The early 1990s were a strange time for Marv Wolfman on the New Titans. After launching the New Teen Titans in 1980 with George Perez, Wolfman had a bunch of characters that he and Perez could do whatever they wanted with. The only character that Wolfman had restrictions on was Robin, who was still ostensibly Batman’s partner in crimefighting and thus Wolfman had certain limitations on what he could do with the character. New Teen Titans proved so popular, though, that eventually DC introduced a new Robin, Jason Todd, so that Wolfman could take control of Dick Grayson. He had Dick become Nightwing and become firmly a part of the Titans universe for the rest of the 1980s (with George Perez leaving the Titans in 1986 or so, Wolfman was soon the sole guy in charge of the Titans, although Perez made a brief comeback for a few years in the late 1980s as the co-plotter of the book).