Drake Manor is the mansion home of the Drake family.
History
It is located in the upper-class Crest Hill neighborhood of Gotham County, across the river from Gotham City. It is very near the mansion of millionaire J. Devlin Davenport, and is next door to stately Wayne Manor, the ancestral home of Bruce Wayne.
New Earth
When Jack Drake was released from the hospital after waking from a coma, he planned for him and Tim Drake to move into their Robinson Park penthouse. Seeing that Tim was feeling down about moving away from Wayne Manor, where he’d been staying while his father was in the hospital, Alfred Pennyworth gave Tim a real estate ad about the mansion for sale next door to Wayne Manor.[1] Tim urged his father to see and buy the property, and Jack agreed.[2]
Sometime after moving into the Manor, Jack Drake hired Mrs. Mac as a live-in maid to help in the house.[3] When Tim did not have access to the Batcave to store his car Redbird, he temporarily hid it in the carriage house on the Manor property, knowing Mrs. Mac didn’t go there.[4]
Tim soon wished for a quicker way to the Batcave than running across the grounds of their mansions, so Batfamily mechanic Harold Allnut built an entrance in the Drake Manor wine cellar leading to the Batcave systems below, allegedly inspired by a Dumas novel. This Drake Manor entrance is a two minute run to the main chamber of the Batcave.[5] Jean Paul Valley blocks this passageway while he’s Batman. [6] Later, Tim is shown using a different entrance from the cave to Drake Manor.[7]
During the Gotham earthquake in Batman: Cataclysm, Drake Manor was damaged, though not as badly as its neighboring Wayne Manor.[8] Jack Drake hired a crew to fix up the manor, but Tim figured out the crew was scamming them and didn't plan to work on it.[9] The manor was later shown fixed. After Gotham was declared a No Man’s Land, the Drakes moved out of Drake Manor to an apartment in Keystone City,[10] due to Jack Drake disliking the violence at Tim's school and the influx of city Gothamites moving into Bristol township and the Gotham Heights area.[11] When Tim ran away back to Gotham to visit Stephanie Brown for her baby’s birth,[12] Jack Drake and Dana Winters followed Tim back to Gotham, and after a talk, decided to move back into Drake Manor because they all agreed Gotham City was their home and they still had responsibilities there.[13]
The Drakes continued living in Drake Manor until Jack finds out his company’s stock went down and they have to sell the mansion to reduce debt load.[14] So when Tim was almost 16, they moved out of Drake Manor and sold it, instead moving into the Drakes’ condo in downtown Gotham City, close to Barbara Gordon’s Clock Tower.[15]
Residents
Trivia
- In the "Titans of Tomorrow" storyline from Teen Titans (Volume 3), Drake Manor was actually Wayne Manor, but now under the ownership of the adult Tim Drake who had taken up the mantle of his predecessor, Batman.
See Also
- Appearances of Drake Manor
- Location Gallery: Drake Manor
- Catalogued images related to Drake Manor
- ↑ Batman #480
- ↑ Batman #481
- ↑ Robin III #3
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #1
- ↑ Robin III #1
- ↑ Detective Comics #667
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #20
- ↑ Nightwing (Volume 2) #20
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #54
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #62
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #63
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #65
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #66
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #98
- ↑ Robin (Volume 2) #100