Bob HaneyTeen Titans the Silver Age 1

Though not as big as some omnibi this is still a huge chunk of story under one cover- and that's what you want whether the Titans are your favorite team or if you're reading them for the first time- so you win either way. Make sure you work in the binding slowly and gently so you don't break it and lose pages as a result. Fun stories during this period with distinctive team members. Vivid color.

Excellent Collection!!! The collection that a collector wants to own. Thanks DC Comics for finally getting this type of collection to the fans. And it includes The Hawk and Dove series of the time!

Best way to own the ORIGINAL Teen Titans - gorgeous compilation! Nicely recolored and cleaned up art for collectors like myself.

Great stuff. Oversized- fantastic presentation. Just one feedback to improve further editions- a less glossier paper would help. The perfect tone would be the one used in the Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko omnibuses

Bob Haney was one of the greatest comic book writers ever. You will love reading this book.

This collection includes issues 1-24 of the original 1960s Teen Titans series, three Brave and Bold and Showcase tryout issues, and one Brave and Bold Batman team up. In addition the entire 1960s six issue Hawk and Dove series is included plus one Showcase tryout issue. That's 30+ issues, which means a very big book of about 900 pages. The book is a bit unwieldy but offers some great value.The Teen Titans issues vary considerably in quality. The two constants were the artistic contributions of Nick Cardy and the writing of Bob Haney. The plots invariably revolve around the Titans helping out teens in trouble or involved with issues of particular interest to teens. This approach was less than successful. On the one hand the writing was still on the 8-12 year old level that most DC comics were written for at the time and on the other the dialogue was written by adults who were completely out of touch with the way contemporary teens spoke and acted. The results are usually either hilarious or painful or both.On the plus side the villains the Titans face do not seem to be all that tough but the Titans really have to work hard to defeat them. This emphasizes the point that the Titans are inexperienced and still on the steep part of the learning curved. They clearly aren't ready for the "big time". The writers really have to bend over backwards to include Aqualad in any meaningful way. By the end he is unceremoniously replaced by Speedy. Also, the Titans are interacting a lot more realistically by this point. Additionally, Wonder Girl is given an origin story that will be altered many, many times over the years to follow. This was necessary because her inclusion in the Titans was a misunderstanding, there really was no Wonder Girl. But that can of worms is too long to go into here.Towards the end of the volume the stories take on a more serious tone and the Titans are facing a criminal organization of considerable resources. There is also some artistic change here as Gil Kane and Neal Adams pencil some issues. By the end of the this collection the Titans are drawn as voting age young adults instead of the junior high age preteens at the start.The Hawk and Dove issues are included because of their future tight relationship with the Titans; here there is only one guest appearance. Created by Steve Ditko (who drew the Showcase tryout issue and the first two issues of the series), the Hawk and Dove series was an attempt to mirror the divide in the US at the time over the Vietnam War in an ongoing series. Although of much interest and fairly well written, the problems of balance between the two heroes (and brothers) become obvious almost from the start. Both philosophies have to be finely balanced for this to work but in practice this led to Hawk doing most of the work and Dove scoring most of the debating points. By the time the series ends the two are starting to realize that the other is not a total barbarian (Hawk) or a complete creampuff (Dove). Very interesting concept, but too difficult to pull off effectively in a long running series, especially if a writer or editor sympathized with a particular point of view.Much of the issues collected here have been collected recently elsewhere notably in the two Silver Age Teen Titans archives. The present collection collects all the issues appearing there and and Teen Titans 21-24 as well. The Ditko drawn Hawk and Dove issues were previously collected in one of the Steve Ditko Omnibus volumes; the rest of the series (3-6) is collected here for the first time.There is no volume number on this omnibus all issues through the end of 1969 are collected and this is the end of the Silver Age as far as DC is concerned. Presumably the next volume will be the Bronze Age Teen Titans Omnibus.The book can be recommended but is not anywhere near the peak of DC quality in the 1960s. Still the stories have undeniable charm and considerable nostalgia appeal. It might be difficult to buy this rather expensive volume if one has the two archive volumes but in my judgement the additional material collected makes it worthwhile. There are no real extras here. There is an introduction by Nick Cardy recycled from the first archive and creator biographies.

In the sixties, we were told not to trust anyone over thirty but most comic book characters were about thirty and most of the writers and artists were over thirty. The Teen Titans was one of the few comic books about kids. They were not kids like me. They were older than me and I did not have a helicopter, but they were more like me and my friends than the Justice League of America or the Avengers.The first stories are not very good. They were written by a man who had been a teenager in the 1940s. The teenagers in those stories were more like beatniks than teenagers from the era of the Beatles. In those days, readers were encouraged to write to comic books. I suspect that Bob Haney read those letters and used some of the suggestions because his stories got better. There was humorous banter between the members of the team.In the 60s, DC had its youthquake. Now it had writers who had grown up reading comic books. Because the Teen Titans was a comic book about young characters, it was given to the new young writers. They were men who had written letters to the comic books before they wrote stories for the comic books.It includes the complete Hawk and Dove stories. They were one of the first of DC's attempts at relevance. Vietnam was tearing America apart and these are stories about that era.I gave this book only four stars because the Titans fought some of the lamest villains. I wanted them to fight the enemies of Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, and Green Arrow.Every member of the team was better than they were in the comic books they had come from. I particularly liked Wonder Girl. The Teen Titans was the only team in which the girl was the strongest. She was not the leader but in other teams, the girl was the lowest of them. Robin was the boss but she was not ordered about by the guys. She was a true Teen Titan, not their sidekick. There was jokey flirting and she often said that she liked some guy, but she was not Wonder Woman, who often wasted pages of her stories mooning over her boyfriends.

I bloomin' love it! Now this might not be my era, but blimey it's a real treat!

Excelente recopilacion, gran calidad de papel gloss, y las tramas reflejan fielmente los 60s, es muy bueno ver ese arte seminal que inspiro a los futuros maestros Wolfman y Perez, muy entretenido verdaderamente retro.