World's Finest #6 - That daring young man....

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In the aftermath of the Nezha storyline, there's only one major plot point to be addressed: Due to Kara "Butterfingers" Zor-El accidentally dropping young Mr Grayson whilst time travelling, Robin is lost in history.



But you can't keep a good Boy Wonder down... and try to imagine how keen his Bat-dad and Super-uncle are to find him again...



Dick actually landed in South America in the 1890's where he gravitated towards his old life, and joined a travelling circus there, becoming an integral part of the circus family in very short order.

But though he loves to perform, he's feeling a little... adrift, and not just in time.



Awww, just look at that smile when he realises who it is that caught him, and then we see something I don't think we've seen before (Maybe a Golden Age story, or old school Super Friends comic), Batman and Robin PERFORMING, for FUN!



I love the completely low key "Bruce" "Dick" exchange, like they've just run into each other at the supermarket (Well, Dick is clearly excited, but Batman has a reputation to uphold.. but just TRY and tell me he's not loving this too!)

Comments

[bradygirl_12]

This is wonderful!! love their joy in reuniting and performing. A lovely break from angst and gloom in comics. *dances*

[shadowpsykie]

I'm not crying! it's raining in my office!

[beyondthefringe]

I like how absolutely unconcerned they are at appearing in their 21st century uniforms in the 1890s. Like "it's a circus, who's going to notice a few anachronisms."

[icon_uk]

Well, Dick's Robin costume was (often) based on his circus gear (I was perhaps surprised they didn't go full Silver Age and give us a no bootstrap paradox, with one of Dick's ancestors being part of the circus making a note of the striking red and green outfit)

I did like that he introduced Bruce as "the Flying Fox", a name that Bruce adopted in an old Silver Age Superboy story in there 50's where (at the same age as Clark at about 15 or 16, but somehow not being an orphan yet) he visited Smallville and had to adopt an impromptu heroic identity. (And which was later used post Crisis in the Young All-Stars as a vague sort of alt-Batman in WWII after they could no longer use the Earth-2 Batman is stories from the 40's)

[beyondthefringe]

I liked Flying Fox in Young All-Stars. (Not a fan of him randomly showing up in One Star Squadron recently, 80 years after the war, I'll assume it was a grandkid or something when I'm not trying to forget that series altogether.)

Heck, I liked Young All-Stars... and All-Star Squadron, and Infinity Inc. Roy Thomas in the '80s was doing a lot of really fun Earth-2 stuff. I'm currently doing an Infinity Inc reread.