Each weekday, Tim will take a look at what we know about each of the upcoming 52 new comics from the September DC relaunch, one series at a time. Today: TEEN TITANS!
The Concept and Characters: Originally appearing in a 1964 issue of The Brave and the Bold, this team of kid sidekicks has been a staple of the DC Universe for as long as most of us have been alive. First written by Bob Haney, whose disregard for any kind of logical continuity was matched by his hilariously out-of-sync attempts at youth slang, the early Teen Titans stories — in Brave and the Bold and in their own, self-titled, series – were wacky romps with nods to fads and social trends of the day. Weirdly, the comic about a group of sidekicks seemed targeted at a slightly older audience than the Justice League series of the time, even if Haney’s dialogue missed its mark with every shot.
That series still has plenty of charms all its own, but it wasn’t until Marv Wolfman and George Perez resurrected the franchise as The New Teen Titans in 1980 that the team gained prominence as one of the premier superhero groups in all of comicdom.
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