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DC Announces ‘Batman and Robin: Year One’ by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee

Cover to Batman and Robin: Year One #1 by Chris Samnee and Matheus Lopes

It’s not easy to impose structure on a circus kid who’s never had any…

DC Comics has announced a new 12-issue comic book series, Batman and Robin: Year One, by storytellers Mark Waid (Batman/Superman: World’s Finest, Kingdom Come) and Chris Samnee (Daredevil). The adventures kick off on Wednesday, October 16, when the first issue of the new series hits shelves at participating local comic book shops!

Variant cover to Batman and Robin: Year One #1 by Karl Kerschl

In Batman and Robin: Year One, while Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out for answers, but it’ll take everything they have to navigate both sides of their relationship as father and son and dynamic duo, with Dick Grayson’s present and future hanging in the balance!

“While Batman and Robin are the stars of this tale and get most of the panel time, at its heart, this isn’t a Batman/Robin story, it’s a Bruce/Dick story,” said Mark Waid. “It takes place only a month or two after Bruce adopted Dick, and it’s sinking in for Bruce that he has no idea how to be a father to a kid that age. He has no role model—his own father was long dead by the time he was Dick’s age. Nothing he’s ever done has prepared him for this, and Alfred—wise as he is—doesn’t have much experience here either.”

Variant cover to Batman and Robin: Year One #1 by Matteo Scalera

“Dick is everything Bruce is not—impetuous, flamboyant, reckless,” said Chris Samnee. “But he’s also precise; he can stick a landing. He’ll take orders when they make sense to him, but he’s keen to improvise, testing his role within the Dynamic Duo. The first pages you’ll see will showcase how they’ll be acting, and reacting, as they adventure out into Gotham City on patrol together. We’re so excited for this story to finally be told.”

Batman and Robin: Year One #1 interior art by Chris Samnee

Batman and Robin: Year One #1, co-plotted by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, written by Mark Waid, art and main cover by Chris Samnee, with color by Matheus Lopes and lettering by Clayton Cowles, will have variant covers by Mikel Janín, Matteo Scalera, Karl Kerschl (1:25), and Lee Weeks (1:50). Batman and Robin: Year One #1 will hit local comic book shops on October 16, 2024.

For the latest DC news, and for more information on Batman, Robin, Batman and Robin, DC’s Dynamic Duo, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, unprepared father figures, impetuous (and flamboyant) teenagers, Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, and more, be sure to follow @DCOfficial and @thedcnation on social media or visit the official DC website at www.dc.com.

Variant cover to Batman and Robin: Year One #1 by Mikel Janín

 

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