Who was the first Robin in Batman comics?

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Batman Heath Ledger (seated) as the Joker and Christian Bale as Batman in *The Dark Knight* (2008).

The first Robin in Batman comics was Dick Grayson.1

Introduced in Detective Comics no. 38 in April 1940, Grayson was a young circus aerialist whose parents were murdered. After witnessing the tragedy, he was taken in by Bruce Wayne, who trained him to become his junior crime-fighting partner, forming the original "Dynamic Duo".1