Nightwing: Year One - Chapter 3 and The Fool's Journey

About this episode

Dick Grayson navigates life after being fired as Robin and encounters Deadman, exploring their connection to his past.

Dick Grayson has been fired from being Robin and has struck out on his own, directionless. But Dick's about to receive a visit from Deadman! What connection does the ghostly, body-hopping hero Deadman have to the circus where Dick grew up? This episode is based on Nightwing #103 (Feb. 2005), written by Chuck Dixon and Scott Beatty with artwork by Scott McDaniel, and The Fool's Journey based on the story from Batman: Black and White #4 (2021) written by Becky Cloonan with artwork by Terry Dodson. © & ™ 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
• Deadman
• comics
• superheroes
• origin story

Keywords

• Dick Grayson
• Deadman
• Nightwing
• Batman
• comics
• Chuck Dixon
• Becky Cloonan

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: DC

Books & works: Nightwing #103, Batman: Black and White #4

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