Created characters for the Batman comic books including: co-creating, with Bob Kane and Bill Finger Batman's sidekick Richard John "Dick" Grayson/Robin, as well as Batman villain Anthony "Tony" Zucco and Batman's most famous villain in his rogues gallery, The Joker.
He got his first job illustrating comic books when he was 17. He was hired by Bob Kane after the two met at a Catskills resort, where Robinson was selling ice cream, wearing a white jacket covered with his own drawings.
He taught at New York's School of Visual Arts, and served as president of both the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and the National Cartoonists Society.
Youngest child of five children of Benjamin Robinson and Mae Robinson. He studied at Columbia University in New York City.
He is survived by his wife, Gro Bagn Robinson, of 57 years; son, Jens Robinson, and daughter, Livia Robinson-White; and two grandchildren.
He was a resident of Manhattan in New York City and died at a hospice in Staten Island.
Brought a more colorful style to the Batman comics of the 1940s.