The Teen Titans vs some "Rock Band Criminals"

[sun_soraya]

Instead of explaining why I'm posting scans of DC Showcase #59 (1965), I'll let the teaser pic speak for itself...




... yep. More music, a weird rock band, 'hip language' and some things that just don't work that way behind the cut.



Actually I wanted to demand a drinking game for every try to use cool language, but we probably wouldn't even survive the first narrator's text then.





I can't decide what's the most hilarious, the 'babe', the board or the bike... their names are Joe, Jill and Jack btw.



(I seriously want Aqualad's tv.) Of course, a boy with a letter comes rushing in that says The Flips had agreed to give a benefit concert. Everybody's happy, but then two guys and a girl, who look exactly like The Flips (including the guitar, the bike and the baton) burst into a jeweler's shop. Joe even sings on his board while doing this!
On the next day The Flips argue with the mayor and the police: they explain that they were kinda kidnapped after their concert and couldn't have possibly commited the crime. However, the people of Clarkston don't want accused criminals to give a concert in their town and only agree on letting them visit if the Teen Titans monitor them, who come to help at once.



Aqualad is guarding the bike, the board and the baton (I can't believe I'm actually writing this) and Kid Flash and Wonder Girl are patroling the city, but miraculously The Flips can escape, leaving only a hole in the wall, get their stuff and go on a new crime spree. And they sing the whole time!





And elsewhere:



Kid Flash follows Jack and Jill...





That last panel just cracks me up.
They do that until Aqualad is too tired and gives up. Then Wonder Girl for some reason finds The Flips sleeping in a field outside and flies them back into the town, where the TT and the police confront them. They claim that they were knocked out by some gas in the room they rehearsed in and don't know anything about the crimes. Of course the people don't believe them, but Robin has a plan!

The mayor announces to the people that due to new evidence Tthe band members are cleared and the concert will be held.
While The Flips are in the theater's dressing room, doppelgangers - surprise! - of the band appear, lock them in and go out to steal more stuff.





Whee, happy end!

Comments

[joasakura]

There's almost nothing as funny as the writers in the 60s trying so hard to sound hip :laughs: and the LYRICS. gaaaaahahahahahahah

[auggie18]

It's weird to think of teenage rock dude doing his thing in a speedo when his target audience is clean cut suburban kids and not disaffected youth.

[cleome45]

[looks around for icon_uk...]

[seriousfic]

Wonder Girl runs into a girl in a one-piece and immediately gets tied up in her own lasso. Are we sure this isn't the "young Diana" version of the character?

[bluefall]

Actually it kind of was? I believe this was written before anybody told Haney that Wonder Girl *was* Young Diana, so as far as he knew he was writing the same character that was in all those stories in the WW title.

Though the Young Diana version admittedly didn't get tied up with quite the same frequency as her adult self anyway. Which is probably a good thing.

[darkblade]

Altogether now.

Punk is nothing but death and crime and the RAGE of a beast.

[sistermagpie]

I hope Robin apologized for calling Batman un-round. That's just too harsh.

Wondergirl and Aqualad are especially adorable. Who knew they got that good reception on Paradise Island or...under the sea?

[megami18]

"I hope Robin apologized for calling Batman un-round. "

Yeah, especially coming from the kid in the panties that are tighter than Wonder Girl's.

[sun_soraya]

Who knew they got that good reception on Paradise Island or...under the sea?

That's exactly the same thought I had.

[cleome45]

This is... the best scans EVER!

[Goes to stare at the Aqua-family perms some more, also the villain riding a cycle vertically up the side of the panel]

[autumn_lily]

DAMN THOSE KIDS AND THEIR 'ROCKING AND ROLLING'!

[psychopathicus_rex]

Is this one of the issues collected in the Teen Titans Archives? I ask because, frustratingly enough, my stupid computer is stretching out all the scans so I can't read them, and I'd been thinking of getting a copy of the TTA anyway - if THIS is in it, I definitely will.

[sun_soraya]

I don't own the TTA, but I checked a few websites and this issue seems to be collected in the Silver Age Teen Titans Archives 01 and in the b/w Showcase Presents: Teen Titans 01.

If you can't see the scans, do you want me to give them to you in a zip-file?

[psychopathicus_rex]

Sure, if you wouldn't mind - that'd be great.

[sun_soraya]

Ok, here it is.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Thanks!

[psychopathicus_rex]

Um, don't mean to be demanding or anything, but I just tried to download the file, and it didn't work. I got an error message, which was in German, so I don't know what it said, but suffice it to say that the Zip file did not like me. Would it be possible for you to just send me the files in an E-mail, if it's not too much of a convenience?

[psychopathicus_rex]

...'INconvenience'; oy yoy yoy.

[sun_soraya]

I just sent you a PM to your DW account.
You can also try viewing the scans here or here, maybe your pc likes these better. :)