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Becoming Batman’s protégé, Robin is an expert fighter and astounding acrobat—with the toughest example in the world to live up to. But the Boy Wonder’s true strength may lie in not being Batman—and providing a beacon of hope and family throughout the Dark Knight’s grim crusade.
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About a year after Batman 's debut, Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger introduced Robin the Boy Wonder in Detective Comics #38 (1940). The name "Robin the Boy Wonder" and the medieval look of the original costume were inspired by Robin Hood.
- His Origin
- His First Solo Feature
- Forming The Teen Titans
- Flying Off to Hudson University
- His Partnership (and Romance) with Barbara Gordon
- The New Teen Titans and Starfire
- Behold Nightwing!
- Becoming The Bat: Take One
- Blüdhaven
- Officer Grayson
Like any good retrospective, it’s important to start at the beginning. Let’s go back eighty years to Detective Comics #38and look at Dick Grayson’s origin. Most of us know the story—circus acrobat watches his parents die and is taken under Batman’s wing. He becomes Batman’s partner and stops his parents’ killer. The basic story beats are so timeles...
In 1949, Robin struck out on his own for the first time. Although Dick wouldn’t be ready to leave Batman for another few decades, the Boy Wonder got his first taste of solo success early in Star Spangled Comics. The anthology series featured Robin from Star Spangled Comics #65-#130. The stories featured Robin solving teenage-related crimes and figh...
Batman was responsible for making Dick Grayson into a hero, but the Teen Titans were responsible for making him into a leader. In The Brave and the Bold #54, Robin teamed up with Kid Flash and Aqualad to help a town deal with their generational divide and stop a villain called Mister Twister. The group reunited in The Brave and the Bold #60where th...
Some people have the idea that Bruce and Dick were inseparable until he graduated from Robin to Nightwing, but the shift actually began fifteen years earlier. In Batman #217,Dick Grayson, now a high school graduate, left Wayne Manor and took a cab to Hudson University. The new setup would change both heroes forever. While Robin had his Golden Age s...
Robin and Batgirl had teamed up before, but things took a turn in Batman Family #1. Dick was no longer a Boy Wonder, and was now a collegeman. During one of his school breaks, he served as an aide to the now Congresswoman Barbara Gordon. Of course, it wasn’t long before something happened that required them to go into battle as Robin and Batgirl, t...
In 1980, a new team of Teen Titans reunited and rocked the comic book industry to its core. The series was regularly a top seller and elevated the DC Universe to heights it had never seen before. The Teen Titans’ goofy Silver and Bronze Age adventures were left behind for more mature storytelling and a more serialized approach. These adventures wer...
This was the big moment, folks! After leaving the Robin identity behind in The New Teen Titans #39, Dick took a few months to consider what his next step was before he unveiled his Nightwing persona in Tales of the Teen Titans #44.This epic milestone happened during an iconic story called “The Judas Contract,” which marked the cumulation of the las...
They say we all become our parents one day, and in Dick’s case that meant taking on the Batman identity. In 1994, a storyline called “Prodigal” ran in all the Batman titles, which featured Dick Grayson becoming Batman while Bruce Wayne took off on a secret mission. Dick had been hurt ever since Bruce chose John Paul Valley to be the substitute Batm...
So, now that Nightwing was his own man, he needed his own place. After leaving the Titans, Dick Grayson fought crime around Gotham, but if we’re being honest that’s always been Batman’s city. How can Nightwing leave Bruce’s shadow when it extends over the entire city? All that changed in 1996 when Nightwing was given his own ongoing series for the ...
There’s more than one way to fight crime, and in 1999’s Nightwing #31,Dick Grayson decided to help Blüdhaven clean up their streets by joining the police academy. Blüdhaven was a town without a Jim Gordon, and the city’s police department was full of corruption. Dick decided to be the change he wanted to see, and before long he was patrolling the s...
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Richard John "Dick" Grayson was a former member of the Flying Graysons acrobatic act, vigilante known as Robin, and a former protégé of Batman. However, in 2000, while on a mission on behalf of his mentor, he was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Joker and Harley Quinn, who set him ablaze...
Jun 26, 2024 · Below is a list detailing all seven versions of Robin from DC's main universe, arranged chronologically based on their tenure as the Boy (or Girl) Wonder, starting from the first Robin, Dick Grayson, to the Robin of the future, Matt McGinnis.
Mar 5, 2020 · Robin, a.k.a. the Boy Wonder, celebrates his birthday this week: He made his debut in Detective Comics No. 38 on March 6, 1940, and he and Batman became nearly inseparable in the war on crime....
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In an old interview with Finger, who passed away in 1974, the scribe revealed the inspiration behind the boy sidekick. “Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob,” he said. “Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes.
