haeckel@stolaf.UUCP (Paul C. Haeckel) (10/30/84)
<<<<<--- Bill Laubenheimer writes --->>>>> > >Charlie Martin asks: > >> Do you know what Dick Greyson's folks did for a living (until >> offed by evil bad guys and/or gangsters?) > >I seem to recall stumbling across the origin story somewhere once (maybe >\\Fantastic Origins of Comic Superheroes// or some similar title. I'm pretty >sure they were circus aerialists, and I believe they got it while attempting >to stop a gang from making off with the circus' receipts from a performance. <<<<<--- end of quote --->>>>> NO, no, no, no! Well, okay, you are right in that they were aerialists in a circus under the name of "The Flying Graysons", but they died because some local mobsters had sabatoged one of the trapezes so that it would break. They were doing this to put pressure on the circus owner and get 'protection' money from him. As you can see, Dick already knew a few things before he met Batman, as he was part of the act too. -- Paul Haeckel > "Death to the war monkeys!!" < {decvax|ihnp4}!stolaf!haeckel