Donna Troy and Terry Long: A Love Story

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In this post I will be showing the classic romance of Donna Troy and Terry Long, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

We first meet Terry in The New Teen Titans #8.




Later...




Then in #9...


This scene from #12 takes place after the "Titans of Myth" storyline, where Hyperion entranced Donna and made her fall in love with him.


#13 has Donna taking her anger out on some criminals.




#20 is narrated by Wally West, who's writing a letter to his parents.






In #28...








#29...


#30...




#31...




#34...




#38 is the "Who is Donna Troy?" issue.







Dick helps Donna find out the truth about her past; her mother Dorothy Hinckley gave her up for adoption because she had terminal cancer and was dying. She was adopted by Carl and Fay Stacey. When Carl died in a job-related accident, Fay had little money left and was forced to give Donna up for re-adoption, where she was put into a child-selling operation. The bodies in the fire Donna remembered were of the people who were planning on selling her. Donna is reunited with Elmira Cassiday, the woman who ran the orphanage Dorothy went to, and Fay, who had gotten remarried.

Tales of the Teen Titans #42 takes place during the "Judas Contract" storyline.




In #45, Terry has his bachelor party.










#48...




#49...














In the double-sized #50, Donna and Terry finally get married.




























Later, Diana tells Donna and Terry that they need to come with her.

Comments

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Though I think you have to admit that the Amazonian approach to marriage was probably NOT the norm, even in Ancient Greece.

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According to Perez, Johns and just about everyone inbetween, Amazons don't have an approach to marriage, it's a concept that has no meaning to them. But I don't feel up to that rant just at the moment and will instead simply say that, yes, I imagine it's not Amazon standard to marry off 14-year-old girls to middle-aged men, but that doesn't really make "responsible adult at 16" any less likely, particularly considering Donna's privilege to hare off to Man's World and join the Titans (and the subsequent post-Crisis reinforcement by Byrne and PAD in re: Cassie).