Teen Titans

12 years ago - A group of Teen heroes become the original Teen Titans.
Team Members: 14-year-old Dick Grayson, 14-year-old Wally West, 12-year-old Garth

11 years ago - Donna Troy & Roy Harper join. 14-year-old Lilith Clay help the Titans capture a serial kidnapper.
Team Members: 15-year-old Dick Grayson, 15-year-old Wally West, 13-year-old Garth, 14-year-old Roy Harper, 17-year-old Donna Troy

10 years ago - Rachel Roth chooses to leave Azarath after the death of the mystic Azar. She takes the name Raven, swearing to stop her father Trigon. She travels to Earth & assembles a new Teen Titans who succeed in trapping Trigon in an interdimensional prison. 19-year-old Grant Wilson takes a contract on them, overtaxing his enhancements and dying of a heart attack. They are almost defeated by 46-year-old Slade Wilson, and battle H.I.V.E. (alongside 14-year-old Garth) & the Fearsome Five
Team Members: 16-year-old Dick Grayson, 16-year-old Wally West, 18-year-old Donna Troy, 17-year-old Rachel Roth, 17-year-old Koriand'r, 18-year-old Vic Stone, 14-year-old Gar Logan

9 years ago - Tara Markov infiltrates the Titans. The Titans helps 17-year-old Mal Duncan battle the beings that forged his Horn. They work with Superman to fight the new Fearsome Five. Gar & the Titans confront Madame Rouge's secret assassin academy.
Team Members: 17-year-old Dick Grayson, 17-year-old Wally West, 19-year-old Donna Troy, 18-year-old Rachel Roth, 18-year-old Koriand'r, 19-year-old Vic Stone, 15-year-old Gar Logan, 16-year-old Tara Markov

8 years ago - The Teen Titans work alongside the newly-formed Teen TItans West. 19-year-old Rachel Roth is overwhelmed by her father Trigon when he escapes his prison. Together they imprison the entire dimension of Azerath. She manages to coerce the Titans to kill her, breaking his connection to the mortal plane, allows the imprisoned denizens of Azerath to weaken Trigon so that the Titans can defeat him, stripping him of his ability to walk the mortal plane. Her mother Arella sacrifices herself so that Raven's soul can be reborn, and she appears to ascend to a higher plane. 16-year-old Betty Kane meets the Titans and decides to dedicate herself to joining them. 17-year-old Tara Markov betrays the Titans to help 48-year-old Slade WIlson take out the team one-by-one. The Titans disband in the aftermath.

5 years ago - Roy Harper creates an entirely new Titans, with 34-year-old Ray Palmer serving as science adviser, specifically to track and bring in the international criminal Jade Nguyen. Roy brings Rose Wilson into the Titans where she briefly bonds with Lian Harper, but the trauma from the loss of her mother leads her to run away.
Team Members: 20-year-old Roy Harper, 23-year-old Donna Troy, 16-year-old Kara Zor-El, 12-year-old Bart Allen, 19-year-old Jesse Chambers, 16-year-old Toni Monetti, 16-year-old Grant Emerson, 22-year-old Kyle Rayner

4 years ago - the original Teen Titans reform as the Titans, along with a few new members. They battle the reformed H.I.V.E., & stop Jade Nguyen from killing her father while in prison.
Team Members: 21-year-old Roy Harper, 24-year-old Donna Troy, 19-year-old Jesse Chambers, 17-year-old Toni Monetti, 22-year old Dick Grayson, 22-year-old Wally West, 24-year-old Garth, 24-year-old Vic Stone, 23-year-old Koriand'r

3 years ago - The Titans & Young Justice stop an army of Brainiac drones 21-year-old Jesse Chambers & 18-year-old Toni Monetti are injured, 25-year-old Donna Troy is killed, and the Titans disband. Vic Stone creates a new Teen Titans from the members of Young Justice, asking Koriand'r & Gar Logan to move into the new tower & becoming a mentors to the new members. The team battles 53-year-old Slade Wilson, who shoots Bart Allen in the knee with a shotgun. Raven's soul is recalled from it's extraplanar existence to be imprisoned in a newly grown body grown by the Blood Cult, in order for her to become the consort of Brother Blood. she is saved by the new Titans and joins them.
Team Members: 25-year-old Vic Stone, 24-year-old Koriand'r, 21-year-old Gar Logan, 19-year-old Raven, 16-year-old Tim Drake, 15-year-old Cassie Sandsmark, Conner Kent, 14-year-old Bart Allen, 16-year-old Virgil Hawkins

2 years ago - Mia Dearden joins the Teen Titans. 22-year-old Gar Logan brings the Titans to help the Doom Patrol recover Rita Farr. He chooses to stay with them to help his foster mother re-learn how to be human, & 19-year-old Raven goes with him. 25-year-old Koriand'r leaves to briefly join the Outsiders before returning to her home planet. Team Members: 26-year-old Vic Stone, 17-year-old Tim Drake, 16-year-old Cassie Sandsmark, Conner Kent, 15-year-old Bart Allen, 17-year-old Virgil Hawkins, 15-year-old Mia Dearden

1 year ago - Kaldur'ahm & M'gann M'orzz join the Titans. When Cassie Sandsmark reveals that Donna Troy's soul has been stolen by Hyperion, the Titan of the Light, 25-year-old Dick Grayson leads all the surviving Titans into space to save her. They defeat the Titans of Myth and usurp their title, becoming the Titans of the New Age. They are able to escape the destruction of New Cronos through Donna's mirror, and because of their new rank, they are permitted to stay briefly on Themyscera. Afterward, Tim Drake assumes leadership of the Teen Titans from 27-year-old Vic Stone. The Titans join the battle against Mageddon.
Titans Mission to Save Donna (Titans Together!): 25-year-old Dick Grayson, 25-year-old Wally West, 24-year-old Roy Harper, 27-year-old Garth, 27-year-old Vic Stone, 26-year-old Koriand'r, 21-year-old Raven, 23-year-old Gar Logan, 18-year-old Tim Drake, 17-year-old Cassie Sandsmark, Connor Kent,16-year-old Bart Allen, 18-year-old Virgil Hawkins, 16-year-old Mia Dearden, 18-year-old Kaldur'ahm, M'gann M'orzz, 20-year-old Kara Zor-El, 26-year-old Kyle Rayner, 23-year-old Jesse Chambers, 20-year-old Toni Monetti, 23-year-old Betty Kane, 24-year-old Karen Beecher, 24-year-old Hank Hall, 20-year-old Dawn Granger

Team Members (after the mission): 18-year-old Tim Drake, 17-year-old Cassie Sandsmark, Conner Kent, 16-year-old Bart Allen, 18-year-old Virgil Hawkins, 16-year-old Mia Dearden, 18-year-old Kaldur'ahm, M'gann M'orzz

now - 18-year-old Cassie Sandsmark steps up to lead the Titans when 19-year-old Tim Drake leaves to find Batman. The Titans fight Hank Henshaw, who kills Connor Kent before he is stopped. Tim later returns as Talon, and Connor returns from the future.Team Members: 19-year-old Tim Drake, 18-year-old Cassie Sandsmark, Conner Kent, 17-year-old Bart Allen, 19-year-old Virgil Hawkins, 17-year-old Mia Dearden, 19-year-old Kaldur'ahm, M'gann M'orzz

Noteworthy Teams

Original Titans

Raven's Titans

Raven

Terra

Arsenal's Titans

Troia

Current Team

Talon

(Our Future Titans)

Robin

Gizmo

The Teen Titans really are the lifeblood of DC comics. The Justice League might have all the marquee names with their faces on billboards, but a quick glance at the history of the company will show that the Titans are the team that really matters. They set the tone for the entire line. When the Titans are performing well, DC is performing well. These characters are always and will always be central to DC's success.

The Teen Titan's Comic History

The Teen Titans first appeared in Brave & The Bold #54 in 1964. It was a deliberate attempt to reach a more youthful audience, appearing in back up stories and regularly referencing contemporary pop culture like Bob Dylan and the Beatles before eventually getting their own title. There were stories that involved socially relevant issues like inner city racism & the vietnam war, and it was a moderate success before it was eventually canceled.

The New Teen Titans debuted in 1980, a book by Marv Wolfman & George Perez. The book starred a few established characters from the original team as well as introducing several new members. This book struck the market right alongside the legendary John Byrne / Chris Claremont X-Men, and both books tapped into a storytelling style full of dynamic characters and intrigue that the industry really hasn't ever seen again. Over the years other creators came onto the book and the quality waxed and waned as it tends to do, but it left a lasting legacy that DC celebrates to this day.

There were several subsequent Titans books in the following years with varying levels of quality, but it largely became a revolving door of characters and creators. There was a resurgence of the type of storytelling that made the Titans great in the pages of an entirely separate book, Young Justice, a completely new team of brand-new teenage heroes. When Geoff Johns came on to create a new Teen Titans book of his own, he took a page from the classic Wolfman/Perez team and built something new using the members of Young Justice as his Titans, but also introduced the idea that some of the classic characters would also be on hand to serve as mentors to the young heroes. In grand Titans tradition, this lineup would slowly devolve over time as the lineup shifted and gave way to lesser characters, but Johns still managed to create a central cast of Titans that was just as strong as the one Wolfman & Perez had built. A new generation of Titans.

Ultimately, what makes these books work so well is watching the characters grow. When it's REALLY good, it's built around a core group of characters whose relationships you really care about, and the story follows them as those relationships evolve and change, and the characters mature before your eyes. This might also be the thing that makes the Titans such a weird challenge to adapt into the larger world of DC, because making these characters grow up means that EVERYONE should be growing up. DC wants it's marquee characters to be static; Batman or Superman can't really be depicted aging. This often leaves the classic Titans characters in a sort of limbo, too problematic to really be used but too awesome and popular to be ignored.

Our Teen Titans Story

There are several major story arcs and team lineups that truly define the Teen Titans. We've very carefully structured our timeline to make sure that each of these teams is front and center. There is a lot of content to draw from, and there are times when we had to struggle a little bit to get all of those stories to happen in a limited amount of time. These are supposed to be TEEN Titans after all, so these events really need to play out within a specific set of years of the characters lives.

There are quite a few other lineups of Teen Titans that have happened over the years with varying degrees of success, and we've used some of them as a basic framework for our other teams. We've created a version of the Titans West, the spinoff team from the Pre-Wolman/Perez years as a way to start moving them forward, but we also built a version of the Titans from the early 90's into our timeline when Roy's leads a team to hunt for Cheshire.

Of course, our current lineup borrows heavily from the Titans rich history in animation, both from the actual Teen Titans series and in Young Justice. Both series created seminal new takes on the team and characters and their influence is felt through our entire timeline.

The Future of The Teen Titans

If there's any one truth about the Titans, it's that their membership is always changing, because these characters are always growing. Our current team is made up of kids aged 17-19, and will very soon no longer qualify for the 'teen' part of Teen Titans. This means we need our timeline set up so that we can very soon bring in a whole new generation of Titans.

All the best Titans teams have been built around a central idea; to give the current Robin a supporting cast. The two best lineups were built around Dick Grayson and Tim Drake, and it's likely no accident that these were the two best received and longest lasting Robins. It's an easy call, then, that the next generation of Titans needs to be built around the newest Robin, Damian Wayne. We've tried to specifically build this team to give Damian a framework to explore the qualities that make him unique, and to help him grow into a hero all his own. Our take on Damien has only JUST arrived on the scene so it will still be about a year before this story arc unfolds. We'll be setting up all these characters so that this next chapter in the legacy of the Teen Titans will be a great one.

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