Bernard Dowd was a very minor character in Batman lore, a student at Louis E. Grieve Memorial High School alongside his friend Tim Drake. With a crush on Tim's stepmother, he believed conspiracy theories that Batman was working for the government and that Robin was several kids taken from orphanages owned by Batman. DC Comics Bringing Back Bernard Dowd – Because Everything Matters Created by Ricky Mays, he first appeared in Robin #121 in 2004, and only appeared six times in that title, and a smattering of tiny references, before his last appearance in Robin #140. No death, no mysterious disappearance, that was… that. There is also the suggestion that he may be the son of supervillian Nina Dowd, The Mighty Endowed. But fifteen years later, remember that everything happened and everything matters…