Psaras Comics Essentials: Jason Todd

As I've said, the whole Crisis after Crisis thing on DC comics makes it hard to make PCESS articles for the headline characters, but easier for the secondary ones up until the 2011 reboot. This is the essential collection of Jason Todd, the second Robin who went on to become the villain Red Hood and later took up several other mantles (including being the Batman).

Before you start, I suggest you read "The Man Behind The Red Hood", which was first printed in "Detective Comics Vol.1 #168" and reprinted in several issues and collection afterwards. You can see almost all of them here. I believe the easiest to find are "Batman Archives #8" and "The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told" tradeback. There you can see why Jason opted for the Red Hood persona once he came back to business. I will also try to include issues that show us the relationship between Jason and Dick.

This time I didn't make a list of supplementary stories under the PCESS list, I just listed them in smaller, grey letters. I hope this is better.

1. Batman #408-#411
2. Batman #412-#415
3. Batman #416
4. New Teen Titans Vol.2 #25-#26
5. Batman: The Cult
6. Batman #417-#423
7. Batman #424 (how did this get the CCA seal by the way?)
8. Batman #425
9. Batman #426-#429 (A Death in the Family) 
10. Batman #400-#403
11. Detective Comics #569
12. Red Hood: The Lost Days*
13. Batman #608-#619 (Hush)
14. Batman #635-#650 and Batman Annual #25 (Under the Hood)
15. Red Hood: The Lost Days*
16. Teen Titans: Life and Death
17. Nightwing Vol.2 #118-#124 (Brothers in Blood)
18. Countdown to Final Crisis #16-#13 (beware that the Countdown numbers go backwards)
19. Batman: Battle for the Cowl (or you can opt for the whole storyline from Batman RIP to Batman Reborn)
20. Batman and Robin #4-#6 (Revenge of the Red Hood)

Minor note about pre-Crisis and post-Crisis good storylines: If you search for pre-Crisis good storylines, aim for the ones that include Killer Croc. For post-Crisis, read stories that include Two-Face.

*"Red Hood: The Lost Days" is a prequel to "Under the Hood" and "Hush", so it could be read before them. On the other hand, there are certain events in it that take you by surprise. If you are familiar with those three story arcs, read "The Lost Days" before "Hush" and "Under the Hood". If you want the right emotional response, leave "The Lost Days" for the last part.

"Under the Hood" is also adapted to an animated movie called "Batman: Under the Red Hood".