THE BRAINSTORMS

How our introduction to the Boy wonder shaped him for years to come! Way, way back in Detective Comics (1938) #38 (for reference, at time of writing DC has just published issue #1108 one week ago), we were first introduced to Richard "Dick" Grayson, soon known to basically anyone who has consumed pop culture in the past century as Robin. Everyone knows the basic bones of the story, how he'd been part of a traveling circus, flying on the trapeze with his acrobat parents, when