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| Issue |
Nightwing 75 |
| Subtitle |
Judgment Day |
| Date |
January 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick Leonardi, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
Batman gave Dick all
the information he had on Bludhaven's Mayor Avers. Dick believed
that, along with Mary's journal, would make a solid case. Bludhaven
PD began being brought in for questioning on corruption charges.
Nightwing went in to get two officers who'd barricaded themselves in
an apartment. He encountered a "new cape." He tracked her
down, she called herself Tarantula. Oracle worried about Dick's
fascination with caped females. As he worried about her affiliation,
they stopped a gang shoot-out. Later, Dick took Barbara flowers and
crashed on her couch. 56 Bludhaven police officers were indicted and
72 were asked to retire. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 76 |
| Subtitle |
Untouchable |
| Date |
February 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Mike Lilly, Andy Owens |
| storyline |
Nightwing charged in
as renegade police began blasting at Amy Rohrback's home. He got her
and her family (husband and two children) out before a bomb
completely destroyed the house. After their shift began, Dick took
Amy back to the site and began showing her evidence. She questioned
his motive and he explained his parents and the circus to her. She
told him she'd been offered the rank of captain. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 77 |
| Subtitle |
The Web |
| Date |
March 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Patrick Zircher, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
Dick met his new
partner, Gannon Malloy (Amy took the captain position). He ran into
Tarantula that night. He again asked her to go out for BPD -
especially since 62% of the force was now gone. He stressed the
"no killing" to her as they took down a drug dealer. He
chastised her for approaching a cop after they broke up a shootout.
She swore to be his enemy after he forbade her "to operate in
Bludhaven." While talking to Oracle, he found a dead body. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing
78 |
| Subtitle |
Supercop |
| Date |
April 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin
Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick
Leonardi, Jesse Delperdang |
| storyline |
Nightwing and
Tarantula were seen by cops and a reporter at the site of Dudley
Soames' corpse. They got clear, but the journalist was intrigued.
Officer Grayson broke up some gay bashing in the locker room - some
of the other cops were not happy about Malloy, Dick's new partner.
On patrol, they had to stop a potential police brutality. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 79 |
| Subtitle |
No Son of Mine |
| Date |
May 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick Leonardi, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
Nightwing began to see
a pattern with the officers - increased strength and mood swings.
His relationship with Barbara began to falter due to his lack of
sleep. On his way home from an aborted date, he ran into John Law -
the original Tarantula. Dick found anabolics in a new sports drink.
He brought down the operation and informed Captain Rohrback about
it. When he got home, Deathstroke was waiting for him on his couch. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 80 |
| Subtitle |
Venn Diagram part 1:
Close Encounters |
| Date |
June 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick Leonardi, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
Deathstroke told Dick
he was in Bludhaven on a contract and hoped they didn't cross paths.
Nightwing shook down some low-level gangsters in hopes of finding
who hired the assassin. Dick caught a glimpse of him while on
patrol. He caught a bullet in the arm while trying to get his
partner away from Deathstroke. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 81 |
| Subtitle |
Venn Diagram part 2:
Friends under Fire |
| Date |
July 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick Leonardi, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
Bruce, Alfred,
Cassandra, and Barbara visited Dick in the hospital. He asked
Cassandra for help with Deathstroke. A reporter, Maxine Michaels,
interviewed Dick. When she questioned his acrobatics, he told her he
came from circus lineage. He got away from her and told Bruce he
planned to turn in his badge. Batgirl battled it out with
Deathstroke and was able to get some surveillance footage. From it,
they learned he was out to get Amy. As she was leaving the office
that evening, Nightwing saved her from Deathstroke. She realized who
he was. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 82 |
| Subtitle |
Venn Diagram part 3:
That and a Buck Fifty |
| Date |
August 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Mike Lilly, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
Nightwing got Amy
clear, but Deathstroke continued after her. Roland Desmond was given
a video tape depicting the car crash which may have led to his
mother's heart failure. Dick began getting closer to finding who
hired Deathstroke - it appeared to be Mac Arnot - a former officer.
$30,000 in cash had been stolen from the evidence room. The assassin
got to Amy and her husband at their hotel room, but Nightwing burst
in with $30,001.50 for him not to kill her. The next day at the
station house, Dick told Amy the details and she asked for his
badge. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 83 |
| Subtitle |
Incrimination |
| Date |
September 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick Leonardi, Jesse
Delperdang, John Lowe |
| storyline |
Dick turned in his
badge and gun per Captain Rohrback's request. He began investigating
Chief Redhorn's murder more deeply. Desmond's tape showed Nightwing
in the background, so he blamed the vigilante for the car pile-up
and his mother's ensuing death. Nightwing found remnants of suction
cups on the window of Redhorn's office and realized Tarantula had
killed him. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 84 |
| Subtitle |
Did Not Shoot the
Deputy part 1 |
| Date |
October 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick Leonardi, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
As Nightwing pursued
Tarantula, Tad Ryerstad (formerly Nite-Wing) contacted Maxine
Michaels; they got together. Tarantula got away from Nightwing and
returned to her boss - Blockbuster. Michaels reported that Ryerstad
had killed Redhorn and Soames. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 85 |
| Subtitle |
Did Not Shoot the
Deputy part 2 |
| Date |
November 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Rick Leonardi, Jesse
Delperdang |
| storyline |
Dick woke up and saw a
"Wing-Signal" shining across the sky. Nite-Wing (Tad) was
waiting for him at its origin. Nightwing broke the light as Tad
asked him for help. He admitted killing Soames, but said he'd not
killed Redhorn. Nightwing set him up to visit Catalina Flores -
Tarantula. The police arrived and arrested them both. Flores'
brother, a DA, visited Captain Rohrback. Gannon visited Dick hoping
he'd try to fight his dismissal from the force. |
|
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| Issue |
Nightwing 86 |
| Subtitle |
The Calm Before |
| Date |
December 2003 |
| Writer(s) |
Devin Grayson |
| Artist(s) |
Patrick Zircher, Andy
Owens, Sean Parsons |
| storyline |
Nightwing chased
members of a new motorcycle gang who were also involved in drug
trafficking. After taking some of them down, he hobbled to
Barbara's. She called Alfred to come patch him up. He insisted that
Dick be out of action for no less than four days. Barbara got upset
with the constant reminders of her past and sent Dick home. |
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