A popular acrobat and the young star of HALY'S CIRCUS' the FLYING GRAYSONS, DICK GRAYSON'S life was turned upside down when his parents were murdered during a trapeze performance while visiting GOTHAM CITY™. DICK was soon taken in by the wealthy BRUCE WAYNE™, becoming his ward. After GRAYSON learned that BATMAN™ and BRUCE WAYNE were one and the same, he began to train with the hero and then adopted the identity of the crime fighter ROBIN™!