Teen Titans, New Teen Titans, New Titans, Titans, Team Titans, Young Justice, New New Teen Titans, New Teen Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, S/D

Here's how I read them in the UK:

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That weird age when you are old enough to have your mind blown by Animal Man, but also dig wearing an Atom badge

yeah, i read that too! the issue where animal man has his arm torn off by a giant mutant rat (with accompanying splash page of him bleeding out in an alley) had a profound effect on 10-tear-old me

i dunno who thought putting teen titans and animal man together in the same comic was a good idea but i salute their commitment to making bad decisions

Haha yeah - but lack of congruence aside, all those London Editions DC comics were really well-curated - introduced me to Byrne's Superman, Norm Breyfogle, Grant Morrison, Neal Adams's hairy-chested-love-god Batman... I think there was a proto-Vertigo one too, with Swamp Thing and some Howard Chaykin thing... that lasted about two issues. I have such clear memories of them - and yeah, especially that Animal Man splash page (I was 12 I think).

The US equivalent to that phenomenon was five completely random comics sealed in plastic and sold for a buck at grocery stores and the like. Maybe you guys had that, too? Still fondly recall the single issues of Alpha Flight and Micronauts: the New Voyages and Kull the Conqueror that I read over and over and over with no context or ability to really understand what was going on.

all those London Editions DC comics were really well-curated

yeah, they really were - they introduced me to so many great stories from dc history

the proto-vertigo one might have been swamp thing and black orchid iirc?

old lunch, i saw those bags of random comics a few times in the uk but weirdly more often in spain, where i'd pick them up every time i saw them in supermarkets or newsagents

no idea why or how english-language comics were showing up in bagged batches in catalonia in the late 80s to mid-90s but i loved 'em

Ha yes, family holidays where you starved for reading and were like, "Hey, a glossy magazine reprint of Star Brand in Flemish, why not?"

We could probably do with a thread dedicated to the insane variations of our childhood comics consumption. Like the campground I always went to with my grandparents, where they had a general store whose entire comics selection (in the mid-'80s) was made up of '70s DC horror anthologies. Why was that a thing? I have no idea, but I'm thankful that it was a thing.

start that thread! i wanna tell my stories of piecing together a run of green lantern: mosaic from dogeared back issues found in newsagents across devon in 1992!

Done!: Grab bags and quarter bins: your tales of discovering comics as a clueless youth

dunno who thought putting teen titans and animal man together in the same comic was a good idea but i salute their commitment to making bad decisions

this is indeed a great decision, but what was the Kevin Maguire Creeper stuff in that?

I think that's [indescribably niche trivia alert] from JLI #7, which was running as backup in the UK Superman book and moved over to DC Action after Superman was cancelled.

Cancellations were so dark and lacking in closure back then. You'd turn up to your newsagent on the regular release day and it just wouldn't be there anymore. It was like a way to practice children for experiencing death.

this is the teen titans thread

Sorry

https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/b/bd/New_Teen_Titans_Vol_1_13.jpg

that's better!

Animal Man + New Teen Titans + JLI is an EVEN BETTER combination.

NTT was the only superhero comic I ever followed* as a kid, packed three or four to an issue in b&w Australian reprints circa 1986. Sometimes all the stories in an issue would follow each other, sometimes they'd be out of order, and sometimes they'd leap over to an unnumbered compilation under a Tales Of The Teen Titans cover focusing on one of the members. To tie into the other thread, I remember trying to process what i was seeing the first time I ever went into a comic shop in the city. "These are... colour reprints... of New Teen Titans comics... that haven't come out yet?"

*(as opposed to reading random issues of superheroes, or to reading every Asterix and Tintin and Footrot Flats collection and Kliban-format Garfield and MAD magazine or Kurtzman-era paperback I could find)

did the X-Men ever have an anti-drug storyline? NTT goes hard on that a couple times in typically ridiculous fashion.

more so in a series of after-school specials paid for by the Reagan govt, though IIRC the Runaways storyline in the regular book leant hard on the "drugs destroy lives and all drugs are the same. don't smoke a drug syringe, kids" vibe

I bought a bunch of the US comics on eBay about seven years ago, to try and read the era of the run I fondly recalled in a more coherent form than originally, but unfortunately it turned out that they were not actually good and looked worse in the original colour printings

lol at this: http://www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/2017/01/new-teen-titans-drug-awareness-special.html

i def have that book somewhere

I'm trying to get through Young Justice season 3, and at episode 10 or so and it's been rough. Does it get better? And do I have rose-tinted glasses on or were the first two seasons actually good?