Originally, III was intended to slip its chapters between what we‘d already seen in I and II, but DC editorial asked for big changes, both in format and content. Instead of four bookshelf volumes, as before, they asked for a twelve issue, standard half-tab format miniseries that took the story forward, up to and including the time of the Legion of Superheroes.

This presented one problem immediately, since those thousand years were poorly documented, so there were few opportunities for the storyline to cross with known events. This made the whole thing, I felt, inferior to the first two.

(Overall, perhaps the change was for the best, since one of the chapters I had planned was a very dark take on Captain Marvel.)

One of the worst things a writer can do is drag his/her own life into the characters. “Well, that’s not what I would do!”

One of the worst things a writer can do is drag his/her own life into the characters. “Well, that’s not what I would do!”"

And that's a great point, but I generally find it odd that most kid superheroes don't at least consider such actions and/or still bow to parent authority as that's not what most children would do. I get why they have the characters attending school and dealing with 'teenage' problems but it always seemed counterproductive for that characters goals to even be spending their time still at school. Billy Batson can literally channel massive amounts of knowledge and wisdom while transformed; he'd learn much less at school. 

I always greatly prefer the Robin's to not be at normal schools during their tenures and be educated by the rest of the Batfamily. Makes more logical sense to me. 

From a personal standpoint I had such negative experiences throughout school that I didn't even want them appearing in fictional stories. I've always preferred adult Spider-Man for that reason; the less time spend seeing a schoolroom or hallway the better.