When people think back on A DEATH IN THE FAMILY and the demise of Robin/Jason Todd, the most evocative image is that of a crowbar, the tool/weapon that the Joker used to savagely beat Robin to a bloody pulp.
Robin, however, survived the crowbar beating...it was the explosion a few minutes later that killed him.
Still, we saw that Jason was quite brutalized by the crowbar beating. Were those wounds survivable? Had there been no explosion, would Jason have recovered from his injuries assuming that Batman arrived when he did and promptly got him to medical care? Or were the wounds so severe that even without the explosion, Jason would have perished anyway?
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