Powers: Nightwing was an acrobatic athlete, master martial artist, and skilled detective. Nightwing wore lightweight body armor, and was armed with Batarangs and Wing-Ding shurikens.

History: (Batman I #339 (fb)) - Dick Grayson grew up in Haly’s Circus, the son of aerialists the Flying Graysons Mary and John. The Graysons were supportive parents and trained their son from an early age to join them in their act. As an adolescent Dick witnessed his parents die, the victim of a protection racket that targeted Haly’s Circus and cut their ropes. Bruce Wayne was in the audience, and took Dick in, becoming his guardian, seeing himself in the boy because he’d lost his parents at an early age to crime too. He revealed his secret life as Batman to Dick and trained him to become his sidekick Robin.

(Detective Comics I #192) - The Phantom Eye interrupted television programming to present a live crime, bemoaning the fact that neither the Gotham police nor Batman were there to stop it. Commissioner Gordon and batman located the crime scene, but couldn't figure out how the Phantom Eye knew to film. The Eye interrupted several more broadcasts to present scenes of crime on the streets of Gotham. During one filming an imposter Batman arrived and was unmasked as big game hunter Byron King. Gordon and the police spoke to Byron, and gave him protection, fearing the underworld would make him and his son a target. The real Batman wasn't able to get close to them, and when the police saw him they thought he was an imposter come to kill King. Batman and Robin made several public appearances to prove the real deal, but each time the Phantom eye undermined them with footage of King acting as Batman. King moved his treasures from his mansion, saying he was relocating to hide his identity and protect his son. Batman realized he wasn't the real king when he referenced bagging a one-horned rhino in Africa, which Batman knew was native to India. The Dynamic duo stowed away on his boat, and "King" was revealed as the Phantom Eye, who'd cooked up the whole scheme to steal King's fortune and occupy Batman with proving his identity. Batman and Robin captured him, and freed the real King and his son, who were tied up in their basement.

(Batman I #81) - Batman and Robin ran into Mr. Camera, a crook using photographic equipment to commit crimes, but were unable to catch him on a number of occasions. He foresaw that Mr. Camera would try to steal a 3-D camera during a demonstration, and attended the event in his civilian identity. When Camera made his move Bruce and Dick changed into Batman and Robin in the alley behind the theatre, and followed Mr. Camera to his lair, apprehending him. Unfortunately for them Mr. Camera was fond of recording their crimes, and his goons had tipped him off that Batman and Robin came from the alley where he had one of his cameras set up. He knew they must have changed there, and said he'd hidden the film, but after getting out of prison and exposing it he'd expose their identities. Months went by without a word from Camera, but one day he sent a threatening note; he'd told a trusted prisoner the location of the filmn, and bragged that when his friend was released in a month he'd expose their identities. The Dynamic Duo had to get ahead of the story, so Dick revealed his identity to his classmates, changing into costume, and performing acrobatic tricks. The media hounded Bruce, who said Dick was only trying to impress a classmate he had a crush on, and said he'd prove he was not Batman. Alfred was supposed to dress up as Batman and meet Bruce for a press conference, but he broke his leg after falling in the snow, so Bruce appeared to the press and directed their attention to Batman and the Batplane on a roof, and had a civil conversation with the hero before he flew off. He'd pulled off the hoax by having Robin remote-control the Batplane while he used ventriloquism to "speak" to a snowman dressed up as Batman, and incinerating it with a thermal bomb before the Batplane took off. It turned out his scheme was for nothing because Mr. Camera's photos were badly underexposed.

(Detective Comics I #216) - Crooks committed several inside jobs, and Bruce and dick hoped the hospital charity event they were attending would be the next target. A large model of a proposed new hospital tumbled down the stairs, and Bruce grabbed it, wrenching his arm, and allowing the crooks to rob the event, but prevented anyone from getting hurt. Vicki Vale was covering the event for Vue, and Batman reviewed her photos, spotting banker Jackson Barrow pushing the model. He talked to Barrow, who had an alibi, and realized that mob makeup man Martin Weir was creating disguises to allow the robbers access to events. Vicki was determined to track down Weir with them, but Batman feared she'd see his arm in a sling and realize he was Bruce Wayne. He used a super-scientific radio from his hall of trophies given to him by the Batman of 3055 to contact the hero, who said he'd be happy to stand in for Batman while he healed, and offered to speed up the healing process with scientific massage. Batman 3055 almost rammed the Batmobile into a freight train because he assumed it was jet powered and could jump over the plane. Vicki joined their investigation, and Batman 3055 was a ladies man who enjoyed flirting with her, making her nervous. Robin had to keep distracting Vicki while he used futuristic devices like a jetpack and truth vapor to learn Weir's location. They captured Weir, and foiled the last job he set up, a racetrack robbery, but Vicki was absolutely convinced Batman was an imposter because he was an inch shorter than the Batman she knew. Batman, whose arm finally healed, switched places with Batman 3055 and showed Vicki he wore high leather soles when doing electrical experiments, explaining the disparity in height. Batman 3055 returned to the future, saying the past was too hectic for him.

(Detective Comics I #218) - Batman and Robin got a call when Dr. Richard Marsten was assaulted by evil ex-scientist Wilton Widers. Marsten had determined that human aging was due to various gases in the body, and had isolated both a youth gas and an age gas, and Winders had stolen his canisters for a criminal enterprise. The Dynamic Dupo burst in on Winders, who turned the gas on them. Robin aged 10 years, and Batman became a boy, forgetting the detective skills he'd learned in the past decade. Winders sold youth gas treatments to the wealthy without telling them about the memory loss, and Commissioner Gordon broadcast a warning about his scam. Robin, controlling Batman's youthful recklessness, much as his mentor had once done for him, found Winders on the set of a Roman epic, trying to sell his gas to star Vincent Verne. He aged charioteers in a racing scene, causing them to lose control of their horses, and slipped away in the confusion. Batman and Robin pursued him to a train station, where Winders had aged himself to evade detection, but the heroes recognized him by his ears, which never changed during a person's life. they arrested him, and used some of the last of the gas to return to their normal ages.

(Batman I #96) - King Eric of Norania visited Gotham City along with Chancellor Zarits and Count Viras to make a speech in hopes of securing a badly needed loan for his country. Commissioner Gordon assigned Batman to protect him, and Batman foiled an attempt by hardened crook Mayne Malan and his gang to steal the Norania crown jewels. Batman suggested he and King Eric switch places during the public reception to keep the jewels safe and Eric was exhilarated at the thought of getting to be Batman for a day. After the reception Eric asked Batman if they could keep up the charade until his speech because he was having the time of his life. Batman discovered that the crown jewels were fakes, but after questioning Zarits and Viras he was convinced they were innocent and puzzled over when they could have been substituted for the genuine articles. Commissioner Gordon informed “Batman” and Robin that Mayne had been spotted at a helicopter factory, and “Batman” was eager to go after him even though Robin tried to dissuade him. The crooks made off with a helicopter when they trapped “Batman” in a wind tunnel, forcing Robin to save him. Eric, still too excited to return to his role as king, allowed Batman to give a speech at the Television City studio as him asking for a loan from America. Mayne and his men had snuck the helicopter into Television City’s prop lot and tried to get the jewels, but were foiled by Batman and Robin, who kept the king from being harmed. King Eric finally agreed to stop posing as Batman, and thanked the Caped Crusader for a wonderful speech that secured his country’s loan. As Batman suspected King Eric was the one who switched out the crown jewels for fakes, intending on using them for security in case his request for a loan was denied.

(Detective Comics I #231) - Batman and Robin saw a news report about Birrel Binter's prison break, and Batman said he had to take care of him, but told Robin to stay in the Batcave because it was a personal case. Robin was hurt, and when Batman left his personal files open Robin snuck a look at a picture of Batman with a young man dressed as him named Batman, Junior. Robin was shocked to think he wasn't Batman's first partner, and finding that Junior's real name was John Vance, decided to track him down, worried that he could reveal Batman's identity. Binter was in Vance's apartment, and Robin's appearance spooked him. Batman chided him, saying he'd set a trap for the crook with Vance. Vance and the Dynamic duo pursued Binter to his hideout in old movie prop warehouse, and engaged in a battle with his gang using props of a mechanical dragon and a Trojan horse. The gang was rounded up, but Binter again made his escape, and Robin was jealous of Vance, thinking batman preferred crimefighting with him, especially when he told Robin to go home and get some sleep. Robin's research found that Vance was a submarine engineer, and went to his job, boarding the sub, where Binter got the drop on him. Vance also appeared, and Binter said he'd sink the sub and drown them unless one of Batman's partners revealed his secret identity. "Vance" turned out to be Batman in disguise, and they freed themselves by prying open one of the sub's plates and captured Binter. Robin feared this would be his last case because of his botches, and accused Batman of liking Vance more than him. Batman revealed that early in his career he met a young boy who'd seen Binter's robbery, and dressed him up as Batman, Junior so he could lead him to Binter without Binter knowing the boy's real identity. Junior was an athlete and helped him round up Binter's gang, but that was their only case together. Batman said there was only one Robin.

(Batman I #107) - Batman and Robin attended an Ice Capers show they were set to appear at as celebrity guests. Robin was smitten with young star Vera Lovely, and when her stunt of jumping throw a ring of fire went awry he saved her, earning a kiss. A photographer took a picture, but Batman noticed he forgot to take off his lens cap, making him suspicious. Robin and Vera went on a few dates, and his mind was clearly no longer on crimefighting. Ver'as manager Paul Garvey wanted to break them up so Vera could date Hollywood star Roddy Dale, which would give her more exposure, and convinced Vera and Robin that the other one had broken plans for a date. The teens were both so sore that they refused to call each other, but Batman and Robin still showed up for their guest spot. The photog was there, and won an auction for Vera's skates, but Batman recognized him as the criminal Ben Keefe. He'd stolen the loot from his last job in the skates, so he needed to win the auction, and the Dynamic Duo apprehended him. Robin said he was over girls and would stick with busting crime.

(Batman I #111) - The Gotham City Hall of Fame dedicated a bust to Batman, and Vicki Vale covered the story, taking photographs. The ceremony was interrupted by Blair Graeme, who told the crowd that he was after Batman and wanted Vicki to pass on the message. Vicki told Batman and Robin about Graeme and the seemed to be panicked, returning to the Batcave and showing up again wearing k night’s armor saying they needed it for protection against a most dangerous foe. They saved a construction worker form falling off the Barton Building construction site and apprehended fugitive John Marrow, who’d let lions loose at the Gotham Zoo. Their armor encumbered them, but they still found a way to save the day. Vicki dug into who Graeme was, and wondered if he was involved in a recent case where Batman and Robin responded to a robbery of the Gotham Scientific Foundation. Vicki got suspicious when she told Batman she was hot on Graeme’s trail and he insisted that neither she nor the GCPD could catch him and shouldn’t bother trying. Vicki said she knew Batman never believed she had a talent for detective work, but she was determined to crack the case. Batman and Robin found the thieves who robbed the Scientific Foundation hiding in a waterfront warehouse. When confronted the thieves opened the lead vault they were keeping the radioactive atomic fuel they’d stolen, hoping to kill the Dynamic Duo with radiation poisoning. The heroes stripped off their armor to reveal radiation-proof suits underneath and mopped up the crooks. Afterwards Vicki Vale met with Batman, Robin and Commissioner Gordon. Gordon admitted he’d kept details of the Scientific Foundation robbery from the public so as to not cause a panic about radioactive fuel being loose in the city. As Vicki suspected Blair Graeme wasn’t a real crook, he was just Batman in disguise. Batman concocted the ruse as an excuse to wear armor so the atomic thieves wouldn’t suspect he was wearing a radiation-proof suit. He congratulated Vicki on her detective work and said he wouldn’t ever doubt her detective abilities again.

(Detective Comics I #253) - Commissioner Gordon, Batman and Robin responded when an earthquake shook the Gotham bank, and the culprits were the Terrible Trio, who used a boring machine to tunnel underneath the bank. The Dynamic Duo pursued them into their getaway tunnel, but they set off a bomb, causing a cave-in that blocked the heroes' path. Vulture of the Trio next robbed the Freedom Plane containing historical treasures, and parachuted to safety. Batman and Robin saw Vulture ready to hop into the tunneling machine, and destroyed the storefront of a bottling plant, making the sound of gunfire, and scaring the Trio away. Using the Batmobile's sonic range tracker they followed the machine to the Trio's lighthouse headquarters. The S.S. Cairo was scheduled to pass by the lighthouse on its way to delivering treasures from Cairo, and Batman deduced that was the next place the Trio would strike, and asked for Gordon's help setting up a trap. Trio member Shark used his pilot fish ship to latch onto the Cairo, opening a hole in it for the Trio to enter and steal the goods within. They brought their treasure back to their hideout, but Batman and Robin had disguised themselves as mummies, and after ripping off their wrappings they made short work of the Trio.

(Detective Comics I #264) - Batman and Robin were invited to preview Playland Isle, an amusement park built by wealthy philanthropist Charles Barden on an island off Gotham. Barden grew up poor, and wanted to provide the kind of fun he never had to the children of Gotham for free. Batman toured the park, and Pete Conn, a retired circus owner who Barden bought the park equipment from, told him Barden needed him in the funhouse. Upon their arrival they found Barden shot dead, and Batman and robin were attacked by a man in a playhouse pirate outfit, who eluded them in the hall of mirrors. Batman suspected everyone on the island, including Barden's daughter Edith and her fiancee Macklin, his spendthrift nephew Wilton, and his former business partner Carter. The pirate reappeared, chasing Conn, and leading the dynamic Duo on a chase on a roller coaster and Ferris wheel. Conn revealed that Barden had found a diamond necklace in the funhouse, which is why the pirate shot him. The stress was too much for Barden, whose heart gave out. After another chase through the tunnel of fear Batman figured out that Carter was the villain. He ran a robbery ring and hid his goods in Conn's amusement park, but one day discovered the park moved to Playland Isle, and killed Barden to protect his secret. Carter went to jail, and Batman and Robin were pleased to see Barden's dream come true with the opening of the park.

(Detective Comics I #265) - Batman and Robin dedicated a Batman statue in the park when the criminal Clock appeared, destroying the statue with time-release acid package. He promised Batman's life would be over at 3 o'clock. Batman recognized him as Kyle, a robber and the first person he ever arrested as Batman. Kyle was dedicated to taking away Batman's life since he'd taken away years from his. The Dynamic Duo failed at stopping him from stealing valuable watch screws from a watch company, but recovered his wristwatch tracked him to a flour mill. The Clock captured them and tied up Batman to an exploding clock. Batman shattered the wristwatch and used the broken glass to free himself. Batman and Robin caught up with him at a watch expo, and knocked him into the gears of a giant replica watch. Clock went to jail, and Batman gloated that he'd been put in a cell facing a clock so he could see how long he was in prison.

(Batman I #125) - With the help of their friend Professor Nichols, Batman and Robin traveled to 17th Century Venice to prove the authenticity of a painting by Vermillo, clearing the name of a museum curator charged with buying a forged painting. The time machine brought batman back to the present, but Robin was shunted 3 days into the future, and saw a newspaper headline announcing that Batman had died protecting him in Bay City. Back in his own present Robin convinced Batman to go on vacation with him for a few days, but they had to cancel their plans when international jewel thief El Bolo came to Gotham. Bolo Batman and Robin, but they found colored sawdust from his shoes, and realized he was hiding out at the Clay Brothers' circus in Bay City. Robin was nervous about going to Bay City, but refused to explain himself to Batman. El Bolo was performing at the circus as Senor Lopez, and the sight of the Dynamic duo forced him to flee. He drove off, and pushed his car off a cliff to convince them he was dead, but Batman was not fooled. Robin saw Bolo atop a TV tower, and climbed it, hoping to defeat him before Batman put his life at risk, but El bolo tied him up. Batman swung in on a batline, and El bolo cut it, seemingly causing him to plummet to his death. "Batman" was actually a dummy used to distract the thief, and the real Batman got the drop on him. Robin fessed up as to why he was so nervous, and realized the press had seen the dummy fall, and had already rushed a story of Batman's death to the papers.

(Detective Comics I #281) - Batman caught up with the notorious Night Owl Gang as their leader Number One prepared to show them where he'd his their loot. Batman unmasked Number One and Number Two, but they escaped when a stray swordfish prop pinned Batman's cape to the floor. Batman's ID of Number Two as Wedge Dixon led to his arrest, but Number One told him that since Batman was the only witness he could kill him while out on bail and the state would have no evidence against him. The Night Owls lured Batman and Robin to an abandoned mine, and dynamited it. The Night Owls hoped Batman was dead, but he returned to the scene two days later. Two suspected Batman was dead and a robot had taken his place due to underworld rumors about Batman's halting movement and speech. He tipped off the police to a Gorman Gang robbery, and saw for himself that Batman was a robot. At Two's trial his judge exposed Batman with an x-ray and Two was freed. Robin announced Batman's death to the press, but the whole story was a hoax designed to find out the Night Owl's treasure cache. Batman had survived the cave-in by diving into a mine shaft, and after Two was freed Batman knocked him unconscious and disguised himself as him. Number One led Two to the hidden loot, and Batman revealed his identity, quickly rounding up the gang with Robin. With evidence from the stolen goods the entire gang could be charged for a host of crimes.

(Batman I #137) - Batman and Robin were prepared to bust up a cargo plane robbery when the new crimefighter Mr. Marvel appeared and apprehended the criminals with his futuristic ray-gun. He talked to the press about his fabulous inventions, and how he considered Batman's fisticuffs an outmoded way of crimefighting. As Mr. Marvel continued to clean up crime Robin expressed an unexpected desire to leave Batman, and become his sidekick, saying Mr. Marvel could teach him more. Batman was heartbroken, and his heart was no longer in crimefighting. He followed Batman and Mr. Marvel to a train robbery, and Robin turned against his mentor, knocking him out with a punch. Batman helped Robin clear out the crooks, and Robin explained that Mr. Marvel had threatened to kill Batman if he didn't become his partner. Mr. Marvel was unmasked as an alien, and he explained that he was a space explorer who'd witnessed the Dynamic duo in action. His co-pilot bet him he couldn't bust up the crimefighting friends, so he fabricated the identity of Mr. Marvel to win the bet. Batman chided him for causing such emotional turmoil over a lousy bet, and the alien flew off-planet.

(Detective Comics I #294) - Batman and Robin dropped by Professor Higgins to see his latest invention when they heard a commotion, and saw his lab assistant John Dolan run from the house. Higgins told the heroes that he'd invented a element-convertor, but after Dolan was accidentally exposed to it he gained the power to transform into any element. The change had turned him criminally insane, and when Higgins tried to cure him he struck him and fled. Dolan, now calling himself Elemental Man, assembled a gang, and robbed a beauty contest at a luxury pool. Batman tried to apprehend him, but Elemental Man turned to lead and easily overpowered him. Higgins invented a machine to draw off Elemental Man's power, and lured him to the science museum with an planted story about a radium exhibit. The machine conked out, failing to drain off his power, but turning Batman into an elemental man. Batman and Commissioner Gordon came up with a scheme to get close to Elemental Man; after Gordon arrested Batman, saying he feared him going criminally insane, he escaped, and convinced Elemental Man he'd make a great partner in crime. Batman lead him to a jewelry store, and while they were both lead grasped his hand. Higgins was waiting with his rebuilt machine that used the circuit formed to cure both elemental Man and Batman. Dolan, no longer criminally insane, helped Batman round up his gang.

(Batman I #150) - Batman and Robin pursued criminal Biff Warner to Yucatan in their Batplane, but when a storm came in they separated in their whirley-bats. When Batman landed he saw Robin's whirley-bat a wreck. It had been hit by lightning, rendering Robin amnesiatic and giving him super-strength. Warner discovered him, and disguised as a tribesman named Ko-Ti he told Robin and the village elders that Batman had stolen the emeralds from their sacred statue. Proclaiming Robin a god, over objections of the elders, he tried to capture Batman, who was forced to flee when Robin swung a tree at him. Ko-Ti had Robin smash the local temple, and took him into the mountains under the pretense of bringing back stone for a new one, but he actually intended to have Robin dig up valuable gold for him. Those loyal to the chief tried to kill Robin with a spear, but Batman saved him. Robin's memory returned and his super-strength faded, and they captured Ko-Ti and made amends to the chief.

(Batman I #156) - Batman told Robin he'd be away on a top-secret mission, so Robin was in charge. Robin attended a school fundraiser, and when the Brady Brothers tried to rob it, he foiled them with help from Ant-Man, a new miniature superhero. The next day a boy brought a miniature deer to the biology teacher, and believing it to be connected to Ant-Man he remembered that Professor Hanson was conducting research into a shrinking formula. He had Ace the Bat-Hound follow the deer's trail, but Hanson's lab was locked tight. Ant-Man sent him a note about a jewelry robbery going down, and Robin helped him catch gangster Al Welles. Welles and the Brady's were accused of killing former ally Jumbo Carson, and with them captured Ant-Man opened a safe-door onto Robin's knees and ran off with jewels. Robin figured out that Ant-Man was Jumbo posing as a superhero to get his revenge, and after meeting Hanson learned that Jumbo had accidentally been exposed to runoff from his lab. Robin planted a story about Hanson having discovered a antidote, and apprehended Ant-Man when he showed up at the lab.

(Batman I #156) - Batman went on a top-secret mission for the government, being put in a simulated spaceflight to see the effects on a space travelers nervous system, and to see how long a person could take the isolation before they started hallucinating. His mind eventually went and he believed he'd arrived on an alien landscape with threatening extraterrestrial plants. He had a vision of Robin saving him, but they were confronted by an animated stone giant who threw a boulder, causing Robin to fall to his death. In despair he buried Robin, but lost the will to live when confronted by a beats with huge glowing eyes. The scientists saw his readings fluctuate and unplugged him. Batman was still convinced that Robin would die at dawn if he didn't do something. The Dynamic Dup confronted the Gorilla Gang, but Batman kept hallucinating, putting them in danger, and allowing the gang to escape. Batman told Robin that he was too mentally ill to continue crimefighting, and hung up his cape. Robin visited the space scientists, who assured him Batman would recover, but it would take time. Commissioner Gordon called Batman to tell him Robin had been abducted by the Gorilla Gang, and he used Ace the bat-Hound to track them down. He overcame his hallucinations to save robin's life, and was cured.

(Batman I #165) - Batman met with Governor Warner, who learned that he was a mutant, and his powers were emerging. Scientists were going to speed up his mutation with radioactivity, and he wanted Batman and Robin to be present if he got out of hand. Warner became the mutant Future-Manm and saw himself above Homo sapiens, attacking the scientists, and teleporting away. Batman and Robin pursued him to a nuclear lab, where he intended to expose himself to more radiation to reach the full potential of his powers. He put up a forcefield that no organic matter could touch between him and the Dynamic Duo, and bathed himself in radioactivity. Batman escaped by covering his face with his cowl, and placed a chest inside the forcefield so he could drag Robin out. Bruce had roomed with Warner in college, and the human part of his brain used telepathy to give Batman subtle clues about how to defeat him. Batman shined light through gold leaf, creating a green light that disabled the Future-Man. Future-Man was placed into suspended animation, and sent up in a rocket to orbit the sun until the day came when all humanity would be advanced powerful telepaths.

(Batman I #165) - Commissioner Gordon had Batman speak to the police academy graduating class, and introduced him to Pat Powell, the first officer to graduate having top scores in academics, physical, firearms, and overall. Pat was excited to carry on in the footsteps of her father, Lt. "Bulldog" Powell, but confessed to Batman that she was often distracted by thoughts of her crush Bruce Wayne. She said she first met him in college when she was on a sorority scavenger hunt, and later at a aqualung and masquerade party. Batman mused to himself that he didn't recognize her because she was always masked, and now he was the one in disguise. Batman wanted to go with Pat on her first case, the kidnapping of Prof. Ralph Smedley. They found his tape-recorder that indicated he was abducted by thieves who wanted his new experimental explosive. They took him to the Northside Chemical Plant, and Robin deduced that the chemicals he ordered didn't make sense, but they did spell out Pt. Safety. At the safety lighthouse Batman and Powell rescued Smedley, and Bruce Wayne later invited her to a ball so he could finally spend time with her as himself.

(Batman I #166) - Batman told Robin he had a recurring nightmare about being trapped in a double death-trap, a concrete bunker flooding with water while an automated machine gun sprayed bullets at the top of the room. Crook Mitch had his hideout in a cavern, and an echo chamber in the walls let him hear Batman's conversation in the Batcave miles away. He got his friend Benny to put his restaurant on the line to raise 5 grand, and they used the money to bet mobster Big Joe that they had a trap that could kill the Caped Crusader. Batman went out on patrol without Robin, who he encouraged to go to his high school dance and basketball game to show school spirit. Batman was lured into Benny's restaurant where the deathtrap of his nightmares awaited him. As the room filled up with water he used the machine gun's spent shells to jam it, and the vibrations opened a hole in the concrete bunker, allowing him to escape and capture the crooks. Batman told Robin about his brush with death, and he realized how capable he was of being an escape-artist when he wasn't asleep.

(Batman I #166) - The charity ball where Bruce was supposed to be introduced to Pat Powell was broken up by a masked man and his gang, who were dressed as caterers. They had explosives placed around Wayne Manor, and after the crooks made off with the guests goods the explosives deactivated. Bruce Wayne talked to his caterer, who said Wayne had cancelled the catering job days earlier. Bruce asked him if he remembered any details of the phone call, and he heard a train whistle and a clock strike three when it was four o'clock. Batman called Gordon with the clues, and he found that the suburbs of Plainview had a train crossing and a clocktower on Eastern Standard Time. Batman and Robin knew the fake caterers needed to bring their own food, and after talking to a local grocer who'd recently gotten a big order got their location. They found the crooks hideout abandoned, but Pat and her father were being held in the closet. Pat had deduced the location on her own by noting the expensive clothing the masked man was wearing, and tracked him down after talking to all the Gotham vendors of exclusive imports. The crooks put her in the closet, but she'd already placed a transmitter on their car. The Dynamic Duo and the Powells tracked the crooks down to an oil production plant, and brought them to justice. Bruce went to the GCPD station to get his stolen merchandise returned, and Pat was there to return it, eager for their introduction.

(Batman I #167) - Batman met with an Interpol informant at Gotham's airport, but he was shot after debarking. With his dying breathe he told Batman about a madman named Karabi, who planned to set two Asian countries against each other, starting a new world war. The CIA were informed, and met with Batman and Commissioner Gordon. They knew Karabi might change his headquarters if he knew Interpol was on to him, so Gordon called a press conference announcing that Batman and Robin blamed the crime cartel Hydra for the agents death, and vowed to travel the world to clean them up. Hydra made a good smokescreen, because their recent activities were a good target for the Caped Crusader. With Interpol's aid and intel Batman and Robin went to Holland to bust up a Hydra den operating out of a windmill, Hydra counterfeiters in Greece, and another group in France. Using the Batplane for rapid travel Batman visited various Asian countries, playing a spy game with Interpol to learn Karabi's plan. Karabi had a nuclear missile, and planned on launching it at an Asian country, assuming they'd blame their political rival and engage in a war that would drag in the rest of the world. Batman and Robin went to Karabi's Asian temple fortress, but were captured. Karabi put Batman in a cell with a clock, telling him that when it approached zero hour he would launch his weapon and his men would shoot Batman. Batman lured his guards into his cell with a story about how Karabi's plan was flawed, and he set the clock to ring, distracting the guards so he could escape. He freed Robin from his cell, and stopped Karabi's insane plan in the nick of time. Karabi's notes indicated that he'd moved his wealth from a Swiss bank account because Hydra was planning on robbing it. Batman and Robin flew to Switzerland, and captured the head of Hydra, crippling their criminal enterprise.

(Batman I #168) - Bruce and Dick watched a circus parade, and Dick was excited to see the circus strongman Mr. Mammoth perform that night at a charity event for the PAL. Mammoth told his manager he couldn't perform, and wouldn't explain why. Commissioner Gordon told him Batman was planning on being at the event, and Mammoth said Batman might be able to help him with his problem. Mammoth told Batman he had fits of uncontrollable rage that had begun once he entered Gotham City, but he couldn't figure out his trigger. Batman and Robin investigated every place Mammoth had been since arriving in town, and realized the common denominator was radios playing the station WGC. Batman returned to Mammoth to share the information, but the radio in the strongman's room threw him into another fit. Batman battled him until he calmed down, and had WGC change the musical key of their call letters so Mammoth wouldn't be triggered. Batman attended Mammoth's charity event, telling him he could seek medical help after performing for the children.

(Batman I #168) - Batman, Commissioner Gordon, and the rest of the Mystery analysts Club met at their estate. A tape recording awaited them, and a distorted voice claiming to be one of the members said that he'd only joined the club to commit the perfect crime, and dared them to solve the theft of the famous Kashpur Diamond. Batman hung back from the investigation, busting up a gold smuggling ring with Robin. At the next meeting Batman compared the club's verbal reports with their written ones, knowing the criminal would be practicing his script. The only speech to completely match the written report was the one given by Prof. Ralph Vern, so Batman, needing proof of the crime, investigated his background and found he'd spent time in Tibert, the country of origin of the diamond. Batman and Robin went to Tibet, locating the temple where the Kashpur was originally kept, and found that a lens light bounced off the diamond would hypnotize anyone present. Back in Gotham Batman showed the trick on the supposed imitation diamond that the criminal switched for the real one, and the Club were put in a trance. Batman figured out that Vern hadn't actually stolen the diamond until the Club's investigation began.

(Batman I #169) - Penguin was released from prison, and wracked his mind for a scheme worthy of his criminal genius. He decided that he'd bait Batman into coming up with a crime for him, so he gave away weaponized umbrellas to customers of a jewelry store and a bank, and although they caused chaos he didn't rob either target. He then released a giant umbrella that blotted out the sun over Gotham Square. Batman and Robin paid him a visit at his umbrella shop, and he said he merely sold umbrellas, so he couldn't be responsible for what happened to them after they left his shop. He also switched his monocle to his left eye to mess with the Dynamic Duo, who rightfully suspected he was up to something. Penguin later released a multicolored glowing umbrella, and Batman thought it was a clue indicating that Penguin was going to rob the jeweled meteorite from the museum. Batman figured that the easiest way to avoid security would be to open up a hole in the museum's roof and use an extendable umbrella to steal the meteorite. When they'd visited Penguin he'd placed microphone transistors on them, and went out with his gang to commit the crime Batman came up with. He used a magnet to temporarily immobilize Batman and Robin, but they freed themselves as Penguin zoomed off with the meteor on a jet-umbrella. Batman and Robin took his goons jet-umbrellas, and ran him down. Penguin was back behind bars, but felt he'd won a minor victory when Batman still hadn't figured out his monocle angle, and would be taking it home to analyze it.

(Batman I #170) - Batman and Robin spotted thieves who'd robbed a factory payroll, and pursued them across rooftops, but when their batropes latched onto a roof's pipes the pipes bent, delaying them long enough for the crooks to get away. Batman studied the pipes and realized they'd been rigged to bend. They caught up with the crooks again after a department store robbery, but their car fired oil slicks that caused the Batmobile to crash. Batman realized the crooks had fool-proof getaways, and never tried to eliminate the Dynamic Duo, so they'd have to make themselves irresistable targets. With the help of the press Batman fabricated the villain Hexer, who vowed to use the bat-signal to eliminate Batman. The Duo caught the crooks robbing expensive chess pieces and when the bat-signal appeared in the sky their emblims stretched and straigh-jacketed them. The criminals couldn't resist moving in for the kill, but Batman and Robin used their judo skills to disarm them. They revealed that their emblems were rigged to inflate with the push of a button, and the thieves, angry at their capture, ratted out their boss the Getaway Genius, who'd warned them never to go after Batman and Robin. Batman caught the Getaway Genius preparing to skip town, and apprehended him.

(Batman I #170) - Aunt Harriet asked Bruce and dick to look into a mystery; her friend Mrs. Tompkins had won a soap company jingle contest even though she'd never entered it. Bruce wondered if Aunt Harriet was onto their secret identities, but that would have to wait until they solved the mystery. They met Tompkins, who had brand new appliances, and visited the soap company, learning the postmark was from Hillvale. Stilts and his gang thought Batman was investigated them, and lobbed a grenade at the Batmobile. They used a bulldozer to push the Dynamic Duo towards a clifface, but they were the nearby abandoned Anchor Restaurant, and Batman grabbed the oversized storefront anchor, cleanly cleaving the water when they jumped off the cliff. One of the crooks left behind his watch, and Batman found traces of animal hairs in it, leading him to the riverboat Cap'N Ben's Wild Animal Act. They apprehended the criminals, who used the showboat to move towns during shows and move on. They found a sack of stolen Hillvale mail, with a letter to Tompkins from James Statten. They brought the two together, and Statten, a poor college student, entered and won the contest for Tompkins because she'd nursed him to health after a serious illness. Harriet was happy to hear form Tompkins that the mystery had been solved, but told Bruce she wanted him to solve the case, not Batman.

(Batman I #171) - Riddler was paroled and told Batman and Robin he'd gone straight, offering to help them capture the Molehill Gang who'd been foiling them. Batman was suspicious about Riddler changing his nature, but accepted his aid anyway. The Molehill Gang operated out of the sewers, popping out of manholes for robberies, and then escaping into the winding tunnels beneath the city. Riddler learned their location from his jailhouse friends, and led the Dynamic Duo to their lair. The gang's lair was rigged with spring-loaded manholes and cables, but the heroes overcame them and apprehended the crooks. Two days later Batman and Robin were honored guests at the Police Athletic League picnic, and in their picnic basked Riddler left a clue, "What's the longest word in the world," and the solution was "smile" because there was a mile between the first and last letters. Batman deduced that Riddler had returned to a life of crime, and was going to rob millionaire "Smiles" Dawson. They saw Riddler running away from "Smiles" yacht with the prized black pearl of the Pacific, and when they tried to apprehend him his trunk popped out puzzle pieces that entangled them. They did catch Riddler, but it turned out he'd bought the black pearl fair and square with his uncle Edward's inheritance. "Smiles" had a riddle left behind by Riddler, "Why is an orange like a bell?", and Batman came up with the answer both must be peeled / pealed. He figured Riddler would target the Peale art gallery, and saw Riddler holding a gun to Peale, taking an ivory-and-ruby cross. The gun turned out to be a lighter, and the cross another purchase, but Riddler told them he'd already given them a clue as to what his master plan was. Robin guessed that the purchased items were black, white, and red, which referenced the riddle whose answer was "a newspaper." Batman figured out that that answer was too obvious for the Riddler, and because the pearl was shaped like an "O" and the cross like an "X" he'd try to rob the Western-themed Ox Club. Riddler was indeed casing the joint, revealing that he only pretended to be a changed man to keep Batman guessing, and he'd only helped catch the Molehill Gang so the Dynamic Duo could focus all their attention on him. He activated his costume's defenses, and it shocked the heroes to the touch. Batman and Robin struck his head, causing him to spin like a top, but not injuring him. Batman realized he'd turned on the defnses by pressing one of the question marks on his costume, so Batman pressed it again to deactivate the defenses, and knocked Riddler down with one punch.

(Batman I #172) - The curator of the Gotham City Museum came to Commissioner Gordon with an unusual case. The museum was displaying 800 year old suits of armor, and 800 year old black opals. Legend had it the knights were sworn to destroy the opals for the Duke of Durnham, but died when the castle the jewels were in collapsed. The night guard noticed the suits being moved overnight, and claimed that one of the suits of armor moved towards him and knocked him out. Gordon called Batman on the hotline, and Batman reasoned that there had to be a scientific explanation. Batman and Robin arrived at the museum after-hours, and the suits attacked them. Batman saw there was noone inside the suits, and the Duo were soon knocked out. When they recovered the opals appeared to have been smashed. Batman concluded that magnets made the suits move, and used a magnetometer to find the source. The guard Jenkins and his brother were behind the scheme, stealing the opals and leaving behind shattered copies, hoping Batman would think the legendary knights had finished their mission. Batman apprehended them, and the opals were restored to the museum.

(Batman I #172) - Robin studied for his physics test, and then took a look at Batman's latest invention, flying television camera that could patrol large areas of Gotham. The cameras caught the Flower Gang using the volatile oils of the Dittany plant to break into the Morrow Art Gallery. Batman got an emergency signal from the JLofA, and Robin said he'd handle the case. He soon arrived at the gallery, but the crooks had several hallucinogenic plants set up to disorient him, so he fought mirages of the criminals. By the time he regained his senses he found the crooks fleeing beneath the Gotham docks. The trapdoor they closed behind was too heavy for him to lift, so using his recently acquired physics knowledge he set up a boom-and-tackle to open it. He pursued them to a seaside hideout, and again using physics, set up a pendulum to smash a rock through their window as he charged them so they'd think Batman was with them. Batman captured two of the crooks, and the third fled to their greenhouse. Robin suspected danger, so he held his breathe before capturing the criminal, which was wise because the greenhouse was filled with plants that gave off poisonous gas. Robin reported his success to Batman, proud of his school lessons making him a better crimefighter.

(Batman I #173) - Commissioner Gordon got a tip about Mr. Incognito's location, and led Batman, Robin and the GCPD on a raid. They captured Incognito's underlings, but the criminal mastermind slipped away into Gotham's sewars. Photographer Elwood Person was at the scene, and he offered the mayor the secret of Incognito's real identity for one million dollars. He'd developed a special film that could penetrate clothing, so his picture of Incognito showed him unmasked. The mayor was skeptical, and Batman and Robin investigated Pearson. They found him in his photo shop with Mr. Incognito, he had a picture of the Dynamic Duo in their secret identities, and was willing to sell it to Incognito. Batman and Robin took out Mr. Incognito, and Pearson fired at them, so they apprehended him as well. They destroyed the photo revealing their secret identities, and hoped Pearson would not recognize their faces out of the millions of people in Gotham.

(Batman I #173) - The DA contacted Batman and Robin when gangster Bunky Galliver was found not guilty despite an airtight case. He was suspicious because Franklin Knott, candidate for governor, was present at the trial, as well as three other recent trials where clearly guilty criminals were set free. Batman attended a Knott rally, finding nothing special about him, but feeling a need to vote for him. Robin shadowed Bunky, knowing he'd return to his old ways, and found out that he was planning on robbing the Keller mansion with his gang. Batman and Robin caught Bunky in the act, and he was sent back to jail. In the course of his investigation Batman learned that Knott once worked as a lab assistant for Dr. John Grover, and they paid the doctor a visit. Grover said that he used to research epsilon radiation, and that negative e-rays made lab mice behavior was reversed, and positive e-rays made mice susceptible to following orders. Batman theorized that Knott was using the e-rays for his own end on people, and he wa sproved right when Knott, who'd heard Batman was snooping around about him, arrived and bathed all three of them in e-rays. He ordered Grover and the Dynamic Duo to walk straight into Pima Lake. They couldn't fight the programming, and almost drowned, but Batman remembered that under the influence of e-rays Knott told him to vote for him, so he willed himself to save Grover and Robin so he could vote for Knott. Batman apprehended Knott, and top scientists found a way to counter the e-ray effect.

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(Batman I #174) - Robin caught up Batman with his latest Teen Titans case, and Batman told him about his recent encounter with B.G. Hunter.

(Batman I #174) - Batman and Robin were tracking the Islip Gang, and Robin found them first, leaving behind chemical footprints only batman could see with special contact lenses for him to follow. They wrapped up the fight quickly, and Batman told Robin to take them to the police, because he had his monthly meeting with the Mystery Analysts of Gotham City.

(Detective Comics I #344) - Batman and Robin made their nightime rounds and met “Apple Alice” who always had an apple for the Boy Wonder. That night she seemed fearful and hesitant about giving Robin the apple and Batman noticed a menacing man watching her from the shadows. Batman told Robin to only feign taking a bite and then pretend to be poisoned. Batman made a ruse of rushing Robin to the hospital in the Batmobile before going back to shadow the menacing man, following him back to his apartment. Batman lowered himself from the roof with his batrope and heard the man tell his associate Batman was at the hospital with Robin, so he could go ahead with his caper. The associate and his gang drove off, with Robin tagging along by hiding inside the truck. The crooks pulled over and dragged Robin out, saying their boss knew Batman and Robin were faking. The boss introduced himself to Batman as Johnny Witts, bragging about how he would always stay a step ahead of the Caped Crusader and told him he had a man on the roof ready to cut the batrope. Batman swung into the apartment, chasing Witts, who slammed a door ahead of him. Batman rushed in to find an elevator shaft, and nearly fell to his death. Witts had escaped through a trapdoor in the ceiling and made it clear he could have killed batman if he’d felt like it. Batman and Robin met back at the Batcave and determined that “Aple Alice” was actually wanted criminal Flo Murcell and had an outfit she ordered from a fashion salon bugged. They tailed her all day until she met Johnny Witts and his gang at his brownstone that night. Witts said he knew Batman and Robin were there, and that Flo was a decoy, because with them busy tailing her his gang was free to pull off a robbery. Flo had already removed the bugging device, but Batman was two steps ahead and had his own bugging device he used to signal the GCPD. Witts’ gang rushed Batman and robin, intending to use them as hostages, but Johnny assured them their plan was flawed. He tried to think of a way out of the situation, but was distracted by the fisticuffs and batman apprehended him. In his jail cell witts had some peace and quiet and realized how he could have turned the situation to his advantage. He looked forward to breaking out of jail and matching wits with Batman again.

(Batman I #175) - Dick went hiking with his buddies, and had them take a picture of him in front of the supposed haunted Carver house. He developed the pictures, and saw a duplicate Robin looking out of one of the windows. He investigated, meeting a duplicate Batman who vanished after striking him. The duplicate Dynamic Duo mopped up crime all over the city, and Batman and Robin couldn't catch them because they vanished at will. The heroes longed for action, and dreaded the idea of becoming has-beens. Batman developed a radioactive dust to trace them, but they disappeared before he could sprinkle it on them. The next time they saw the duplicates Batman was battered and beaten by his double, who could turn intangible at will. A ghostly gang soon made the rounds in Gotham, and Batman managed to sprinkle the radioactive dust on their loot before they disappeared. He traced them to the home of Eddie Repp, a criminal they'd put away in the past. He studied television tech, and had created his 3-D ghost images of Batman and Robin to outdo them, and the ghost-gang to make himself rich. He projected his ghost gang at the heroes, but the radioactive dust he'd handled paralyzed him and ruined the monitor he used to summon his ghost images.

(Batman I #177) - Batman needed to prove that Ed "Numbers" Garvy stole the Kimber Gems, and enlisted Atom and Elongated Man to help him. Batman got in Numbers head to the point where he thought about the Masked Manhunter all the time, and Batman set off a series of events that led Numbers to a cave. Inside were Atom and Elongated Man, dressed as Little Batman and Big Batman. They claimed to be clay a shaman endowed with life, and Numbers thought about Batman made them duplicates of the hero. They said he was their master, but when his first request was for them to kill Batman they said they couldn't commit crimes because they were modeled after a hero. Little Batman said his magic powers were fading, and needed a diamond touched to his head. Numbers complied, not knowing that Batman had his allies heads sprinkled with radioactive dust so he could find Numbers cache. Batman and Robin later tracked the diamond to a clock, but realized Numbers had individually hidden all his goods. Batman and Robin foiled Numbers' attempt to rob a carnival, and when he returned to his hideout Big batman said he needed a ruby touched to his head. Numbers thought something hinky was up, so he touched a false stone to Big Batman's head, and when he said his power was restored Numbers had hids men knock out and unmask big and Little Batman. Batman and robin broke up the gang, but still needed to find out where the jewels were. He found the ruby in a telephone, and deduced that Numbers had his goods hidden in things with numbers, like a fake algebra textbook and a wall calendar.

(Batman I #177) - Press agent Roy Rennie approached Bruce about representing the Alfred Foundation, and Bruce said doing good work in honor of his late butler was the only publicity he was interested in. Rennie wouldn't take no for an answer, and said he'd give Bruce a free sample of his work. The next day Bruce saw a drowning woman and rescued her, but fled when the press swarmed the story. The woman was actress Marylene Haworth, and Rennie had set up the whole incident. Bruce was hopping mad, and went with Dick to give him a piece of his mind. They found Rennie battered and unconscious, and his research file on the Alfred Foundation stolen. One remaining paper led Batman and Robin to the Lathrop Gallery, and they made it clear they suspected Mr. Lathrop. Lathrop sent his goons after the Dynamic duo, and they easily beat them before apprehending Lathrop. He'd stolen paintings from an undiscovered genius, passing them off as the work of one of his goons to get the Alfred Foundation grant, and Rennie had found him out. Rennie promised not to interfere with the foundation again.

(Batman I #178) - Bruce and Dick visited Bruce's old college friend Dr. Nelson, who was working as a rocket scientist. He told Bruce succeeding his his rocket launch was paramount to him, because he was the first male member of his family not to make the cut for the military, and he wanted to find a way to serve his country. The first two missiles disappeared from the tracking screen, and was lost by the tracking units. Nelson despaired, but Bruce told him to wait a day and add more tracking units. When he launched the rocket Batman and Robin followed it in the Bat-jet, and saw a weird beam strike it that disabled its' tracking system. A tractor beam then appeared and drew it to a nearby island. They tried to follow, but were confronted by the Rocketeers, who nearly drowned the Dynamic Duo before taking them hostage. They explained that they'd equipped one of the stolen rockets with an atomic warhead, and would destroy Gotham if their demands for 1 billion dollars was not met. Gotham refused to negotiate, and they launched the warhead, with Batman and Robin strapped inside. The heroes wiggled out of their bonds, and hit the rocket's abort button before parachuting to safety and making short work of the pursuing Rocketeers.

(Batman I #178) - Batman and Robin investigated a series of bombins, and tracked the bombers back to loan shark "Shark" Sharkey. They defeated Sharkey and his gang, and told Commissioner Gordon that he's been destroying the homes and businesses of people who owed him money, but they couldn't find his ill-gotten gains. They went to an apartment he rented where grifters Weeper and Rosy had opened his safe, but found it empty. They didn't know the safe belonged to their loan shark, but they owed him $4,000 and were scared for their lives. The safe happened to be in a building across from their apartment, so they saw robbery as their only recourse. The empty safe, and the unlocked apartment clued Batman in that Sharkey's lieutenant Louie had cleaned it out and was still in the room. They apprehended him, and took the grifters to jail as well, and they said they'd learned their lesson that crime didn't pay.

(Batman I #179) - Bruce and Dick were invited to the filming of Roger Kay's show Unsolved Crimes of the Century, and the premiere episode covered the story of three masked men who stole three million from an armored truck after shooting the guards. Three men matching their description were later found shot to death, with the money intact, and the police surmised that they'd killed each other over the loot. Kay postulated that a criminal mastermind was behind the crime, and said he'd reveal their identity the next day. Bruce and Dick found the show riveting, but Kay admitted he didn't actually know the mastermind's identity, he just hoped the show would shake him up enough to make him show his hand. He realized he might be targeted for murder, so Bruce said he'd have his friend Batman impersonate him. Batman sent Dick away to see some friends, because he feared the case was too dangerous for him.

(Batman I #179) - Riddler escaped from prison by carving a skeleton key, and resolved to stop leaving riddles so he'd stop getting caught. He tried to commit a jewel heist, but couldn't bring himself to finish because he hadn't tipped his hat to Batman with a trademark riddle. Riddler couldn't bear a life without crime, so he began studying psychoanalysis, so he could condition himself out of his riddling compulsions. Days later he robbed the Yab Soda Company's antique coins, and was thrilled that he'd overcome his weakness. Gordon reported the crime to Batman and Robin, but were baffled by the change in Riddler's MO. Batman deduced that he had sent riddles, but very surreptitious ones. In the past few days Batman had received a 9 inch blank letter, a honeysuckle plant, and seen the state of Minnesota painted in a bank. Minnesota was "the state where you could always get a soda," a nine inch letter was "Y" because it was one forth of the word yard, and the honeysuckle was like the letter A because it was always followed by a "bee." The clues spelled out Yab and pointed to the soda company, so Batman had Gordon report any hidden clues to him over the next few days. Three strange advertising stunts were clues that led Batman and Robin to the Corsican Glove Factory, where they caught Riddler red-handed. Riddler realized that he hadn't cured himself, when he slept he went sleepwalking setting up clues for the Dynamic Duo. He admitted he couldn't overcome his compulsion, but told the heroes he'd merely devise more clever riddles they couldn't crack.

(Batman I #180) - Bruce and Dick attended a penthouse gem showing when Death-Man and his gang arrived, saying he'd take the goods because while the living couldn't take their wealth with them after death he was already dead. Bruce and dick changed into Batman and Robin as Death-Man fled the penthouse, shooting down the security guards. The Dynamic duo nabbed him, but he gloated that he was the specter of death, beyond their grip. Death-Man was sentenced to death, but told the judge he was beyond human judgment, and seemingly dropped dead in the courtroom. Batman was haunted by the grim villain, and his macabre claims, so he insisted the GCPD dig up his grave, and found Death-Man lying there. A news report soon came in that Death-Man reappeared on the scene, and had robbed and killed again. Batman and Robin caught up with him fleeing in a funeral hearse, and cornered him in a junkyard. After a drawn out battle Death-Man again told them they had no power over him, and dropped dead again. Bruce attended a socialite event where a yogi was buried alive, but unearthed unharmed because he used meditation techniques to put himself in suspended animation. Having tumbled onto the same trick Death-Man used he dug up his grave again, only to find it empty. Death-Man and his gang were waiting for the heroes, shooting at them, and promising he'd bury Batman in the grave he once lied in. Death-Man and Batman struggled over the grave when a bolt of lightning hit Death-Man, killing him, and he tumbled into the grave. Batman thought it ironic that a freak accident carried out the state's death sentence.

(Batman I #181) - Bruce and Dick attended a pop art show celebrating the world's top three public enemies, femme fatales Dragon Fly, silken Spider and Tiger Moth, and dick said he couldn't wait until he was old enough to pursue them. Poison Ivy crashed the gallery, saying she deserved to be world public enemy No. 1, but her crimes were too perfect, so she lacked infamy. She flirted with Bruce, before telling him she wasn't ready to go to jail yet, blinding him and those nearby with a lipstick that sent out electrical impulses when photographers started snapping pictures of her. Blinded Bruce changed into Batman, and plummeted down an elevator shaft before arriving outside and managing to fight off Poison Ivy's goons despite his handicap. Robin helped him mop them up as his sight returned, and the fleeing Poison Ivy developed a crush on Batman at first sight, not knowing if she found him or Bruce more attractive. Ivy sent a letter to Bruce, giving him her address and challenging him and Batman to fight for her affection. Batman and Robin decided to play along with the ruse, but found a gang rumble on Ivy's property. She'd sent letters to Dragon Fly, Silken Spider and Tiger Moth challenging them to prove who deserved to be public enemy No. 1, and they'd brought their gangs in tow. Batman and Robin rounded up the gang members while Ivy presented a crown to the villainesses, asking which of them deserved it. They all reached for it, and received an electric shock that knocked them out. Poison Ivy grabbed Batman and momentarily paralyzed him with her kiss, but as she fled he summoned the strength to knock her off her feet with a Batarang. Poison Ivy was sent to prison, but she said she'd have Batman yet.

(Batman I #183) - Bruce Wayne went on dates with glamorous women, but kept finding himself fantasizing about Poison Ivy. Robin wanted him to get out of his head, and was pleased when there was a penthouse robbery to get him back into action as Batman. Ivy was thinking about Batman as well, and gave a pocket mirror she'd made to the warden to give to him. Batman accepted the gift, and the warden said she was trying to go straight and wanted Batman to forgive her for her past. His distracting thoughts about Ivy almost led to disaster when the Dynamic Duo foiled a ferry heist, so he broke the mirror and sent it back to her. The warden soon told Batman that Ivy was in the hospital, dying of a broken heart. Batman visited her, but it turned out she'd poisoned herself, and had explosives hidden in her hair, threatening to explode the hospital room if Batman didn't help her escape prison. She knocked him out with poison and he woke in her lair tied to a leash. He went on a hunger strike as protest, and days later she tried to hook him up to an IV tube and he escaped. Robin, who'd followed Batman to Ivy's lair, but wanted him to prove he wasn't in love with her, burst in, and took care of Ivy's goons. Ivy went to jail again, but said Batman had caught Poison Ivy for life, and would never not love her.

(Batman I #183) - Batman and Robin busted up a warehouse robbery when Batman fell into a trap door and was ensnared by a sticky net. A gloating figure dressed in a Batman costume appeared over him. The imposter was a criminal put away by Batman 5 years previously, and had been planning revenge the entire time. The tide under the warehouse was rising, and the imposter left Batman to his fate, meeting up with Robin and telling him to drive back to the Batcave because he'd busted his ankle. Robin instantly recognized him as a phony because he was wearing the old version of the Batman insignia without a yellow circle around it, and drove him to the auxiliary Batcave. He put on some tapes of Batman's greatest adventures, and feigned getting a call on the Bat-hotline. The imposter told him to handle it, and Robin found he'd left a bomb in the Batmobile, so he defused it. Using bat-noculars he saw the crook planting a bomb in the proxy Batcave and fleeing. After defusing that bomb robin followed him back to the warehouse, and the imposter checked to make sure Batman was dead. Batman had freed himself with a blowtorch from his utility belt, and easily overpowered the imposter, proud of Robin for having seen through his deception.

(Batman I #184) - Batman and Robin didn't answer the Bat-signal from Gordon or their hotline for 13 days, causing a panic. The Dynamic Duo finally responded, and said they didn't know where their missing time had gone. Using a hypnotism disc Batman recalled his memories of rescuing Slippery Sam Lorenzo, head of Robbery Inc. after he was tossed out a window. He'd made a few screw-ups, and his second Lefty Wright tried to put him down. He helped Batman and Robin foil Lefty's robbery that night, and asked for their protection in exchange for turning over evidence against Robbery Inc. They stashed him in a cave he'd once used as a hideout, and turned off the hotline. Batman used his mastery of disguise to pose as criminal Cueball Carson and draw Lefty and his gang to the cave. The Dynamic Duo took them out, but Slippery Sam had no intention of going to jail, and wired the Batmobile with an electrical current that knocked the heroes out and took away their recent memories. Now that everything had come back to him Batman investigated the cave, and found that Sam had tried to flee in a rented car Batman was using as Cueball Carson, but Lefty had rigged it to blow, killing his former partner.

(Batman I #184) - Bruce told Robin he'd be in charge of patrolling Gotham for a few days because as the head of the Alfred Foundation Bruce had a science convention to attend. Robin promised he wouldn't take any unnecessary chances, and his first night out he saw a woman thrown from a motorcycle and caught her fall with the Batmobile. It turned out she was stuntwoman Vi Lance, and he'd ruined her scene, causing the director Bill Porter to scream at him. He inspected her tires, and saw that a blister would have blown them if she kept riding a few more seconds. After reading that Porter had taken a life insurance policy out on her he suspected him of attempted murder. Vi's next scene wa the flames. He escorted her home in the Batmobile, and when she exited a car nearly ran her over. Robin apprehended the drivers, who were robbers, and they claimed they hadn't tried to intentionally hit her. Robin finally summed up his case against Porter, but he revealed they were engaged, and the tire blister was a fluke, while upon inspection of the scene Robin learned her balloon burst when a meteorite hit it. Robin apologized for jumping to conclusions, but Vi gave him a kiss for saving her life. Robin told Bruce he'd bungled his time as protector of Gotham, but Bruce said he'd merely messed up the initial evidence because of his expectations, but it was alright because he still saved the day.

(Batman I #186) - Joker recruited Gaggy, a former circus performer and dwarf as his jester and protégé. Gaggy was one of the few people who could make Joker laugh with his buffoonery, and his latest act inspired Joker to rob the Salon of Spectacle's collection of original models of famous inventions. Joker and his gang drove a gimmicked buggy into the salon, and when Batman and Robin responded they fought back, with Gaggy almost prying off Robin's mask. Joker finished the theft, and left under a smokescreen. Batman knew he was fanatic about the completeness of his crimes, and tracked down Hamilton Tyne, the inventor of Gotham's first electric typewriter. Joker and company had already been there, and left a note taunting the Dynamic Duo. At Joker's hideout Gaggy set up a punching bag dressed as Robin, and battled it fiercely. Joker broke out into peals of laughter, and came up with a new crime. He mailed a taunting letter to the news about Batman and Robin getting the point of his next crime. Batman correctly figured out that "the point" was on the steeple of Gotham's original city hall, which was about to become a historic monument. Joker and Gaggy made off with the building using a helicopter equipped with grappling hooks, and the heroes hitched a ride. Joker was caught unaware, and in the ensuing brawl he accidentally knocked out Gaggy with a punch. Joker and Gaggy were taken to prison, and when Joker asked Gaggy to cheer him up, he said his face was funny because of how Joker messed it up.

(Batman I #186) - Fred Purley was a robber put away for decades when he was nabbed by a young James Gordon. when he was paroled he kidnapped Gordon, and, imitating his voice, called Batman, luring him to a hotel room. Batman opened the door, and a bomb went off, but he shielded himself with the door, saving his life. Purley wanted to successfully rob the Foxcroft Jewelry Salon, the very job that sent him to jail, so his victory over Gordon would be complete. Robin tried to stop him, but Purley's thugs knocked him cold. Robin saw a commuter pass to Flame Island in one of the thug's pockets, so the Dynamic Duo looked for their hideout there. They saw a makeshift bat-signal that led them to the crooks, and they rounded them up. Gordon revealed that he hadn't intentionally made the signal, he'd absent-mindedly scratched the Batman logo in a window, and it became a signal when Purley set a kerosene lamp behind the window.

(Flash II #210 (fb)) - Robin took Kid Flash on a tour of the Batcave. Flash commented that his mentor Flash always said Batman was a bit off, which was why all his enemies were lunatics. Batman was standing right behind Kid Flash, who then ran off, embarrassed at his first introduction to Batman.

(Batman I #188) - Batman's college classmate Lenny Fiasco took out advertisements as the Eraser in The Secret Underground, a periodical aimed at Gotham City's small-time criminals. He did a commendable job, and the police were baffled at the lack of clues at a series of bank robberies. They called on Batman, who disguised himself as an organ grinder and hired the Eraser for a mock robbery. Eraser recognized Bruce Wayne through the disguise and revealed that he had became a criminal because Bruce shattered his dreams of going out with Celia Smith, who chose Bruce over him as her date to the ice carnival. Bruce didn't even remember Celia's name, prompting Eraser into a rage. He knocked Bruce out with sleeping gas, and Bruce awoke at Eraser's headquarters, where the Eraser had constructed a recreation of the college ice carnival. Robin then arrived on the scene and distracted Eraser long enough for Bruce to change into his Batman identity. What followed was academic, Batman beat up Eraser and sent him to jail. In jail Batman presented Eraser with a giant eraser, and advised him to make a new start in life with a clean slate. Eraser didn't seem too amused with Batman's joke.

(Batman I #188) - Commissioner Gordon called Batman and Robin when Matt Whitson, publisher of Squire Magazine, brought Gordon his concerns that three people on Squire's ten best-dressed list had died under suspicious circumstances. Bruce Wayne, who was also on the list, found his brakes cut earlier that day, and it was only his athleticism that saved him when his car went over a cliff. The Dynamic Duo figured the killer thought Bruce dead, and would target the next man on the list, Hempden Dennis, real estate tycoon. Dennis refused Batman's protection, arousing his suspicion, so the Dynamic duo followed him to a squalid neighborhood, where they uncovered a numbers racket he was running, and brought him to Gordon. They investigated Dennis' house, and found the killer in wait. They captured him, and he turned out to be Whitson. The Duo did some research and told Gordon that Whitson was a prisoner during the last war, and gave away state secrets. Author Deems Davis was trying to blackmail him, so Whitson killed him. Charles Lowry died soon after in an accident, and since they were both on the best-dressed list Whitson planned to kill everyone on the list, misleading the police into looking for a psychopath.

(Teen Titans III #32) - Superman gave Robin and the Teen Titans a tour of the Fortress of Solitude. Unbeknownst to him Speedy stole a piece of a Phantom Zone Projector that he would make into a Phantom Zone arrow.

(Titans II #23 (fb)) - Wonder Girl went on a date with Speedy, but he blew it with her, and she returned to Titans hq furious and in no mood to talk to her teammates. Kid Flash punched Speedy, and wanted to know what he did to Wonder Girl. Aqualad broke up the fight, and Robin told Speedy that he was having enough of a hard time convincing Batman to let him stay on the team without the kid parents didn't want their children hanging around with. He told Speedy the Titans were better off without him, and Speedy left. Days later Wonder Girl found Speedy in Star City; Green Arrow thought the bruises he d received from Kid Flash were from a villain, and wanted him to stick to stakeouts. He told Wonder Girl he d blown it because he was afraid oif strong women, but she decided to give him another chance.

(Batman I #189) - Over the summer months Dick worked as a playground instructor, and Bruce and Alfred brought ice cream to his students to celebrate their success on the jungle gym. They spotted Scarecrow and his gang digging up loot from his past robberies, and changed into the Dynamic Duo. Scarecrow sprayed them with fear gas, causing them to hallucinate falling down a bottomless hole, and Scarecrow escaped, leaving the words park, ark and mark written in straw as a cryptic clue. The heroes recovered and used the bat-computer to figure out the clues. Scarecrow had already hit the park, and the bat-computer revealed that Raymond Archer had a replica of Noah's ark he was using as a tourist trap. The heroes went to the ark, but Scarecrow was there to ambush them, hitting them with a sonic pulse that made them temporarily blind. Scarecrow gloated that darkness was mankind's most primal fear, recalling prehistoric days when carnivores came out at dark and threatened to eat them. Scarecrow left behind his calling card of straw, and unleashed two big cats on the duo. They powered through their fear, grappled with the beasts in the dark, and set fire to Scarecrow's straw to ward them off. Their eyesight recovered, and reasoned that mark referred to a fall guy, and philanthropist Jeremy T. Fall was keeping a fortune in cash in his mansion for an upcoming fundraiser. The Dynamic Duo got the drop on Scarecrow as he robbed Fall, and turned the tables on him by having the Batmobile blare police sirens, frightening him so Batman could knock him out with a punch.

(Batman I #190) - Penguin thought scientific crimefighting devices called for a response for today's criminal. He proclaimed his genius, and showed his henchmen his new inventions; air-conditioned suits to beat the Gotham heatwave, and energy pills to keep them at peak efficiency. He couldn't wait to show off his innovations to the Dynamic Duo, and he got his wish when the heroes interrupted his robbery of the International Gold corporation. Batman and Robin's boots stuck to the floor, allowing Penguin's goons to hammer away at them, and Penguin claimed he was using a gravity ray. Batman figured out he'd put a magnet under the floor, and they'd stepped in iron fillings, so he urged Robin to remove his boots. The thugs were wearing Penguin's fist fender-off devices, pumping air from their costumes to keep knocking away Batman and Robin's punches until the heroes fought more unpredictably, hitting the thugs before they could activate their devices. Penguin escaped with the gold on his jet-umbrella, and complained that his plans were brilliant but his henchmen were fools. He created a series of remote-controlled Robotrella, robotic umbrellas, and the Dynbamic Duo witnessed his umbrellas pull off a jewlery heist. They created Batrellas to follow Penguin's Robotrellas after they pulled their next job, and brought Alfred along. After a wild battle with the Robotrellas, the heroes were captured in a net-umbrella, and dragged away by Penguin's robot double. They escaped the robot, but Alfred staid behind, and watched the Robotrella loot sink into a hole in the ground. He jumped in, and found Penguin's new underground hideout, knocking him out with a blow from his own umbrella.

(Batman I #191) - Ira Radon, expert on radiation and crime, doused Batman and his gear with radiation. Radon informed Batman that his body was now radioactive, and unless he auctioned off all his crimefighting career and quit, Radon would boost the radiation in his system and kill him. Batman called a press conference announcing his retirement and the auction, refusing to reveal why he was quitting. He feared dying, so he even kept Gordon, Alfred and Robin in the dark lest they confront Radon and meet a similar fate. The Wayne Foundation bought up the majority of his wares, citing an interest in opening up a museum, but Batman pointed to an imaginary person in the crowd to sell the batarang. Radon read the news reports, and was pleased, but obsessed with learning why. He went to the house of Andrew Kunkel, really an assumed identity of Batman, and the hero got the drop on him, wearing a clay suit to fix the radiation Radon beamed at him. Radon fumbled his radiation emitter, killing himself, and with his threat gone Batman recovered the items he sold, removed the radiation from them and himself, and announced his comeback.

(Batman I #191) - Duke Kelsey kidnapped Alfred because he'd been inducted into the Millionaire Mobster Club, and wanted to throw a fancy dinner party, reasoning that Alfred had the skills since he worked for a millionaire. Alfred knew he'd be rubbed out afterwards, so his dinner menu contained clues that he hoped Batman and robin could figure out when the Duke's men robbed the ingredients. The Dynamic duo busted up the crooks robbery of the Food specialties Shoppe, and soon realized Alfred had left them hints. The crooks stole ingredients for Beef Wellington, indicating that Alfred was in Wellington Park, and the desert was strawberry soufflé, a specialty of Club 22, so that gave the house number. The crooks never managed to steal the ingredients for the appetizer that would reveal the street, but on returning to the food store they found their shopping list, and discovered that the appetizer was oysters duchesse, so the street was Duchess Road. The heroes broke up the mobster dinner, with Alfred happily using his culinary creations as weapons to take the gangsters down.

(Batman I #192) - Batman and Robin were on their nightly patrol and drove through Gotham’s Chinatown, where they spotted Lisan Ku, wife of wealthy tea merchant Chen Ku, sobbing. Lisan told the Dynamic duo she feared her husband didn’t love her anymore because he’d spent all week in his office fretting over a jade statue of a white lotus. Batman said he’d set things right, but when he and robin got to Chen’s office they found him being roughed up by criminals who called themselves the Fearsome Foursome and were trying to steal the statue. The Foursome worked for the Swami, a crimeboss who claimed to be a mystic that could predict the future with his crystal ball, ensuing his gang would always pull off successful capers. The Swami assured them they’d get away when Batman came for them and fought fearlessly. Batman and Robin were distracted by Silent Sam, the bruiser of the group, and managed to subdue him, but the others got away. Batman disguised himself as Silent Sam, going to his apartment and finding the rest of the Foursome waiting for him. Swami arrived and his crystal ball said one of his men was Batman in disguise. The crystal ball shone a light on Batman, who found himself bolted to his chair. The crooks beat him unconscious, and Swami revealed himself to Batman as Johnny Witts in disguise. He needled Batman that he could still stay a step ahead of him. He knew Batman would tumble onto his new gang and instructed Silent Sam to take the fall when they met so he could lure Batman into a trap. Witts set up a lensometer that flashed color and sound, telling Batman it would drive him mad and kill him. Batman broke the lensometer by flinging his boot at it, and looked into the Swami’s crystal ball, seeing an image of a private art gallery. Batman and Robin kept Witts and the Foursome from robbing the gallery and witts admitted defeat, saying he didn’t bother to think a step ahead because he thought Batman was dead. Batman returned the white lotus to Chen, who said he still loved his wife, but he’d been obsessed with the statue because a Tong leader entrusted it into his safekeeping for a week. He was happy to return it safe and sound and wasn’t about to question the motives of the Tong.

(Batman I #192) - Dick Grayson scouted Gotham City High School students for the basketball team, and was impressed with new student Frank Reynolds. He also approached Toughy Loomis, a bussed student, but Loomis said he felt the other students looked down on him for being bussed in and he didn’t like little rich kids. Toughy and his friends tried to jump Dick that night, and Dick avoided their attacks, but didn’t want to fight back, fearing giving away his secret identity of Robin. A masked man arrived, tossing around Toughy and his friends. Dick recognized the masked man as Frank Reynolds, and overheard Toughy planning to ambush ?frank at home with his friends. Dick changed into Robin and told Batman he couldn’t go on patrol, but needed to be driven to Frank’s place in the Batmobile. Robin saved Frank from a beating, but the dazed Frank still wanted to help the weak and when he saw a man hit a robber he thought the robber =was in need of help. Robin belted him, restoring him to his senses. Frank revealed he’d gained his strength with the man-amplifier, an exoskeleton his engineer father was developing for industrial work. Robin convinced Toughy to turn over a new leaf and try out for basketball.

(Batman I #194) - Blockbuster’s personality altered drastically after he and Solomon Grundy knocked the hate out of each other. He was peaceful and friendly, calm enough to start relearning how to speak, and the staff of the Wayne Foundation allowed him to work as a handyman and return to his childhood home on weekends. Blockbuster went to a local department store to buy a gift for the doctors that took care of him but had a relapse when he saw a Batman standee advertising toys and went berserk, tearing it up. Security arrived and he reverted to his friendly self, allowing them to take him down to the police station. Wayne Foundation doctors Margot Rankin and Sloane evaluated him, but when they spoke Batman’s name he crashed through his jail cell, screaming that he’d find and kill Batman. Batman and Robin confronted him in the department store where he was ripping apart Batman merchandise, and Batman unmasked to reveal himself as Bruce Wayne to Blockbuster once again. The trick failed to work this time, as Blockbuster said that if Bruce and batman were the same man then he hated them both. He gave Batman and Robin a beating before fleeing to his childhood home. Batman realized that on his weekend visits he was reliving his childhood by throwing himself into the quicksand bog Bruce had once rescued him from. Because Bruce didn’t save him and Batman didn’t save him he had misplaced anger against them, his confused mind reasoning that they left him to die. Batman confronted him and unmasked again, having disguised himself as Solomon Grundy. He pulled Blockbuster from the quicksand and blockbuster was overjoyed that Batman saved him, pleased to believe the Caped Crusader was his brand new friend Grundy.

(Batman I #703 (fb)) - Robin berated Batman for letting the Getaway Genius escape, but Batman revealed that the Genius had returned to crime to steal chemotherapy drugs for his cancer so that he could have more time with his daughter. Bruce said no child should grow up without their family, and set up a health care plan for the Getaway Genius after reimbursing the drug company the Genius pilfered.

(Detective Comics I #241) - Robin witnessed thieves steal a TV camera and reported to Batman, who told them they'd cover major TV events, because he deduced the stolen camera would be involved. Robin's arm was temporarily paralyzed because as Dick Grayson he saved a girl from being hit by a car, and the story made the news. Batman didn't want Robin s injury to be obvious because people might draw a connection from him to his civilian identity, so at every TV event they attended Batman wore a different colored costume, eventually donning a rainbow costume so everyone would be focused on him. The thieves targeted the Moneys of the World exhibit, switching one of the reporters  cameras for the stolen one, which was filled with tear gas. Robin identified the thieves and the heroes took them out before they could make their move.

(Detective Comics I #382) - Batman and Robin followed the Smokescreen Gang to their hideout after a bank robbery, but found no goods in their safe,.. The Gang was as surprised as the crimefighters, their past few hauls, as well as the hauls of the Blowtorch Gang had vanished. They went to the Armorer, who fixed their weapons, to rig their safe with a gun to kill whoever tampered with it, unaware that it was the Armorer that had been stealing from them. Armorer promised to distract Batman and Robin for the gangs when they stole the Kimberly Star jewel from Gotham Airport, because he had a plan to make the heroes a patsy for his thefts against the thieves. In disguise the Armorer tipped the crimefighters to the Star's location. Robin opened the sfae, but Batman, who'd figured out the ruse, knocked him outr of the way before he was shot. Members of the Gangs that were in the next room keeping an eye on their safe to catch the thief were no so lucky, as their own boobytrap shot them dead.

(The Hawk and the Dove I #5) - Hawk and Dove chased a thief and ran into Robin and the Teen Titans.

(Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #130) - Jimmy attended the Young Man of the Year awards, and was a candidate, but he lost out to Robin. He griped that Robin wasn't a regular joe like him, and that anyone could be Robin if they had all his cool gadgets. Robin gave him a chance to be a replacement Robin for a few days, and gave him a costume and tools, but feared that Jimmy would get hurt. Jimmy made a fool of himself, hitting himself in the head with a batarang and crashing through a window when he mistimed a rooftop jump. He did stumble across the fact that the new Metropolis newspaper the Morning Mercury was a front for criminals. He tried to take down the Flying Mercurys, but they beat him up, and he was almost crushed by their printing press before Superman saved him and took down the gang. Jimmy had to admit to Robin that he was a ';teen blunder,'; but Robin applauded his efforts.

(Titans II #23 (fb)) - Robin and Kid Flash investigated when someone set off the alarm in their old Teen Titans hq, and found Speedy, strung out on heroin. Robin told Speedy to get help, or he d get it for him.

(Detective Comics I #472) - Bruce Wayne went for treatment at Graytowers, a clinic that catered to the rich and powerful and didn’t ask many questions. Graytowers was actually run by Professor Hugu Strange under the alias of Dr. Todhunter. He turned his clients into Monster Men, forcing them to obey his whims in exchange for receiving a temporary antidote. Each of his patients was ordered to bring one new wealthy Gothamite to his clinic. Bruce confronted him as Batman, but a green mamba hidden in Strange’s office bit him, rendering him comatose. When Strange revived him Batman was horrified to realize Strange had removed his mask and knew he was Bruce Wayne. Strange and his Monster Men abducted Alfred from the Wayne Foundation, and kept him in the same cell as Bruce. Strange’s nurse Magda kept Bruce sedated while Strange took up the identities of both Bruce Wayne and Batman, excited at the thrill of occupying his life. He planned on raiding Wayne Industries and selling Batman’s secret identity. “Bruce” sold off millions in stocks, causing a stock market panic, but no one dared question him, especially since Strange had a number of Bruce’s financier’s under his sway after their time in Graytowers. Bruce’s girlfriend Silver St. Cloud visited “Bruce” saying his recent business moves made him look erratic, and asking why he hadn’t called her lately. “Bruce” said he was breaking up with her, so she slapped him and stormed out of his office. She had a suspicion something happened to Bruce in Graytowers, and visited the clinic, but Magda slammed the door on her and alerted Strange that she was raising suspicions and needed to be taken care of. Silver heard Bruce talk extensively about his ward Dick Grayson, and called him up at Hudson University, telling him her suspicions that something was wrong with Bruce. Dick knew she was right, but had to blow her off to safeguard his secret identity as Robin. He changed into Robin and rode his motorcycle to Gotham to investigate Graytowers, while Magda sicced Hugo Strange’s Monster Men on Silver. Strange arranged an auction for Batman’s secret identity, with a $10,000 buy-in. Joker, Penguin and Boss Thorne responded, and Strange planned to hold the auction the next night. Strange intended to kill Bruce Wayne before the auction, knowing that keeping him alive was too dangerous to his plans. Boss Thorne’s men shot the Monster Men that were escorting Strange with tranquilizer darts, and brought him to city hall, demanding to know Batman’s identity and saying he didn’t intend on paying for it. Robin broke into Graytowers and fought off the Monster Men. Magda tried to inject Bruce with Monster Man serum and Alfred protected his master. During the struggle Magda injected herself, transforming into a Monster Man. Robin incapacitated her and swore revenge on Strange for what he’d done to Bruce. Thorne’s men savagely beat Strange, but he’d made up his mind not to reveal Batman’s secret. He said he’d earned that knowledge and would never give it away because Batman was the one man he saw as a worthy foe. Strange said Thorne would have to defeat Batman himself, as he had, to learn his identity. Thorne did not understand Strange’s loyalty to his nemesis, and his men beat Strange until he was seemingly dead.

(Detective Comics I #473) - Thorne’s men stuffed Hugo Strange’s body into a barrel and tossed it off a pier. Batman and Robin spotted them on their night patrol and confronted them, but were forced to flee when the police arrived. Batman explained to Robin that the city council had subpoenaed him, and he’d missed his meeting with a grand jury while Strange held him captive, so the city council had declared him an outlaw and had orders to arrest him on sight. Robin was determined to stay in town until the situation was resolved. The Reed Gallery was exhibiting the Malay Penguin and Batman and Robin visited Mr. Reed, warning him that the Penguin would surely target his art show. Reed showed off his security system, but Batman warned him that Penguin loved a challenge. They returned to Wayne Tower where Alfred was working with Bruce’s attorneys to nullify the business dealings Strange had done to drain Wayne Enterprises of its’ monetary resources. Bruce and Dick visited Silver St. Clair in the hospital, where she was recovering after her abduction by the Monster Men. Dick apologized for blowing her off when they talked, and Bruce thanked her profusely for saving his life. On patrol again Batman and Robin spotted the Penguin, and tried to apprehend him, but he flew away with his buzz umbrella and warned them not to tangle with banks. The Penguin bankrolled a theatre company to play next door to the Reed Gallery, whose performance caused the gallery’s security system  motion detector to keep going off. Batman realized that Penguin was drawing attention to the Reed Gallery to divert him from the crime he was actually planning. The Penguin tried to hijack an airplane carrying members of the security exchange and Batman and Robin apprehended him. Penguin congratulated him for figuring out his scheme, and tossed him the Malay Penguin. He’d stolen the art piece weeks ago, and the piece on display at the Reed Gallery was a fake.

(Detective Comics I #474) - Robin got an emergency call from Wonder Girl, and even though he’d promised Batman he’d stick by him until he’d sorted out Boss Thorne, a city councilman who’d declared Batman an outlaw in Gotham City, Batman told him he needed to take care of his own business.

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(Batman I #316) - Dick Grayson had summer vacation and was excited to spend in Gotham City. He reunited with Batman as Robin and caught an arsonist who set fire to the Gotham Community Hospital. Commissioner Gordon and the GCPD were at the scene and Gordon remarked that the arsonist, like most kids today, had no sense of responsibility. Robin took offense to the remark, even though Gordon said he didn’t mean young men like him. The Dynamic duo responded to a break-in at S.T.A.R. Labs, but failed to prevent Crazy Quilt and his gang from stealing an experimental laser surgery tool. Bruce Wayne showed Dick around the Wayne Foundation, reminding him that one day it would all belong to him. Lucius Fox greeted Dick, and was happy the papers he’d sent him about business administration helped him ace his class. Bruce called Gotham Community Hospital doctor Norman Dexter to see if the Wayne foundation could help repair his hospital, and learned that he was missing. Bruce put together the clues that Crazy Quilt hired the arsonist that set fire to the hospital and kidnapped Dexter to perform surgery on him with the S.T.A.R. Labs laser tool to restore his sight. Batman and Robin went to the hospital and made their way through boobytraps Quilt set, including colored flares and a hypnotic color wheel. Quilt was thrilled that the surgery was a success, and turned his color-helmet on the heroes, but Robin used a reflective surgery tray to reflect its’ colored beams back into Quilt’s eyes. Quilt realized he was blind and shot a handgun at Batman and Robin until his clip was empty. He’d failed to hit them even once, and begged for death.

(Batman I #317) - Commissioner Gordon contacted Batman and Robin after Riddler broke out of jail and mailed police headquarters a book entitled “1001 Riddles For All Occasions.” Riddler knew he had to compulsively leave riddles before committing crimes, but hoped to throw the Dynamic Duo off his trail by sending clues for his next possible 1001 crimes. Batman and Robin decided to virtually ignore Riddler’s book of riddles, with Robin interviewing his cellmate Jake Hammer. Hammer was a gun-runner, and Riddler robbed a magazine distribution warehouse that the police raided and found to be a gun-running front, so they deduced Riddler was trying to take Hammer’s place. They found Riddler at Gotham Harbor, meeting with Hammer's contact to sell him the magazines he’d stolen, which had been hollowed out to hide firearms. Riddler grabbed a firearm from his stash and tried to gun them down, but Batman caught him in a cargo net. Batman annoyed him by riddling him “Why are you like a spawning salmon.” The Riddler knew the answer was that he was going up the river.

(Batman I #321) - Joker planned his own birthday celebration by kidnapping Batman’s friends. He disguised himself as a woman in need of a tire change to lure in Robin, who found the tires of Joker’s car were coated in super-sticky taffy. He flooded the GCPD precinct with laughing gas and made off with Commissioner Gordon. Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox and Selina Kyle were all waiting at the Wayne Foundation for Bruce, and Selina complained that the headaches she was suffering from were growing more severe. Joker blasted his way in with dynamite, and assuming Selina was there to rob the Wayne Foundation he sincerely apologized if he’d ruined a scheme of hers before knocking her out with a spring-loaded boxing glove hidden in a bouquet of roses before taking Fox and Pennyworth with him. At Joker’s Ha-Hacienda he gloated about killing everyone who ever crossed him while all of Gotham watched. He broke out into uproarious laughter, and when he noticed one of his hired goons wasn’t laughing along with him he shot him in the head. Joker organized the Harlequin Bakery Show at the Seaside Coliseum, advertising free samples and drawing an enormous crowd. Joker had his henchmen lock all the doors to the building before revealing himself and showing off a giant birthday cake with his kidnapees all ties to candles. A detonator was set to light the candles ablaze, but Batman revealed he was in the audience, and agreed to surrender and allow  Joker to tie him to a candle in exchange for releasing his friends. Joker went back on his word, but Batman freed himself and severed the fuses of the candles with his batarang. Joker fled on a motorboat with Batman in pursuit, and his boat exploded when it collided with rocky shoals. Commissioner Gordon asked Batman if he thought Joker was dead, but Batman doubted it.

(Batman I #327) - Dick visited Bruce during a break from college, and Bruce saw him off at the train station. John Taggart, head of Taggart Train Lines, wanted to talk business with Bruce, but he didn’t have the time because he recognized criminals “Frankie” Franconi and” Shark” Armstrong boarding a train. Batman and Robin went into actoion when the train the crooks were on left a half hour before schedule. The crooks were trying to kill Joe Carson, a small-time criminal set to testify before a grand jury, but Batman and Robin saved him. The Dynamic Duo returned to to the train station where Batman confronted Taggart, snagging a computer control device on his person. He knew someone on the inside had to be the one to set the train headed off ahead of schedule, and knew Taggart was trying to silence Carson, who had damning info about the crimes he’d committed to keep his struggling business afloat.

(DC Comics Presents #26) - Robin was called to the NYC S.T.A.R. Labs when terrorists held Prof. Silas Stone and his solar generator hostage, threatening to use it for destructive purposes if their fellow resistance fighters weren't released from jail. Robin formulated a plan, but blacked out. Raven sent him a vision of the near future, where he d be working with the New Teen Titans to save the city from a giant protozoan. Robin recovered, and had the police suck the air from the lab, knocking out the terrorists; an idea he got in his dream. He realized that his dream had meaning when he met Prof. Stone, who he recognized as the father of his future teammate Cyborg.

(DC Comics Presents #26 (ff)) - The New Teen Titans were called in by S.T.A.R. Labs after Prof. Stone opened up an extra dimensional gateway and released a giant protozoan that was trying to convert Earth s atmosphere to methane to suit its needs. The Titans battled the alien without much success before the battle returned to the lab where the dimensional gateway was stored. Prof. Stone sucked the air from the room, giving it no atmosphere to breathe, and Starfire blasted it back to its own world before destroying the gateway at Stone's request.

(Batman I #329) - Batman and Robin foiled a hit on mobster “Razor” Reynolds, who was getting a heart transplant, at Gotham General Hospital. Dr. Phillips told Robin he was disappointed at Batman, who, to his knowledge, hadn’t once visited Mary Ann, his informant who helped him crack the recent Two-Face case. Mobsters tried to hijack Raynold’s new heart from the airport, but Batman and Robin foiled them, learning that they’d been sent by Reynold’s daughter Pammy, who blamed her father for her mother’s death. Dr. Phillips changed his tune about Batman when he visited Mary Ann, and saw Batman swinging away from her hospital room after delivering a bouquet of flowers.

(Batman I #330) - Bruce wondered why Lucius Fox hadn’t left the files he was waiting for on his desk, and asked his secretary Caroline to track Fox down. She informed him that Lucius was in the hospital after being mugged, and Bruce rushed off to Gotham General Hospital. Caroline called up Gregorian Falstaff to inform him she had the papers he wanted. Lucius was in bad shape and begged Bruce to save his son Tim before he passed out. Dick Grayson visited the hospital told Bruce he wanted to find whoever hurt Lucius. Bruce found a clue in Lucius’ notes, and after changing into Batman he allowed Robin to accompany him, even though things were tense between them since Robin dropped out of Hudson University. They were ambushed by a sniper, and survived a drive-by. Batman got one of the would-be killers to talk, and he told Batman that Archie Skyler, a man Batman sent to prison, was set to be executed within the day and had placed a bounty of ten million in gold on Batman’s head. Batman and Robin visited Skyler in Gotham Prison, but he only bragged that there was no way they could punish him since he was already on death row. Robin advised Batman to lay low for 24 hours, but Batman said he couldn’t because he learned from Lucius’ notes that Tim was involved with a gang that was planning something big that night. A man threw a grenade at them, injuring Batman’s arm. Talia al Ghul showed up, took out the antagonist with a tranq dart and attended to Batman’s arm. Talia, said she wanted to see her love again, and convinced Batman to ditch Robin, who she had no use for, to follow her to the pool hall where Tim’s gang hung out at. Robin visited Alfred at the Wayne Foundation, frustrated at how distant Batman was. Alfred suggested that their time apart made it difficult for Batman to accept a partner again. Batman gave Ronald Watkins and his men a beating, warning them that he’d take the kid gloves off if they tried to pull off whatever job they were planning. Watkins called up Falstaff to report that he was still all in on breaking into the Wayne Foundation. Batman was attacked by a helicopter that strafed him, and he used his batrope to reach the pilot and knock him out. Batman met Commissioner Gordon, and they both agreed there was too great a danger of civilians being caught in the crossfire as crooks tried to collect their bounty on Batman. Robin found Tim Fox and shadowed him. He talked to Watkins, still unsure about their job, but Watkins assured him that Bruce Wayne was secretly a slumlord and kept people in dangerous living conditions., and deserved whatever he got. Batman made an announcement that he was going to be on Grosvenor’s Island, waiting for any and all would-be bounty hunters who wanted him. Batman fought several criminals, including Blackjack and his biker gang on the island, but when a transmitter he’d placed on Watkins went off he knew it was time to leave. Robin met up with him at the Wayne Foundation, where Watkins was arguing with Tim Fox, who was trying to back out of blowing up the Wayne Foundation. The Dynamic Duo easily took down Watkins and his men, and Cowboy, the lone assassin who spotted Batman leaving Grosvenor’s Island, confronted them. Despite his usual unerring aim with knives and guns he was little match for the heroes. Batman let Tim know he was disappointed in him. Robin told Batman Tim had been manipulated, had no one to turn to, and didn’t need Batman lecturing him. Robin made it clear he wanted a long talk with Batman when the case was over.

(Batman I #331) - Commissioner Gordon called in Batman when Spike Rafferty was found murdered in an alleyway. Rafferty was a death row inmate whose sentence had been overturned, but a vigilante made sure he was killed by electrocution. Robin alerted Batman to a news story about Mike Caine, a hitman Batman had put away who’d been released on a technicality. Batman realized he’d be the vigilante’s next target. Robin wanted to talk to Batman, who sped off in the Batmobile, reminding him that work came before personal issues. Batman visited Caine at his mansion, warning him about the vigilante and suggesting he confess to one of his numerous hits so he’d be safe behind bars. As Batman was leaving he heard a scream, and found Caine electrocuted by the Electrocutioner. Electrocutioner shocked Batman unconscious, saying they shouldn’t be fighting because they were on the same side. Alfred patched up Batman, saying he should see Dr. Dundee. Dick talked to Bruce about his decision to drop out of college, and Bruce said he couldn’t possibly support his decision, while dick argued that he still saw him as a child who couldn’t make his own life decisions. Dick wanted to prove himself by tying up loose ends on the Ronald Watkins case, determined to find out who hired him. Robin shadowed Watkins, learning of his association with Gregorian Falstaff. Bruce visited Lucius in the hospital, and was sad to tell him he had no choice but to press charges against Tim. Lucius asked Bruce where he’d gone wrong with his boy, and Bruce responded that often times children didn’t know what was best for them. Lucius asked Bruce about an important bank merger and Bruce couldn’t find any of Lucius’ files, unaware that his secretary Caroline had been passing them off to Falstaff, who used them to underbid Wayne. Mobster Dane Whitney was released after a judicial foul-up and Batman found him at a private movie screening just as Electrocutioner showed up. Electrocutioner again tried to convince Batman they should be allies, but Batman was having none of it. Electrocutioner wasn’t ready for a drawn out fight and fled. Dick informed Bruce about Watkin’s connection to Falstaff, and remembering his accusation of Bruce being a slumlord he did an investigation into Wayne Enterprise’ holdings, finding an acquisition a number of months ago of a dozen tenement buildings. Bruce thought it was impossible that something like that could have happened without his knowledge, and Dick had to break it to him that the Falstaff owned newspaper the Daily Star learned about it and was printing an expose. Batman posed as a manservant of Samson, a recently released killer, and was able to get the drop on the Electrocutioner. Electrocutioner was frustrated that they kept fighting, saying they were the same, and Batman made it clear he had nothing in common with a cold-blooded murderer. During their fight the Electrocutioner tumbled out a window to the water’s below Samson’s mansion. Batman told Talia he owed her for helping out with the Tim Fox case, so she showed up at the Wayne Foundation, telling Bruce she needed somewhere to live. Dick Grayson said that if Talia was moving in he was moving out and warned Bruce he was making a huge mistake. Bruce brushed off Dick, saying he didn’t understand the complexities of adult relationships.

(Batman I #332) - Robin packed his bags, ignoring Batman’s pleas to think things over. Talia said it might be for the best that he head out on his own, and Batman replied that he worried about Robin, fearing he was too headstrong. Robin needed someone to talk to who knew Batman, and decided to approach Catwoman, outlining his concerns that Talia was manipulating him. Catwoman and Robin decided to see what Talia was up to by investigating Gregorian Falstaff. Falstaff and Batman had a confrontation where Talia caused the villains death. She admitting that Falstaff once worked for her father Ra’s al Ghul, and Batman was suspicious that she was glad Falstaff was dead so he couldn’t elaborate on that relationship. Robin and Catwoman arrived at the scene in time to see Batman and Talia embrace, and Catwoman decided they had to leave, reeling because she still had feelings for Batman.

(DC Comics Presents #31) - Dick took his friend Angie on a date at the Sterling Circus, and recognized one of the clowns as Waldo Simpson, who used to work with the Flying Graysons. He was suspicious when Waldo didn't respond to his greetings, and investigated the circus at night as Robin. He discovered that the troupe was under hypnotic control, led by a mysterious person who projected his voice to give them orders. The leader disliked Robin s interference, and presented Superman, who he d claimed was also under his control. Superman subdued Robin, and the leader hypnotized Robin to perform in his circus. Superman had been investigating the circus himself, and was only pretending to be under the leader s control, so when he got the opportunity he restored Robin s mind. The leader discovered them and sent his entire circus off the heroes, and they were forced to use a light touch, fearing they d harm the innocent mind-slaves. Robin used a flash-pan camera on the crowd, and noticed that only one of them reacted normally to being blinded. The heroes picked out the leader, a diminutive clown who d used his newfound powers against his fellow performers because he d always dreamed of running a circus. Superman and Robin felt bad for him, and hoped the courts would take it easy on him.

(Batman I #333-335) - Robin and Catwoman convinced Ron Watkins t hand over state’s evidence in return for amnesty, admitting he targeted the Wayne Foundation because he was on Gregorian Falstaff’s payroll, not because Bruce Wayne was a slumlord. Commissioner Gordon was pleased with Robin’s work, and informed him that he’d been listening to a special radio band Batman gave him and King Faraday wanted to see Robin in Shanghai for a matter concerning his mentor. Faraday explained that a decade ago his partner Archer Templeton vanished. They promised each other that should either of them disappear they’d try to contact the other with a secret radio band. Two days ago Faraday finally picked up a message from Archer, leading him to Infinity Island in the Indian Ocean. Archer was nowhere to be found, but Faraday found his lifeboat, with the word “Batman” scrawled on it. Robin made it clear he was only reluctantly working with Faraday, knowing how calculated and cold-blooded he was in fulfilling his duty. Faraday led them to his contact Quo-Quing, who’d been gunned down by an assassin. Robin and Catwoman failed to catch the killer and when they returned to Quo-Quing they found Faraday had been abducted. Catwoman decided her fence and informant in Hong Kong could help them figure out their next move. They met Chin Ho, who invited them to talk, but drugged their tea and had them bound. Chin knew Catwoman always disapproved of his living as an opium dealer and once interfered in his drug trafficking, so he decided to gain a measure of revenge on her, ordering his men to inject Catwoman and Robin full of cocaine. Catwoman used her claws to cut their binds and easily captured Chin. They found Chin had Faraday prisoner, and freed him. The trio made their way to Infinity Island, where three spheres engulfed them, dropping them in the mines underneath the island. The mines were filled with slave labor being whipped by mutate overseers. Batman and Talia had been in Hong Kong investigating Falstaff’s background, and Batman ended up kidnapped and tossed in the mines as well by Falstaff’s master. They fought off the mutates and made their way to find Talia al Ghul. She promised she was never Batman’s enemy and had come to Infinity Island to save him, but her youth was fading and she was aging for every minute she lived. She reunited with the mastermind, her father Ra’s al Ghul, who restored her youth. He offered Batman eternal youth if he served him, but warned that if he rejected his offer Batman and his friends were all as good as dead.- Batman said he agreed to serve Ra’s, and Ra’s sent his companions back to the mines. Ra’s said Talia was ready to betray him for Batman, and batman would be responsible for her punishment. Ra’s assistant Saltzer told Ra’s he was being played, and Ra’s was well aware that Batman was lying, knowing the caped Crusader could never truly serve him just as Ra’s could never join him, but he respected his enemy and was interested in what plan he had to defeat him. Ra’s showed Batman the Lazarus Pit he’d discovered centuries ago, and after learning to harness its power it granted him immortality. The Lazarus Pit only worked on Ra’s, and would destroy anyone else that tried to bathe in its fiery waters. Ra’s first decided to go after Bruce Wayne when he learned Wayne Enterprises had acquired Infinity Island as part of its’ holdings, and cursed Falstaff for having failed him. During his research on Wayne enterprises he’d first learned that Batman was Bruce Wayne. Ra’s dipped his hand in the Lazarus Pit and extended it to Batman, offering him immortality. Batman rejected him, and Ra’s ordered his mutates to beat Batman. Faraday, Robin and Catwoman escaped the mines again, and Talia came to their aid, leading them to Ra’s lab where he had Batman in a containment unit, intending to transform him into a mutate. They saved Batman and subdued Ra’s. Ra’s said he always wanted Talia and Batman to fall in love, but never anticipated her being more loyal to him than her own father. Saltzer burst in and shot Talia, and Ra’s reacted by snapping Saltzer’s neck. Ra’s immersed her in the Lazarus Pit, hoping a brief exposure would heal her instead of destroying her, and his gambit aid off. Ra’s still blamed Batman for turning his daughter against him, and demanded a duel. Batman accepted, telling Faraday, Catwoman and Robin to leave because he had to handle the situation himself. Ra’s tried to push Batman into the Lazarus Pit, bemoaning that after he killed his nemesis it would take decades to find another worthy opponent. Batman overpowered him and Ra’s fell into the pit. He emerged burning up and having been driven mad by his bath in the pit, completely focused on killing Batman. Batman forced him back into the pit, causing an explosive reaction that set off volcanic activity that destroyed the island. Batman and company survived by flying off the island on a helicopter. Bruce Wayne recovered at home and Talia said she had to leave him, wanting to find her own way after the death of her father. Robin decided to return home and spend some quality time with Bruce.

(Batman I #337, 338) - Dick Grayson, feeling adrift, was delighted when Waldo Flynn wrote to him. Waldo had left the Sterling Circus to join Lorna Hill’s circus, and talked up the fact that they were like a family. Dick watched an aerial performance by Cleveland Brand, who’d taken over his deceased brother Boston’s role as the daredevil character Deadman. Cleveland injured his arm during practice, and Dick asked Lorna if she’d like to see a demonstration of his skills that made him famous as one of the Flying Graysons. During his performance clown Jo-jo Jones was shot, and Dick spotted someone running away from the big top. Dick subdued the runner, who turned out to be Waldo, but he refused to believe he was a murderer. The police told Dick that the bullet that shot jo-Jo went through his body, and they’d be back the next day to find it. That night Dick went into action as Robin, to see if anyone else was looking to retrieve the bullet. He confronted a hooded figure, who turned out to be Lorna, and wondered if she was the shooter. Lorna recovered the bullet, but assured Robin she had the same goal as him, to clear Waldo’s name. They were beset by the circus’ tigers, and while Robin tried to tussle with them, Lorna showed him how to sooth them The lion-tamer Magnificent Melanie had released them, admitting she thought Robin was trying to frame Waldo had had momentarily lost her temper. Melanie was engaged to Waldo, and explained to Robin that she’d been arguing with Jo-Jo, who was her ex, because he refused to accept they were done as a coupe. Dick visited Waldo in the hospital, where he was being watched over by Vashnu, Lorna and Tiny. When Robin caught him, the drop injured him, but he regained consciousness and asked to talk to Dick. Waldo said he’d been arguing with Jo-Jo about Melanie and when he turned away from the argument a gun was tossed into his hand. He admitted the gun went off, but it wasn’t aimed at Jo-Jo and he knew he was being set up. Robin did some more investigating and closed the case. Jo-Jo had terminal cancer and wanted to frame Waldo for murder for “stealing” his girlfriend. Waldo wasn’t responsible for his death, and Jo-Jo had killed himself with a gun on a timer hidden in the bleachers. The crew of Hill’s Circus were overjoyed when all charges were dropped against Waldo.

(Batman I #339) - With Deadman Cleveland Brand still injured Dick Grayson was thrilled to take a job at Hill’s Circus, getting back to his roots when he performed as one of the Flying Graysons with his parents. Lorna, Waldo and Cleveland were all impressed with his debut performance, and Dick reflected on how his parents and Batman shaped him into the person he’d become, and how he owed them a debt of gratitude even though he’d become his own man.

(DC Comics Presents #41) - Batman was badly injured, and needed weeks of bedrest, but continued to fight with Alfred and Robin, insisting he was ready for action. When Joker was on the loose in L.A. Superman decided to catch him to help his friend, and asked Alfred to put Batman in a media blackout. Alfred succeeded in keeping Batman bedridden until Superman brought Joker to justice.

(Vigilante I #3) - Captain Hall told the Titans that they needed help getting criminal William Stryker to Attica, because the last two times they tried to transport him the Vigilante attacked. Cyborg said he could use an easy case, and agreed. Cyborg drove Stryker, but the car was hit with an armor piercing shell, and Vigilante pursued them through the woods. Stryker mocked Cyborg for his morality, but the hero said he could hold his head high doing something he loved, and he doubted the criminal could say the same. Cyborg questioned Vigilante's notion of justice and doubted that he'd only killed in self-defense or the defense of others as he claimed. Vigilante said he couldn't let Cyborg take him in, shooting him in the shoulder, causing him to black out. Vigilante questioned his own sense of justice, and instead of killing Stryker he threatened him until he confessed to where evidence against him for his heinous crimes could be found. Robin, Wonder Girl and Starfire took cyborg to the hospital, and seeing that he got a get-well card from Vigilante wondered if Cyborg had got through to him.

(Titans East Special #1 (fb)) - Joker, with his hired goon Bizarro, crashed pop star Jenn s concert in Central Park. He held her hostage, but the New Teen Titans responded and took Jenn to safety. Kid Flash took away Joker s gun, be realized the gun contained a bomb, Joker s actual plan involved blowing up all of Jenn's fans. He ran at superspeed to toss it into the ocean, and Raven tried to confront Joker with his worst fears and nightmares, but they only made him laugh convulsively. Flash and Robin secured Blue Kryptonite from S.T.A.R. Labs to defeat Bizarro, and Robin took out Joker with one punch. The Teen Titans were impressed with themselves for having taken out such heavy hitters, and knew they'd always succeed as long as they stuck together.

(Titans II #23 (fb)) - Robin and Speedy fought Dragon Fly. Speedy was preoccupied, because he was planning on proposing to Wonder Girl with an engagement arrow. Lilith had a premonition that Wonder Girl would marry a red head, and he would later die. She told Wonder Girl, and when Speedy proposed to her she rejected him, fearing Lilith s prophecy.

(Vigilante I #20, 21) - A new Vigilante appeared who was a murderer, and Nightwing, thinking Adrian Chase was still under the mask, tried to talk to him. They battled, and Vigilante knocked him off a bridge. Nightwing confronted Adrian at home, convinced he'd finally snapped. Their battle went into the streets, and Adrian couldn't convince Nightwing of his innocence because he wasn't sure of himself. They both realized there was a new Vigilante when they saw a news report about him shooting cop-killer William Sanchez. Adrian blamed himself for inspiring the new Vigilante, and promised Nightwing he'd take care of him.

(New Titans #50, Justice League of America II #0 (fb)) - Nightwing and the New Titans attended the wedding of Troia and Terry Long.Batman was present, and told Nightwing he was proud of the strong team he'd assembled, and Nightwing said it was thanks to Batman, who taught him that you didn't need parents to have a family.

(Showcase '93 #11, 12) - Robin sought Nightwing's aid in stopping Bracuda from setting up shop in NYC. Robin told him he was having trouble with the ne Batman, and Nightwing in no way accepted Jean Paul as Batman. Nightwing as convinced that Batman would not have chosen Jean Paul as his successor if he hadn't been injured and medicated. They found Bracuda and Big Chulo, a criminal Nightwing was investigating, doing a drug deal on a ship. They fought intensely until the buyer Estes lobbed a grenade at the heros. The explosion knocked them off the boat and rendered them unconscious, and the villains fled. The NYPD responded and a Lieutenant who was no fan of vigilantes told them they'd blown it. The NYPD followed a lead to Bracuda's warehouse, and the heroes followed. The Lieutenant ran afoul of Bracuda and Chulo, who tied him up and set the warehouse on fire to cover their tracks. Robin and Nightwing joined the fray and battled the villains until the Lieutenant freed himself and handed Bracuda and Chulo over to the NYPD. Robin told Nightwing he'd reminded him what teamwork was supposed to be about.

(Final Night #2-4) -The Sun-Eater attacked the sun, causing an unseasonable chilling of Earth. Nightwing responded to riots in Metropolis, where a mob was trying to kill Dusk, the alien who warned Earth about the Sun-Eater, blaming her for the Sun-Eater's attack. At S.T.A.R. Labs Nightwing and a team of heroes learned that the Eater would cause the sun to go hyper-nova in under 24 hours. Earth was saved when Parallax sacrificed his life to dispel the Sun-Eater and reignite the sun.

(Green Lantern III #81) - Coast City; Nightwing was among the heroes who attended a memorial service for Green Lantern Hal Jordan.

(Green Arrow III #16 (fb)) - Nightwing attended Oliver Queen's funeral in her civilian identity.

(Batman Plus #1) - Arsenal approached Nightwing when he learned that KGBeast had Cheshire, and was going to sell her to a group of Quraci nationals. Arsenal said they'd surely kill her, and he couldn't allow the mother of his child to die. Nightwing said Batman was a more fitting choice to take on KGBeast, and set up a meeting despite Arsenal's objections that Batman was creepy. It turned out that KGBeast scammed the nationals out of their money, had they cash deposited in Cheshire's Zurich bank account, and went there with her to take it for himself. KGBeast's men were holding Lian Harper and her babysitters hostage, so Cheshire was forced to cooperate. Nightwing saved Lian and the Santos, and Arsenal and Batman took down KGBeast.

(DCU Holiday Bash #2)  - Batman and Nightwing fought crime on Christmas, and Batman told his partner to get going or he d be late for his date with Oracle. Oracle, as usual, decided to stay inside for the holiday, and they reminisced over their early careers. Oracle got him Elvis mistletoe and Nightwing got her an Old Lane street sign because of Oracle s confusion as a youth over the song Auld Lang Sine.

(Spectre III #62) - Corrigan decided to give up the mantle of the Spectre, at last seeking peace in death. Craemer arranged for his bones to be buried in a small grave, and performed a funeral service, with all of the friends Corrigan met as the Spectre attending, including Nightwing. The Spectre-Force vanished and Jim ascended to Heaven.

(Flash II #140) - Nightwing was among the number of heroes that attended Linda Park's funeral.

(DC One Million #1, 3) - Nightwing learned that Arsenal was trying to get the Titans together agin with a mission in Mongolia against Vandal Savage. He feared that Arsenal was in over his head, and asked Oracle to keep an eye out on him. Nightwing then had to contend with the Hourman Virus, brought to the present by the Vandal Savage of the 853rd century and Solaris.

(DCU Holiday Bash #3) - Oracle threw a Christmas party for loners, inviting Nightwing, Robin, Alfred and Harold.

(JLA #38, 39, 41) - Nightwing was among the legion of heroes summoned by the JLA to quell worldwide outbreaks of warfare that were incited by Mageddon.

(Beast Boy #2, 3) - Oracle contacted Nightwing when Beast Boy was arrested for murder in Hollywood. Nightwing said that as far as he was concerned his friend was innocent until proven guilty, and had Oracle book him a flight to the west coast. Nightwing spotted a doppelganger he mistook for Beast Boy about to attack director Don Dickerson, the creator of Gar's old show Space Trek, and Nightwing confronted him. They battled, and Nightwing realized that the imposter didn't know his real identity, and wasn't Gar. Nightwing's number-one fan Flamebird arrived to help, but proved to be a distraction, allowing the imposter to get away. Nightwing bailed Gar out of jail, and offered to help him catch his double and clear his name. Gar was still angry he hadn't been invited to join the Titans, and said he wanted to stand on his own two feet and clear the case alone. Nightwing met with Flamebird, and told her that although he admired her spirit, she wasn't cut out for crimefighting, and he strongly suggested he retire. He disappeared before she could respond, and she was determined to keep at her work and prove him wrong.

(Batman: Gotham Knights #1) - Nightwing, Robin and Batman investigated the murder of Senator Jack Myles and wife Eileen. Nightwing and Robin quickly deduced that the killer was their young son Barrett Myles, but Batman refused to believe it. Nightwing had to be patient and wait until Batman was willing to see the truth; Gotham had changed immensely since he was a boy.

(Titans I #15, 16) - Troia, Tempest and the founding Titans went away on a camping trip to a deserted island to work out their differences. The team kept butting heads, with Nightwing calling Arsenal out on his lack of commitment to the team and blaming Flash for Dark Flash's actions when he was on the team. A monsoon hit the island, causing tempers to flare as the Titans sought shelter. They came to a cave, where they discovered the Gargoyle, who'd been exacerbating their negative feelings. The Titans were taken to Limbo, where they were de-aged to their thirteen year old selves from when they first became Teen Titans. After reliving some of their childhood memories they battled the Gargoyle, but the Gargoyle took a fall, he wanted them to stay angry at each other, which would ensue their imprisonment in Limbo. While the rest of the Titans worked out their problems Arsenal told them Limbo was about stagnation, and that sometimes friends had to disagree to make each other better. To make an example he told Nightwing he was sick of hearing about Batman all the time and decked him. With that they were transported out of Limbo.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - Nightwing and the Titans were among the superteams that attended Young Justice s Justice for All rally in Washington. It was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged most of the heroes into children. Nightwing and the other founding Titans were unaffected by Klarion's spell.

(Titans I #17-19) - Starfire and most of the Titans went to the Vegan System to help Starfire's brother Ryand'r. She told Nightwing to stay behind, and he guessed it was for personal reasons. He had a computer conference with Dr. Charles to work on the logistics of genetic microcellular duplication. Arsenal was going to invite him on a camping trip, but saw Nightwing was happy to keep busy. He then went to Jesse Quick to discuss the business of retrieving genetic samples of Victor Stone held in Science City. She was hesitant, but after he taught her to apply her superspeed to a martial arts workout she gave in. Nightwing received a video conference call from Starfire, who said she was leaving the Titans and staying on the planet Karna. They both admitted they would always love each other.

(Titans I #20) - Flash razzed Nightwing about being Jesse Quick's "boyfriend," but knocked it off when Nightwing admitted he did like her. As per Nightwing's request, the Science City scientists grew a cloned body of Victor Stone, and Nightwing took Cyborg to Russia to surprise him with it. At first Cyborg saw it as another example of Nightwing manipulating him, and accused him of acting like Batman. Cyborg calmed down and realized he was grateful for the chance to be human again. The scientists transferred his consciousness into the human body, and Victor and Nightwing returned to Titans Tower. Flash got Jesse Quick to join the Titans, then bid farewell to Nightwing and the team. He'd joined the Titans to make Nightwing feel comfortable, but that made Nightwing feel obligated to stay. He knew Nightwing was happy with the team now, and would stay on because he loved it.

(Titans I #23, 24) - Nightwing found that Chandra was looking at information on the Titans computers about where Cheshire was awaiting trial, and he suspected she'd sold them out to Deathstroke. She didn't betray the Titans, but she did tip off Quaraci terrorists about Cheshire's location, and so she quit the Titans. Troia came to Titans Tower, but Nightwing and the Titans no longer remembered her because of the manipulations of Dark Angel. Troia returned with the Titans of the Earth-Kingdom-Come hypertimeline. After a brief misunderstanding and fight between the two teams of Titans they started working together to go after Dark Angel. After a heated argument Nightwing benched Arsenal, because he was in no shape to go on the mission. The Titans of Kingdom Come were risking damaging the fabric of reality by leaving their own hypertimeline, so they had limited time to work, and made up a cover story of being top-secret military agents. Nightwing thought Titan Nightstar looked very familiar, not realizing he was her father in her hypertimeline. Both teams of Titans entered a portal to Dark Angel's netherworld opened by Tempest.

(JLA #55) - The White Martians needed distractions for the JLA while they set up a power base. While Batman was saving psychic Gina Fastabriana from falling to death the Martians mind controlled Nightwing, who cut Batman s batrope. The hero saved himself from plummeting, and the Martians got out of Nightwing s head.

(Action Comics I #781) - On President Luthor's request Nightwing and the Titans went to Zaire, Africa to battle an Imperiex Probe that had landed on Earth to hollow out the planet, but the battle went badly for the heroes. More Probes arrived and the heroes were only saved by Superman, who destroyed the Probes.

(JLA #58) - Nightwing was among the number of heroes defeated by the White Martians invading Earth. The Martians were eventually driven off by the JLA.

(JLA #69, 71, 73, 75, 76) - With the JLA trapped in the year 1,000 B.C., Batman's contingency plan for a new JLA was activated. JLA-Spheres located hand picked by Batman and brought them to the Watchtower, where a video recording of Batman told them they would have to carry on as Earth's protectors in case the JLA never returned. As part of this plan Nightwing had been appointed by Batman to be the leader oif this new JLA. The team was instructed not to go looking for the missing JLA, and were kept busy by a worldwide drought. The drought caused tectonic plate shifting in Japan, resulting in earthquakes and lava flows that the JLA had to deal with. Atom discovered that Eartrh s water was being drained to Atlantis. He got a video feed of Atlantis, where the team saw a skeleton dressed in Superman s costume. Atom coordinated the JLA s return to Atlantis, where they found Gamemnae, an ancient Atlantean sorceress bent on bringing new glory to her land. They warned her that the waters shifted to Atlantis threatened to pull Earth from its orbit, but she refused to listen. The JLA couldn't defeat her, and President Luthor ordered muon bombs to be dropped on Atlantis to destroy the sorceress. The bombs had no effect on her, and the JLA was brought to safety by a ring-image of Green Lantern, who explained that the JLA in ancient Atlantis made a plan in the past to save the future. Manitou Raven, the sole survivor of the Ancients, the superteam Gamemnae created and betrayed, had preserved the souls of the JLA that Gamemnae killed in 1,000 B.C. He tricked her into resurrecting them, and then Zatanna and members of the new JLA went to 1,000 B.C. where they freed Aquaman, who d been turned into a water elemental and imprisoned in a pool by Gamemnae. Aquaman merged with the ocean, sank Gamemnae s Atlantis, and Zatanna cast a spell that returned Aquaman s Atlantis to the present day. Gamemnae, weakened by this change in history, was easy prey for Manitou Raven, and he sacrificed himself to destroy her. Batman's JLA disbanded, and Nightwing returned to Bludhaven.

(JLA / JSA: Virtue and Vice) - Hong Kong, Nightwing and Changeling battled citizens under the control of the Seven Deadly Sins. The Sins were defeated by the JLA and JSA, and their influence over the people of Hong Kong ended.

(Outsiders III #1-3) - Nightwing reluctantly joined Arsenal's new superteam, the Outsiders. Arsenal convinced Nightwing that the new team would work because it would be all about being professional superheroes, and not about forming a family like when they were in the Teen Titans and Titans. Nightwing strongly objected to having Indigo on the team, despite Arsenal assuring him that she had been reprogrammed as a force for good. The argument was never concluded, as the team had their first case, they had to stop Gorilla Grodd, who was assaulting New York with an army of apes. The Outsiders defeated Grodd's army and learned they were only there as a distraction so that Joker could kidnap President Luthor, who was staying in the city. The Outsiders then saved Luthor and took Joker into custody. Nightwing had a talk with Batman, and said he was happy to be part of a team that planned to launch preemptive attacks against villains instead of always waiting until the villains had already struck.

(Outsiders III #4-6) -Acting on tips from Arsenal's source, Nightwing and the Outsiders battled and captured Calendar Man, Calculator, Plasmus, Punch and Jewlee and the Bug Eyed Bandit. Nightwing and the Outsiders shup down a gun-running operation headed by Brain and Monsieur Mallah in Kwajalein. Arsenal's source gave him a hint that the villains they had recently captured were working for Brother Blood, so the Outsiders went to the House of St. Francis Monastery where Blood was living as a monk. Blood set off a bomb that destroyed the monestary and fled. The Outsiders learned Blood was going to activate sleeper agents to steal one million babies to start a new race raised loyal only to him. The Outsiders stopped Blood from activating a GPS signal that would awaken his sleepers, but they failed to prevent the inmates of the Slab, who were protecting Blood, from escaping custody.

(Outsiders III #7) - Nightwing and the Outsiders physically restrained the real Metamorpho when showed up at Outsiders hq and tried to absorb the Outsider's Metamorpho, who was actually a piece of Metamorpho that formed its' own life. The Outsiders helped convince the real Metamorpho that their Metamorpho was a real hero and should be able to continue his own, separate life.

(Outsiders III #8) - Nightwing strongly objected to Arsenal adding Huntress to the Outsiders' roster, but Arsenal was firm in his decision. Nightwing said she was too brutal for the team, and Huntress snapped back that she thought his anger was due to his attraction to her. Their bickering was interrupted when they had to interview the Tattooed Man, who recently sold arcane totems to Russian mobster Ishmael Gregor, who then used them in a blood sacrifice.

(Outsiders III #9-10) - Nightwing and the Outsiders confronted Gregor, who had transformed into the demonic Sabbac, as he summoned the Soldiers of Dietec to Earth. With the help of Black Lightning and Captain Marvel, Jr. the Outsiders forced the Soldiers back to Hell and forced Sabbac to flee.

(Superman / Batman #5) - President Luthor blamed Superman for the kryptonite asteroid heading towards Earth, and put out a warrant for his arrest. He prematurely announced the capture of Superman, and Batman, who was aiding him, leading members of the Superman and Batman Families, including Nightwing, to raid the White House to rescue their friends. The Batman Family made it to the oval office, but Luthor knocked them out with nerve gas, but Batman and Superman broke into the White House and freed their friends.

(Flash II #210) - Flash, Nightwing and the Teen Titans got together for a little catch-up. Flash and Nightwing defeated the Penguin, who was expanding his criminal operations into Keystone City with the help of Double Down and Girder. Nightwing and Flash took a private tour of the New Flash Museum when Gorilla Grodd ambushed them. They defeated the villain, and promise to try to stay in touch more often.

(Identity Crisis #1) - Nightwing celebrated his parents  anniversary by visiting their grave. Starfire joined him, knowing where he d be from the years they sent dating. They got a call from Oracle informing them that Sue Dibny was murdered. Two days later they attended her funeral in Central City.

(Superman / Batman #13) - Nightwing and the Outsiders were among the heroes invited to Paradise Island to welcome Superman's cousin Supergirl into the superhero community.

(Flash II #214, 215) - Nightwing, Arsenal and the Teen Titans interrogated the Brain and Monsieur Mallah at Striker s Island to see if Warp or Plasmus had anything to do with the death of Sue Dibny because they suspected a teleporter and someone with flame-based powers. They got no useful information and realized they were grasping at straws. Flash asked Nightwing to find the whereabouts of his estranged wife Linda Park, because he was worried about the spouses of superheroes being targeted for death. Nightwing contacted Oracle, but the most they could learn was that Linda was last seen in Opal City at a journalism conference. Nightwing tried to assure Flash that if he couldn't find Linda, neither could Sue s killer.

(Identity Crisis #5) - Nightwing questioned Black Spider about the death of Sue Dibny, but he couldn't offer any useful information.

(DC Countdown #1) - When someone broke into a Kord warehouse and stole the kryptonite stored there Oracle called in favors to Nightwing and a number of other heroes to investigate the crime scene, but the investigation turned up nothing.

(Green Arrow III #49, 50) - When Nightwing and the Outsiders learned Arsenal was supposedly caught in an explosion at the Star City Forest Trust Bank after aiding Green Arrow against Drakon, they came to offer their help. They searched the wreckage but found no sign of their teammate. They did find a calling card from Riddler, who had Drakon kidnap Arsenal before the detonation. They stormed Riddler s safehouse, Puertas al Infierno, a former prison, and fought off the hi-tech armored mercenaries that guarded it. Shift captured Drakon, and once Riddler learned his security had been breathed he fled, noting that his act was a game, and a hint of things to come when he was serious about destroying Green Arrow.

(JLA #121) - Brutale was hired to rub out the witness for a criminal trial. Nightwing interceded, and his battle with Brutale ended in both of them falling off a rooftop. Green Lantern John Stewart appeared to make the save, and offered Nightwing membership in a covert Justice League. Aquaman was in charge of this League and was worried about Batman splitting from the JLA, and his comments that the concentration of power in the League was too dangerous to exist. After the creation of Brother Eye, Aquaman also feared Batman as a foe, and the purpose of trying to recruit Nightwing was to have a hold over Batman. Nightwing rejected the proposal and reported back to Batman, who d anticipated his former allies actions.

(Flash II #228) - Nightwing met Flash at the Flash Museum. Flash needed the Summoner to save a dying woman, so Nightwing brought him to S.T.A.R. Labs, where the weapon was being held.

(Robin II #175) - <Week 30> Dick and Tim accompanied Bruce to Nanda Parbat, where he entered a cave to perform the Thogal Ritual, which would simulate death and rebirth. After days of watching the cave Dick toldf Tim they were leaving to prepare for Bruce s return. UI n Cannes they got invited to Giuseppe Gallante's party, and although he was a drug dealer to the rich and famous Dick said they were going to use him to catch a bigger fish. They captured Maurice Mendenhall, aka Fleshling, a slave trader who'd taken a girl from the party. On the 24th day of Bruce in a cave they visited Momnte Carlo, and used a show of money and power to get time with Shiek Basser ben Bedraya, whose family funded labs with Intergang connections. They convinced him to stop funding the labs by giving him a permanent Gotham endowment.-Bruce emerged from the cave at Nanda Parbat after forty-nine days, and declared that he d purged his demons and that Batman was gone.

(Nightwing II #138, Detective Comics I #838) - The Sacrament, a cabal of bounty hunters, tracked a slave-ring from Thailand to Chinatown, and sent their agent Ayim to end them. Nightwing wished he could work alongside Ayim, but couldn’t abide by the lethal force the Sacrament used, and prevented Ayim from king a gangboss. Batman called Nightwing, saying he was in China pursuing the resurrected Ra’s al Ghul and needed Nightwing to protect Damian, who was in Gotham. Ra’s body was crumbling and he planned to place his essence in his grandson. Batman offered up an override code for the Justice League transporter, but Nightwing already knew it, and Batman said they’d have to talk about that more at a later date. At Wayne Manor Nightwing found his home under siege by League of Assassin ninjas. Has-been criminals Dragonfly, Tiger Moth and Silken Spider were waiting outside, and although Nightwing didn’t know who they were working for he didn’t have time for them and took them out with sleep gas. Nightwing, Alfred, Damian and Robin fought valiantly against overwhelming odds, with Damian constantly complaining that their combat style was far too defensive. The fight spilled into the Batcave, and Dragonfly, Tiger Moth and Silken Spider recovered, and were quite interested to learn that the Batcave was underneath Wayne Manor. Talia had sent them to protect Damian, and they started gunning down the ninjas, who put them down with poisoned darts. The ninjas took off with Robin and Damian, but Nightwing couldn’t pursue them because he had to save Dragonfly and her friends lives. He whipped up an antidote in the Batcave and administered it to them. He cursed himself for the impossible choice he’d had to make. Nightwing and Alfred took a jet to Tibet to confront Ra’s and were met by Ubu and League ninjas. Nightwing fought off the ninjas, and when Ubu grabbed Alfred and threatened to snap his neck Alfred used judo moves to make short work of him.

(Robin II #169, Nightwing II #139, Detective Comics I #839) - Ra’s told Batman to choose weather Damian or Robin would be the one for him to possess so he could restore himself to full life. Batman refused to choose between them, and told Ra’s there was another way for him to restore himself. He offered to take Ra’s to Nanda Parbat and the Fountain of Life, and Ra’s accepted. White Ghost watched over Ra’s captives, and while Ra’s had promised to spare Robin, White Ghost hadn’t, and considered disposing of the boy. Robin attacked the League ninjas, and was joined in his fight by I-Ching. Damian used the distraction to run, saying he was going to help his father. Talia pursued him, saying his father would never accept him as a son like she had, and Damian said he didn’t care about Talia’s love because Batman was cooler. I-Ching told Robin to leave him, and Robin was reluctant but I-Ching convinced him, saying he had some new techniques he wanted to try out on the ninjas. I-Ching shocked the ninjas with his new ability to float in the air. Robin caught up with Talia and asked if Ra’s claim that he could resurrect his parents if Robin agreed to serve him was true. Talia warned him that Ra’s collected people like toys, often only helping them so he could destroy them  later, but begrudgingly admitted that Ra’s could raise the dead. Robin wondered if he had the right to deny his loved ones a second chance at life. Robin found White Ghost, and hating himself thinking about what Batman would make of the choice he’d made, asked if Ra’s would give him a second chance and allow Robin to serve him. White Ghost was angered, saying Robin had already turned down his master’s offer and attacked him. They sparred until Robin convinced him that Ra’s might have had his own motives for the offer he made Robin, motives White Ghost wasn’t privy to. White Ghost said that if he was serious he had to bathe in the Lazarus Pit and entirely leave his old life behind. I-Ching told Robin he sensed the conflict within him, and wished him to reconsider. Robin attacked and I-Ching countered his attacks, saying he would step aside because a superior man had to choose his own path. Nightwing arrived and told Robin he’d stop him at any cost. Nightwing preferred to talk things out, but he and Robin engaged in combat even though Robin said he wasn’t going to enter the Lazarus Pit, he just wanted to take samples to analyze. Nightwing thought Robin had started to move on from the recent losses in his life, but realized that had been wishful thinking. Nightwing warned Robin not to mess with the natural order and Robin reminded him that people came back from the dead all the time. He asked Nightwing if Jason Todd came back from the dead why shouldn’t his dad. In addition to his parents Robbin wanted to bring Superboy back, having already spent a year trying to find a way to bring him back to life. I-Ching decided to act, sparring against both of them. He told Robin he lacked clarity because all he saw was death, but Nightwing should understand his need to find balance after balance had been lost. Robin and Nightwing dazed each other when I-Ching dodged their attacks and Nightwing said he’d let robin make his own choices. Robin obtained the sample, thought about his lost friends and family, and then dumped it out. He apologized to Nightwing and they embraced. I-Ching chose to stay at Ra’s stronghold to secure the Lazarus Pit so the events he witnessed would never be repeated. Ra’s contacted White Ghost, telling him to send backup to Nanda Parbat, and enough explosives to blow up the hidden city if need be. Damian disguised himself as a League ninja to join White Ghost, who easily saw through his disguise. Alfred flew Talia, Robin and Nightwing to Nanda Parbat, where all Hell had broken loose. Ra’s had hold of Damien, ready to possess his body while Batman and the monks of Parbat fought furiously with the League of Assassins. The new arrivals turned the tide of battle and Batman pulled Damian away from Ra’s, telling his son to grab a sword and fight. Talia was furious, accusing Batman of being willing to send his own son to his death, and Batman replied that he expected the same out of Damian as he did his other children. White Ghost offered himself up to Ra’s, asking him to take over his body. Ra’s was touched that the son he always despised always gave the most, and took control of his form, effectively killing his son. Ra’s told Batman and company that his son’s sacrifice would not be in vain, and because he believed in an eye for an eye he would kill Robin and Damian. Talia knocked out Damian and fled with him, telling Batman he was surely going to die in his final stand against Ra’s, and she was protecting the legacy of the man she once loved. Batman clashed furiously with Ra’s while Robin and Nightwing fought the Men of Death, keeping them from interfering. A blast of mystic energy separated Ra’s and Batman, and the monks of Parbat said they’d prayed to Rama Kushna and showed her the devastation Ra’s had wrought. Kushna decreed that Nanda Parbat was forever closed to Ra’s, and that if he refused to leave he would face death everlasting. Ra’s didn’t want his fight to be over, but when the ground started opening up beneath him he was forced to flee with his League of Assassins. Alfred flew Batman and company back home, and Batman hoped Talis would bring Damian to a place where he could be safe and leave behind the life he’d known.  Robin asked him if he would be okay with Damian’s new life not involving Batman, and Batman said that Damian needed to live without being forced to make choices based on destiny, and if one day he wanted to be part of the Batman Family it should be a personal choice. Alfred appreciated the sentiment and reminded them that it was Christmas day, a wonderful time for a family to be together.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth's heroes, including Nightwing, appeared to take Superboy-Prime down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn't at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he'd be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy's death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible for boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime.

(Green Lantern IV #25) - The Sinestro Corps War raged on Earth, and while Nightwing and an army of superheroes battled the Corps the Anti-Monitor prepared to unleash an anti-matter wave to destroy Earth. With Earth s destruction, the entire 52 would fall, and he would once again rule all that was. The GLC ruptured the heart of Anti-Monitor s Warworld, the Sinestro Corps central power battery, and created a shield around Warworld and the Monitor. The ensuing blast nearly destroyed the Anti-Monitor, and he was finished off by Superman-Prime, who betrayed him for having destroyed his home, Earth-Prime. GL Hal Jordan defeated Sinestro in personal combat, and the Sinestro Corps, lacking any leadership, fled Earth. The heroes rejoiced and began rebuilding the damage the Sinestro Corps did.

(Nightwing II #140-143) - Dick indulged in his newfound love of skydiving and then reported to the Batcave for a meeting with Batman and Robin. Robin noted internet chatter from the League of Assassins, and Batman reminded them to keep Ra s and Talia on the front-burner. Batman was none too pleased with Nightwing s interest in breaking skydiving records for an adrenaline rush. At the Museum of the City of New York Dick researched his home and territory so he d never be caught unaware, and he also met a friendly records department woman named Deborah Poulos. Talia dropped by to let Dick know she knew Batman was watching her, and that she was keeping tabs on him. With news that the Cloisters was being targeted by museum robbers, Nightwing intervened, and found special ops trying to steal the body of a 14th Century knight. Nightwing defeated them, but was attacked by a winged man, who managed to get away with the knight. Several nights later Nightwing told Robin of his descision to make the Cloisters his new base of operations. He d need to shut it down for three months to prepare it, but since Bruce owned the Cloisters and got him the job of museum curator, that was no problem. Superman told Nightwing that Black Condor s body had been stolen from Valhalla. He suspected there might be a correlation with the ops after the knight s body, but he had no time to check it out. Nightwing started construction on his Cloisters hq with help from his friends in the JSA, and went on a date with Deborah, taking her to a Yankees game. Deb hooked him up with her brother, a real estate agent who found him a penthouse in Hudson View Gardens  Flash caught up with him at home, getting filled in on what he d missed since his disappearance. Dick had Bruce buy several NY buildings as safehouses for him, and he constructed a hang-glider as a way of speedy travel around the city. Nightwing caught ops digging up KGBeast from St. Stanislaus Cemetary, but while the winged man allowed them to get away Nightwing defeated him. His creator, Doctor Kendall, set off a remote micro-imploder in the winged mans brain. Nightwing brought the body to Dr Mid-Nite of the JSA, who performed an autopsy and found it to be a clone created with the DNA of several people. He also traced scraps of fauna on the winged man to an African island base that Talia had promised was dismantled. Nightwing, accompanied by Robin, took the Batplane to Africa. There was no sign of Talia, but the base was occupied by Dr. Creighton Kendall, his ops, and an army of winged Loyalists. Robin and Nightwing turned the Loyalists against the rest of Creighton s forces by showing them the fate of their brethren, fed to flames when the clones were imperfect. Creighton blewup his production base and flew off in a rocket.

(Batman I #675) - Robin and Nightwing went on patrol, taking down the Dog Bandits, and Robin said they could find more impressive criminals to take down. Robin thought something was wrong with Batman, reminding Nightwing of his trip to Nanda Parbat and saying no one could undergo simulated death and rebirth without coming out different. Nightwing said he was convinced Batman knew what he was doing. They fought the Ray-Gun Raider, with Robin grabbing his jetpack’s harness and causing him to crash into a building. Robin asked Nightwing about the isolation experiments administered by Dr. Hurt that Batman volunteered years ago. Nightwing said he remembered Batman hallucinated his death, space monsters and all sorts of things until he recovered. He wanted to know why Robin thought Batman was losing it, but they spotted a fire at the Alhambra Rooms, where Bruce was on a date with Jezebel Jet. The Nine-Eyed Man tried to abduct Jezebel, and Bruce, not bothering to change into Batman, snapped and beat the criminal within an inch of his life. Jezebel Jet realized her boyfriend was the Batman.

(Titans East Special #1, Titans II #1-4) - Cyborg recruited a new roster of young heroes and contacted his old friends to reform the Titans and train them. Everyone turned him down, but Nightwing told him he appreciated what he was trying to do. They bout had a moment of nostalgia for the Titans, and how they were always equally family and a team. Trigon decimated Cyborg s team, he was out to destroy every Titan, past and present. After Trigon s demons attacked Nightwing he reunited with Starfire, Troia, Flash, Red Arrow, Beast Boy and Raven to investigate. The Titans saved Argent and a number of other former Titans from Trigon  s horde, although they were adamant that they were not a team again. Cyborg was rebuilt, and wanted in on the case, to avenge the death of Power Boy. Raven contacted Trigon, and learned that although he had been decimated by demonic warfare he was still bent on destroying Earth, and he shared a secret with her, her brother would help him in his invasion. In an attempt to find Raven s half-brother, Raven and the Titans tracked down Trigon s other brides, only to find that they d died years ago. Trigon s three sons kept the Titans off balance by exposing them to the seven deadly sins, with Nightwing and Starfire once again falling in lust and sleeping with each other. When the brothers were ready they confronted the Titans. They attacked the Titans and used Raven to open up a portal to Trigon s dimension. The battle went for Trigon s children and they used Beast Boy s Trigon seed, the smallest spark of which was still in him, to finish the portal. Raven used her own ability to tap into the seven deadly sins, which greatly sickened her, to overcome her brothers with greed. They stole Trigon s last vestiges of power, and then retreated to learn how to manipulate their newfound magic. Raven was pleased at having tricked them. In his dilapidated state Trigon could not have given them much of a magical boost. The Titans agreed that they still saw each other as family, and decided to remain a loose group in order to spend more time with each other.

(Nightwing II #144-146) - Nightwing broke up a drug deal and apprehended bank robbers that had fled into the subway system. He found that the Loyalists were created in part by a synthesized Lazarus fluid, and send a note to Talia. Talia confronted him, telling him she only created the Loyalists with Dr. Kendall to protect herself from Ra s, who couldn't stand her operating on her own and considered his bloodline tainted. When he told her he d continue to oppose her she gave him photos of his girlfriend Deborah Poulos sleeping as a warning to back off. In return Nightwing broke into Talia s boat, knocked out the guards, snapped a picture and sent it to her, warning her to leave family and friends out of their conflict. He learned that Talia had abducted the Great Mother of Champions from China to birth a new army of superhumans. Nighwing located her new base in the Hudson Valley Hammer Armory when Talia learned that while Kendall was trying to keep the children from rapidly aging he euthanized the decrepit ones and kept some infants alive as organ banks. Talia told him she wasn't running a death camp, and demanded he shut his operation down. Kendall rebelled against her, but Talia teamed with Nightwing to combat him. Kendall gave himself wings using one of the non-aging newborns as a template, but Nightwing defeated him, and he seemingly fell to his death in the Hudson. Nightwing returned Great Mother to the Chinese consulate, giving her the option of going home or not. In the wake of Talia and Kendall s actions the President demanded that the superhero community police their dead. Superman and the JLA created a maximum security morgue under their hq. Nightwing discussed the events with Superman and suggested a national memorial in Washington as a new way to honor fallen heroes.

(Batman I #678) - Robin stole one of Batman’s black casebooks, which dealt with his encounters with hallucinogens, the supernatural and extraterrestrial threats from the early years of his career. The casebook made it clear that what kept Batman stable was the original Robin’s optimism. Dr. Hurt brought his Club of Villains to Gotham to destroy Batman and his family. Robin was ambushed by Pierrot and Swagman, but escaped them on his motorcycle. Charlie Caligula sent his roman centurion themed goons after Nightwing, who beat them in a fight. He was then confronted by Scorpiana. She captured him, and Le Bossu had him committed to Arkham Asylum as Pierrot.

(Batman I #680, 681) - Dr. Hurt and his Club lured Batman to Arkham Asylum, having handed Jezebel Jet over to Joker and using her as bait. Batman fought his way through the Club’s henchmen and fought Joker before trying to save Jet from falling flower petals that contained neurotoxin. The toxins further twisted Batman’s mind, and Jet revealed herself as a member of the Black Glove. Le Bossu and Scorpiana prepared to give Nightwing a lobotomy, but he woke up and overpowered them. Nightwing helped Batman fight off the Club and Dr. Hurt. Hurt prepared to takeoff in a helicopter piloted by Bat-Devil, and claimed to be Thomas Wayne. Batman didn’t believe him, and Hurt said he’d staged photos that would paint his parents and Alfred as criminals and degenerates, threatening to release them unless Batman agreed to serve the Black Glove. Batman refused and jumped on the helicopter. Bat-Devil couldn’t control the flight and the helicopter plummeted into Gotham Harbor, exploding in a burst of flames. Nightwing dredged up Batman’s uniform, and Talia al Ghul, who came to Gotham as soon as she learned Batman was in trouble, promised to avenge the father of her child. In the coming months several members of the Black Glove turned up dead.

(Titans II #5, 6) -  At Titan's Tower Nightwing and Starfire met in the hot tub, discussing how the Titans was their only outlet to be themselves. They also discussed the Sons of Trigon nudging them to sleep together, and Nightwing had a hope they d resume being lovers. Starfire told him she was tired of them cycling back and forth between lovers and friends, and asked if he unconditionally loved her, and wanted to be with her. Nightwing honestly answered no, and after she kissed him, she told him they had to stay just friends. Beast Boy told the Titans that the Sons of Trigon had taken Raven, and that she d been recruited to her father s cause. Troia told the Titans that Raven had always planned for the worst, and given her a Ramat Stone that could locate magic-users. Beast Boy wanted to know why Troia was chosen to keep Raven s secrets, and she replied that in addition to being the most magically adept Titan, she d also proved that she d never judge Raven. The Titans concentrated on the stone and Raven, and were transported to Trigon's dimension. They met the rest of the Sons of Trigon, Greed, Gluttony, and Sloth, and were defeated. Raven turned against her brothers, proclaiming herself Pride, the sin from which all others sprung. She wanted to rule the Earth, but with the Titans at her side, and began imbuing them with the powers of the Seven Deadly Sins. This activated the Ramat Stone, Raven had given it a sliver of her pure essence, and the Raven that was loyal to the Titans emerged and merged herself with her demonic counterpart and returned the team to Titan s Tower. Raven was starting to feel more like herself, ut told the Titans that the Ramat Stone wouldn't work twice, and that she might me evil to the core. She presented her teammates with a set of magic talismans capable of ending her life if she wet to the dark side, and demanded that they learn to master them if she was to be comfortable on the team. Titan s Tower security was breached, and the team responded, only to find that Superboy s clone Match had broken in. The villain revealed that he was Jericho, trapped inside Match s body.

(Titans II #7-9) - Nightwing and the Titans examined Match in hopes of freeing their friend. Cyborg isolated Jericho s neuron patterns from Match, and prepared a radio-ectoplasmic pulse to free his astral form. Jericho then had Match run berserk and attack the Titans, claiming he couldn't control him. After battering the team, Cyborg used the ecltoplasmic pulse to separate them. Raven probed Jericho s mind and realized he was up to no good, but before the team could respond Jericho vanished, possessing one of the Titans. The Titans went into lockdown to keep Jericho from escaping, and Cyborg went with protocol for just such a situation, each Titan would take a security clearance interview with the Titans computer. The Titans kept an updated log of secrets only they and the computer would know. The Titans shared their secrets with the computer, and everyone passed, so Cyborg decided to use the ectoplasmic pulse on the Titans, one at a time. Jericho revealed himself to Nightwing, and forced him to inject himself with an LSD compound that made his mind a battleground, enabling Jericho to overcome his will. He promised to reveal what he was planning to do, and why. The Titans used the ectoplasmic pulse on Cyborg and Red Arrow, and waited for them to recover before testing the rest of the team. Jericho made Nightwing feel his thoughts, and revealed that everyone he d ever possessed had left their memories and a part of their mind in him. It was the vicious villains he d had contact with, like Deathstroke, that were now making his decisions for him, and he begged for Nightwing to help him. The Titans contacted S.T.A.R. Labs and learned that before Jericho had come to them for help he d possessed Green Lantern Hal Jordan and tried to kill the candidates for president. The Justice League were right outside of Titans  headquarters, demanding that Jericho be released to them.

(Detective Comics I #851, Batman I #684) - When a Two-Face impostor scarred the face of actress and philanthropist Millicent Mayne with acid Alfred rang up Nightwing, asking if he’d return to Gotham City to deal with the situation. Nightwing called Oracle, asking if Batman had been searching for any intel on Two-Face before his disappearance. Oracle told him Batman suspected Two-Face’s latest hideout was Joe and Son’s Repairs, a car repair shop in The Narrows. Two-Face was lying low with low level criminal Gracchus and his goons, but Gracchus had a vendetta against Mayne, and Two-Face was outraged when he impersonated him to harm her. Nighwing burst into the repair shop and fought Gracchus’ underlings, but was distracted when a pizza delivery man arrived, allowing the crooks to get the upper hand. A fire started during the fight and the crooks were more than happy to let the repair shop go up in flames if it took out Nightwing. The delivery man helped Nightwing escape the shop, and back at Wayne Manor Nightwing bemoaned his mistakes to Alfred, saying he was having a hard time keeping his head together with Batman gone. Alfred told him Batman wasn’t perfect and made his fair share of mistakes, but always learned from them. Gracchus, as Two-Face, robbed a jewelry store and phoned up Commissioner Gordon, warning him he was going to gatecrash the mayor’s reception at city hall. Gordon and Bullock lit the bat-signal again and when Nightwing answered he asked them to point him in the direction of Millicent Mayne. She was often seen wandering Gotham’s theatre district at night, one of the only parts of the city that had never been repaired after No Man’s Land. Millicent told Nightwing about her first encounter with Gracchus that led to his bitterness against her when he tried to foist a bag of millions of dollars worth of diamonds on her while she was performing on stage. They were both caught in Gotham’s earthquake and she gained the power to read the minds and know the stories of the lost souls of Gotham. The diamonds Gracchus offered her were still buried in the theatre and she knew he was using the attack on city hall as a diversion to distract the GCPD. Gracchus and his men arrived at the theatre and recovered the diamonds but were surprised by Nightwing, who easily defeated Gracchus and his men. Nightwing handed them over to the GCPD, and after he left Gordon and Bullock discussed weather or not they could hold out hope they’d ever see Batman again. Nightwing and Millicent talked into the night about the best way they could help each other defend Gotham City.

(Batman I #685) - Catwoman was vacationing in the Seychelles when she was approached by men who illegally sold exotic animals and purchased a clouded leopard from them. She bribed them to learn who supplied them their animals and traveled to Vietnam to confront them. She defeated the poacher’s leader sand in personal combat, taking over the group and promising to make them a worldwide power. Catwoman detested people who exploited animals and planned on freeing the exotic animals they’d collected, but needed a plan. She learned that Bruce Wayne had supposedly been spotted in Vietnam, but knew that was impossible since Wayne was M.I.A. since his confrontation with Dr. Hurt, and realized it was Hush. She ordered the poachers to kidnap hush, claiming they could collect a fortune by ransoming the wealthy Bruce Wayne. Hush was still livid that Catwoman was spending his money, and promised her that one day he would destroy her, but agreed to let her aides bring him to a riverboat to effect an escape so she could send all the poachers away from their camp in an attempt to recapture him. While the poachers were gone Sand tried to kill Catwoman, pointing a gun at her, but her clouded leopard mauled him, repaying Catwoman for saving him. Catwoman freed the exotic animals, baffled that people didn’t realize animals weren’t collectibles because they were rare and were only of value thriving in their natural environment. Catwoman’s aides revealed themselves as Nightwing and Robin, telling Hush he was coming with them back to Gotham. They couldn’t commit him to Arkham or send him to jail since he was now Bruce Wayne’s double, so they imprisoned him in a penthouse in Wayne Tower. Hush resolved to himself to act the part of the contrite prisoner until they let down their guard.

(Nightwing II #152) - Nightwing planned on cleaning up and repairing the Batcave when Ra's sent the League to the Batcave to kidnap Nightwing, but he handily dispatched the ninjas. Ra's then called Nightwing, letting him know that he only wanted to talk, and he was true to his word. When Nightwing met him in the Thar Desert he just wanted confirmation that Batman was dead. By the look in Nightwing's eye Ra's knew Batman was gone, and thought it a shame he wasn't the one to dispatch him. They argued, and it escalated to a swordfight in the desert. Nightwing gained the advantage, and told Ra's the real reason he was upset was that in his heart he knew Batman would always beat him. Ra's offered him his sword, the same one he'd used in a duel with Batman years ago in Thar, but Nightwing declined. When Nightwing returned to the Batcave he found the sword waiting for him.

(Superman I #684) - Nightwing and Flamebird asked Flash for assistance in their quest, to keep his eyes out for something they were hunting for. He agreed to help, promised to keep quiet to Superman for the time being, and warned them they had a hard road ahead.

(Titans II #10) - Jericho panicked and jumped into Flash s body and vibrated out of Titan headquarters, but he couldn't evade the Justice League. The Titans joined the League in battling Jericho as he lept from body to body, until he ended up in Superman. Previously he would never have been able to enter Superman s mind, but his power had grown immensely. He still wasn't strong enough to take control of Superman, who expelled his astral form from his mind. Jericho s astral form dissipated into the wind. The whole experience left Nightwing shaken, and he desperately wanted to find a way to help Jericho. Nightwing called a meeting with the Titans to announce his resignation from the team, saying he needed to spend more time with his family in Gotham.

(Azrael: Death s Dark Knight #1-3) - Oracle gave Nightwing a report on a police officer killed with a flaming sword, and Nightwing wondered if Azrael had returned. Further investigation turned up Michael Lane, the new Azrael, who wore the Suit of Sorrows stolen from the Batcave by the Order of Purity. Azrael broke into the Batcave and confronted Nightwing. Lane s predecessor had gone insane and killed the officer, but it took convincing for Nightwing to believe him. Nightwing recognized him as Dr. Hurt s Bat-Devil, and wanted to give him a shot at being a hero. He administered a drug cocktail to Azrael that made him forget what he d learned about Batman and the Batcave from Hurt, and carried him to his apartment. He left a note on Azrael s Suit of Sorrows saying he d let him keep it as a gift, but if he screwed up he d take it back. Nightwing also convinced Talia al Ghul to stop trying to take back the Suit to give it to Damian.

(Titans II #15) - Tempest sought Dick s advice on weather or not to assume role of Atlantis. He was inspired by how Dick had taken on the role of his mentor, and decided to become king.

(Azrael II #1) - Batman confronted Azrael after he attacked a GCPD police precinct to interview nuns from the Marlowe Mission, which had been targeted by a killer. Batman warned him that the only reason he was still standing was that no police officer had been seriously hurt by Azrael, and offered to help him bring in the killer, but Azrael wanted to stay solo.

(Titans II #21) - Batman busted up a youthful game, and was greeted by Starfire, who'd come to talk to him about weather or not to join the Justice League. She didn't like the front Dick was putting on as the new Batman, and he admitted he was playing a role and couldn't hide his true self from her. He convinced her that the Titans would always be her family even if she left them for the League, and he told her not to make the right choice for the wrong reasons.

(Titans II #23) - Batman and the Titans watched the Teen Titans unveil memorial statues for Hawk and Tempest following their deaths during Blackest Night. Flash said that he didn't know if he was more disturbed by the fact that the hall of the dead was so full of statues, or the fact that there were empty spaces anticipating the future deaths of Titans. Cyborg called the Titans, and told them that as Arrow s oldest friends it would be nice if they visited him in case he didn't make it. They flew to see Arrow at S.T.A.R. Labs and reflected on their early days as Teen Titans. Flash had an idealized memory of their time together, but Troia and Batman reminded him of the tension Speedy and his on-again off-again relationship with Wonder Girl caused. At the hospital Red Arrow s dire condition hit them, and Batman said he realized why Bruce Wayne never allowed himself to be close to people when he was Batman. Troia said that they d all experienced tragedy, but the fact that they were there for each other as a family made all the difference. Flash told Dick not to get too wrapped up in the Batman persona.

(Joker's Asylum II: Mad Hatter #1) - Mad Hatter was kidnapping and killing blonde women in an attempt to find his Alice in Wonderland and live happily ever after with her. After the Hatter kidnapped a local grocery store worker Batman broke into his apartment and saved the girl. Hatter fled, but unlocked his closet door which contained the bodies of his other "Alices.": He had a breakdown when he stopped repressing what he did, and Batman apprehended him.

(Joker's Asylum II: Killer Croc #1) - Killer Croc killed his psychiatrist Dr. Cross and escaped Arkham. Commissioner Gordon and Batman arrived at the scene of the crime, and Batman stated that Croc belonged in a cage, not being "treated." Croc had been taken in by the husband and wife crime figures Edgar Mason and Juliette, and they manipulated him until they were crimelords of Little Orphan Alley. Within a few weeks they decided to eliminate each other they both tried to sway Croc to their side, but when he realized he was being used by the people he thought of as friends he killed them both. Batman arrived at the scene of the crime, and Croc asked to be taken back to Arkham, stating that the people outside the asylum were monsters, not him.

(Joker's Asylum II: Clayface #1) - Batman noted an inordinate number of teens gone missing in Gotham over the last three weeks, and realized the only connection between the kids was their obsession with Basil Karlo's old horror movie The Terror. Clayface had acquiring a group of young followers, the Children of the Clay, who worshipped his movie The Terror. They allowed Clayface to absorb them inside his body, and the ones that had yet to sacrifice themselves attacked Batman. Clayface knew Batman wouldn't hurt the Children, so he disguised himself as one of them and slipped away. Although Batman stopped Clayface, the villain's actions gave him a new notoriety in Gotham that he only dreamed of in his days as an actor. Gordon wondered what could have been wrong with the Children's lives to make them pursue such a ghastly obsession, and Batman told Gordon they were searching for a sense of identity.

(Batman I #703)- Batman and Robin failed to catch a hi-tech thief who robbed the Wayne Foundation art show, and Robin berated his mentor for letting an amateur give them the slip. At the Batcave Batman was reminded of Bruce s old foe the Getaway Genius, and realized that this new thief had similar moves. He revealed that the original Genius had once given Bruce the slip, and as Robin he d been equally angry with his mentor, but didn't realize Bruce s motivation. Red Robin showed the heroes a piece by Vicki Vale in the Gotham Gazette that taunted them for being unable to catch the new Getaway Genius. Batman was suspicious of Vale s immediate presence at the crime, and talked to her as Dick. He got nowhere with her, and she demanded to speak to Bruce, and told him she was still sure that Dick was Batman. Dick told her to prove it, and placed a bug on her. The bug revealed that the Getaway Genius was tipping off Vale for the pure thrill of it.  The heroes learned that the Genius was targeting a Gotham Historical Society gala, and caught her, learning that she was the daughter of the original genius. Robin continued to question why Bruce let the original Genius slip from his grasp, and Batman explained that he learned the Genius had returned to crime to steal chemotherapy drugs for his cancer. Bruce said no child should grow up without their family, and set up a health care plan for the Getaway Genius. Robin was shocked, and admitted that he never really got to know Bruce. Batman assured him Bruce would return, and then he d have another chance.

(Batman I #704, 705) - The feds offered a reward for Reaper s capture, and Catgirl tried to apprehend him. She was almost killed before Batman and Robin intervened. Reaper bemoaned that they did not see the all-pervasiveness of evil in Gotham and share his quest. He told them he d have to kill them all for standing in the way of his vengeance, but Batman bested him in combat. Bruce came to talk to Dick, and said he d put Dick in charge of Gotham while he operated Batman, Inc., but he needed Dick to persuade Catgirl s mentor Catwoman that she was too young for the madness of costumed adventuring. Dick and Lucius Fox had a meeting with Sasha Lo and her half-brother Luki of the Tang Lo Foundation.  Sasha offered to buy up eight blocks around Crime Alley in order to rejuvenate one of the worst sections of Gotham. Dick tried to persuade her to choose somewhere in Gotham other than Crime Alley, but she was adamant, and he ended the meeting by telling her he d talk it over with Bruce Wayne. Dick visited a ball at Gotham s Diamond District to talk with Selina Kyle, and make her force her sidekick into retirement. Selina told him he should know that at some point children are too damaged to have a normal life. Sasha Lo had been tailing Dick, and told him she was being forced to flee the country, and offered him a ten million bonus if he d sell the Crime Alley property to her foundation. Assassins attacked Sasha, and Dick changed to Batman to aid her, but found that she had a secret identity as well, the Peacock. More assassins kidnapped Luki, and the heroes were confronted by their leader, the Sensei. They fought off Sensei, who escaped, and met I-Ching, who asked for Batman to aid him and Peacock. He revealed that Luki s psychic powers had located the Mask of the Beholder in Gotham. The mask was a powerful magical artifact that caused destruction in its wake, and it called out to Luki and Sensei to take possession of it. Peacock showed Batman pictures Luki drew of the destruction the mask would cause, and Batman recognized one of the locations as one of Chinatown s curio shops that had been razed in an explosion. The last call made to the shop was by Professor Sinnot, who was one of the Order of the Protectors responsible for keeping the mask hidden. Sinnot had been murdered, and Batman learned that he received a call from Lucius Fox before his death. Batman went to Lucius'  home, which had been ransacked by Riddler and his daughter Enigma.

(Titans II #28-30) - Batman responded to a breakout caused by Deathstroke s Titans at Arkham Asylum. He caught Deathstroke trying to accomplish the job he was there for, freeing inmate Allegra Garcia, and halted him. Deathstroke was impressed that Dick fought dirty, but put a halt to the battle by strapping bombs to Arkham security guards, forcing Batman to save them.  Batman was disturbed to learn that two heroes, Osiris and Arsenal, had both joined Deathstroke s Titans. He tried to reason with Arsenal, telling him it wasn't too late to turn back, but he ignored Batman. Deathstroke disabled the security collars on the Arkham inmates, and walked out of the asylum, telling Batman the inmates were his problem.

(Batman I #706, 707) - Batman fought off Riddler and Enigma, but learned that Sensei had already kidnapped Lucius. He used the Bat Bunker computers to decipher Lucius  connection with the Jade Compass Society, and found that Lucius  father Jasper was the one who brought the Mask to Gotham City. After learning that Reaper had been pursuing Sensei before he sent him to Arkham, he interviewed him and deduced Sensei s hideout, a Chinatown butcher shop. Sensei bested him, and becloud t stop Sensei from finding the Mask in the abandoned Archives Library of Gotham, but when he put it on, but found that it once again rejected him. Peacock revealed herself as Sasha Lo to Sensei, and told Batman to allow the Mask to destroy him. She had manipulated Sensei into finding the Mask because she wanted to find and destroy it. Sensei and the Mask were responsible for wiping out a village of her ancestors in 1929. I-Ching had Luki step in as the one truly worthy of it, and when Sensei went after him with a kitana he split the mask in two. Sensei fled with one of the pieces, while Sasha left the other in Batman s hands for safekeeping.

(Doom Patrol V #20) - When the DP were kicked out of Oolong Island they became political refugees. Negative Man contacted Batman, but he told him that Gotham didn't need another danger magnet.

(Titans II #34) - Ray Palmer was investigating Atom Ryan Choi's death, and presented his findings to Batman. Choi had been killed by Deathstroke and his Titans, and he asked for Batman s help in bringing them to justice. Batman agreed, but was distraught by the fact that his old friend Arsenal had since joined the Titans. He wished he d dragged Arsenal away by force when he d seen him working with such lowlifes.

(Titans II #36, Titans Annual II #1) - Atom, Batman, and the Justice League caught up with Deathstroke and his Titans, and demanded justice for Ryan Choi. Deathstroke showed the Justice League that his plane was equipped with a nuclear self-destruct system, and he d rather destroy himself and them than surrender. Deathstroke also told Arsenal he knew the League would never allow him to die, because they still considered him one of their own. This exact situation was the only reason Deathstroke allowed Arsenal to join his team. The League backed off temporarily, and allowed the Titans to fly off. The League confronted the Titans again in Kahndaq, where the villains had enlisted the support of Kahndaq s ruler Osiris. Batman tried to get Arsenal to side with the League, but he refused, telling him that heroes never won when it counted. Tattooed Man rejoined the team, just as Deathstroke knew he would, and gave Slade the opportunity to stab Supergirl with a kryptonite sword created for him by Lex Luthor. The battle ravaged Kahndaq, and Isis had enough. She demonstrated her godlike powers, and banished the League from her country. She sent Osiris and the Titans off, telling her brother that he d proved he was unfit to rule. Batman was filled with anger at the injustice, and wondered why he d never killed Deathstroke.

(Titans II #38) - Batman, the Justice League of America and the rest of the superhero community attended the funeral of Atom Ryan Choi.

Robin appearance in Batman I #95, 125, Detective Comics I #192, 216, 264, 265 was reprinted in Batman I #187.

Robin's appearance in Batman I #177 was reprinted in Batman I #259.

Robin's appearances in Batman I #73, 102, 121 and Detective Comics I #253, 259 were reprinted in Batman I #176. Robin appearance in Batman I #85, Detective Comics I #218, 241, 281, 294 was reprinted in Batman I #182. Robin appearance in Batman I #81, 107, 137, 156, Batman I #96, 111 was reprinted in Batman I #193, Detective Comics I #231 was reprinted in Batman I #185, Detective Comics I #472-474 was reprinted in Shadow of the Batman #2, 3.

Bizarro-Superman wrote and illustrated the Who Erased the Eraser?  comic book featuring the Robin in Bizarro Comics #1.