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| Issue |
Robin
148 |
| Subtitle |
Robin:
Boy Wanted part one: Out go the Lights |
| Date |
May
2006 |
| Writer(s) |
Adam
Beechen |
| Artist(s) |
Karl
Kerschl, Wayne Faucher, Prentis Rollins |
| storyline |
Robin
was blinded by floodlights and attacked by an
unknown assailant. He threw two of his R darts
low and turned to see what he'd hit: Batgirl.
He checked the body, it was Lynx, not Cassie.
Lynx had a broken neck and had been dead for at
least three hours. The police arrived and saw
Robin over her dead body. He escaped and got into
his civilian clothes.
Oracle heard a police report on the Robin / Batgirl
situation and sent the news to all who were listening.
In Africa, Nyssa al Ghul was killed when her car
was bombed.
Tim visited with Alfred and Batman. He wanted
to take the case himself since he was already
involved. Batman agreed to let him take it. Cassie
(?) watched the conversation from the shadows.
On his way home, he realized it wasn't Batgirl's
real outfit - his darts would have never pierced
their kevlar. He suited up and headed to police
HQ to investigate the body.
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| Issue |
Robin
149 |
| Subtitle |
Assault
on Precinct Nine |
| Date |
June
2006 |
| Writer(s) |
Adam
Beechen |
| Artist(s) |
Freddie
Williams II |
| storyline |
Robin
got to the evidence room and found the costume.
He found a partial finger print on the eye piece
as he was spotted. He knocked the cop out, but
his gun went off on his way down. Even with a
full SWAT team alerted to his presence, Robin
escaped by putting a police uniform on over his
costume and simply walking out of the building.
Elsewhere, a woman was killed in an alleyway by
someone calling her sister and preaching to her
that she was a waste of talent.
Lady Shiva appeared in Robin's apartment with
the news that Nyssa was killed. She believed the
League of Assassins was at play. After she left,
Robin found a coded message in the cowl of the
fake Batgirl outfit:
We have Cassandra Cain bring David Cain to
the Blaisdell oil fields at ten pm June seven
or she dies tell no one or she dies.
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| Issue |
Robin
150 |
| Subtitle |
Hard
Answers |
| Date |
July
2006 |
| Writer(s) |
Adam
Beechen |
| Artist(s) |
Freddie
Williams II |
| storyline |
Robin
began his trek into Blackgate Prison by way of
the sewer. He got to Cain's cell and knocked him
out. When he woke up, he was tied (rather intricately)
outside. Robin asked about Cassandra; he knew
nothing. Robin knocked him out again.
One of Robin's snitches was approached by an unseen
person. He was given a boomerang to deliver to
the Boy Wonder.
When Robin landed his minicopter, he found they
were surrounded by the League of Assassins. After
Robin was beaten, Cassandra appeared. She was
now in control of the League of Assassins. She
confronted her father about the girl she'd killed
- his other daughter, her own sister. Cassie offered
Robin a partnership - the could deal out their
own justice via the LoA. She gave him a gun and
ordered him to kill Cain.
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| Issue |
Robin
151 |
| Subtitle |
Harder
Questions |
| Date |
August
2006 |
| Writer(s) |
Adam
Beechen |
| Artist(s) |
Freddie
Williams II |
| storyline |
Robin
refused to shoot; he and Cassandra struggled over
the gun. She got control of it and shot her father.
Before he died, he said Cassandra and her sister
weren't the only one's he raised / trained.
A new "superhero" debuted in Gotham.
He appeared to have the ability to teleport /
disappear. Another man claimed he used to work
for the Joker and a bomb would soon detonate and
destroy the city.
Robin had to set some explosives to get free from
the League, but Cassandra caught up to him. Their
fight continued through a second explosion that
blew them away from each other. Robin escaped
not knowing whether Cassandra had survived or
not. He found the League dead - their necks were
broken. Cain's body was gone. He videotaped the
whole thing, making him sure he could clear his
name.
Back in the city, Robin's informant gave him the
boomerang. He knew immediately it was from Captain
Boomerang, Jr., the son of the man who'd killed
his father.
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| Issue |
Robin
152 |
| Subtitle |
It
All Comes Back Around |
| Date |
September
2006 |
| Writer(s) |
Adam
Beechen |
| Artist(s) |
Freddie
Williams II |
| storyline |
Robin
left a trail for Boomerang to find, but he never
did. He changed clothes and met with his new tutor
(due to family situations, he'd missed a lot of
school). They both soon realized he didn't need
a tutor, but he wanted to stay in good graces
with his new school. Afterwards, he began moving
into the Manor. He and Bruce talked about the
adoption and Cassandra.
Robin met with officer Harper. She showed him
the former Joker henchman, and his story about
the bomb was feasible. At the location, he found
what could be the bomb - his Geiger counter pinned
out when he got close. He grabbed it and headed
out. On the roof, Boomerang confronted him. Robin
knocked him sideways and told him he didn't have
time; Boomer insisted they team up on the bomb
issue.
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| Issue |
Robin
153 |
| Subtitle |
Run
Through the Jungle |
| Date |
October
2006 |
| Writer(s) |
Adam
Beechen |
| Artist(s) |
Freddie
Williams II |
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Boomer
got Robin a list of probable supervillain hideouts
from when he was in the Society. He took it through
his snitch and Batman to knock some of the items
off the list. After going through a couple, they
bumped into a boy calling himself Dodge (the teleporter).
He introduced himself as Robin's new sidekick.
After a bit, they finally blew him off.
They visited old booby-trapped hideouts once belonging
to Mad Hatter, Glassman, Dr. Double X, Dr. Phosphorous,
Scarecrow, Cavalier, and Killer Croc. They finally
hit paydirt at an old Ventriloquist place. They
survived all the booby traps (including shooting
Scarface robots) and got the bomb defused. Somewhere
along the way, Robin realized he and Boomer made
a good team.
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| Notes,
references to time, and chronology: |
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This
takes place after the beginning of the first Nightwing
OYL arc: "First Nightwing, now you? Have all you
Bat-freaks gone nuts?" (police officer to Robin, issue
148). |
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This
takes place before the end of the first Batman
OYL arc: Tim is living in the stable / apartment on the
Wayne estate. (issue 148) |
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Batman,
issue 148: "Does this have anything to do with why you
disappeared on Dick and me in Budapest? We turned the city
upside-down looking for you for most of a week before Alfred
called to tell us you were in Gotham"). "Masters
Bruce and Dick returned yesterday ... " (Alfred, issue
148) |
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Lady
Shiva perhaps knows the identity of Batman, Robin, and Nightwing
due to knowing where Tim lives. |
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This
takes place after the beginning of the first BOP
OYL story: "I know you're supposedly working with
the Birds of Prey..." (Robin to Shiva, 149) |
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The
deaths of Lynx, Nyssa al Ghul, David Cain (?). |
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Tim
began moving into Wayne Manor in issue 152, so it takes place
after the conclusion of Face
the Face. |
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Long
shot on continuity: this story takes place roughly 7 years
after the Joker Fish incident: the former henchman in Robin
151: "I worked for the Joker seven years ago...he made
plans...so many even he forgot about some of them. And one's
set to go off any day!" Then, in issue 152: "Joker
had this plan, something about putting his face on fish...." |
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