Best Silver Age Teen Titans stories (according to me)
Narratively Significant to the Teen Titans
Teen Titans (1966) #53 "In the Beginning": The original Fab5 team formation story
Teen Titans (1966) #50-52 "The Coast-to-Coast Calamities", "Titans East! Titans West! And Never (?) the Teens Shall Meet!", "When Titans Clash": The first time Titans East and Titans West were defined (with the first massive team up of 15 Titans):
Teen Titans (1966) #34 "The Demon of Dog Island": Babies' first friend-got-possessed-now-we-must-save-them story!
Interesting Storylines
Teen Titans (1966) #17 "The Return of the Mad Mod": Honestly, I love this story for being the first story where the problem is solved by everyone but Robin because I was so used to the modern stories of Dick being the only one allowed to have a brain
Teen Titans (1966) #37 "Scourge of the Skeletal Riders": They legitimately face off with what seems to be the four horsemen of the apocalypse, maybe evade death, and got their bus fixed by the horsemen's blacksmith? It's all completely unexplained! (Fun to tie in with the implication that they may be immortal though!)
Teen Titans (1966) #38 "Through These Doors Pass the Bravest Titans of Them All": Explores Dick, Donna, and Mal's dreams and insecurities which is fun and it's a little funny to me that all the redheads (Lilith, Wally, Roy) escapes this exploration
The Brave and the Bold (1955) #102 "The Commune of Defiance": A story about civil disobedience portrayed in a good light where the Titans participate!! A story about improving a neighbourhood!!! It's so good I actually teared up a little. If you read nothing else, read this!!!!!!! I'm obsessed with this story actually!!!!!!!!!!
Teen Titans (1966) #41 "What Lies in Litchburg Graveyard": Another story with quite heavy exploration of the history of slavery in America. Is it accurate and sensitive enough? It's like really not my place to say but it seems to be written to teach people at that time about the impacts they have Mr Jupiter raised by a cool black lady which is cool to me!
Fun and Games~
Teen Titans (1966) #9 "The Big Beach Rumble": They have cute sweaters and scooters and fun, who doesn't love a beach ep?
Teen Titans (1966) #11 "Monster Bait": My favourite Fab5 story from here really, just fun and silliness
Teen Titans (1966) #13 "The TT's Swingin' Christmas Carol": A Teen Titans adaptation of the Christmas Carol, who doesn't want to see KF, A-lad, and WG as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future?
Teen Titans (1966) #19 "Stepping Stones for a Giant Killer!": They clown the villain SO much in this one it's just fun
Teen Titans (1966) #27 "Nightmare in Space" (with optional pre-reading of #26 "A Penny for a Black Star" which is the set up): Teen Titans go to space to rescue a lost friend and Donn befriends some funky little cute aliens, what is there not to love?
Teen Titans (1966) #32 "A Mystical Realm, A World Gone Mad!": You get to see the JLA as knights which is very funny and it has lots of Wally and Mal moments in the silliest possible form
And then they forgot to refill it so Garth started dying. The point of this post is that none of the Titans should own a goldfish because they would kill it immediately
if you actually think about it, this year has been amazing for the members of Titans West.
Bette came back as Flamebird (DC's Legion of Bloom) with Titans West getting revived with Hank, Dawn and Karen (much to their chagrin)
Charley, Mal and Karen gaining main supporting roles in World's Finest: Teen Titans, with this being Charley's first speaking role since 2008 (Countdown to Adventure).
Lilith becoming the deuteragonist of Power Girl's ongoing
Duela having an adaption of her Pre-Flashpoint iteration in Gotham Knights compared to Batwoman which used her N52 one
Gnarrk getting revived as part of the Sanctuary victims in One Minute War
I love you jaime reyes I love you karen beecher I love you tye longshadow I love you mal duncan I love you virgil hawkins I love you kaldur'ahm I love you asami koizumi I love you artemis crock I love you eduardo dorado jr I love you prominent characters of color of young justice season 2 you carried the entirety of that plot on your backs and shoulders while people still focused on their white faves you deserve the world
"That Really Happened?!" DC Comics Tournament
Entry #16
Mal Duncan gets punched in the dick by an Angel
[ID: Comic cover for Teen Titans depicting an angry man with a letterman sweater striking at Mal Duncan with a chain. Mal blocks the hit with a glowing shofar horn while other members cheer him on. In the background Kid Flash says, "Hold it, Speedy- Win or lose - Life or death - This is Mal's fight!" /END ID]
What Happened?
Mal Duncan, the best teen titan of all time, challenges the literal actual angel of death to a fist fight. The angel punches him in the dick, but Mal still manages to come out on top, and is granted a magical shofar that can summon aid in times of need as his prize for winning.
He then plays that shofar as the horn section of Speedy's band.
To date, a bad gig has never been considered a time of need, but if great frog ever reform, it's probably only a matter of time until it does a bill and ted and summons other, better, musicians to help them out.
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Tournament polls will be posted after all entries are up. As always you can find all posts related to the tournament using #dc-polls-trh
"In that issue, the African-American Mal kissed the Caucasian Lilith Clay goodbye, in a scene considered to be the first interracial kiss in comic book history. When editorial director Carmine Infantino objected to the scene, thinking it too controversial, editor Dick Giordano kept the scene, but colored it in blue as a night scene, to draw less attention to the moment. Giordano recalls receiving many letters about the kiss, both hate mail (including one death threat) and many supportive letters approving of the kiss."
Accidentally set the poll to 1 day instead of 1 week so I'm remaking it
*I'm excluding the Bats after the shipping poll became Dick vs Jason, and the Arrows are his family. Note that this poll refers to friendships, not romantic ships. Also, this doesn't have to be who his best friend is, just which of his friendships is the best in your opinion (you can choose if that means healthiest/most interesting/whatever). Propaganda welcome!
Just read worlds finest teen titans #4 and aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
Roy is such a little shit I love him so much
Truly one of the panels of all time
I know he’s an archer but Roy looks so buff compare to Wee Little LadTM Garth
GARTH❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Roy bragging about what a great guy Ollie is at any and every opportunity 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😖😖😖😖 he loves him so much and just wants to be appreciated, it hurts so much knowing there’s nothing the writers can do to give him that’s, it’s a canon event and they cannot interfere
Wally moving the dart ever so slightly to the side to fuck with Roy is hilarious
Roy giving genuinely good advice about being yourself because at the end of the day he’s actually a really good person and just lashing out cause he’s insecure!!!!!
DONNA?!?!!? “You don’t even know how to drive!”
OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!! Garth is such a fucking sweetheart, and him knowing immediately what’s going on with Roy and just letting him process it in whatever way he needs to 😍😍😍😍 also Roy calling the limo to take him back cause he can’t handle being vulnerable!!!!
MAL!!!!
I’m loving this comic so much and I’m so sad there’s only two issues left, they REALLY need to make more OG titans content!