He already has that niche, dude. He's the best at getting put on the chopping block and narrowly avoiding death each event season.
You're right, though. He's often referred to as among the most trusted, well-connected and overall beloved in the entire cape community. Maybe start a new volume of The Brave and the Bold or DC Comics Presents with him as the anchor. New partner each issue! That may help them stall any actual development until the find the right writer or pitch to relaunch Nightwing proper.
- Golden Age Origin Birthday Batplane are debatable, that age 8 was clearly mentioned the first time in the 80s in NTT afaik. And in his Silver AGe Orgin Story retelling he said to be a teenager
- He was allready arround 15 in the late Golden age, about 16-18 in the late silver age
- Bronze beginning and Hudson period is the same (Dick leaving Gotham for University and Bruce moving from the Manor to the Penthouse is sually seen as the start of the Bronze Age in Batman Comics), which made him 18 at that time
- He was 19 when he became Nightwing
- He was roughly 21 when Tim appeared
The birthday spank was 10 times, and the story was published 2 years after his debut. Oh, so the 80s mentioned it too? Devin Grayson mentioned it too, I don't know which issue. Bruce's parents often died at 8 too up until at least the 80s, also Rebirth, and they like to make it match.
Wait really? He still looks so small.
I can see him being 16-17 in the late silver age, that's when I see that he's bigger.
I thought early Bronze he's younger because he looks smaller when Barbara debuted. Was that after college?
Age roll call. The one that I remember. Plus updates
Trapeze Training - 5
Golden Age origin - 8
The 80s Origin - 8
Post Crisis origin? - 10?
Birthday Batplane - 10
ASBAR - 12
Silver age origin - teenager
Silver Age - 13-14?
Late Golden Age - 15
New 52 Zero Year - 15
New 52 Robin - 16
Late silver age - 16-17?
BTAS Sub Zero - high school graduate
Hudson period - 18
Batman Forever - college student
NTT - college dropout - so he's in college only for a year or was he still studying when he became Nightwing?
Judas Contract Nightwing - 19
New 52 Nightwing - 21
A wild Drake appeared - 21?
Rebirth Nightwing - mid-20s
How old was he when he became the grown-up Robin or that weird Batman Robin hybrid in JSA?
But he had also 13 or 14 candels on his cake, and he got a plane for his Birthday.
I'm not sure which comics you are referring to. Barbara Appered first in the late silver age when Dick was still in his teens (15 or 16) and was much shorter then her.
The Bronze Age stated in 1969 when Dick left Gotham for Hudson and Barbra became congress woman and iirc Dick stayed in collage during the 70s, and didn't drop out untill the 80s shortly before joining the new Teen Titans.
Late Golden Age happend before Silver Age (there was no break in continuity for Batman) do Dick would have still been 15 arround that time
In the later Earth Two JSA Stories Time was supposed to pass in real time, with Earth Two Dick being born in 1928.
Oh and also Earth-1 Robin was officially 15 and the oldest in the Fab Four team when he first starred in The Brave and the Bold.
@ Restingvoice
If you wan't look into the Batfamily ages, you can find here a text with what I could find in the comics, with all the sources.
It covers everyting from the Golden Age to the current comics.
I just wanted to say that this is awesome. But I would disagree on Barbara being a congresswoman before 25 due to accelerated schooling. The Constitution requires members of the House of Representatives to be 25. Article I, Section 2 "No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen."
Edit: Also, have you done any of these for any more characters/families? Obviously, the Bats are prime material, but just thought I'd ask.
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Would you guys suggest diving into the Rebirth Titans stuff for more Nightwing reading?