Remember the New Teen Titans
Part One: Meeting the Titans
By Jennifer M. Contino March 21, 2016
I discovered
The New Teen Titans
quite by accident, and it was one of the best accidents of my life. Let
me explain: the naive comic book reader, all of nine years old, thought
any comic book that had Batman on the cover
had to have Robin somewhere in the story, and vice versa. Batman
and
Robin were my favorites at that point in time, so I bought just about
every comic book with Batman that I could find. So, I was at the
newsstand -- yes, at that point in time (circa 1982) the newsstand was
my comic book store. Even better, I was at a newsstand with an extra
dollar to my name. It was Lent....
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The Teen Wonder was on the cover of
New Teen Titans # 19.
Mistakenly, I believed Raven (who I didn't know at the time) to be
Batman, covered by his cape. So, I thought, "A Batman and Robin story I
don't have. I'll get this." Again, I was young and just thought someone
didn't color Batman's leg. Also the story promised an appearance by
Hawkman, and I liked him in
SuperFriends. I didn't really know
anyone else on the cover, save for Wonder Girl. I had an awesome yellow
sleeping bag that had Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Supergirl, Catwoman and
Batgirl on it, so I recognized Wonder Girl, even if she did look
different from the Wonder Girl I knew from Lynda Carter's
Wonder Woman
television series. I went home, got my slices of pizza, then sat in my
favorite comic book reading spot, and opened to page one of this story.