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 last panel, without speaking, they go their separate ways. The title appeared again in 1999 for "Giant Teen Titans Annual" #1 (1967 issue) (), a one-shot special that reprinted selected Silver Age stories in the 1960s-style "80-Page Giant" format. "DC Comics Presents" #26 introduced a new team of Titans, anchored by Robin, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash and soon followed by "The New Teen Titans" #1 (November 1980). The series, created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, re-introduced Beast Boy as Changeling and introduced the machine man Cyborg, the alien Starfire and the dark empath Raven. Raven,