Dick Grayson Dick Grayson Richard John Grayson is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Batman. Created by writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane, he first appeared in "Detective Comics" #38 in April 1940 as the original incarnation of Robin. In "Tales of the Teen Titans" #44 (July 1984) the character retires his role as Robin and assumes the superhero persona of Nightwing, created by Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. The youngest in a family of acrobats known as the "Flying Graysons", Dick watches a mafia boss named Tony Zucco kill
Team Titans survived this sudden erasure of the Team Titans from existence. After "Zero Hour", Mirage and Terra joined the Teen Titans and it is revealed that the two (and Deathwing) were from the present and inserted into the Team Titans by the Time Trapper, to try and stop Monarch's plan. Deathwing is revealed to not be a future version of Dick Grayson (his actual identity remains a mystery). Terra is implied to be the original Terra and finds the grave of the original Terra empty; in truth, she is a member of a race of underground humanoids, who stole Terra's body