A popular acrobat and the young star of HALY'S CIRCUS' the FLYING GRAYSONS, DICK GRAYSON'S life was turned upside down when his parents were murdered during a trapeze performance while visiting GOTHAM CITY. DICK was soon taken in by the wealthy BRUCE WAYNE, becoming his ward. After GRAYSON learned that BATMAN and BRUCE WAYNE were one and the same, he began to train with the hero and then adopted the identity of the crime fighter ROBIN!