- 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.
- Based the Joker on Conrad Veidt.
- 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.
- He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame in 2004.
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