Question about something Flash said to Bats

[mofo]

I was just reading Flash #217 (Vol 2)
There is a meeting between Flash (Wally West) and Batman
This takes place right after Jack Drake died
Flash says to Bruce "Tell Tim what you told Dick on the day he left to join the Titans.... In all these years, you only said it once. But it meant more to him than anything else in his entire life."

What was this fabled statement that Bruce told Dick??

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[the Hornet]

I was just reading Flash #217 (Vol 2)
There is a meeting between Flash (Wally West) and Batman
This takes place right after Jack Drake died
Flash says to Bruce "Tell Tim what you told Dick on the day he left to join the Titans.... In all these years, you only said it once. But it meant more to him than anything else in his entire life."

What was this fabled statement that Bruce told Dick??

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I am interested in knowing too. What with so many crisis related retcon, I wonder if he did say anything at all. Probaply, something made up to make us thing something along the line of "I am proud of you" or "I love you son" or something like that.

[David Walton]

That's interesting. I get the impression Bruce hadn't said anything along those lines to Dick around that time period just based on Year Three.

If memory serves (and it's been a while), Bruce says something to Alfred at the conclusion about how proud he is of the man Dick has become. But he never tells Dick.

I also seem to remember one story (and maybe it was Year Three) where Bruce said something fashionably indirect. It was "That's how it always is...between fathers and sons." I could have butchered the line but the point was he was suggesting the tension between them was because they were like father and son.

[numberONE]

I am interested in knowing too. What with so many crisis related retcon, I wonder if he did say anything at all. Probaply, something made up to make us thing something along the line of "I am proud of you" or "I love you son" or something like that.

I think he did say it, since Batman's hasn't really been rebooted since COIE, and Jason's death is definitely post-COIE.

[Kiryu]

I also seem to remember one story (and maybe it was Year Three) where Bruce said something fashionably indirect. It was "That's how it always is...between fathers and sons." I could have butchered the line but the point was he was suggesting the tension between them was because they were like father and son.

That's from Prodigal.

[David Walton]

That's from Prodigal.

I thought that was a possibility as well.

I get the impression that Batman wasn't really proud of Dick at the time he joined the Titans, at least not until Year Three. And Prodigal seems to be the storyline that helped ease a lot of their tension, at least for a bit.