Kristen L. Geaman is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Toledo. She has published articles on medieval England in The English Historical Review and Social History of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction: The Sensational Character Find of 1940 (Kristen L. Geaman)

Part I. Robin the Boy Wonder

Success in Stasis: Dick Grayson's Thirty Years as a Boy Wonder (J.L. Bell)

Outlining the Future Robin: The Seventies in the Batman Family¿(Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and César Alfonso Marino)

Fashioning Himself a Hero: Robin's Costume and Its Role in Shaping His Identity (Joshua R. Pangborn)

The Gray(son) Area: Performing Robin the Right Way (Cara L. ­MacNeil-Donoghue)

Part II. The Original Dynamic Duo: Dick Grayson and Bruce Wayne

The Child Is Father to the (Bat)Man: The Inverted ­Parent-Child Dynamic of DC Comics' Dynamic Duo (David Kingsley)

Dick Grayson and the Literary Tradition of Heroic Friendship (Emily Zinkin)

"The Loyal Heart": Homosocial Bonding and Homoerotic Subtext Between Batman and Robin, 1939-1943 (Catherine M. Vale)

Part III. Nightwing and Beyond: Dick Grayson Grows

Boy Wonder to Man Wonder: Dick Grayson's Transition to Nightwing and the Bildungsroman (Kristen L. Geaman)

Building Character: The Writers Who Shaped Dick Grayson's Personality (Christopher McKittrick)

The Heart and Soul: Dick Grayson as the Center of the DC Universe (Mollie Herlocker)

The New 52 (2011-present) (Jordan Hass and Star Schneider)

Grayson, Sex and Feminism (Tini Howard)

Part IV. Ties That Bind: Relationships with Family and Friends

Mother Alfred: The Influence of Dick Grayson's "Other Parent" (Bethany F. Brengan)

Big Brother Dick (Yasmin Lysaker)

Dick and Damian: The Second Batman and His Robin (Kalina Keester)

Titans Together (Shelly Sposato and Pamela Shah)

Darkly Deconstructing the Dynamic Duo: Dick Grayson in Frank Miller (Alexandra Schulz)

Part V. Interviews

Interview with Dennis ­O'Neil (Kristen L. Geaman)

Interview with Marv Wolfman (Kristen L. Geaman)

Interview with Chuck Dixon (Kristen L. Geaman)

Grayson on Grayson (Kristen L. Geaman)

Interview with Kyle Higgins (Kristen L. Geaman)

Conclusion. Dick Grayson: Becoming a Man (Dan Grayson Cordero)

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index