Nightwing #1

[iamrman]

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Scott McDaniel

Inks: Karl Story

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People seem to be enjoying my other Bat-family posts, so I couldn’t leave out Nightwing. (Look out for Best Batgirl Cassandra Cain soon.)

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Nightwing gets into trouble pretty much straight away upon arriving in Blüdhaven.

The ponytail will not be missed.

Pff, easy. Dick was escaping death traps like this back when he was still in pixie boots.

Next: Richard Dragon #12.

Comments

[superfangirl1]

Dixon wrote a great Nightwing. In my opinion. It was fun, laidback, and moves at a steady pace.

[nyadnar17]

I was very happy with that run back in the day.

[blues32]

Uuuugh...that hair...!

[huntleyhaverstock]

Scott McDaniel's art is a little rough here, but as the series progresses, it gets INCREDIBLE -- just perfectly matched to Dixon's lean, fast-moving stories. McDaniel brings an incredible sense of motion to the series, especially when he's drawing multiple instances of Dick moving through the panel and the page. And his fisheye-lensed compositions make you feel like you're in the middle of the action.

[lego_joker]

One of life's greatest tragedies, that he never got to draw Harley...

[lbd_nytetrayn]

When was this?

[iamrman]

According to the wiki, this is from 1996.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Ah, thanks!

Feels like there have been so many Nightwing #1s (among others), it's hard to keep track.

The hair thing makes sense, too, if I'm remembering his DCAU appearance correctly.

[iamrman]

This was Nightwing's first ongoing series. There had been mini-series before, but this was his first proper series.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

He's had more after this, too, though, right?

[iamrman]

Oh, yes. There was the New 52 and DC Rebirth series at least. Oh, and Grayson (also New 52.)

[scorntx]

Nightwing didn't get a proper ongoing until 1996?
Huh.
(Somehow, that just doesn't sound right...)

[iamrman]

I guess it took the Bat-books a while to prise him out of Marv Wolfman's clutches.

[mazway_75]

And of course Dick brings in some thugs to the police station, long used to cops being okay with him only for them all to draw guns on him so he realizes how dirty this city is.

[iamrman]

If you thought Gotham was a wretched hive of scum and villainy...