Nightwing: Year One - Chapter 1 and Long Day

About this episode

The episode explores Dick Grayson's early years as Robin and his transition to Nightwing.

Before Dick Grayson can get on with life, he must look back at his early years, starting with his last caper as the Dark Knight's partner Robin, the Boy Wonder! This episode is based on Nightwing #101 (Jan. 2005), written by Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty with artwork by Scott McDaniel, and Long Day based on the story from Batman: Black and White #4 (2014), written and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen. © & ™ DC. Listen to DC HIGH VOLUME: BATMAN: https://lnk.to/DCHighVolume Learn more at: https://www.dc.com/highvolume Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Chuck Dixon, Scott Beatty

Topics covered

• Batman
• Nightwing
• Robin
• superheroes
• comic book adaptations

Keywords

• Nightwing
• Batman
• Robin
• Chuck Dixon
• Scott Beatty
• Dustin Nguyen
• comic books

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DC

Books & works: Nightwing #101, Batman: Black and White #4

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