The character has appeared in several media adaptations outside of comics over the years, including films, animated series, and video games.

Actor Bill Nunn played Robbie Robertson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, and Lamorne Morris in the upcoming Spider-Noir.

Growing up in a working-class family and being a member of a racial minority, Robertson seemed to sympathize with the downtrodden, including Marvel Comics' mutants, and he preached tolerance.

He was forced to practice what he preached when his son came home from college with his white Jewish wife, Amanda.

[6] Robertson is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Bugle, the newspaper at which Peter Parker works and sells his photographs of Spider-Man.

[7] Robbie grew up in Harlem, and as a teenager was a classmate of Lonnie Thompson Lincoln, later infamous as the brutal hit man Tombstone.

Once again, Lincoln threatened Robertson, and the journalist fled to New York City and began working for the Bugle.

The judge, however, is on the Kingpin's payroll and circumstances lead to Robertson having to agree to serve 3 years himself for withholding evidence of the Philadelphia murder.

[13] He soon realizes that is not going to happen, particularly after learning the DB was indirectly responsible for the death of several people shown on their paper from one of their scandals[14] and resigns.

[16] During the later Goblin coup of New York, Ben attempts to arrange a meeting to talk Phil down and convince him to accept a cure for the Goblin formula, but when Robbie is discovered in the area, Phil believes that Ben was trying to set a trap and delivers a serious injury to Robbie before Spider-Man appears.

[17] Robbie Robertson later tells his employee Krys Crossman that his word game app has been removed from the Daily Bugle's website until it is debugged.

[19] In Spider-Man Noir: Eyes without a Face, Robbie is investigating the disappearances of African-Americans from Harlem, which leads him to accompany Peter Parker to meet Otto Octavius on Ellis Island.

This motivates Jameson to initiate "Project: Human Fly", an attempt to create a government controlled superhero.

He met Verna's servant Ms. Drew at the docks to delivery barrels full of wine for a grand feast that the Inheritors had prepared from their hunt on the Spider Totems.

[volume & issue needed] During the "Ultimate Invasion" storyline, Maker visited Earth-6160 and remade it into his own image.

Robbie Robertson is an employee at the Daily Bugle when J. Jonah Jameson and Ben Parker resign due to Wilson Fisk ordering them not to investigate Tony Stark's "attack".