These are the quick questions I have without the books to refer to:

In both Batgirl: A Knight Alone, and in Robin Reborn there is a Shiva. Is this the same character in both books?

How did Tim Drake figure out Batman's secret and what happened to his parents (is there something I can read that will be more indepth about this). Also how old is he supposed to be?

...okay. Spent some more time with Batman in the 1940s and got bored very rapidly. Like, after an hour.

So I'm now thinking, surely there must be a website with chronologies and lists and recs and things yes? And I'm gonna go off on a crusade to find it.

Maybe I ought to just ask my boyfriend, as he knows both my tastes and Batman of the period in which I'm most interested (early 90s, probly)... and maybe even owns some.

Tim Drake's father is alive.

That's the only one of your questions I can answer.

(I went and picked up the rest of The Outsiders, last month's Batman and Rough Justice at lunch.)

kiba, Batman Continuity Pages.

Considering that I just read Tim Drake, Boy Stalker A Lonely Place of Dying over the weekend, you'd think I'd remember how Tim figured out that Bruce was the Bat. And yet, I don't.

In both Batgirl: A Knight Alone, and in Robin Reborn there is a Shiva. Is this the same character in both books?

Yes.

How did Tim Drake figure out Batman's secret and what happened to his parents (is there something I can read that will be more indepth about this). Also how old is he supposed to be?

See: Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying.

Tim was there the day Dick's parents were murdered. So, as a young feller, he had a vivid mental impression of Dick, Batman, and the whole day. He couldn't escape it. Because of his knowledge of the Flying Graysons, at some point, he put two and two together and realized Dick was Robin, at which point, he realized Bruce was Batman. Then, after Jason died, Tim become Boy Stalker.

Tim is 13 in A Lonely Place of Dying. I'm at the moment fuzzy on the timeline for the thing with his parents. It's pretty early. He could be 13 still when it happens.

Massive and FUNNY crosspost.

So I'm now thinking, surely there must be a website with chronologies and lists and recs and things yes? And I'm gonna go off on a crusade to find it.

In addition to the continuity pages, check out [link]

Or just ask me. *g*

Massive and FUNNY crosspost.

Heh. The whole time I was reading it, when Tim was pulling his "But Batman NEEDS a Robin! Don't you SEE?!?" schtick, I was thinking "Man, you are trying to play mindgames with the most fucked-up mind in Gotham. You have problems. Hmmm....maybe you DO belong with the Bat...."

Wait, so Tim is about the same age that Dick was when he became Robin? And probably was that age when Dick was 13? But now Dick is in his 20s?

If you go by the standard continuity that Dick was eight when his parents died, (a) the Tim Drake origin story doesn't work, since I think there's got to be at least six years between Dick and Tim, and (b) you gotta wonder what the hell kind of parents the Flying Graysons were to let a kid that age do a quadruple-flip without a net.