As promised, Batman #55 ends with Dick Grayson being shot in the head, leading the character into his upcoming storyline about the challenges of fighting crime with his disabling brain injury.
Although the outcome of the issue isn’t surprising, the circumstances of the gunshot are.
Solicitation copy had advertised that Nightwing would be “injured in the fray” of the Beast’s “rampage across Gotham City.”
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