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BATMAN: YEAR THREE: I
didn't expect to see this storyline on this particular list. While it's
certainly an essential Robin storyline, it's about the original Robin,
Dick Grayson, and Tim Drake has next to nothing to do with it. Written
by Marv Wolfman, the story featured Grayson returning to Gotham to face
an increasingly obsessed and dark Dark Knight, while his origin is
retold, rounding out the "Year" trilogy of Batman's early years. The
art is courtesy of Pat Broderick and John Beatty, with George Perez
handling the covers. It was never collected, but ran from Batman
#436-#439. I wonder if they actually meant to suggest Batman: A Lonely
Place of Dying, which was collected into a trade (though it's since
gone out of print) and which dealt with the origin of Tim Drake.
So I'd agree Batman is something good to see him work on at DC. I remember some Flash covers also that he did way back, and seeing him on Flash wouldn't hurt my feelings either!
While he is my all-time favorite artist,
and I've enjoyed everything he has been associated with... I think the
"defining" Perez for me was his work on revamping Wonder Woman, perhaps because he got to show off not only his knack for detailed art but his writing as well + I am a sucker for mythology.
In “A Lonely Place of Dying,” a 5-issue
story by Marv Wolfman, George Perez and Jim Aparo that saw print in the
pages of BATMAN and NEW TITANS, readers saw Dick Grayson attempt to
intervene and make his former mentor realize he needs help. Meanwhile,
both Bruce and Dick were surprised by the appearance of teenager
Timothy Drake, who stuns the two with the announcement that he’s
deduced their secret identities as Batman and Robin. Tim, it turns out,
was a child of three or four when he saw the Flying Graysons’ trapeze
act at the circus, and saw young acrobat Dick Grayson perform an
amazing triple somersault, an image that was burned into his memory.
When, years later, he saw news footage of Robin executing the same
maneuver, he put two and two together and realized that Robin was the
ex-circus performer Grayson. When a little research revealed that
Grayson had been adopted by billionaire Bruce Wayne, whose own parents
were murder victims, everything fit. After the disappearance from the
public eye of the second Robin, Tim had also noticed the increasingly
erratic Batman, and decided to intervene as well.
In addition, a new sidekick for Batman
had been introduced in the pages of DETECTIVE COMICS, a young boy named
Jason Todd, whose parents had been killed in a manner strikingly
similar to Dick Grayson’s. Accordingly, writer Marv Wolfman and artist
George Perez, in the pages of their top-selling series THE NEW TEEN
TITANS, got permission to have Grayson retire his Robin uniform, and
not long after introduced Dick Grayson’s new costumed identity –
Nightwing.
The name was taken from an obscure
Superman character (when Superman and Jimmy Olsen would shrink down and
visit the bottled Kryptonian city of Kandor, occasionally circumstances
would compel them to take on their own superhero identities: Nightwing
and Flamebird), and Grayson attributed the identity as a tribute to his
two greatest inspirations: Superman and Batman. Although the costume
was a little rough at first, (particularly a gigantic disco collar that
made Lex Luthor’s purple ‘70s number look subtle in comparison) the
Nightwing identity was an unquestionable success, leading to a long run
in TITANS, several miniseries, and eventually a successful solo series
of his own, originated by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Scott McDaniel.
The Nightwing identity has even made its way into the mainstream media,
having been heavily featured and merchandised in THE NEW BATMAN
ADVENTURES, the second series of the successful and critically
acclaimed Batman cartoons by the award-winning Dini/Timm/Burnett
production team.
BATMAN: A LONELY PLACE OF DYING TP - relist
Written by Marv Wolfman; art by George Pérez, Jim Aparo, Tom Grummett, Mike DeCarlo, and Bob McLeod; cover by Pérez
In stores February 13. Reoffered to
coincide with the release of JUST IMAGINE STAN LEE WITH JOHN BYRNE
CREATING ROBIN, this milestone trade paperback collects BATMAN #440-442
and NEW TEEN TITANS #60-61 - featuring the first appearance of the
current-day Robin, Tim Drake.
FC, 128 pg. Trade Paperback $5.95
BATMAN: A LONELY PLACE OF DYING (Trade Paperback) (1990) 
BATMAN (1990), published in 
Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:19:56 CST
PACESETTER #7
(2005)
AVENGERS #10 (#700) (George Perez Variant) (Nov 2018)
