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I know what you mean re: colors, funky ads, even smell. The Vol 1 Showcase was fun for me in that I hadn't read 90% of those stories before and was fascinated with how many foes were merely toughs on motorcycles.
Now we're getting to an era that I have read much more of... but not a WHOLE lot of. Plus the Nick Cardy covers are about to get RiiiiiLLY good.
Add in a 20% discount (it was $13.59) and... yeah, I bought Vol. 2 yesterday!
If they can find about 3-4 other TT appearances elsewhere, Vol. 3 would contain the entire funky 70s run!
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Can't wait to read this-- but it'll be in December, since that's when employees get an extra 10% off for a week (for a total of 40% off). TT and Wonder Woman showcases will comprise the graphic novel portion of my haul.
Surely there's some Brave & Bold team-ups or something to fill up a TT Showcase #3. I'd really like to see those published.
Imagine- the whole pre-Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans history published in three convenient volumes...
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So I borrowed Volume 2 from the library for research purposes, and all I can say is, thank God for the artists, because the writers didn't have a clue.
Sure, Lilith is cool, but the switchover from the flippant frivolity of the early Titans into the hollow histrionics of this phase makes for an exhausting read.
In fairness, by the end of the volume the comic did seem to be finding a direction. Issues 34, "The Demon of Dog Island", and 35-36, "Intruders of the Forbidden Crypt" & "Tomb Be Their Destiny", are good proto-Buffy gothic fluff. But I guess it must have been too little too late, because the book was cancelled a few issues later.
Say what you will about the 80s New Teen Titans, but at least Marv Wolfman wasn't trying to be "hip." Or maybe I just need a replacement funny bone to better appreciate the oldies.
On a positive note, there's that artwork I mentioned before. Nick Cardy's talents were wasted on boring old Aquaman, but he really blossomed on Teen Titans. There's also artistic team-ups between: Neal Adams & Cardy, Gil Kane & Wally Wood, and Gil Kane & Cardy.
Now, having said all that, I would still like to read the Disco Era Teen Titans, because from what Lash and others have written, it sounds like it was good colorful fun...unlike the painfully pretentious and pathetically posturing Teen Titans of the late 60s/early 70s.
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I've never read these issues so I can't comment much, other than I love those Cardy covers and would love to see the art inside by Cardy (and Kane & Wood, which I didn't realize was included).
I like Lilith's "look" from this era, but that's about all I've ever seen of her.
Interesting that the end of the run takes a proto-Buffy feel. This was very central to the changing times in the early 70's when horror was the dominant genre (and publishers were unsure if superheroes would even survive).
As I'm experiencing in my Iron Man reread project, many comic books are tough to read from the early 1970's. This seems to mimic that.
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