The first incarnation of the Teen Titans: Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad vs Mr. Twister
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scans_dailyThe first incarnation of the Teen Titans debuted in The Brave and The Bold #54 (1964), though they weren't named TT and Wonder Girl wasn't in sight yet.
It was surprisingly difficult to choose the pages and I wanted to cover the complete issue, so I'll just try to summarize what happens between the single pages.
One big generation gap ahead plus Robin showing off with his detective skills...
The story starts with some fierce meetings in Hatton Corners!
Of course the Teen Club wants support from teen heroes, namely Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad. All three of them get their mentor's permission to go there and help out (yes, you read this correctly), meet up and arrive at HC, where they find a demolished clubhouse and no teens.
Kid Flash and Aqualad search the area, but can't find the kids, when suddenly a tornado arrives. Robin tells the townspeople to take shelter in the bank's vault, but gets caught into the tornado himself (caused by Mr. Twister, who appears right out of the tornado). No worries though, Kid Flash comes back from the search just in time to catch Robin in mid-air.
Mr. Twister shouts out that he wants the townspeople to meet his demands and pay a debt or "the teenagers will never walk these streets again!" and disappears. Suddenly, everyone misses the teens, and the mayor tells our heroes about Brom Stikk alias Mr. Twister and this weird debt:
Passenger pigeons, huh? When I saw the staff's feathers I thought of flamingoes, but what do I know... With passenger pigeons being extinct, they couldn't continue to hand out feathers and thus owe Stikk a lot of feathers - or children.
Robin checks the airport's radar and discovers a huge movement of flying objects to Goat Island in the night the kids vanished, which were needless to say the them carried away in a tornado. Off to Goat Island they go... on a manta.
On Goat Island they find the teenagers forced to build a giant monument for Twister (what a truely evil plot, and as you've probably guessed: the kids appreciate the adults now). Twister leaves the island for a bit, Kid Flash finishes building the monument whilst becoming the kids' personal hero, and Robin follows Twister to a hidden cave, where he has to renew his staff's powers. Robin encounters him and... gets knocked out because of his enemy sneezing?
Twister then dumps the unconscious Boy Wonder in the town together with a note that says "Unless the rent is met by tomorrow's date - earth, wind and fire will be your fate", and returns to Goat Island... which is gone because in the meantime, Aqualad had carried the island away with the help of a few whales - yeah, the whole island, so Aqualad is the new favourite hero. The kids have to wait at the coastline near the town until Kid Flash has told their parents that they're all save now. He rushes into the town and meets up with Robin again just in time to see a big cloud of dust approaching, Twisters first threat:
The green cloud comes - who would've guessed - with a lot of water, so it's Aqualad's turn now...
Now, isn't it great that Robin is again the coolest in the end? Almost forgotten is that... sneeze... thing.
And the cover, which fits pretty well this time:
It was surprisingly difficult to choose the pages and I wanted to cover the complete issue, so I'll just try to summarize what happens between the single pages.
One big generation gap ahead plus Robin showing off with his detective skills...
The story starts with some fierce meetings in Hatton Corners!
Of course the Teen Club wants support from teen heroes, namely Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad. All three of them get their mentor's permission to go there and help out (yes, you read this correctly), meet up and arrive at HC, where they find a demolished clubhouse and no teens.
Kid Flash and Aqualad search the area, but can't find the kids, when suddenly a tornado arrives. Robin tells the townspeople to take shelter in the bank's vault, but gets caught into the tornado himself (caused by Mr. Twister, who appears right out of the tornado). No worries though, Kid Flash comes back from the search just in time to catch Robin in mid-air.
Mr. Twister shouts out that he wants the townspeople to meet his demands and pay a debt or "the teenagers will never walk these streets again!" and disappears. Suddenly, everyone misses the teens, and the mayor tells our heroes about Brom Stikk alias Mr. Twister and this weird debt:
Passenger pigeons, huh? When I saw the staff's feathers I thought of flamingoes, but what do I know... With passenger pigeons being extinct, they couldn't continue to hand out feathers and thus owe Stikk a lot of feathers - or children.
Robin checks the airport's radar and discovers a huge movement of flying objects to Goat Island in the night the kids vanished, which were needless to say the them carried away in a tornado. Off to Goat Island they go... on a manta.
On Goat Island they find the teenagers forced to build a giant monument for Twister (what a truely evil plot, and as you've probably guessed: the kids appreciate the adults now). Twister leaves the island for a bit, Kid Flash finishes building the monument whilst becoming the kids' personal hero, and Robin follows Twister to a hidden cave, where he has to renew his staff's powers. Robin encounters him and... gets knocked out because of his enemy sneezing?
Twister then dumps the unconscious Boy Wonder in the town together with a note that says "Unless the rent is met by tomorrow's date - earth, wind and fire will be your fate", and returns to Goat Island... which is gone because in the meantime, Aqualad had carried the island away with the help of a few whales - yeah, the whole island, so Aqualad is the new favourite hero. The kids have to wait at the coastline near the town until Kid Flash has told their parents that they're all save now. He rushes into the town and meets up with Robin again just in time to see a big cloud of dust approaching, Twisters first threat:
The green cloud comes - who would've guessed - with a lot of water, so it's Aqualad's turn now...
Now, isn't it great that Robin is again the coolest in the end? Almost forgotten is that... sneeze... thing.
And the cover, which fits pretty well this time:
ADULTS! WE LOVE 'EM!
Date: 2010-02-03 12:59 am (UTC)Re: ADULTS! WE LOVE 'EM!
Date: 2010-02-03 06:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-03 02:06 am (UTC)My, the times, how they've changed.
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Date: 2010-02-03 05:09 pm (UTC)Decades later, the New Teen Titans Secret Origins annual retconned in the notion that Brom Stikk went on to accept a chance to have his revenge on Robin from the extradimensional evil entity called The Antithesis (Who had been revealed to REALLY be the first foe the Titans had fought, and also had a loathing for the kid in the pixie boots as a result) and became the Gargoyle, who had been a villain in Teen Titans #14 in 1968 (and who had a fairly unexplained hatred of Robin that the retcon sort of tied into)
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Date: 2010-02-03 06:04 pm (UTC)Didn't know about that retcon, that's a pretty interesting interpretation of that hatred. So, Gargoyle is not just jealous of Robin's legs and butt? :D
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Date: 2010-02-03 02:23 am (UTC)(*) in comics, that is.
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Date: 2010-02-03 03:19 am (UTC)>named brom stikk
>brom
>stikk
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Date: 2010-02-03 05:24 am (UTC)Yeah, these stories weren't the best, but they were Bob Haney stories, so they generally were a great deal of fun nonetheless.
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