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The
New Teen Titans
(1984, 130 issues + #0)
became The New Titans at #50. Also known as the "Baxter"
series. |
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 16 |
| Subtitle |
The
Night Before
Tales of Tamaran: Blackfire |
| Date |
January
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman
Marv Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Chuck
Patton, Romeo Tanghal
Dick Giordano |
| storyline |
The
Tamaranians were led to believe that the Omega Men were
their enemies. Blackfire watched on as her sister and
brother fought one another. She was using some sort
of device to make everyone believe they were fighting
someone else. Jericho was able to possess one of them
and uncover the truth. The Omega Men told Koriand'r
and the others that X'hal, their goddess, had gone mad
and tried to destroy their star.
Dick and Kory fought over her father and her upcoming
marriage. He told her it would be over between them
if she were to marry the other man. She ran crying to
Joey in hopes that he could make her understand what
was happening. She later found out the man she was to
marry was also in love with someone else.
Joe and Dick went on a sight-seeing tour with Ryand'r,
Kory's brother. Joe feared the Titans would split up
soon. The trio happened upon Komand'r and her troops.
She attacked and destroyed their ship. As Kory prepared
for her wedding, Blackfire's forces hunted and captured
their prey.
After Komand'r's fight with her sister, she was thought
dead. In actuality, she survived (though blinded). A
Tamaranian named Dor'ion had rescued her and protected
her from hunters. She'd lost the will to fight, but
he nursed her back to health and re-lit her fire. By
pretending to be captured, he forced her to kill - him.
Komand'r buried the man she loved and rededicated herself. |
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 17 |
| Subtitle |
For
Better ... For Worse |
| Date |
February
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal |
| storyline |
Ryand'r
freed himself, grabbed his sister, and flew her into
the sky. Joey was able to get into the body of one of
his guards and free Dick. They jumped into Komand'r's
aircraft; Ryan dropped his sister and joined them. Both
groups headed toward Tamaran's capital.
Dick, Joey, and Ryand'r got back in time to witness
Koriand'r's marriage. She wanted her lover to speak
up and stop the ceremony, but he refused to and left.
Komand'r's forces attacked as soon as the marriage was
finalized. When she saw her new husband shot, Kory realized
she truly did care for him.
Komand'r threatened her family and the entire city with
a bomb if control of the planet was not handed over
to her. Myand'r left it up to the people, who chose
his rebel daughter to lead them. He handed the throne
over to Komand'r, who promptly had her family banished
to Okaara. As Tamaran watched the ship, Komand'r detonated
it.
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 18 |
| Subtitle |
Homecoming |
| Date |
March
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal |
| storyline |
A
rogue guard freed Dick, Joey, and Karras (Kory's husband).
He got them to a ship and told them that the King and
his family were alive - it was another ship that had
been destroyed. On Okaara, the two groups met. When
Kory greeted her husband, Dick realized it was truly
over between them. He celebrated his birthday on the
alien planet as his lover and her new husband grew closer
together. Kory was heartbroken and screamed out when
Dick left and returned to Earth.
Donna, Terry, Vic, and Gar prepared to enter their new
tower for the first time. Donna and Terry went home
to work on a paper; Gar and Vic set out to find Steve
Dayton. Gar feared the team would split up.
Nightwing and Jericho arrived back on Earth two weeks
after leaving Okaara. Joe told Donna about Starfire.
Donna told him about the crisis on Earth while they
were gone - Supergirl, Flash, and Kole had been killed.
Though Dick didn't want her prying, Donna forced him
to talk about what had happened. Dick then went looking
for Bruce - Batman and Robin were too busy on a case
to talk to him.
Vic and Gar found Dayton.
**
Editor's note: Kole died in CoIE #12.
** "Donna, I'm gone two months, everything falls
apart..." (Dick Grayson to Donna Troy)
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 19 |
| Subtitle |
Breaking
up is Hard to Do |
| Date |
April
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal |
| storyline |
Cyborg
and Changeling did battle against Dayton as Mento. Mento
disappeared; Gar got a badly beat-up Vic to STAR Labs.
Dick refused to talk about himself, and instead asked
Donna why they'd not followed up on the lead that Brother
Blood had captured Raven. He punched holes through her
leadership of the Titans while he was away, and she
took it out on him physically. After a brief fight,
he headed off to find Raven.
Wonder Girl went to STAR to see Cyborg after calling
her husband. She mouthed off to Gar about not calling
for backup. The doctors told them they were going to
try and replace some of his parts with promethium. After
leaving, Gar and Donna bumped into Sarah Simms and her
students. When she heard about Vic she raced off to
see him.
Nightwing got into the datacenter of Brother Blood's
church and was discovered.
On Okaara, Koriand'r thought of Dick while going to
bed with Karras.
After getting good news on Cyborg, Wonder Girl headed
back to the tower. She received a phone call from King
Faraday saying the FBI needed the Titans. Without a
real team, she called in former (and never before) members:
Hawk, Speedy, Robin (Jason Todd), Aqualad, and Flash
(Wally West).
**
"I'm no longer a kid, I'm twenty, not even a teenager
anymore. It's time I grew up." (Nightwing, internal)
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 20 |
| Subtitle |
Past
Imperfect |
| Date |
May
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal |
| storyline |
Cheshire
snuck into a small black-controlled nation within South
Africa and assassinated the leader. She planted evidence
linking him to Russians. After being paid, she tipped
off that her employer had done the deed. She then met
up with Wen Ch'ang and planned to look for the father
of her child.
Donna told her new Titans what was going on and who
their target was: Cheshire. They were all in for the
ride. They soon arrived in Switzerland at the site of
an upcoming summit. Donna continued to doubt her leadership
and her team. Cheshire attacked. Flash took a bullet
in the shoulder and their lodge was bombed. As they
fought, Hawk flipped out. He no longer had his brother
to keep him calm. Wonder Girl stopped him from killing
one of Cheshire's men, but then took her aggression
out on him. Robin had to pull her away from Hawk. She
left and told Robin he was in charge of the group. He
reminded her he wasn't Dick.
Cheshire escaped, leaving them all alive.
The next morning, they headed to the top of the ski
slopes to keep an eye out for Cheshire. Robin told Speedy
he realized something was up with him. Before anything
more could be said, the assassin struck at them again.
Cheshire revealed that Roy Harper was the father of
her child.
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 21 |
| Subtitle |
On
top of the World |
| Date |
June
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal, Pablo Marcos |
| storyline |
Roy,
at gunpoint, told Cheshire that he loved her and only
left to save their lives. She left him alive and told
him not to rejoin his team. Wonder Girl dove off a cliff
to save a man that Hawk had thrown. Speedy went after
Cheshire despite her orders. She poisoned him after
tossing a grenade into a building. Aqualad and Robin
went in after it; Hawk was forced to treat Speedy instead
of going after their target. The grenade never blew,
and the poison wasn't fatal. Cheshire's only goal was
to discredit the US government, who'd promised to only
send their delegates to the summit.
Flash, who was out of combat due to his injury, stumbled
upon Cheshire, who was busy pulling an arrow out of
her chest. Members of the Church of Brother Blood, who'd
hired the assassin, surprised Flash and gave him a new
injury. They flew off with Cheshire.
Wonder Girl, who'd saved the goon, found Flash unconscious
in the snowy street. When they got back to Titans' Tower,
the found picketers protesting their unsanctioned involvement
with the summit. It's failure had been blamed on them.
Donna thanked everyone for joining her on the mission.
Aqualad went to check on Flash at the hospital.
Dick prepared to infiltrate the Church of Blood alone,
but was quickly detected. They watched as he located
Raven and her mother. Orders were given to alert Bethany
Snow, the reporter.
Donna went to see her husband, but learned he'd been
fired due to failing to complete a writing assignment.
Roy tracked Cheshire down in Hong Kong and finally met
his daughter, Lian.
Terry finally came home to Donna.
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 22 |
| Subtitle |
Dick's
Story / Sisters / Friends & Foes / |
| Date |
July
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal / Rick Leonardi / Tom Mandrake |
| storyline |
Joe,
believing the Teen Titans were really over, joined his
mother for some target practice.
Dick was taken aback by Raven's new look and outlook
- her robes were white, and she looked and acted much
more alive and outgoing. Arella warned him that she'd
been brainwashed by Brother Blood. Soon after, Mother
Mayhem burst into their cell. Though he put up a fight,
he was outnumbered and overwhelmed. He was drug off
to the "conversion chamber." Mother Mayhem
vowed that he would soon be completely under their control
- he would no longer be able to fight the conditioning
they'd instilled in him previously. Soon, he was in
the congregation cheering on Brother Blood.
Komand'r got word that her family was alive and planned
to attack her regime. She sent a message to them - return
to Tamaran or she would begin destroying cities. Kory
led forces to Tamaran and began attacking. Her father
stayed behind on Okaara.
Vic and Gar went for a stroll and pondered Dayton and
the future of the Titans. Somehow, Dayton took control
of Cyborg and began attacking Gar. Vic pleaded for Gar
to kill him before Dayton could make him kill anyone
else. Dayton finally left them alone when John Constantine
met with him.
**
"Twice before, Richard Grayson was in our power,
and we had made him ours. We sent him forth into the
outside world as an unsuspecting mole. But, for the
past year, he has fought his conditioning." (Mother
Mayhem)
**
"Perhaps he (Joe Wilson) had only known them (the
Titans) for a year, but they are still his friends ...
and he will not let go of them so easily." (narration)
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 23 |
| Subtitle |
Loser
Take All |
| Date |
August
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal |
| storyline |
Koriand'r's
troops neared Tamarus. She later learned from Karras
that the people preferred Komand'r's rule to their father's.
The king and queen were teleported back to Tamaran.
Kory blew up a weapons depot. Komand'r took the battle
to her sister - the two fought, both wanting what they
believed was best for their planet. Troops tried to
intervene, but Kory blocked off their paths. Their fight
was finally stopped by their father and the Council
of Elders - Komand'r would remain the queen, with her
family as her advisors.
Kory announced she was returning to Earth - she was
leaving her husband.
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans annual 2 |
| Subtitle |
Revenge
of the Rusting Reptiles from Outer Space
The Book of Blood |
| Date |
August
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman, John Byrne
Marv Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
John
Byrne, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Jim Baikie |
| storyline |
Donna's
stepdaughter, Jenny, asked for a bedtime story. The
new Dr. Light was called to California to work with
geologists on the major fault line She called the Titans
- radiation inside one of the tunnels was negating her
powers. During the transmission, an explosion rang out.
The Titans headed to California.
When they arrived, they found a light erupting from
the caverns. They were attacked by large robot dinosaurs.
Starfire and Cyborg battled back. Wonder Girl helped
Starfire (who'd been drained of energy by the robot)
free Dr. Light and the archaeologists. The team split
up - Cyborg and Starfire stayed behind to battle the
robot dinosaurs, while the rest headed to Easter Island
to follow another lead. Inside a volcano there, they
found what appeared to be an alien laboratory. Wonder
Girl bashed the controls, which stopped the robots.
As it turned out, aliens had landed during prehistoric
times and sent back images of Earth to their home planet.
They placed themselves in stasis as their home world
sent back robotic emissaries of Earth's dominant species.
Sadly, both ships crashed and stayed dormant until drilling
awakened the dinosaurs.
Donna put Jenny to bed and welcome her husband home.
**
"Starfire's gotten better in the past two years,
but her emotions still control her." (Narration,
probably Donna).
In 1202, the Crusades reached Zandia. The people went
to their priest, who'd previously foretold of the invasion.
After praying, he rallied the troops to fight back. He
captured Brother Sebastian, who gave his colleague a prayer
shawl worn by Christ on his last supper in return for
his own life. The priest killed the man after taking the
shawl and feeling it's power. Soon after, he escaped death
and survived a snake bite.
The priest single-handedly drove the invaders from Zandia.
The blood of the dead was drained and poured into a pit
beneath the church. A year later, he submerged himself
in the blood for several days before emerging reborn.
He had the prayer shawl fashioned into a garment that
he could wear. Brother Blood was born.
Time moved on, but Brother Blood never aged. He was stabbed
in the back after reigning for 70 years. His son / murderer
took over. This became the norm, no Brother Blood had
lasted more than a century, always with his son taking
over. Hitler ordered his troops around Zandia, knowing
their leader was more powerful than the Nazi army.
A few years later, Brother Blood's son was of age to understand
his father's doings. After witnessing a ceremony ending
with his father promising to slay his wife and child,
the son of Blood and his mother fled.
Young Blood was shipped to England to be educated, though
he knew his mother would be killed in his absence by her
new abusive husband. He returned in time to see his mother
die in his own arms. He vowed to kill both her husbands.
He killed her current husband and spent the next four
months en route to his own father. They fought in the
pit of Blood. Young Blood slew his father and took his
name. He then christened Mother Mayhem.
Mother Mayhem, pregnant, called the Titans to leave her
husband alone - he was different from his father and he
would lead them to greater glory.
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 24 |
| Subtitle |
Hell
is the Hybrid |
| Date |
October
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal |
| storyline |
Three
archaeologists were killed after uncovering the Temple
of Medusa in Greece. Steve Dayton, maddened by the power
of his Mento helmet, planned to resurrect them and form
his own Doom Patrol-like group.
Robin, Speedy, and Hawk bid farewell to the Titans;
Flash and Aqualad continued on with the group. Jericho
also returned.
Gar and Vic were in line at a bank when two men tried
to rob it, Changeling and Cyborg made quick work of
them. Later, one of Vic's friends told him she had a
surprise for him. She took the pair to STAR Labs where
they were met by the rest of the Titans. The team was
now back together except for Raven and Nightwing, who
were still captives of Brother Blood.
Dayton got another freshly dead person from his group
- an Israeli army captain.
The Titans' T-Jet was attacked by a large winged creature.
Changeling was able to stop it, but the jet crashed
into the harbor with everyone else aboard. Dayton's
first attempt at killing his stepson was thwarted, but
he sent the rest of his new team, the Hybrid, for the
Titans.
**
The Hybrid: Mento (Steve Dayton), Gorgon the Terrible
(Andonis Bal), the Horrible Harpi (Angelika Bal), and
Pteradon (an unnamed Israeli army captain).
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 25 |
| Subtitle |
Hell
is the Hybrid part two |
| Date |
November
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal |
| storyline |
Aqualad
called upon two whales to bring the T-Jet back to the
surface. The Titans were saved. Back at the tower, Pteradon
told Changeling that his father had turned him into
a beast and sent him to destroy the Titans.
Mento began working on his next Hybrid member - a former
sumo wrestler.
The Hybrid attacked Titans Tower. Flash was thrown into
the air; Changeling saved him. Cyborg was thrown into
the Hudson; Aqualad saved him. Flash was turned to stone
by Gorgon while saving Jericho. After the Hybrid were
all captured, Gorgon told them that Flash should return
to normal shortly. They didn't want to cause anyone
harm - they were being controlled by Mento. Pteradon
attempted to tell them where Mento was, but he was overloaded
by his master's mental power. The Hybrid escaped, but
Aqualad attached himself to Harpi. Changeling was hit
with a stone blast during the battle.
When the Hybrid returned to Mento, he introduced them
to his new willing participant - Behemoth.
Jericho's mother helped the team track down Mento. They
got confirmation and worked on a plan.
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| Issue |
The
New Teen Titans 26 |
| Subtitle |
Twister
Shout chapter one |
| Date |
December
1986 |
| Writer(s) |
Marv
Wolfman |
| Artist(s) |
Eduardo
Barreto, Romeo Tanghal, Kerry Gammill |
| storyline |
Bethany
Snow reported on the Church of Brother Blood. When the
camera's panned the believers, Nightwing and Raven were
clearly shown. Mother Mayhem said that Brother Blood
would rise in three days - exactly one year after he
was killed. The Titans were torn as to which to go after
- Mento or Brother Blood.
Wonder Girl called Robin in to help; Starfire returned
to Earth and rejoined her friends.
Seven hours later, they were in Zandia. The church sent
troops after them. Changeling and Starfire were wounded,
but they made it back to their camp.
A council sent Twister, a genetic mutation done by Brother
Blood, to search out the Brotherhood. The Titans intercepted
Twister and experienced her reality-altering powers
firsthand. Twister escaped as the Titans fought to regain
reality. She later found the Brotherhood of Evil in
Japan.
The Titans moved in on the Church. Robin stayed behind
as a lookout.
As they got into position, the Brotherhood of Evil appeared.
**
"The world witnessed the death of Brother Blood
one year ago three nights hence." (Mother Mayhem)
**
"We haven't seen Raven in almost a year."
(Cyborg, internal)
**
"I can't wait until I'm sixteen." (Robin /
Jason Todd)
**
This issue references Teen Titans Spotlight 1-2.
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