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The New Teen Titans Omnibus #3
The New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 3
The original Teen Titans always stood in the shadows of their larger-than-life mentors--young heroes like Robin, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash saw plenty of action, but it was Batman, Wonder Woman and the Flash who ultimately called the shots.
All that changed, however, with the arrival of The New Teen Titans in 1980--and the lives of DC's adolescent adventurers would never be the same!
Crafted by Marv Wolfman and George P�rez, this all-new super-team featured greater dangers, fiercer emotions and more tangled relationships than any that had come before. The Titans' celebrated stories have ensured that the names of Starfire, Cyborg, Raven and the Changeling will be passed down through history alongside those famous aliases employed by Dick Grayson, Donna Troy and Wally West.
The New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 3 collects issues #42-58 of the classic series together for the first time with its third Annual and The New Teen Titans (Series 2) #1-9, and includes introductory pieces from Marv Wolfman and George P�rez.
All that changed, however, with the arrival of The New Teen Titans in 1980--and the lives of DC's adolescent adventurers would never be the same!
Crafted by Marv Wolfman and George P�rez, this all-new super-team featured greater dangers, fiercer emotions and more tangled relationships than any that had come before. The Titans' celebrated stories have ensured that the names of Starfire, Cyborg, Raven and the Changeling will be passed down through history alongside those famous aliases employed by Dick Grayson, Donna Troy and Wally West.
The New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 3 collects issues #42-58 of the classic series together for the first time with its third Annual and The New Teen Titans (Series 2) #1-9, and includes introductory pieces from Marv Wolfman and George P�rez.
720 pages, Hardcover
First published July 4, 1986
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Marv Wolfman
2,302 books304 followersMarvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.
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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
July 13, 2025
If book 1 was the new character introductions(building a team) volume and book 2 was the build up (world building) volume, this one was definitely the pay off volume. Lots of interesting conclusions drawn and yet there is still so much more I want to know.
November 15, 2019
An outstanding conclusion to the entire series up to this point. All of the major plot threads are wrapped up here, including the Deathstroke arc. However, the main focus is the resolution of Raven. The resulting story becomes a "coming of age" story for the Titans, facing their largest threat ever and even more dire circumstances. The members come out scarred, but more mature, setting up for the new era.
Perez does the majority of the art work, with a replacement at the end of the first series while he worked on the new volume 2. Perez is then replaced by José Luis García-López who does an incredible job, using his own creative panel layouts and solid, consistent character designs. An excellent replacement.
Perez does the majority of the art work, with a replacement at the end of the first series while he worked on the new volume 2. Perez is then replaced by José Luis García-López who does an incredible job, using his own creative panel layouts and solid, consistent character designs. An excellent replacement.
July 9, 2013
Just about all of this material was new to me, as I'd stopped reading DC Comics after they killed off Supergirl and the Flash in "Crisis...". Some of this material is pretty decent, but it's easy to see it's major flaws reading altogether this massive of a collection. Whole issues are common that feature no villain nor action. Most of the book is given over to soap opera and relationship issues. (You'd never see that in a 21st Century DC title.)
There's also the rush to age the Titans. It's as if the writers had forgotten that years of monthly comic books can boil down to a couple of weeks in comic-book-time. It's obvious Wolfman and Perez put a bit too much of them selves into their characters. It's really creepy to see teens-to-young-adults acting like middle-aged hysterical matrons.
My biggest complaint is that several years of the series was cut from the collection in favor of only printing the Perez/Wolfman books. Makes for a disjointed read and one that I wasn't expecting.
There's also the rush to age the Titans. It's as if the writers had forgotten that years of monthly comic books can boil down to a couple of weeks in comic-book-time. It's obvious Wolfman and Perez put a bit too much of them selves into their characters. It's really creepy to see teens-to-young-adults acting like middle-aged hysterical matrons.
My biggest complaint is that several years of the series was cut from the collection in favor of only printing the Perez/Wolfman books. Makes for a disjointed read and one that I wasn't expecting.
June 3, 2022
A big, big set of stories, from the Judas Contract to the Origin of Lilith, with the Terror of Trigon, the Trial of the Terminator, and a lot more in between.
It's hard to rate something that long with both highs and lows, but it's overall good storytelling. The Judas Contract is superb as is the Trial that follows, while the Origin of Lilith is a good use of the Titans of Myths. Some of the other stories aren't as great. The Terror of Trigon lasts too long and there's also a dull plot of the Fearsome Five.
Some of the off-kilter nature of this volume is probably due to the transition from newstand to Baxter series and the years worth of overlap, so perhaps the next volume will be better balanced.
It's hard to rate something that long with both highs and lows, but it's overall good storytelling. The Judas Contract is superb as is the Trial that follows, while the Origin of Lilith is a good use of the Titans of Myths. Some of the other stories aren't as great. The Terror of Trigon lasts too long and there's also a dull plot of the Fearsome Five.
Some of the off-kilter nature of this volume is probably due to the transition from newstand to Baxter series and the years worth of overlap, so perhaps the next volume will be better balanced.
September 25, 2018
Peak New Teen Titans, so it had to be added to my collection in this giant slightly unwieldly brick of delightful 80s comics! I was always the Marvel kid until I picked up a few issues of this in the newsagent where I bought all my Marvels and then gradually got most of the back issues. This is up there with the Claremont / Byrne X-Men for top Superpowered Young People With Loads Of Personal Issues (And Plenty Of Fighting) comics!
May 16, 2022
George Perez's art once the second series starts is really wild and pretty great.
August 14, 2024
Man what can I say it’s NEW TEEN TITANS!!! Marv and George do an excellent job of making you care about the characters and you can feel the passion and love that really went into the stories! The introductions at the beginning of the book carry much more weight now with the passing of George Perez but this is truly some of his best work and Trigon comes off as a huge threat! The personal demon battles the characters go through is a huge highlight and the damn JUDAS CONTRACT is the best titans story of all time!
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May 31, 2015
Finally finished this mammoth volume last night. Its an interesting book. It may seem that it's about a bunch of DCs B-listers, like Marvel's the Champion's, or West Coast Avengers (which always felt secondary no matter who was in the lineup). But it's a tight-nit bunch with more of the family dynamic found in X-Men and Fantastic Four than is available in any other DC team book before or since. Geoff Johns's teen titans was wonderful but it never achieved the family effect this book has.
July 31, 2019
There are so many good Titans stories in this one it's hard to pick out specific highlights. It's nice seeing the major parts that later got turned into story arcs for the show, but here they're raw and incredible.
July 19, 2020
This collection of The New Teen Titans' Stories is awesome...
The Judas Contract arc and The Terror of Trigon arc particularly stand out as incredible stories.
Also, the wedding of Donna Troy is a treat.
An enjoyable collection with great superhero drama.
The Judas Contract arc and The Terror of Trigon arc particularly stand out as incredible stories.
Also, the wedding of Donna Troy is a treat.
An enjoyable collection with great superhero drama.
April 7, 2016
Still white hot.
August 27, 2018
You can find my spoiler-free review here:
https://www.nerdinthenoke.com/2018/08...
https://www.nerdinthenoke.com/2018/08...
December 31, 2022
Good to see deathstroke isn't just a right out villain (even if I loved the 2000s teen titans version), how many demi gods are there in this world. Feel so sorry for Arella. On to the next one.
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