Stephanie Brown first appeared as Spoiler in Detective Comics (Batman) #647. As Batman does battle with the Cluemaster, Spoiler (Cluemasters daughter) spoils her father's machinations, helping Bruce Wayne and Tim Drake - eventually finding herself romantically involved with the third Robin.

Life is complicated however as she is pregnant from an old boyfriend and eventually decides to give up the child to adoption as she is now technically an orphan herself.

With Tim being regularly away for a number of reasons (boarding school, secret missions to Tibet, etc..), Stephanie begins training with Bruce as to help him as an offsider. After Tim's father finds out his secret identity, he forbids him from superheroing, insisting he hangs up the cape. Becoming the 4th Robin, she works with Batman for over 5 years, until working on a long term plan to deal with Gotham's criminal underworld she is captured and tortured by Black Mask, eventually dying in Batman;s arms. Her finals words were "Was I ever really Robin?" with Batman acknowledging "Of course you were".

Unlike, the second Robin, Jason Todd however, no memorial was erected in the Batcave - which is weird as it felt like Jason, was Robin for about 2 weeks and Stephanie put in 5 years. Also interesting to note that Batman unleashed hell on the Joker after killing Todd, but did bugger all after finding out that the treating doctor who was caring for Stephanie, actually decided to withhold lifesaving treatment from her as her thought it would serve as a good example to discourage the youth of Gotham from engaging in vigilantism. Weak effort dude.