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Post by tarkintino on Mar 16, 2023 13:19:43 GMT -5
I think the classic Wolfman and Perez run of the Teen Titans blew away any prior or contemporary Justice League run period. The "teen sidekick" schtick was history, they were considerably their own thing. Indeed. TNTT reinvented the concept of teen heroes that would be imitated by just about everyone in its wake. As you point out, TNTT was a superior comic to the Justice League in so many ways. A comic featuring teens and young adults usurping JL as DC's top group comic reminds of the situation at Marvel in 1966 when The Amazing Spider-Man did the same to the former sales-king, the Fantastic Four. Agreed across the board. There's not many "must read" comics in the 80's but The New Teen Titans was on that list for so many years. Mal was almost close to being a groundbreaking character, but DC held back on making him as relevant to the era as he should have been. There were flashes of potential with Mal, but in the end, he was sidelined and in the 70s (when Teen Titans was re-launched), he was utterly uninteresting. DC really dropped the ball with Mal.
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Post by dbutler69 on Mar 16, 2023 14:47:43 GMT -5
I only get to vote for two? Aww man, I love them all! As far as the classic stories, I had to vote for Robin and Kid Flash, though Wonder Girl was a very close third. If this was the 80's Wolfman version, Kid Flash would not have gotten my vote, but here he was cool.
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Post by Graphic Autist on Mar 20, 2023 8:05:05 GMT -5
Dick Grayson and Wally West.
Aqualad would have been my 3rd choice. Or Wonder Girl.
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Post by berkley on Mar 20, 2023 10:16:20 GMT -5
I voted Starfire and Cyborg but I've read only the first 50 issues or so of the 1980s Wolfman/Perez series and don't recall too many details even about that run after all this time, so I'd really have to read a few issues again to refresh my memory. As it is right now, the two characters I remember being most impressed by were two of the Titans' adversaries, Trigon and Deathstroke, rather than any of the Titans themselves.
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Post by Farrar on Mar 25, 2023 14:36:31 GMT -5
My favorite is definitely Wonder Girl; love that she was the "strongperson" of the original team!
I don't really have a strong preference for a second favorite, though I usually liked stories that included Lilith, Mal, Speedy (in conjunction with WG), Bat-Girl, or Tula.
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