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Collecting The Brave and the Bold #54; Showcase #59; Teen Titans (Vol. 1) #25, 50; Teen Titans: Year One #5; New Teen Titans #6, 38, 83; Tales of the New Teen Titans Annual #3; Teen Titans (Vol. 2) #5; Young Justice #7; Teen Titans (Vol. 3) #2, 39; Teen Titans (Vol. 4) #1; Tiny Titans #4; Teen Titans Go! (Vol. 2) #3.
The Brave and the Bold #54 is written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Bruno Premiani. The teens of Hatton Corners think their elders are too un-hip. The teens invite Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad to support their cause, but the young heroes soon find themselves under attack by a crazed villain called Mister Twister.
The adults of Hatton Corners think the teenagers are too rowdy and the teenagers think the adults are totally square, daddio. As you would expect for a story about teenagers written by grown men, there is a lot of outdated slang thrown about. It really is incredibly corny. It must have proved pretty popular because the Teen Titans would soon go on to get their own title.
Everybody knows that DC and Marvel love to steal ideas from each other, so it's lucky that Stan Lee disliked teen sidekicks. The X-Men were teen heroes, but they didn't speak with outdated slang. Spider-Man was a teen hero as well, but he and the X-Men were heroes in their own right.
Showcase #59 is written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Nick Cardy. Wonder Girl joins the Teen Titans as they take on a trio of rock and roll robbers.
The corny adventures continue as the Teen Titans face a villainous rock and roll band the Flips. From what I have found out about the Teen Titans ongoing series, they came up against corny threats like the Flips. Mad Mod and Ding Dong Daddy weren't joke villains made up for the Teen Titans cartoon, they were based on villains from the comics.
These old Teen Titans villains are so corny that I'm surprised somebody at DC never tried to kill them off. We all know that the higher-ups at DC have it in for fun or corny characters. It's amazing that they never became event fodder. I'd better not say too much or they might get ideas.
Teen Titans (Vol. 1) #25 is written by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Nick Cardy. The Titans Titans try to intervene when a riot breaks out at a peace conference. The Justice League confront the Titans when a Nobel Prize Winner and the young heroes decide to forsake their powers.
I guess this issue is important because it marks the first appearance of longtime Titan Lillith. It will eventually be revealed that she is the daughter of Thia, one of the Titans of Myth. That is until Crisis on Infinite Earths came along and rewrote her origin, giving Wonder Girl a similar origin. Any way, she approaches the Teen Titans and tells them that somebody is trouble. Naturally, the Titans don't take it kindly when the guy ends up dying and blame her being cryptic.
The trauma causes the Titans to give up their powers and are recruited by a Mr. Jupiter, who finances a government training program for teenagers. Everybody but Robin joins the program and that will be the status quo for the team for a while. I don't know when the Titans start using their powers again. I guess it doesn't really matter because only one more issue of the original Teen Titans series is included here and it isn't one of the issues when they were working for Mr. Jupiter.
Teen Titans #50 is written by Bob Rozakis and illustrated by Don Heck. On the East Coast, the Teen Titans stop Captain Calamity and his men when they try to rob passengers on the Long Island Railroad. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, Lillith forms a new team of young heroes to combat a series of mysterious disasters.
I guess this issue is included here because it is the first appearance of Titans West. We have already met Lillith. We know Beast Boy from his later appearance as part of the New Teen Titans. Hawk and Dove were previously Titans when they worked for Mr. Jupiter. The Bat-Girl featured here isn't Barbara Gordon. She is Betty Kane, the original Batgirl. She retires when Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl. Betty comes out of retirement to join this team though. Her existence will end up being erased after Crisis of Infinite Earths and will be replaced by Bette Kane, aka Flamebird. I have no idea who Gnarrk and Golden Eagle are.
Teen Titans: Year One #5 is written by Amy Wolfram and illustrated by Karl Kerschl. Wonder Girl and Speedy go on their first date, only for trouble to find them.
After the corniness of the old Teen Titans, now it's time for something new. This issue might involve the original Titans, but it is a more modern comic and keeps the outdated lingo to a minimum.
Speedy manages to borrow the Arrowcar for his date with Wonder Girl, only for it to end up getting stolen by Ding Dong Daddy. Definitely not one of Roy's proudest moments. Roy proves himself to be a real jerk when he starts getting pissy because Donna saved him when Ding Dong Daddy tries to run him down in the Arrowcar. Donna can do much better than Roy.
New Teen Titans #6 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez. Raven has returned to Azarath with Trigon, but the Titans won't abandon her that easily and head to the hellish dimension to save her.
The original run of the Teen Titans was cancelled with #43. There was an attempt to revive the team in the 70's, but that was cancelled with #53 until Marv Wolfman left Marvel for DC and pitched another revival in the 80's with George Perez as the artist. This was the Teen Titans series that really took off and became one of DC's most popular titles. When people think of the Teen Titans, this incarnation is usually the version they think of.
New Teen Titans #38 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez. As a child, Donna Troy was rescued by Wonder Woman and raised by Queen Hippolyta, but who were her real parents? Robin intends to find out.
Donna Troy has one of the most convoluted origins in all of comics. The only other person who has a more convoluted origin is Hawkman. I have tried to make sense of Donna's origin myself, but I only end up getting even more confused. The nearest I can make out is that Wonder Woman rescued a young Donna from an apartment fire and took her to Paradise Island to be raised as an Amazon. That all changed after Crisis of Infinite Earths, where Wonder Woman was rebooted and Donna got a new origin that severed her ties with the Amazons. That's where things start to get confusing. Later updated origins would make her a magical duplicate of Wonder Woman and curse her to live endless variants of her life. My head is starting to spin just thinking about it. I need to have a lie down.
Tales of the New Teen Titans Annual #3 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez. Deathstroke the Terminator has taken down every single Titan with the aid of the treacherous Terra. Now the heroes are at the mercy of HIVE. Only Dick Grayson has evaded capture and joins forces with Jericho, Deathstroke's son, to save his friends.
The Judas Contract is probably the most famous Teen Titans story. Wolfman and Perez are arguably at the top of their game. So many important events happen in this story line. Dick Grayson had just adopted the name Nightwing in the previous part of this story. Nightwing would become a character exclusive to the Teen Titans book after this point, not even the Batman titles were able to use him. That changed after the Zero Hour event. With sales of The New Titans plummeting, Batman editorial removed Nightwing from the title. Upon rejoining thw Bat-books, Dick even became Batman for a while as Bruce Wayne recovered from his ordeal at the hands of Bane.
New Teen Titans #83 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by Tom Grummett. It is a battle between father as son as Deathstroke confronts Jericho. Only one of them will walk away in one piece.
This issue is the end of the Titans Hunt story arc, where the Wilderbeast Society targeted various members of the Titans. The Titans proved themselves surprisingly forgiving as they even let Deathstroke lead them for a while. it also probably had something to do with the fact that he was one of Marv Wolfman's pet characters and could do no wrong in his eyes. Never mind all the innocent people he had killed or the fact that he had a sexual relationship with an underage girl. I'm also pretty peeved that Wolfman saw fit to kill off Jericho. I always thought that he was cute. Needless to say, the Titans were well past their heyday at this point.
Teen Titans (Vol. 2) #5 is written and illustrated by Dan Jurgens. The Veil holds Supergirl and Fringe captive, while the rest of the Titans join Nightwing, Robin and Captain Marvel Jr. on a rescue mission.
With the New Titans being cancelled, a new team as created. This team mostly featured brand new characters, but was led by the Atom who had been regressed into a teenager during Zero Hour. The new characters were the results of alien genetic engineering. The only character that had any longevity was Argent, who would go on to join the next incarnation of the Titans when this title was inevitably cancelled. Most of the other members ended up as event fodder.
Young Justice #7 is written by Peter David and illustrated by Todd Nauck. The kids head off for a camping trip as their parents and guardians meet to discuss the team's future.
I am disappointed that this collection skipped over the 1999 Titans series, with the now adult Teen Titans forming a team with younger heroes. Most of the original Titans had started using new names. Robin as now Nightwing, Wonder Girl was now Troia, Kid Flash was now the Flash, Aqualad was now Tempest and Speedy was now Arsenal. Cyborg and Starfire were the representatives from the New teen Titans. Argent, Damage and Jesse Quick were the younger heroes that were given a place on the team.
I have already shared my thoughts about this issue of Young Justice in my review of the Young Justice: Book 1 trade, so I'm not going to repeat myself here.
Teen Titans (Vol. 3) #2 is written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Mike McKone. The new Teen Titans head out to meet the new and improved Cyborg, but things don't go as planned. Meanwhile, Robin and Superboy discuss their shocking discovery about Superboy and Impulse gets a nasty lesson when he confronts Deathstroke.
The Titans and Young Justice both disbanded after the Titans/Young Justice Graduation Day mini-series. Both titles were relaunched as yet another version of the Teen Titans and a new Outsiders team. Nightwing and Arsenal were shunted off into the Outsiders, while Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy mentored the remaining members of Young Justice.
Only strengthening my belief that somebody at DC didn't like fun characters, Deathstroke seriously injures Impulse. Impulse will take on the name of Kid Flash several issues later and starts acting more serious. The whole reason I liked Impulse in the first place was because he was a hyperactive bag of fun, so it goes without saying that I didn't like the decision to make him Kid Flash.
Teen Titans #39 is written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Tony S. Daniel. The Teen Titans head to Tokyo to meet the world's greatest teen magician, Zatara. Meanwhile, it becomes apparent that there is a traitor in the team.
Superboy was another victim of DC's purging of fun characters in Infinite Crisis. This story arc was about the new roster going around the world introducing the readers to the young heroes who had joined during the timeskip after Infinite Crisis. Zatara is the cousin of Zatanna and has pretty much the same powers. I don't know if he appeared much more after this. He doesn't seem all that interesting, so it's not as if he will be missed if he fades into obscurity after this.
Rose Wilson and Kid Devil are part of the team now as well, so that makes this issue of particular interest to me. Even more exciting for me, Miss Martian appears in this issue as well. That now means that my favourite Titans of this generation are here. Well, everybody apart from Blue Beetle. He comes later.
Teen Titans (Vol. 4) #1 is written by Scott Lobdell and illustrated by Brett Booth. Tim Drake is back in action when an international organisation seeks to capture super-powered teenagers.
Oh look, it's another reboot. As much as I dislike the New 52, at least it is just the one issue. I don't have to be subjected to any more of this nonsense. I'll stick with Lobdell's work on the X-Men, thank you. I'm not all that impressed with the art either. It seems to have regressed to the bad old days of the 90's where everything was sexualised too much.
Tiny Titans #4 is written Art Baltazar and Franco, with art by Baltazar.
This was a cute little antidote to the unwanted grittiness of the New 52. Tiny Titans was a cutsey parody of the Teen Titans. In the first story, Robin is stakled by a flock of robins and asks Raven for help. In the second story, Robin tries to get rid of the flock of robins by adopting the name Nightwing. The stories were pretty fluffy an inconsequential, but enjoyable enough. The art style is so cute that it is impossible to dislike.
Teen Titans Go! (Vol. 2) #3 is written by Amy Wolfram and illustrated by Jorge Corona.
This series was a spin-off from the carton of the same name. To say that the cartoon has a mixed reputation among fans is putting it lightly. Personally, I don't have any problem with the show. This story was fine enough, it was just about the Teen Titans throwing a party and all the hi-jinks that ensue. Starfire was left in charge of the guest list and ended up invited a load of villains because they were on the 'most wanted' list. Beast Boy and Cyborg weren't going to let that stop them from throwing a rad party though.
This collection was a bit of a slog. The original Teen Titans issues were so corny and I wasn't inspired to go and read more. At least the collection was saved from being a complete pass with the New Teen Titans issues. Unfortunately, that went down hill at the end as well. There wasn't enough of the Atom's Teen Titans to make a decision. I am interested in reading more about them though. I have issues with Geoff Johns as a writer, but the issues of his Teen Titans were another high point. The less said about the New 52 Teen Titans, the better.
My rating: 3 stars.
Next time: Fantastic Four Visionaries- John Byrne Vol. 3
The Brave and the Bold #54 is written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Bruno Premiani. The teens of Hatton Corners think their elders are too un-hip. The teens invite Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad to support their cause, but the young heroes soon find themselves under attack by a crazed villain called Mister Twister.
The adults of Hatton Corners think the teenagers are too rowdy and the teenagers think the adults are totally square, daddio. As you would expect for a story about teenagers written by grown men, there is a lot of outdated slang thrown about. It really is incredibly corny. It must have proved pretty popular because the Teen Titans would soon go on to get their own title.
Everybody knows that DC and Marvel love to steal ideas from each other, so it's lucky that Stan Lee disliked teen sidekicks. The X-Men were teen heroes, but they didn't speak with outdated slang. Spider-Man was a teen hero as well, but he and the X-Men were heroes in their own right.
Showcase #59 is written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Nick Cardy. Wonder Girl joins the Teen Titans as they take on a trio of rock and roll robbers.
The corny adventures continue as the Teen Titans face a villainous rock and roll band the Flips. From what I have found out about the Teen Titans ongoing series, they came up against corny threats like the Flips. Mad Mod and Ding Dong Daddy weren't joke villains made up for the Teen Titans cartoon, they were based on villains from the comics.
These old Teen Titans villains are so corny that I'm surprised somebody at DC never tried to kill them off. We all know that the higher-ups at DC have it in for fun or corny characters. It's amazing that they never became event fodder. I'd better not say too much or they might get ideas.
Teen Titans (Vol. 1) #25 is written by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Nick Cardy. The Titans Titans try to intervene when a riot breaks out at a peace conference. The Justice League confront the Titans when a Nobel Prize Winner and the young heroes decide to forsake their powers.
I guess this issue is important because it marks the first appearance of longtime Titan Lillith. It will eventually be revealed that she is the daughter of Thia, one of the Titans of Myth. That is until Crisis on Infinite Earths came along and rewrote her origin, giving Wonder Girl a similar origin. Any way, she approaches the Teen Titans and tells them that somebody is trouble. Naturally, the Titans don't take it kindly when the guy ends up dying and blame her being cryptic.
The trauma causes the Titans to give up their powers and are recruited by a Mr. Jupiter, who finances a government training program for teenagers. Everybody but Robin joins the program and that will be the status quo for the team for a while. I don't know when the Titans start using their powers again. I guess it doesn't really matter because only one more issue of the original Teen Titans series is included here and it isn't one of the issues when they were working for Mr. Jupiter.
Teen Titans #50 is written by Bob Rozakis and illustrated by Don Heck. On the East Coast, the Teen Titans stop Captain Calamity and his men when they try to rob passengers on the Long Island Railroad. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, Lillith forms a new team of young heroes to combat a series of mysterious disasters.
I guess this issue is included here because it is the first appearance of Titans West. We have already met Lillith. We know Beast Boy from his later appearance as part of the New Teen Titans. Hawk and Dove were previously Titans when they worked for Mr. Jupiter. The Bat-Girl featured here isn't Barbara Gordon. She is Betty Kane, the original Batgirl. She retires when Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl. Betty comes out of retirement to join this team though. Her existence will end up being erased after Crisis of Infinite Earths and will be replaced by Bette Kane, aka Flamebird. I have no idea who Gnarrk and Golden Eagle are.
Teen Titans: Year One #5 is written by Amy Wolfram and illustrated by Karl Kerschl. Wonder Girl and Speedy go on their first date, only for trouble to find them.
After the corniness of the old Teen Titans, now it's time for something new. This issue might involve the original Titans, but it is a more modern comic and keeps the outdated lingo to a minimum.
Speedy manages to borrow the Arrowcar for his date with Wonder Girl, only for it to end up getting stolen by Ding Dong Daddy. Definitely not one of Roy's proudest moments. Roy proves himself to be a real jerk when he starts getting pissy because Donna saved him when Ding Dong Daddy tries to run him down in the Arrowcar. Donna can do much better than Roy.
New Teen Titans #6 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez. Raven has returned to Azarath with Trigon, but the Titans won't abandon her that easily and head to the hellish dimension to save her.
The original run of the Teen Titans was cancelled with #43. There was an attempt to revive the team in the 70's, but that was cancelled with #53 until Marv Wolfman left Marvel for DC and pitched another revival in the 80's with George Perez as the artist. This was the Teen Titans series that really took off and became one of DC's most popular titles. When people think of the Teen Titans, this incarnation is usually the version they think of.
New Teen Titans #38 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez. As a child, Donna Troy was rescued by Wonder Woman and raised by Queen Hippolyta, but who were her real parents? Robin intends to find out.
Donna Troy has one of the most convoluted origins in all of comics. The only other person who has a more convoluted origin is Hawkman. I have tried to make sense of Donna's origin myself, but I only end up getting even more confused. The nearest I can make out is that Wonder Woman rescued a young Donna from an apartment fire and took her to Paradise Island to be raised as an Amazon. That all changed after Crisis of Infinite Earths, where Wonder Woman was rebooted and Donna got a new origin that severed her ties with the Amazons. That's where things start to get confusing. Later updated origins would make her a magical duplicate of Wonder Woman and curse her to live endless variants of her life. My head is starting to spin just thinking about it. I need to have a lie down.
Tales of the New Teen Titans Annual #3 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez. Deathstroke the Terminator has taken down every single Titan with the aid of the treacherous Terra. Now the heroes are at the mercy of HIVE. Only Dick Grayson has evaded capture and joins forces with Jericho, Deathstroke's son, to save his friends.
The Judas Contract is probably the most famous Teen Titans story. Wolfman and Perez are arguably at the top of their game. So many important events happen in this story line. Dick Grayson had just adopted the name Nightwing in the previous part of this story. Nightwing would become a character exclusive to the Teen Titans book after this point, not even the Batman titles were able to use him. That changed after the Zero Hour event. With sales of The New Titans plummeting, Batman editorial removed Nightwing from the title. Upon rejoining thw Bat-books, Dick even became Batman for a while as Bruce Wayne recovered from his ordeal at the hands of Bane.
New Teen Titans #83 is written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by Tom Grummett. It is a battle between father as son as Deathstroke confronts Jericho. Only one of them will walk away in one piece.
This issue is the end of the Titans Hunt story arc, where the Wilderbeast Society targeted various members of the Titans. The Titans proved themselves surprisingly forgiving as they even let Deathstroke lead them for a while. it also probably had something to do with the fact that he was one of Marv Wolfman's pet characters and could do no wrong in his eyes. Never mind all the innocent people he had killed or the fact that he had a sexual relationship with an underage girl. I'm also pretty peeved that Wolfman saw fit to kill off Jericho. I always thought that he was cute. Needless to say, the Titans were well past their heyday at this point.
Teen Titans (Vol. 2) #5 is written and illustrated by Dan Jurgens. The Veil holds Supergirl and Fringe captive, while the rest of the Titans join Nightwing, Robin and Captain Marvel Jr. on a rescue mission.
With the New Titans being cancelled, a new team as created. This team mostly featured brand new characters, but was led by the Atom who had been regressed into a teenager during Zero Hour. The new characters were the results of alien genetic engineering. The only character that had any longevity was Argent, who would go on to join the next incarnation of the Titans when this title was inevitably cancelled. Most of the other members ended up as event fodder.
Young Justice #7 is written by Peter David and illustrated by Todd Nauck. The kids head off for a camping trip as their parents and guardians meet to discuss the team's future.
I am disappointed that this collection skipped over the 1999 Titans series, with the now adult Teen Titans forming a team with younger heroes. Most of the original Titans had started using new names. Robin as now Nightwing, Wonder Girl was now Troia, Kid Flash was now the Flash, Aqualad was now Tempest and Speedy was now Arsenal. Cyborg and Starfire were the representatives from the New teen Titans. Argent, Damage and Jesse Quick were the younger heroes that were given a place on the team.
I have already shared my thoughts about this issue of Young Justice in my review of the Young Justice: Book 1 trade, so I'm not going to repeat myself here.
Teen Titans (Vol. 3) #2 is written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Mike McKone. The new Teen Titans head out to meet the new and improved Cyborg, but things don't go as planned. Meanwhile, Robin and Superboy discuss their shocking discovery about Superboy and Impulse gets a nasty lesson when he confronts Deathstroke.
The Titans and Young Justice both disbanded after the Titans/Young Justice Graduation Day mini-series. Both titles were relaunched as yet another version of the Teen Titans and a new Outsiders team. Nightwing and Arsenal were shunted off into the Outsiders, while Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy mentored the remaining members of Young Justice.
Only strengthening my belief that somebody at DC didn't like fun characters, Deathstroke seriously injures Impulse. Impulse will take on the name of Kid Flash several issues later and starts acting more serious. The whole reason I liked Impulse in the first place was because he was a hyperactive bag of fun, so it goes without saying that I didn't like the decision to make him Kid Flash.
Teen Titans #39 is written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Tony S. Daniel. The Teen Titans head to Tokyo to meet the world's greatest teen magician, Zatara. Meanwhile, it becomes apparent that there is a traitor in the team.
Superboy was another victim of DC's purging of fun characters in Infinite Crisis. This story arc was about the new roster going around the world introducing the readers to the young heroes who had joined during the timeskip after Infinite Crisis. Zatara is the cousin of Zatanna and has pretty much the same powers. I don't know if he appeared much more after this. He doesn't seem all that interesting, so it's not as if he will be missed if he fades into obscurity after this.
Rose Wilson and Kid Devil are part of the team now as well, so that makes this issue of particular interest to me. Even more exciting for me, Miss Martian appears in this issue as well. That now means that my favourite Titans of this generation are here. Well, everybody apart from Blue Beetle. He comes later.
Teen Titans (Vol. 4) #1 is written by Scott Lobdell and illustrated by Brett Booth. Tim Drake is back in action when an international organisation seeks to capture super-powered teenagers.
Oh look, it's another reboot. As much as I dislike the New 52, at least it is just the one issue. I don't have to be subjected to any more of this nonsense. I'll stick with Lobdell's work on the X-Men, thank you. I'm not all that impressed with the art either. It seems to have regressed to the bad old days of the 90's where everything was sexualised too much.
Tiny Titans #4 is written Art Baltazar and Franco, with art by Baltazar.
This was a cute little antidote to the unwanted grittiness of the New 52. Tiny Titans was a cutsey parody of the Teen Titans. In the first story, Robin is stakled by a flock of robins and asks Raven for help. In the second story, Robin tries to get rid of the flock of robins by adopting the name Nightwing. The stories were pretty fluffy an inconsequential, but enjoyable enough. The art style is so cute that it is impossible to dislike.
Teen Titans Go! (Vol. 2) #3 is written by Amy Wolfram and illustrated by Jorge Corona.
This series was a spin-off from the carton of the same name. To say that the cartoon has a mixed reputation among fans is putting it lightly. Personally, I don't have any problem with the show. This story was fine enough, it was just about the Teen Titans throwing a party and all the hi-jinks that ensue. Starfire was left in charge of the guest list and ended up invited a load of villains because they were on the 'most wanted' list. Beast Boy and Cyborg weren't going to let that stop them from throwing a rad party though.
This collection was a bit of a slog. The original Teen Titans issues were so corny and I wasn't inspired to go and read more. At least the collection was saved from being a complete pass with the New Teen Titans issues. Unfortunately, that went down hill at the end as well. There wasn't enough of the Atom's Teen Titans to make a decision. I am interested in reading more about them though. I have issues with Geoff Johns as a writer, but the issues of his Teen Titans were another high point. The less said about the New 52 Teen Titans, the better.
My rating: 3 stars.
Next time: Fantastic Four Visionaries- John Byrne Vol. 3
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