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Written by MARV WOLFMAN Art by GEORGE PEREZ, CURT SWAN, ROMEO TANGHAL and others Cover by GEORGE PEREZ In 1980, writer Marv Wolfman and artist George P#65533;rez introduced a timeless team including Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Cyborg, Changeling, Raven and Starfire - young heroes with great powers and strong personalities who learned their way in the world through the strength of their friendship and the adventures they shared. This first omnibus edition collects the team's debut in DC COMICS PRESENTS #26, plus the first sixteen issues of their smash-hit monthly series, including the first appearances of foes including Deathstroke and Trigon, as well as a confrontation with The Justice League of America. On sale AUGUST 24 - 464 pg, FC, $75.00 US… (more)
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In a story titled “Clash of the Titans,” Wolfman and Pérez use Wonder Girl to bring their New Teen Titans alongside the Amazons in a fight to defend the Olympian gods against their Titan parents. This story takes place prior to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths and Pérez’s subsequent redesign of the Olympian gods in the pages of Wonder Woman, so this story will entertain those looking to see what elements he kept and what he altered when given carte blanche after the reboot. The inclusion of material from Best of DC (Blue Ribbon Digest) no. 18 interrupts the flow of the story a bit, as it calls back to the story of Green Lantern no. 85 (1971), which revealed that Green Arrow’s sidekick, Speedy, abused drugs as part of the Comics Code Authority’s decision to allow limited portrayals of drug use. The story does, however, help explain why Speedy and Aqualad did not join the New Teen Titans.
The New Teen Titans followed the techniques Chris Claremont used in Uncanny X-Men to make these characters more realistic amid their high-flying adventures. Popular culture references abound, with Star Wars, Clash of the Titans, and musical callouts that would have helped ground the book in reality for its readers in the early 1980s. Melodrama gives the reader insight into the characters’ motives and makes the tone more serious than the latest baddie-of-the-month type of adventures appearing elsewhere. Tales of the New Teen Titans, in focusing on individual characters, allows Wolfman and Pérez to engage with more complex issues, like race and generational conflict. Wolfman’s quality writing coupled with Pérez’s art helped make this one of the best comic book series of the early 1980s, inspiring the great Cartoon Network television series Teen Titans, the bad Cartoon Network show Teen Titans Go!, and the DC Universe series, Titans. DC continues to include a Teen Titans series under their DC Rebirth brand, but the longevity of the team is all due to Wolfman and Pérez.