posted April 02, 2003 04:56 PM               

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The SA mystery volume 1 is accounted for - I've confirmed the SA Teen Titans Archive rumor with Bob. It will start with the B&B and Showcase issues, then into its own title.

There will be a new cover by Nick Cardy.

More info. to come I'm sure.

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posted April 02, 2003 05:18 PM            

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I've been filling in the gaps in my TT collection of late and have very much enjoyed Cardy's work on the issues I've managed to afford...um, locate so far. Donna Troy has long been a favorite DCU denizen of mine and I have little doubt who had a major hand in making that so. Cardy's Wonder Chick rocked.

Can't wait for the TT Archives. It'll probably end up being one of my favorite collections to date.

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posted April 02, 2003 06:32 PM            

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Didn't Bob comment about an old veteran doing a new cover, "the guy can still draw"? I think Cardy is the guy.

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posted April 02, 2003 06:39 PM               

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This is good news. I will pick this volume up for sure. I hope it continues to the completion of the Cardy era at least. Indeed, he always did the best Wonder Girl.

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posted April 02, 2003 06:42 PM               

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I'll certainly take another look. Maybe it's better than I remembered.

It occurs to me that maybe the reason I disliked Titans the first time around was that I was just a few years older than the characters. For a college kid in the mid-60s, it didn't ring at all true, and I couldn't enjoy the absurdity of it at the time.

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posted April 02, 2003 07:17 PM               

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Life is good.

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posted April 02, 2003 08:49 PM               

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More details on content - this volume will include the following:

B&B 54 and 60, Showcase 59, Teen Titans 1-6 (229 pages of content, rounding out to a 240-pager total). All written by Bob Haney. All art by Nick Cardy except the first (Bruno Premiani) and the last (Bill Molno/Sal Trapani). This will include Wonder Girl's first appearance (outside of Kanigher's "impossible tales" in WW), Speedy's first appearance with the group, and ends with Beast Boy's guest starring in TT 6.

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posted April 02, 2003 09:03 PM               

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I wonder. Should I "dig this scene"?

He, he. You Baby Boomers.

See you on the flip side "Daddy-o".

Hey, Utley, "Twenty-three Ska-doo".

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posted April 03, 2003 12:11 AM               

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Chicken inspector!

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posted April 03, 2003 04:07 AM               

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Great news!! Also a nice reminder to look for some of those first series back issues of Titan's at the Pittsburgh Con this month. Now if we can convince DC to do a SA Superman/Action archive series. That would make me even more excited.

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posted April 03, 2003 04:37 AM               

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You'll have to excuse me I'm new to this format, but didnt they already release a Teen Titans Vol.1?

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"I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trench coat and cigarette
and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness.
Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood,
I'll drive your demons away.
I walk my my path alone... who would want to walk with me?"

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posted April 03, 2003 06:09 AM            

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Originally posted by *STARMAN*:
You'll have to excuse me I'm new to this format, but didnt they already release a Teen Titans Vol.1?

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That was NEW TEEN TITANS VOL. 1, Perez and Wolfman's revival/reworking of the team. This new archive collects the early adventures of the original TEEN TITANS that debuted in '64.

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posted April 03, 2003 06:10 AM            

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Make that "NEW TEEN TITANS ARCHIVES vol. 1"...

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posted April 03, 2003 08:15 AM            

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As one of THE great masters of DC art, it is nice to see Nick Cardy's work finally reflected in an Archive...

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'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, then how much knowledge
does a person need before they're safe?'
... The answer is, they'll never be safe again."
— Darien Fawkes of the Invisible Man, "The Value of Secrets"

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posted April 03, 2003 08:29 AM               

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I'm excited! This is one of two untapped silver age archive lines I've been most looking forward to! (The other is Brave and Bold team ups, by the way). I can't wait!

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posted April 03, 2003 10:46 AM            

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Wonder if it'll coincide w/ Bob Haney's Teen Titans Elseworlds mini?

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posted April 03, 2003 10:22 PM               

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Hey, that sounds er...uh..."cool".

Sorry.

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posted April 04, 2003 02:16 AM               

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Nah. People still actually SAY cool, Carlo. Fab, maybe. Gear?

Nobody ever really talked very much like Bob Haney's Titans. And anyone who ever did actually sound even a little bit like them in places had stopped several years before.

If only Gilbert Shelton had had a chance to do them....

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posted April 04, 2003 02:25 AM               

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That was NEW TEEN TITANS VOL. 1, Perez and Wolfman's revival/reworking of the team. This new archive collects the early adventures of the original TEEN TITANS that debuted in '64.

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Thanks for the help. Who was in the original line-up? The only Titans I'm familiar with are the Wolfman ones. Did they have pretty much the same members?

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"I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trench coat and cigarette
and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness.
Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood,
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I walk my my path alone... who would want to walk with me?"

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Thanks for the help. Who was in the original line-up? The only Titans I'm familiar with are the Wolfman ones. Did they have pretty much the same members?

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It originated as a Robin, Kid Flash & Aqualad teamup in Brave & Bold, then added Wonder Girl (who had until then only appeared as Wonder Woman's younger self) for two more tryout issues, one each in B&B and Showcase.
Those four were the core, augmented most often by Green Arrow's partner Speedy (who is now Arsenal), and by the Doom Patrol's Beast Boy (now Changeling) but also by several other characters (Gnarrk, Mal, Lilith) who originated in the pages of Teen Titans itself, and even by Hawk & Dove at one point.

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posted April 04, 2003 02:57 AM            

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Jeez, I feel old. Robin is now Nightwing, Kid Flash is now Flash, Aqualad is now Tempest, Wonder Girl is now Troia (blecch!), Speedy is now Arsenal, and Beast Boy is now Changeling (a definite improvement).

There have been two more Robins and a new Wonder Girl (or so I'm told). Apparently, everyone expects Impulse to become Kid Flash. Just need the new Aqualad and Speedy, and we're set. Trademarks being what thery are, we shouldn't have to wait too long.

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posted April 04, 2003 03:07 AM               

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I always found it odd (how ironic--choke) that Speedy got into downers.

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posted April 04, 2003 03:41 AM               

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I don't know if I'll be getting this or not. It's a tough call. I love Nick Cardy's art, but that whole mod, go-go chex era sometimes gives me a bit of a headache (hopefully I haven't incurred the wrath of India Ink with such a statement). It's not that I entirely hate them. In fact, I have a fair collection of original 1966-67 vintage DC comics, all filed together (these wayward children need their own little category). And, in all honesty, I enjoy those comic books as artifacts of their era, replete with ads, letters, direct currents, and whatnot. It's the overall context that makes them pleasantly palatable for me. But, plucking some of that material with its faux hipster mentality, and putting it an archive seems like a potentially awkward mix. Maybe I'll dig up a few old "Teen Titans" and see if I'm being too unfair. I don't have too many issues. I think I have one around here, which I vaguely recall spotlighting some sort of robot/machine being referred to "Honey Bun" ...? Never got around to reading it. It didn't look particularly enticing. Maybe I'm just anti-teen. All that dang loud music, all those pimples. Blecch! Maybe I'll pick up a "Spirit" volume that month instead. I'm still missing a few of those.

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posted April 04, 2003 06:52 AM               

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M'uh bad, James! ...er- about the "cool"!

Although one of my wife's -ahem- "pet names" for me is "Daddy-O".

Sadly, her other pet names for me include "@#!?" and "#^%!?&@"

Best...
Carlo-O

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posted April 04, 2003 08:38 AM            

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So has a title for this archive been decided on yet?

Will it be:

The Teen Titan Archives

or

The Silver Age Teen Titan Archives?

The first invites confusion with the "New Teen Titans" line, I'm thinking.

Jim Davis

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