Frank Miller's Carrie Kelley Robin Influences

This is a collage of an excerpt of Frank Miller's introduction to Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - 10th Anniversary Edition (1996) and Jaime Hernandez's art of Maggie Chascarrillo (of Love and Rockets (1981)) as a female Robin from The Comics Journal # 76 (1982). 

Frank Miller said on the documentary Masterpiece: Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (2013), "It's funny, when I first started Dark Knight, there was gonna be no Robin, I'd always thought Robin was useless and then I went on a cross country plane flight with John Byrne and he said 'Do Robin but make her a girl,' and I thought, 'What if she is this plucky character.' There had to be a light to show off the darkness."  

Some people have assumed that Frank Miller based Carrie Kelley on Jill St. John as Molly in Robin's costume from the Adam West/Bill Dozier "Batman" Batusi satirical TV show episode "Smack in the Middle" (1966), but that's not what Carrie Kelley was based on. 

Julie Madison/Portia Storme was actually the first female to wear the Robin costume in Detective Comics #49 (1941) "Clayface Walks Again" written by Bill Finger, art by Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson.