My friend D*** also turned me onto DC’s The New Teen Titans during it’s first year or so. I think I was 1at the time.
This would also be the first time I was really aware of writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez and Pérez would go onto become the GOAT of super hero comic illustrators for me.
This is my Titans. And people who only know the team (and characters) via the Teen Titans cartoon and subsequent long running Teen Titans Go! cartoon have to understand that both shows owe EVERYTHING to this era.
Wolfman and Pérez created Raven, Cyborg, Starfire, and Terra. They revamped Beast Boy into Changeling (who’d become Beast Boy again). They were responsible for Dick Grayson becoming his own man and taking on the now famous Nightwing identity. They were also responsible for Wally West hanging up his Kid Flash identify and eventually taking over the mantle of The Flash for decades.
They made Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) one of the greatest characters of the era.
Early DC was ruled by both The New Teen Titans and The Legion of Super-Heroes books, which is hilarious when you think about it now and where these books’ characters have gone on to. (Though LSH has never been as popular as they were in the early 80s.)
If you enjoy solid characterization, excellent writing, and insane amounts of world building, the Wolfman/Pérez eras (there were at least in different volumes) are an excellent place to start with Titans.
The New Teen Titans were created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez in DC Comics Presents #26 (1980)