From www.marvwolfman.com
 TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #44 (Jul 1984)
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TODAY'S VIEWS: SEPTEMBER 28 , 2006
written by Marv Wolfman
(excerpt)
In 1984, in the pages of Tales of the Teen Titans #44, the always incredible George Perez and I took Dick Grayson out of his old Robin green shorts, red tunic and yellow cape and created the new hero, Nightwing. I was the sole writer of Nightwing for the next 12 years until I left the Titans in 1996, and I never stopped caring for him in all that time. I now have the chance to come back to this character I helped give life to and I'm hoping you'll give us a look as well as hang in there as we put into effect all our long-range plans.
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From Wizard Universe Store
FIRST APPEARANCE SERIES #3: NIGHTWING
(Jul 2005)
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First Appearance Series 3: Nightwing
After earning his stripes as Batman’s sidekick Robin, Dick Grayson became Nightwing, leader of the Teen Titans, in 1984’s TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #44! This figure features multiple points of articulation, includes a base and a mini-reproduction of the comic in which the character first appeared, and is packaged in a 4-color deluxe blister.
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| February 10, 2004 | Question of the Issue Reponses |
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From Forum
PACESETTER: THE GEORGE PEREZ MAGAZINE #4
(2004)
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NEW TEEN TITANS #26
(Dec 1982)
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NEW TEEN TITANS #34
(Aug 1983)
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Question of the Issue?
Thread started on: 02/08/04 at 12:40am
Tony Lorenz :
Hi everyone, I still need response to the question of the issue "What is your favorite Titan's cover and why?"
Reply #1 on: 02/08/04 at 4:22pm
Mark Metz:
I think I have to go with New Teen Titans 21 (the Baxter version). The image of the Titans fallen in the know imaged within Cheshire's green costume has always been one of the most striking covers of the series to me. I had dropped Titans before that issue, but later, I had to have that one for the cover alone.
It's everything a photoshop user like me wishes I could draw myself rather than use an application to do so. George's artwork her is truly amazing.
Reply #2 on: 02/08/04 at 7:20pm
Vu:
TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #44
That is my favorite cover of the Teen Titans by George Perez. The cover introduces three new characters, all in a very heroic stance. In each of the background, it tells the story of the character. This is definitely one of the best cover ever made!
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| December 26, 2003 | Comics 101: Batman |
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From Movie Poop Shoot
BATMAN: A LONELY PLACE OF DYING
(1990)
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COMICS 101: BATMAN, PART 4: HEROES AND VILLAINS
December 17, 2003
By Scott Tipton
(excerpt)
In “A Lonely Place of Dying,” a 5-issue story by Marv Wolfman, George Perez and Jim Aparo that saw print in the pages of BATMAN and NEW TITANS, readers saw Dick Grayson attempt to intervene and make his former mentor realize he needs help. Meanwhile, both Bruce and Dick were surprised by the appearance of teenager Timothy Drake, who stuns the two with the announcement that he’s deduced their secret identities as Batman and Robin. Tim, it turns out, was a child of three or four when he saw the Flying Graysons’ trapeze act at the circus, and saw young acrobat Dick Grayson perform an amazing triple somersault, an image that was burned into his memory. When, years later, he saw news footage of Robin executing the same maneuver, he put two and two together and realized that Robin was the ex-circus performer Grayson. When a little research revealed that Grayson had been adopted by billionaire Bruce Wayne, whose own parents were murder victims, everything fit. After the disappearance from the public eye of the second Robin, Tim had also noticed the increasingly erratic Batman, and decided to intervene as well.
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TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #44
(Jul 1984)
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COMICS 101: BATMAN PART III -- THE FRIENDLIEST LONER IN TOWN
December 10, 2003
By Scott Tipton
In addition, a new sidekick for Batman had been introduced in the pages of DETECTIVE COMICS, a young boy named Jason Todd, whose parents had been killed in a manner strikingly similar to Dick Grayson’s. Accordingly, writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez, in the pages of their top-selling series THE NEW TEEN TITANS, got permission to have Grayson retire his Robin uniform, and not long after introduced Dick Grayson’s new costumed identity – Nightwing.
The name was taken from an obscure Superman character (when Superman and Jimmy Olsen would shrink down and visit the bottled Kryptonian city of Kandor, occasionally circumstances would compel them to take on their own superhero identities: Nightwing and Flamebird), and Grayson attributed the identity as a tribute to his two greatest inspirations: Superman and Batman. Although the costume was a little rough at first, (particularly a gigantic disco collar that made Lex Luthor’s purple ‘70s number look subtle in comparison) the Nightwing identity was an unquestionable success, leading to a long run in TITANS, several miniseries, and eventually a successful solo series of his own, originated by writer Chuck Dixon and artist Scott McDaniel. The Nightwing identity has even made its way into the mainstream media, having been heavily featured and merchandised in THE NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES, the second series of the successful and critically acclaimed Batman cartoons by the award-winning Dini/Timm/Burnett production team.
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| October 7, 2002 |
We've Got Letters (Oct 6) |
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From Silver Bullet Comics
Letters, We’ve Got Letters!
Sunday, October 6
By Marv Wolfman
From: kpierc72@earthlink.net
How did the entire concept of the Teen Titans came about? Was it DC's intention for it to complete with the X-Men or was it a surprise hit? Had you and George Perez always had the idea of Cyborg, Raven and Star fire, back in Marvel? Why did DC not include Firestorm within the Teen Titans. Who had come up with the concept of Nightwing?
I will assume you’re asking about The New Teen Titans and not the original group. I don’t know who created that group – it could have been the editors or the writer, Bob Haney. Maybe someone out there knows? As for my group, I was leaving Marvel and coming over to DC (in those days you could only work for one company and not both) and was getting my assignments. My only request was no team-up books, so, naturally, I was assigned to DC Presents and Brave & Bold, both team-up books. Therefore, my first order of business was to get off those titles.
Len Wein and I had written a story or two for the original Teen Titans way back in the late 60s, and I always had a warm spot for those characters, so I asked Len – who at this point had become an editor at DC – if we could revive the title. I went home and came up with the characters, so, no, there was not always a Starfire, Cyborg or Raven. You can read my introduction for the first Teen Titans Archives to see how they came about. Len and I went into publisher Jenette Kahn’s office and pitched my idea. Jenette said she did not like the previous version of the Titans and therefore wasn’t hot on the idea, but we said we’d do it better. Honestly, that’s all we said. Jenette, who trusted us, said fine.
As I fleshed out the characters I ran into George Perez at the Marvel offices. I mentioned to him that I was working on a new version of the Titans and would he be interested in drawing it. George thought the book would last maybe a half dozen issues, and there was a chance he could also draw the Justice League, which was the book he really wanted to do, so he said yes. George then designed the look of each and every one of the characters.
We showed Jenette what we had done and she liked it so much she decided we should do a 16 page original Titans story that they would put in free in DC Presents #26 to get people interest.
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| April 1, 2000 |
Millenium Edition |
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From DC Comics
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TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #44
Written by Marv Wolfman; art and cover by George Perez and Romeo Tanghal
Former Robin Dick Grayson made his debut as a new hero -- Nightwing -- in this pivotal 1984 issue that featured the origin of the voiceless Teen Titan named Jericho and his father, the assassin known as Deathstroke.
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