Dick Grayson his parents in order to extort money from the circus that employed them. After the tragic murder, Batman (Bruce Wayne) takes Dick in as his legal ward (retconned as an adopted son in some cases) and trains him to become his crime-fighting partner Robin. He is written by many authors as the first son of Batman. As well as being Batman's crime-fighting partner, Dick establishes himself as the leader of the Teen Titans, a team of teenage superheroes. As a young man, he retires as Robin and takes on his own superhero identity to assert his independence, becoming Nightwing. As
Teen Titans the team, Titans L.A., appeared once, in the pages of "Titans Secret Files" #2. Between "Teen Titans" and "Titans", a new generation of young heroes formed a team in "Young Justice", consisting of Superboy, Robin, Impulse, Wonder Girl, Secret and Arrowette. The two series concluded with the three-issue limited series "", which led to two new series: "Teen Titans" and "Outsiders". Writer Geoff Johns' "Teen Titans" series began in 2003, after a three issue mini-series entitled "Titans/Young Justice Graduation Day", which saw the death of Donna Troy and Lilith, along with the disbanding of the 1998–2002 Titans roster and the