The 70s TITANS, whose h.q. was... a disco!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
But does the LSH outpower them in disco frockery? Think Cos. Think Pulsar Stargrave (villains count). Think Cal. THINK IMRA'S HAIR!
Posted by MLLASH on :
Nothing outdisco's that one infamous HORNBLOWER outfit. NOthing. "The frock that time wanted to forget but couldn't!"
As for skin, Golden Eagle showed his share of it, and Bette Kane (Bat-Girl/Flamebird) had legs second only to Robin's!
Plus the TITANS one-upped the Legion on the funky-ometer with not one but TWO "heroes of color"! Top that, Legion! 'Course, the Legion's brotha sure showed a lot more skin. But the Titans' sista had butt honey-blasters!!
So the Titans win!
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
Depends on what you consider "winning", in this contest ...
Posted by MLLASH on :
Plus no one in the LSH could match the disco-y ivory flesh and magenta magnificence of Harlequin's hair! They rejected the one hero who could in S/LSH # 201! And did the Legion have anyone who blasted villains with high-powered lip-shaped projectiles? Nooooooooooooo! Posted by MLLASH on :
Buuut...well, no one could match the 70s Legion for amount of bell-bottom-bedraped characters.
Posted by MLLASH on :
And I remember when Garth, Imra, Salu and Gim were doing the space-hustle during the Klordny festival.
Posted by Omni Craig on :
I'd have to go with the Legion too!
Tyroc's costume sonic-screamed the 70s, as did Tinya's. And don't get me started on Imra's pink disco boots!! She was a hottie!!
Posted by legionadventureman on :
quote:Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante: But does the LSH outpower them in disco frockery? Think Cos. Think Pulsar Stargrave (villains count). Think Cal. THINK IMRA'S HAIR!
Come to think of it, Dream Girl had a 'do in S/LSH 237 that instantly reminded me of Farrah Fawcett...
Posted by armsfalloffboy on :
I demand some pictorial documentation.
Posted by MLLASH on :
Nonsense, Arms!
You'll simply have to be pressured into buying the TTs back issues like Eryk Davis Ester was!
Delight & Joy await you!
Posted by MLLASH on :
The Titans did a bit of hustlin' themselves when The Fiddler attacked them!
Posted by l.e.g.i.o.n.JOHN on :
C'mon that's a no-brainer, with Phantom girl's bellbottoms and Tyroc's funky open shirt-chest revieling-with the gold chains on the front-wearing outfit, and remeber most of the guys had those funky "Grell" sideburns. you can't get more disco-riffic than that. Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Remember when certain Legionnaires went dancing in an exotic aquarium filled with sense-depressant liquid and then went to a hologram show with chemical-enhanced air? Posted by MLLASH on :
They were higher than Speedy during a GREAT FROG performance!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Backsliding Brin!
Posted by MLLASH on :
Brin may have had his li'l nibbles of the Lotus Fruit but only the 70s TITANS can claim a member who perfromed illicit sex acts for drugs! THATS disco-ey!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
TEMPORAL TECHNICALITY! Whatever Roy did or didn't do, did it take place in a 70s comic? (If he 'fesses up to it now, it took place 10 or so years ago...which isn't the 70s!)
Posted by MLLASH on :
Hmm. Well, Speedy's drug addiction is certainly catalogued during the early 70s in Green Lantern, around 1970-1972.
IIRC, his admission to doing certain... things while an addict came during the ARSENAL mini of the 90s.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Disqualified!
Posted by MLLASH on :
Nonsense!
Posted by KidChaos on :
So does the 70's Blacksploitation award go to Mal or Tyroc?
Posted by MLLASH on :
I demand a cracked-out-Speedy-performing-illicit-sex-acts graemlin!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Next exhibit, disco-counselor!
Posted by MLLASH on :
I'd hand the Blaxplotation award to Tyroc, I think.
Although Karen Beecher-- The Bumblebee-- has the corniest origin in superhero history.
She donned the guise of the Bumblebee in order to attack and whip the ass of her boyfriend Mal with the Titans present, proving to him that his "friends" The Titans didn't care a whit about him! Of course, The Titans stood up for their brotha, proving Karen to be some sort of nutty extremist!
Posted by MLLASH on :
So what's the tally so far...?
Most bell-bottoms: LEGION
Discoteque Headquarters: TITANS
Most male members with no shirt: TIE
Most male members baring legs: TIE
Members with magenta hair: TITANS
Blaxplotation award: LEGION
Most members of color: TITANS
Most members in a jazz-disco-rock fusion band: TITANS
Sex for drugs: TITANS
On-panel dancing: TIE
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
It pays to research, kids!
"Yeah, they call me Speedy, and I guess I'm a super-hero. I'm 18 now -- but when I was 13, I was just like you. I was taking everything that came down the pike. Pot, hash, coke, LSD, heroin -- everything.
"...and though my body cleansed itself, maybe my mind still hasn't. I mean, I was a superhero, and I was stealing to support my habit. Man, you don't know how guilty I felt."
[Kid asks: You stole?]
"I did things that would make you sick."
The New Teen Titans drug issue (Keebler sponsored version), 1983
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Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH:
Most members of color: TITANS
Non-Caucasian-appearing Seventies Legionnaires:
Shady, Brainy, Cham, Tyroc, Dawnstar, and maybe Val depending on what day it was.
Posted by MLLASH on :
It's not really fair to allow Cham, Shady and Brainy, since the Titans didn't dabble in alen worlds until the 80s revival. By the time Dawnstar came along, TTs was in Cancelled City, and as you stated, Val only counts depending on who the artist was.
Most Unfrozen Caveman Mechanic members: TITANS
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante: It pays to research, kids!
"Yeah, they call me Speedy, and I guess I'm a super-hero. I'm 18 now -- but when I was 13, I was just like you. I was taking everything that came down the pike. Pot, hash, coke, LSD, heroin -- everything.
"...and though my body cleansed itself, maybe my mind still hasn't. I mean, I was a superhero, and I was stealing to support my habit. Man, you don't know how guilty I felt."
[Kid asks: You stole?]
"I did things that would make you sick."
The New Teen Titans drug issue (Keebler sponsored version), 1983
Like Speedy's gonna tell some little twerp about all the tricks he turned!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Mon-El pulls that up even!
And may I add that "The Phantom Zone" sounds like a disco!
Maybe someone was fibbing all this time about how dreadful it was.
Posted by Blacula on :
There's been precious little talk about Duela Dent in this so-called "disco" thread so far!
Surely she is the most disco-rific character ever! I mean, she occasionally fought crime on roller-skates!
For the love of God people - ROLLER SKATES!
[ September 09, 2005, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Blacula ]
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
Was she before Dazzler? I'll have to look that one up.
Posted by Blacula on :
And if anyone has Mal's brief Hornblower outfit available please post it!
One look at that disco monstrosity and its "Case Closed!"
Posted by MLLASH on :
Yeah-- Duela's roller skates DEFINITELY predate Dazzler!
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
Posted by Blacula on :
MY EYES! MY EYES!
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
Dave Elyea has a lot to answer for, doesn't he.
[ September 09, 2005, 05:23 PM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
OH MY GOOD GRACIOUS!
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
This whole page is, like, the best ever. (After Lester's, of course.)
Posted by Blacula on :
And people wonder why Mal Duncan is my favourite character ever?!
To go out in an outfit like that is the true meaning of heroism!
[ September 09, 2005, 05:22 PM: Message edited by: Blacula ]
Posted by MLLASH on :
BWAhahaha!
Yes, as I stated, NOTHING out-discos THAT outfit, in ANY timeline!
Posted by Mystery Lad on :
Hmmm... clearly, Tyroc patterned his costume after this... inspired... ensemble.
Hornblower-- Tyroc's sonic screams-- is there a connection?
Did Mal get his belt from Duela?
Reading this has lit up a memory I can't retrieve. Did we ever find out where Karen got her Bumblebee equipment? Was it STAR labs?
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
I believe Marv Wolfman retconned it as STAR Labs, yes.
Posted by Mystery Lad on :
Hmmm. If he retconned it, where did she originally get her bee-stuff?
Posted by Nightcrawler on :
She just invented it and sewed it into her costume.
[Actually, I may be remembering wrong. I looked and it remians a mystery, so I guess Marv didn't retcon anything.]
[ September 09, 2005, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
*all-new all-now meaning, of course, mostly Disco Titans threads, but threads on other Titans topics and eras are allowed, I suppose.
Posted by Mystery Lad on :
Thanks, Gary.
Maybe this mystery'll be solved in the pages of the SECRET FILES coming out later this month-- the one that's supposed to examine Duela Dent's back story.
I think it'd be fun if Karen had some sort of connection to the JLA villainess the Queen Bee from whatever-the-hell-planet-she-was-from.
Posted by legionadventureman on :
quote:Originally posted by Mystery Lad: Thanks, Gary.
Maybe this mystery'll be solved in the pages of the SECRET FILES coming out later this month-- the one that's supposed to examine Duela Dent's back story.
I think it'd be fun if Karen had some sort of connection to the JLA villainess the Queen Bee from whatever-the-hell-planet-she-was-from.
Hi Mystery Lad!
If i recall from Zazzala's (QB) first apperarance in JLA (vol. 1) 23, she was an inhabitant of the planet Korll, altho whether she was its ruler, i don't have a clue - sorry
Posted by legionadventureman on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Plus no one in the LSH could match the disco-y ivory flesh and magenta magnificence of Harlequin's hair!
Funny, i thought Duela's tresses were more watermelon-hued than magenta, LLASH! Posted by Infectious Drura on :
I don't know much about Mal, as he is a character who hasn't appeared very much in the comics I have. So it would appear his superpower is having a "horn of wonder".
Hmmmm...I'd love to know what this mysterious horn of wonder can do!
I guess having a horn of wonder is pretty disco, come to think of it.
That costume is hideous! He must have said he liked it just to humour Karen. Either that or he has the worst taste of any superhero ever!
I'm sure having the horn of wonder made up for it though. Whatever that was.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
I dunno either. Guess it's a wonder-what-that-horn is.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
About Mal's costume, though...yes it is a feast for the eyes, but it's so...covering!
Posted by MLLASH on :
ABOUT MAL'S HORN
In the REAL, ORIGINAL, PRE-CRISIS aka THE STORIES THAT COUNT Teen Titans (# 45, to be specific)....
Mal was fatally wounded, and in a NEARnear-death experience, he challenges Azrael (the Angel of Death, not the sucky one later introduced by Wolfman) to a fistfight/wrestling match.
When Mal defeats Azrael in battle, the angel Gabriel presents Mal with his horn-- actually a ram's horn known as a shofar.
Gabriel's horn has the power to make Mal the equal of his opponents, or to even the odds for Mal (as it did when it teleported the Titans to his side when he was being ganged up on).
In the stupid post-crisis tales, the horn was something Mal and Karen invented. **YAWWWN!**
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
See the brand-new Titans forum for a review of Teen Titans #45 by yours truly!
Posted by MLLASH on :
BWAhaha! This page is SO now my computer background!
quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
Posted by Superboy-Supergirl on :
heh...lashy said Butt Honey....
Posted by Superboy-Supergirl on :
and OMGosh...Karen must have been smoking stuff with Speedy to design that!!!!
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Ah, those were the days . . .
. . . when female super-heroes designed and made costumes for their boyfriends.
. . . when someone thought that attacking a super-hero team would prove how much that team didn't care about said boyfriend.
. . . when someone got away with attacking a super-hero team by admitting they were mistaken.
. . . when "that must remain my secret for now" was short-hand for "the writer didn't think up an answer."
. . . when fans could design super-hero costumes and get credit. (Wonder if Dave actually got paid?)
Posted by Language Arts Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: [QB. . . when fans could design super-hero costumes and get credit. (Wonder if Dave actually got paid?)[/QB]
I'm pretty sure he's going to be for that for all eternity.
(My other possible joke was to claim that I wasn't going by that last name anymore, my family couldn't take the shame. I didn't want to risk the cosmic fate gods and have any stray lightning bolts come my way. I had nothing to do with it!)
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
I don't hold it against Dave Elyea for designing the thing--he was just a fan doing what fans do. Somebody, however, decided that Mal should wear it. That person should be in the Witless Protection Program.
(And if Dave got money for his creation, more power to him!)
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
Is it really any worse that collosal boys original costume, or Element lads?
Plus, if he had any other gadgets to go with the horn, wouldn't that be disco-tech?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I liked Colossal Boy's original costume.
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
Hey, i liked PP's with the silver beehive, but that doesn't mean it wasn't silly. That was part of the fun to me. Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
If that new show on TV Swingtown had Cockrum/Grell-ish costumes I'd definately be tuning in on a weekly basis!
Posted by Mystery Lad on :
With his mustache and sideburns, that one guy from Melrose Place looks just like Benn pares.
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
"More important is the fact I..." BWAHAHAHA!!! This is, like, the best comic book page ever created for sure...
Posted by Blockade Boy on :
His WHAT!!!
Geez, talk about your stereotyping, lol.
Posted by cleome on :
The weird proportion/position of Speedy's hat is the most unnerving thing about that page, truthfully.
Posted by superboymddjr on :
whoa whoa....the Legion wins hand down - know why????
Phantom Girl's bell bottom, Klordny, Saturn Girl's pink bikini and Farrah hairdo, Tyroc s costume.....the best of them all:
Cosmic Boy's Black corsette-like Costume!!!! who can top that?!?!?
PS Hornblower's costume - ewwwww.
Posted by Mystery Lad on :
I don't think so-- the Titans had a member who was a full-fledged go-go dancer (Lilith).
You can't get anymore disco than that.
Posted by Director Lad on :
I don't know. I think Lash's original point seals the deal: the '70s Titan's headquarters was an actual disco. How much more disco can you get?
Posted by MLLASH's back on :
quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
Something wild happened today over on my Great Frog: Groovy 70s teen Titans facebook page:
Posted by Anita Cocktail on :
*GASP!* How simply wonderful!!
Posted by Nam'Lor on :
Nam'Lor like having a clown on the team ... every team should have clown. They scare the bejeezus out of bad guys ... like Batman.
Posted by Blacula on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH's back:
quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
Something wild happened today over on my Great Frog: Groovy 70s teen Titans facebook page:
OH MY GOSH, INDEED! That's amazing! I can't believe Dave Elyea has resurfaced for us after all these years! How cool is Facebook for bringing both him and Tom Fatsi back into our lives!
I love his comment about Robin stealing the look for his first Nightwing costume too. I never noticed it before but it's so true.
P.S. You do such a great job on that Great Frog Facebook page, MLLASH! It's much appreciated by this 70s Titans fan.
Posted by Jerry on :
I wonder if the rest of his designs still exist somewhere? What a treasure they would be!
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She was a hottie!!
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