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Nightwing. Art by Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, and Brad Walker. Nightwing is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The most prominent is Dick Grayson, who takes the name when he leaves his role as Batman 's partner and sidekick Robin in his adulthood.
Nightwing is a superhero legacy name associated with the planet Krypton and the Batman Family, usually working alongside a sidekick and partner named Flamebird. Originally it was an alias used by a mysterious Kryptonian figure, and later adopted by Superman and Van-Zee in the bottle city of...
Nightwing is the alter ego of Dick Grayson, a former acrobat and Robin to Batman. Learn about his origin, powers, allies, enemies and comics from the official DC website.
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Nightwing is a Batman-inspired superhero/vigilante alias in the DC universe which is most-notably used by Dick Grayson, the patron-vigilante of Blüdhaven and the original Robin. The name Nightwing is inspired by Superman's stories.
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- Nightwing's Titans Replace the Justice League. Nightwing’s most recent character-defining moment is probably one of his biggest, as in the pages of Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths, by Joshua Williams and Daniel Sampere, Dick not only triumphed over Deathstroke and Pariah’s Dark Army but was asked to replace the Justice League with his Titans team once the League realizes they are no longer needed.
- Nightwing Becomes a Billionaire. Following the tragic death of Alfred Pennyworth at the hands of Bane, Nightwing and the rest of the Bat-Family were still reeling from the loss of a man who was inarguably the heart and soul of the team, as well as a father figure to practically everyone involved.
- Nightwing Becomes A Multiversal Constant. Revealed in 2017’s Nightwing #9, by Tim Seeley and Marcio Takara, that Nightwing's goodness is a “multiversal constant” consistent across nearly all parallel earths, this hopeful trait defines the character almost as much as Superman’s “boy scout” depiction in comics.
- Dick Grayson Joins Spyral. With his identity revealed but his death as Nightwing still a thing, Dick, at the behest of Batman, uses this opportunity to go undercover at a covert espionage organization called Spyral.
Dick Grayson was an acrobatic prodigy and son of both John Grayson and Mary Grayson and was part of the family team known as the "Flying Graysons" with the traveling circus, Haly's Circus. Being one of the top acts in Haly's Circus, he was popular among the crowd, something in which quickly gone to his head.
DC Comics’ Nightwing—formerly Robin the Boy Wonder—toiled for forty years under the shadow of the Batman as comics’ premier sidekick. First appearing in April 1940 in Detective Comics #38, Dick Grayson, the junior member of the Flying Graysons circus family,
