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Eh, I'm thinking it must have happened before Joey Wilson was on the team

Was it the start of the Titans West team when they fought Mr. Calamity?

...of himself... but no.



Yeah, that sounds like the start of an espionage story. Did he actually get to do any of those while on the team? But it's not that.

I was going to give a hint after the last guess, but a post has helped me along.



Yes it did.



But it wasn't that.

Hints are always welcome

That time the Titans worked to discredit a local war-mongering leader named Jericho by proving he was corrupt?

That's pretty plausible for this group of Titans, particularly the time of publication, but it's not right.

Rats. Back to random guessing

The Titans must build an impenetrable fortress that cannot be destroyed by sufficiently loud noises

No, although there is a horn in the story and it does act in a somewhat similar sort of way.

Uh... the construction of the Gabriel.Horn?

Not Gabriel's Horn. Going back to the question, perhaps thinking about why Joseph Wilson got the name Jericho would help.

Uh... helping someone get his or her voice back?

Not about giving people a voice, except perhaps in a cultural way.

HINT: The reason why Wolfman wanted to bring a character called Jericho "back" was due to an event from early on in his time at DC.

Uh... Operation Jericho was used as a way to give an oppressed minority the chance to reach out to the larger population they were living in as a way to acculturate and show they were not so unlike each other anyway?

I think I know what this is referring to.

Back in the original series there's a cover on which is written: "The Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho".

That sentence has ALWAYS bothered me! What the heck does it mean?!? Is "Fit" a misprint of "Fight"? How on earth does someone "Fit" a battle? Aaaarggh! I don't know why I'm so bugged by this line? But I am. Maybe it's a reference to a song or quote that I'm unfamiliar with.

Anyway, I don't know anything about the issue or what Operation: Jericho is but for some reason I'm getting some weird brain association with how Ferro Lad was originally meant to be black, so I'm going to say Operation: Jericho was something to do with introducing a black Titan, that obviously didn't work out (I think this was before Mal joined the team).

That line now bothers me as well. And I tried to look up old slang meanings fo "fit" but could not find anything.

I'm giving this one to Blacula, for pinning down the story.

From what I remember reading (probably from the Titans Companion), Marv Wolfman and Len Win were looking to introduce the superhero Joshua, who was black.

The plot they came up with was accepted, and encouraged and off they went to write it. However, the result was a lot of racially aggressive dialogue. The person who was agreeable to the plot, Donenfeld, was no longer there and there was a lot of concern. Neal Adams stepped in to help. When a dialogue rewrite was rejected, Adams went further and dug the issue out of a large hole. Lots of hurt feeling all round.

So Joshua became white, and the issues had a mixed look of Cardy/ Adams to them (I'd need to dig them out to see how much of Cardy was left)

I had read that Wolfman and Wein could only get under the table assignments from DC for a couple of years after this. But I read a few years ago, that this may have been due mistaken identity over another issue involving art.

Years later, Wolfman was secure enough at DC with the huge success of Titans, that he had the clout to give Robin a new identity. He made sure that a character he introduced was called Jericho, after that incident. I don't think it's a coincidence that Joe was mute. It's either a reference to undertones of the original story, or Wolfman's feeling of his written story at the time. I might have read that it was something Perez was very keen to do too.

As to the published story, Operation: Jerico was:-

A gang of kids demonstrating by painting park avenue green, to represent capitalist greed.

But it was also the name of the plot by a global villainous organisation behind a number of Titans foes over that run. The green paint was actually high explosives. It was a distraction that would enable a series of raid.

But it was also a plan instigated by an alien race. They are secretly behind the criminal organisation. They had co-opted the signal to detonate the paint and the properties of the paint itself. It would instead summon forth a Lovecraftian horror to devastate Earth.

So, despite the hasty rewrite, there's still a lot of layers in this one.

From what I read in the Titans Companion, the title "The Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho." was in place already. SO that was something that wasn't changed.

There's a British term "fit-up" which means to frame someone to take the blame for a crime. As you can see from all the layers to the story, everyone was really framing someone else. Even the Titans were fitted up to act against the kids, as part of Joshua's plan.

Over to you Blacula!

Wow. I should go read that story.

Glad I didn't put in any spoilers


D'Oh!

That does sound like an interesting issue. I still can't handle that cover sentence though. Haha

Easy Q: Which Titan was a TV star? (Bonus points if you can name the TV show.)

Gar Logan. I can't remember the show but it had the name "Space" in it I think...

Space Trek 2022 I think.

Over to you IB.

A criminal group once did a search of all Titans, and the results for Kole came up as "data inconclusive".

What was the name of the group that did the search?

Hmm I feel like this question was asked not long ago... but I can't remember the answer.

The Wildebeest Society?

Nope.

I may have asked it too Sadly, there are only so many questions about Kole that I can ask...

The first answer that came to mind was one of those Cyborg probes in 'The Technis Imperative' but he obviously isn't a 'criminal group'.

Hmmm... The H.I.V.E.?

Good guess on the Cyborg probes, but yeah, not a criminal group.

Not the HIVE either.

Clue - the name contains a number.

The Fearsome Five?