admonition ! Major spoilers forRobins # 1ahead !

The debut issue ofRobinsis already setting up a massive showdown betweenBatman’sfive previous Robins and an anon. attacker challengingNightwingfor the championship of " The Very First Robin . “Robins # 1sees Dick Grayson , Jason Todd , Tim Drake , Stephanie Brown , andDamian Wayne joining force-out to agitate a terroristcell in Blüdhaven before retiring to an apartment for a Bat - Family " Robin Roundtable . " Their meeting does n’t last long though , with their unsung assassin throwing down the gantlet early on on .

Batman ’s bequest of take in struggling children and molding them into fighting protégés has receive a passel of negative tending lately , with many wondering if other heroes should intervene on the Dark Knight ’s unhealthy radiation pattern . Besides all of the day - to - day harm that come with being Robin , Jason Todd , who goes by the Red Hood , literally diedfor the deputation   ( although he wasfamously raise with a Lazarus Pit ) . Dick Grayson , who now fights severally as Nightwing , has always been referred to as Batman ’s " First Robin , " but what if there was someone before him ?

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Robins # 1 , write by Tim Seeley with prowess by   Baldemar Rivas ,   sees   the five current and former Robins adjoin to discourse and finally decide , whether being Batman ’s sidekick,” … Was a good thing or not . “Each of Batman ’s sidekicks reflects on their ownexperiences of being Robin , coming to different conclusions about how their time   under Batman has impacted them . Simultaneously , while in a crowded commons a hooded figure returns a fallen robin chick to   its nest , in a ostensibly compassionate action mechanism , before suddenly set off a grenade , killing the family of robins as well as several innocent bystander . She cite her replacement as Robin by saying , " That ’s what we do to the boys who kvetch us outta the nest . "

The meeting of " The Green Underwear Squad " is quickly break up   after Tim Drake notice that his Bat - Computer has lock him out , before the front door is kick down by a harried man . This world report that someone got him out of the prison house   Blackgate before he is discover as Delcaine , a extremity of thefirst gang that Dick Grayson ever took downas Robin . Delcaine   mentions that others were allow out as well include , " Garzonas , that Innocente creep , the Shadid Girl . " The Robins quickly realize that each of these names typify their " gantlet , " or the first major foeman they remove down as their various Robin . Delcaine is about to warn the gathered submarine sandwich of an evengreaterthreat , before he is shot and vote down with a sniper heater through the head .

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While the gathered Robins do n’t know this yet , their assaulter is a young woman dressed as Robin , who declares herself to be " the very first one , " indicating she was Robin before Dick Grayson ever was . There are countless possibilities as to who this adult female could be . Batman fought crime for yearsbefore taking in Dick and training him to become his ( purportedly ) first Robin , so there is a fortune that there is a yet undisclosed sidekick beforeNightwing . This woman also resembles King Robin from the Dark Multiverse , potentially expose that the Dark Multiverse still has agents on Prime Earth . Be sure to pick upRobins # 1and its ongoing issues to puzzle out the mystery story of who thetrue"First Robin " is .

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