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Robin                                                   Comics Lot
Featuring a bonus poster of Robin by Neal Adams in Issue #1.  Awesome!!
Writer: Chuck Dixon
Artist: Tom Lyle
Inker: Bob Smith
Colorist: Adrienne Roy
Letterer: Tim Harkins
Editors: Denny O’Neil & Dan Raspler
All Covers by: Brian Bolland

Robin is a five-issue series that is the first time in DC Comics history that any variation of the Robin character has been spotlighted in his own title. This series features Tim Drake, the third person to assume the costumed identity of Robin.

Stories/Spoilers
In issue #1, “Big Bad World”, Batman provides Tim Drake with a brand-new Robin costume, unlike any worn by his predecessors. He tells him that he will soon be ready to become his partner, but first he needs training from the greatest masters in the world. Bruce books Tim on a flight to Paris, where he enrolls in an exclusive school specializing in Tibetan fighting techniques. The instructor at the school is the aging Rahul Lama, who lives and trains with his son, Shen Chi. Tim discovers that he is currently the only student at the dingy, spartan dojo. Rahul spends several nights teaching Robin meditative healing arts, while Shen instructs him in physical combat. One evening, Shen and Tim take the night off. Shen takes Tim out to a trendy nightclub in the Chinese district of Paris, but Tim is uncomfortable in this strange environment. A young woman named Lynx approaches Tim at the club and strikes up a conversation, and baits him into following her outside. Lynx is part of a street gang known as the Ghost Dragons. Billy Hue, leader of the Ghost Dragons approaches them in an alley and violently drags Lynx away. Tim attempts to stop him, but Billy knocks him down with a solid kick to the face. Tim races back to the dojo to retrieve his Robin costume and then hits the rooftops. He tracks the Ghost Dragons to a decrepit warehouse and witnesses the gang members torturing an American named Clyde Rawlins. Robin swings down to defend Clyde, from the gang members. Despite being bruised and beaten, Clyde still has a lot of fight left in him, and together they force the Ghost Dragons to scatter. From above, an assassin named Lady Shiva watches them with great interest.

Features a poster of Robin by Neal Adams. (see 12^th scan of a stock photo of the poster – the actual poster is still fully attached within the comic.) Awesome!

Next in issue #2, ”The Shepardess”, Robin and Clyde Rawlins continue to fight off the Ghost Dragons while Lady Shiva watches on. Clyde proves that he is no pushover, and easily mows down just as many of the gangsters as Robin does. The Ghost Dragons retreat, and Robin and Clyde take off to tend to their wounds. Billy Hue and the other Ghost Dragons report their failure to the boss, the King Snake. King Snake does not tolerate Billy’s shortcomings and promptly kills him with a swift blow to the face. He places Lynx in charge of the Ghost Dragons, and sends her on a mission to retrieve a mysterious Nazi weapon. Meanwhile, members of the British Secret Service hire a French mercenary named Henri Ducard to assassinate the King Snake. Henri negotiates for a steep price and accepts the contract. Robin brings Clyde to the Hotel St. Germain. The following morning, Lady Shiva appears in their room and warns them that they are both in danger. Members of the Ghost Dragons have tracked them to the hotel and are presently coming up the stairs. Robin and Clyde follow Shiva out the window and the proceed to scale the side of the hotel. They escape from the Ghost Dragons and part company. Robin has no idea who this strange woman is. Robin takes Clyde to a cottage safe house, far away from Paris. While Clyde recuperates, Robin does a background check on him and learns that Clyde once worked as an undercover DEA agent, but when Clyde’s investigations brought him too close to the King Snake’s doorstep, the drug lord had his family killed. Clyde has spent the past two years trailing King Snake’s every movement in the hopes of getting revenge. Clyde is grateful to Robin for saving his life, and decides to expand upon his physical training by showing him a few basic combat techniques. When Robin finally manages to tap into his anger and beat Clyde in combat, Lady Shiva appears to offer her services in training.

Next in issue #3, ”The Destroying Angel”, Lady Shiva arrives at the safe house occupied by Robin and Clyde Rawlins. She wants their help in stopping King Snake’s latest scheme. She tells them about his plan to steal a fifty-year-old Nazi cache of a bio-engineered plague. Clyde doesn’t trust Shiva, but Robin agrees to help her stop King Snake and the Ghost Dragons from stealing the plague samples. They travel to an old buried bunker at the Maginot Line in France. They sneak inside and find the Ghost Dragons unloading two large crates bearing Nazi seals. Shiva splits up from them and begins attacking the Ghost Dragons on her own. Robin and Clyde get caught in a crossfire, and Robin discovers that Lynx is now leading the street gang. When she seems to have Robin at a disadvantage, the echoes of gunfire disturb a colony of bats that had been nesting in the cavern. The bats provide Robin and Clyde with an ample distraction and they use the animals as cover to get away from the Dragons. The gang gets ahead of them, and they arrive in time to find that Shiva has captured one of the crates, but the Ghost Dragons have escaped with the other in a helicopter. They destroy the crate and give chase. Meanwhile, King Snake visits a Moorish clock tower somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula, and makes a bid to purchase it from its caretaker. He orders that it be dismantled and shipped to Hong Kong, where it is to be reconstructed. He receives a call from Lynx, who lies when asked whether she and her group have disposed of Robin and Clyde. Robin uses his computer hacking skills to learn where King Snake is having the plague delivered. He, Clyde, and Shiva board a plane headed for Hong Kong, hoping to meet the Dragons there before it is released. They become more desperate when they realize that the virulent disease they are up against is the Bubonic Plague.

Next in issue #4, ”Strange Company”, Robin, Clyde Rawlins and Lady Shiva arrive at the port city of Kowloon in Hong Kong. They stalk the streets until they find members of King Snake’s Ghost Dragons. Shiva is prepared to kill all of them, but Robin convinces her to allow him to interrogate one of the Dragons, asking him where Snake is having the plague weapon delivered. The gang member tells them about an airfield where the plague is being delivered. They stake out the airfield and follow the trail back to King Snake’s penthouse in the central district of Hong Kong, despite Robin’s urging that the plague is more important than Clyde or Shiva’s vendettas. After surveying the estate, they retreat for the evening to one of Lady Shiva’s safe houses. The following morning, Lady Shiva decides to give Robin some pointers on combat techniques. Robin thinks Shiva is a homicidal maniac, but respects her martial prowess. She offers him his choice of a weapon from her own private collection. He chooses a collapsible battle staff, despite Shiva’s urging that he should choose a more lethal weapon. The two spar, but Shiva easily beats him. Later, Robin carves notches into the tip of the staff enabling it to generate a whistling effect whenever he swings it. He uses it during their next sparring competition and the distinctive warbling distracts Shiva long enough for Robin to get the upper hand. That evening, the mercenary, Henri Ducard, arrives in Hong Kong. He stakes out King Snake’s operations by the shipyard and prepares to make his move. Ghost Dragons in disguise as police officers discover him and attack him inside of their car, but he fights back and succeeds in killing several of them. Meanwhile, King Snake looks down upon the city from his penthouse suite. Using the newly reconstructed Moorish water-clock that he bought in Iberia, he plans to release the plague so that the city of Hong Kong will be a wreck before it falls into the hands of communists.

Finally in issue #5, “The Dark”, Robin, Clyde Rawlins and Lady Shiva stake out the Dorrance Building in Hong Kong. Clyde’s hunger for revenge forces him to depart from the others and he begins to make his way into the skyscraper’s front lobby. Robin has reviewed all of the building’s security measures, and sneaks in from the basement levels. He disables the security systems allowing Clyde and Lady Shiva to continue without interference. Clyde eventually tracks King Snake down and faces off with him in a trophy room. King Snake is in his element however and easily outfights Rawlins. He describes how he made Clyde’s wife scream before he killed her. He kicks Rawlins in the back, snapping his spine, before wheeling around to deliver a fatal chop to his neck. Robin meanwhile, makes his way towards the clock tower room where King Snake’s men have planted the plague virus. King Snake’s chief lieutenant, Bobbo, sees Robin on the catwalk and opens fire on him. Robin uses his sling and fires a screw into the chamber of Bobbo’s gun. The gun backfires and resulting explosion kills Bobbo. Robin then makes his way to the trophy room where he finds Clyde’s dead body. King Snake emerges and the two begin fighting. Robin remains silent, so as to keep what little edge he has against a blind opponent. Despite his blindness, King Snake manages to beat Robin back with several brutal kicks. Robin knows that he has little chance of defeating King Snake in the dark, and uses his fighting staff to create a whistling sound to distract his opponent. While King Snake is disoriented, Robin kicks him through the window. Lady Shiva finally emerges from the shadows and finds King Snake hanging on a ledge over a fifty-floor drop. Robin refuses to finish Dorrance for Shiva, and races back to the clock tower room to secure the plague. As he leaves, he hears King Snake’s screams as he falls to his apparent death. The Hong Kong authorities are called in and the virus is safely contained. Robin meets Henri Ducard who informs him that King Snake sent a cargo vessel filled with laundered money to Gotham City. He had intended on establishing a new headquarters there after destroying Hong Kong. Robin returns to Gotham City and stops King Snake’s shipment of money. He also encounters Lynx, who now possesses only one eye – punishment for her failure to kill him. Robin lets Lynx and the rest of the Ghost Dragons go. He reunites with his mentor, Batman, and the two swing off into the night.

Comics lot contains: Robin (1990 – 1991) Issues #1-5.  DC Comics

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All First Printings
Publisher: DC Comics
Publication Date: 1990 – 1991
Product Type: Comics Lot
Format per comic: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.75″
UPC: None Stated

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics 1,2,3,4,5 are in Fine to Very Fine condition.  Nice Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Robin collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read. Recommended.

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