower just to bully Tim, not to murder him.
♢ Verdict: Jason EXPLICITLY did NOT try to murder Tim in Teen Titans (2003) #29, also bafflingly known as "THE Titans Tower Incident". He didn't cut Tim's neck or use any bladed implements this time either.
Battle for the Cowl
(Everyone's favorite comic! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Evil Batman time!)
Did Jason try to kill Tim in Batman: Battle for the Cowl?
Batman: Battle for the Cowl [writer: Tony S Daniel]
Jason shoots 10-year-old Damian in the chest, causing Damian to need eighty-nine stitches and a sizable blood transfusion to save his life.
Jason later stabs Tim in the chest, drags his "rotting corpse" into an alcove in his weird sewer creature lair, crucifies Tim's Batman suit on an honest-to-God actual cross, and brags about killing him to Dick.
But when Jason and Dick come unto the "tomb", they found the stone rolled away, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus, Tim's "body" had risen on the third day vanished.
Tim apparently only survived the blood loss due to some weird technique that allows him to slow his pulse to a near-death state.
♠ Verdict: YEAH, it sure looks like Jason did try to kill 17-year-old Tim AND 10-year-old Damian in Battle for the Cowl!
So remember—next time we bring up the time that Jason tried to kill poor Tim, we ALSO need to hold Jason accountable for trying to brutally murder a ten-year-old little boy and all the trauma that totally definitely caused.
Conclusion: Jason would ONLY try to kill Tim as a dramatic cliffhanger to end the second act of a limited event series in which Jason is the main villain.
Otherwise the production just wouldn't be theatrical enough.
See also: Robin tradition by @arabian-batboy
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Five versions of Supergirl head to aid their cousin (or in Cir-El's case, father), Superman, in Superman/Batman (vol. 1) #25 (May, 2006). Written by Jeeps Loeb. Art by Ed McGuinness and Dexter Vines. Color by Dave McCaig. Lettering by Richard Starkings.
I miss the Linda Danvers and Cir-El versions of Supergirl. Even though Cir-El eventually turned out to not be Superman's and Lois' daughter from the future, she was a fun character to have around. And there's always a chance a real Cir-El could be seen in the future (Clark and Lois had many servings of beef bourguinon after he returned from Warworld).
That said, I also miss Power Girl as she was depicted back then. Her personality now, as seen in One-Star Squadron and her current series, has made her into a whiney milquetoast, not the strong, confident woman she's been known as.
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"Batman: Hush (2002). The collected edition I read this time featured a 2005 interview conducted over AIM where Loeb expressed his distaste for Cassandra Cain while Jim Lee joked about wanting to draw Leslie Thompkins in a thong. Sets… a tone."
A writer for DC official site on his Bluesky
Can anyone has that newer collected edition of Batman Hush where the cover is a portrait of Batman sharing half a face Hush confirm this
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