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DC Comics   ·   Released Aug 18th, 2020

Nightwing #73

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SON OF THE JOKER!Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, is tied to a pole, waiting. She was injured, captured and brought there by Dick Grayson, a man she knows since she was a girl and he was a kid. Robin. Nightwing. How is it even possible? But she knows the answer: the Joker was able to take a memory crystal, a device used by the Court of Owls to rewrite memories. Dick was victim of its effects before, almost making him believe he was raised as one of the Court's Talons. Now, the Joker overwrote all his memories again, and Dick believes he was raised by the clown prince of crime himself. Richard Grayson thinks he lived as the Joker's sidekick, a faithful son for the Joker to mold in his own image.  And this version of Dick is thrown inside the arena to fight with her: Barbara is able to free herself up, and fight fair. She does what she can to try and let Dick regain consciousness of his real self. Not Ric or the Talon, and especially not the false Joker sidekick. Dick Grayson, her friend, the first Robin, the best Robin, founder of the Teen Titans and then hero as Nightwing. As the fight goes on and Barbara is able to pull a big shot on Dick, the man seems to start regaining knowledge of his former self. But it's just a bluff: Dick it's still under the Joker's control. As Barbara hears Joker talking about a plan to destroy the Alfred Pennyworth Children Hospital, she flees to get there.  She does not know that Punchline is already there, and that she stole a communicator from Batgirl herself: using it while modulating her voice, she makes Tim Drake believe Barbara is at the hospital, in danger as the Joker planted explosives all over. Meanwhile, the Joker wants Dick to make an even bigger splash: three kills with one stone. And the perfect opportunity to do it is coming their way: as Jason and Tim head out to save Barbara, Dick intercepts them, telling them he was cured from his memory condition but that now Barbara is the one the Joker manipulated into a psychopath. The hospital is a trap she set for them, and they must stop her at all costs before she kills someone.

Format
Comic
Page Count
32 pages
Cover Price
$3.99
UPC
76194134174307311
Distributor SKU
UCS20060459
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Creators

Dan Jurgens
Writer
Dan Jurgens
Ryan Benjamin
Penciller
Ryan Benjamin
Inker
Richard Friend
Rain Beredo
Colorist
Rain Beredo
AndWorld Design
Letterer
AndWorld Design
Travis Moore
Cover Artist
Travis Moore
Alejandro Sánchez
Cover Artist
Alejandro Sánchez
Alan Quah
Variant Cover Artist
Alan Quah
Ben Meares
Assistant Editor
Ben Meares
Jessica Chen
Editor
Jessica Chen
Ben Abernathy
Group Editor
Ben Abernathy
Bob Harras
Editor-in-Chief
Bob Harras

Characters

Batgirl
Barbara Gordon
Batgirl
Prime Earth
Batman
Bruce Wayne
Batman
Prime Earth
Dicky-Boy
Dick Grayson
Dicky-Boy
Prime Earth
Drake
Tim Drake
Drake
Prime Earth
John Grayson
John Grayson
Prime Earth
Joker
Joker
Prime Earth
Mary Grayson
Mary Grayson
Prime Earth
Punchline
Alexis Kaye
Punchline
Prime Earth
Red Hood
Jason Todd
Red Hood
Prime Earth
Robin
Dick Grayson
Robin
Prime Earth

Collected In

  • Nightwing: The Joker War HC
    Nightwing: The Joker War HC
    Nightwing Vol. 4 (2016)

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