Haly's Circus

Haly's Circus in Nightwing v3 #3.

Haly's Circus is an organization that features in DC Comics.

History

Origin

Haly's Circus

Dirk Greystone along with his wife and stepdaughter came to join Haly's Circus where he convinced Haly to allow them to reuse the name of the Flying Grayson for their performance act. Eventually, Haly's Independent Circus set up outside the campus of Hudson University for a one week performance. (Detective Comics v1 #484)

Post-Flashpoint

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

For many years, Haly's Circus was known to had an association with the secret society known as the Court of Owls who controlled Gotham City from the shadows. Part of the arrangement involved the Circus presenting a crop of child athletes to the Court every decade with candidates taken to become one of their Talon assassins for that particular era. (Batman v2 #7) Years ago, a young Calvin Rose who was a stray child that was abandoned by his father was discovered by an old man from Haly's Circus. The boy was taken in by the circus where he was taught to become an escape artist by his rescuer with him quickly becoming a star act. (Talon v1 #0)

Tim Drake was at the Circus on the day that the Flying Graysons died. (Detective Comics v1 #965)

By the modern day, C.C. Haly was an old man dying from cancer with a tumour slowly killing him. He arranged for Dick Grayson to meet him at the warehouse that stored the circus's equipment where he gave him the deeds for Haly's Circus. The assassin Saiko later attacked the old man and used him as a hostage so that he could fight Nightwing after learning that the vigilante and Dick Grayson were the same person. Despite Nightwing's involvement, C.C. Haly ultimately died from the fatal wounds he received. (Nightwing v3 #2)

Members

• C.C. Haly :
• Bryan Haly : male who was the son of C.C. Haly. (Nightwing v3 #2)
• Mary Grayson :
• Richard Grayson :
• Dirk Greystone : an older male who was the stepfather of Linda Gray when the pair joined Haly's Circus. He convinced Mr. Haly to reuse the Flying Graysons name for their act in order to make use of their reputation to gain people attending their performance. It was eventually learnt that he planned for his wife and stepdaughter to die in the performance similar to the original Flying Graysons so that he could gain fame from the tragedy. (Detective Comics v1 #484)
• Waldo Flynn :
• Linda Gray : a blonde haired woman who was the stepdaughter of Dirk Greystone when they joined Haly's Circus and became part of a new act that called themselves the Flying Graysons. (Detective Comics v1 #484)
• Raya Vestri : red headed woman who grew up in the circus alongside Dick Grayson and was a love interest of his from childhood. (Nightwing v3 #2)
• Raymond McCreary :
• Calvin Rose : (Talon v1 #0)
• Jimmy Clark :

Notes

• Haly's Circus was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger where they made their first appearance in Detective Comics v1 #38 (April, 1940).

In other media

Television

• In Young Justice, Haly International Traveling Circus appeared in the setting of the animated television series in the episode "Performance". It was headed by Jack Haly who managed the troupe's activities with the Flying Graysons once being part of the group. There was a string of tech thefts were occurring across various sites in the country with a common factor being the presence of Haly's Circus. This led to an investigation by Interpol agent King Farady with Haly requesting the help of Dick Grayson in proving his innocence. Upon learning of this, the Team decided to investigate where they infiltrated the circus as the Daring Dangers. It was eventually discovered that the true thief was the Parasite who was disguised among the circus performers and stealing the powers as well as abilities of others he was in contact with in this time.
• In Gotham, Haly's Circus appeared in the setting of the live-action television series in the episode "The Blind Fortune Teller."

Films

• In Batman Forever, Haly's Circus appeared in the live-action film with it being the site of a charity circus event. Bruce Wayne invited Dr. Chase Meridian to the event after meeting her with the circus being stormed by Two-Face and his henchmen who had come to discover Batman's secret identity. During this time, the Flying Graysons were present with the two leads being murdered by Two-Face who left a bomb behind. The youngest of the Flying Grayson's who was Dick Grayson managed to survive and threw the bomb into the river thus preventing it from hurting anyone. Bruce Wayne assumed responsibility for Dick Grayson with the death of his parents and allowed him to stay at Wayne Manor. During this time, Dick vowed revenge against Two-Face and intended to kill him to avenge his family's murder. Upon discovering Bruce's secret identity as Batman, Dick insisted on working alongside him as his partner and took the name 'Robin'.

Video games

• In Batman: Arkham City, Haly's Circus was referenced in the setting of the video game where they were on a poster saying that the Flying Grayson's show had been cancelled.
• In Batman: Arkham Origins, Haly's Circus was referenced in the setting of the video game where they were on a poster saying that the Flying Grayson's show was 'Coming Soon'.

Appearances

• Detective Comics v1: (1940)
• Nightwing:
• Talon v1:

External Links

• DC Database Entry

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