![]() This ultimately led to Wolfman bringing Roy Harper, also known as Speedy, and reintroducing him as the new leader of the Titans as Arsenal. The events of The Darkening attempted to have Dick and Kori finally married but due to Executive Meddling had to be hastily canned due to the Bat offices, ultimately leading to the Batman editors taking back Nightwing from the Titans (Wolfman had the sole rights to him since 1980), to the horror of fans of the book. As a result, the timeline began to mend itself with the team sacrificing themselves to save the present from it's future, fulfilling their original mission. Revealing the the team was sent as sleeper agents so that his timeline would succeed, the team fought against Extant and won. It would be revealed that the man responsible for sending the Titans to the future was, in fact, the future Hank Hall AKA Monarch. The first half of the run dealt with stopping their bad future and discovering who they were in the present timeline with the second half of the run developing a story thread that would tie in to Zero Hour. This spun off into DC's attempt at having teens in their Titans franchise as the aptly named: Team Titans. ![]() ![]() Fan favorite villain Deathstroke became a good guy and ally to the team, half the roster was slaughtered/turned evil/depowered, time-travellers from the near-distant future of 2001 arrived and were stuck in the past, and popular villain Terra was brought back in a sense as a clone.Īround the time after Titans Hunt finished began the Total Chaos storyline which saw the time-travelling teens attempt to kill Donna Troy's son, who in the future would become the villainous Lord Chaos. The arrival of a new editor inspired Wolfman to shake up the book with the Titans Hunt storyline involving the mysterious "Wildebeest Society" that went on way too long. This led to an Audience-Alienating Era for fans of the original 80s Status Quo for most of the late 90s. However, writer fatigue (aside from a very brief period in 1989 where he stepped away from the book, Wolfman wrote the comic for 16 years straight) and removal of the book from newsstands to prop up DC Comics' direct market line of books led to it collapsing into boredom and fan apathy. This version was not only popular, but often considered DC's number one title at the time, a rival to the X-Men (which they eventually crossed over with), and a major definer of the tropes that came to be recognized as comics' Bronze Age. ![]() It was heavily character-based, with lots of conflict, romance, and soul-searching (that occasionally slipped into Wangst). The series moved into Darker and Edgier territory, and was a trendsetter in that respect for instance, an early storyline involved them going up against " Deathstroke the Terminator," a paid assassin, and being infiltrated by the not-so-innocent Terra. It brought back Robin, Wonder Girl, and Kid Flash, and teamed them up with new characters Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire, along with previously-established character Beast Boy, now renamed Changeling. Written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by George Perez, this version of the series was the most successful and the most iconic (as well as being the version the 2003 animated series is most based on). In the Bronze Age, the series returned as The New Teen Titans, launched in 1980. Eventually, though, it was cancelled in 1973, brought back in 1976, and re-cancelled in 1978. The group eventually expanded into two sub-groups, the Teen Titans and the Titans West, made up of the aforemented Titans plus the first Batgirl, Golden Eagle and Joker's Daughter. As the run continued, more teenage superheroes would join the team such as Lilith Clay, the first ever black superheroes Guardian and Bumblebee, the caveboy Gnaark, and Hawk and Dove. Nevertheless, it was lightheartedand fun. The book depended heavily on Totally Radical, with Fad Super villains like the Mad Mod and Ding Dong Daddy and hamfisted attempts to address the issues of the day. The issue sold notably well, and, after a few more tryouts and the addition of Wonder Girl (despite that she was actually intended to be the original Wonder Woman as a girl, and not a contemporary sidekick) and Speedy, became an ongoing series. The original series began back in The Silver Age of Comic Books, with a one-shot story in The Brave and the Bold #54 (July, 1964), where three Sidekicks, Robin, Aqualad, and Kid Flash, teamed up. Often referred to as a " Justice Little League," though more often as a "Junior Justice League." The most famous team of teenage Super Heroes in The DCU (but not the first). "You're finished, Robin! If Kid Flash and Aqualad couldn't stop my fire-storm with their super-powers, what chance do you have?"
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