He was only 4 foot 6 and 87 pounds at age 15 when he died.
For reference: As the average weight of an fifteen year old male is 128 pounds this puts him just below the third percentile (very underweight) – the average height for a male kid that age is 67 inches or 5 feet 7 inches tall. Obviously Jay wasn’t close to either of these averages.
So … he was tiny. He was a very smol bird. Still recovering from the effects of malnutrition.
Batman, with a splash of Gatchaman thrown in. I’m not the first person to make that comparison, but I wanted to doodle this as sorta a response to seeing Batman just keep getting bigger and bigger in the comics. Like his overall build has been getting a little much for me, and I was thinking I’d like to see a leaner, faster Batman.