I remember when I found this at my local Wal-Mart many a year ago. I'd never seen Croc in the comics before and didn't yet realize that wasn't the regular Batman either. When I read it though I was surprised to see Dick Grayson was going to prove himself worthy of the cowl. Which he did far better than Jean Paul Valley. As for Croc, I deduced it was him on the cover sooner. And I thought he was a lot cooler looking in the comic than on the Cartoon.
"Prodigal" quickly became, and is still one of my all-time favorite Batman stoylines. This issue set it off to a real good start.