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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-27 19:13:00

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char: adeline wilson, char: beast boy/changeling/gar logan, char: cyborg/vic stone, char: deathstroke/slade wilson, char: jericho/joseph wilson, char: raven/rachel roth, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: starfire/koriand'r, char: terra/tara markov, char: william randolph wintergreen, char: wonder girl/troia/donna troy, creator: george perez, creator: marv wolfman, creator: ron randall, group: teen titans, publisher: dc comics, title: teen titans

Slade Wilson and Tara Markov: A Love Story

In this post I will be showing the classic romance of Slade Wilson and Tara Markov, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

First off is The New Teen Titans #34.

Terra is upset that even though she's been with the Titans for several months, they've refused to tell her their secrets or treat her as a true equal.

Deathstroke is with his hostage when...

The other Teen Titans arrive.

Deathstroke battles them until...

Their story continues in The New Teen Titans #39. The Titans are battling Brother Blood's cult.

Later, Terra is with the Titans. Wally is leaving the team, and Dick is staying but retiring his Robin identity.

In Tales of the Teen Titans #42, Terra and Beast Boy are training.

In Tales of the Teen Titans #43 Dick is attacked by Deathstroke, who now knows his civilian identity. Dick manages to escape, and Deathstroke goes after him.

Dick tries finding the other Titans, but they've all been captured.

In Tales of the Teen Titans Annual #3 the rest of the Titans find themselves being held hostage by H.I.V.E.

Meanwhile, Jericho and Dick (now in his new Nightwing identity) are starting to invade H.I.V.E's fortress.

Deathstroke doesn't know Wintergreen is being held at gunpoint by Adeline.

Jericho and Nightwing are inside the fortress when...

The Jericho-possessed Deathstroke frees the rest of the Titans.

This is from Tales of the Teen Titans #55. It's written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by Ron Randall.

Slade is on trial for kidnapping the senator back in #34, but he is able to get off by hiring a Deathstroke impersonator, causing doubt as to if he was the Deathstroke behind the kidnapping. In the end, the judge (Adrian Chase) is only able to sentence him to one year for the illegal possession of the firearms found in his penthouse apartment.

While in prison Slade is attacked by a vengeful Beast Boy, but he manages to escape. The next day he is released after some of the senators he did undercover work for cleared him of the gun charge.

Slade meets Beast Boy in the arranged spot, but not as Deathstroke. Slade refuses to fight back, and Beast Boy is unable to kill him.

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jlroberson
2009-07-28 04:26 am UTC (link)

You know, there are many blamed for the "darkening" of DC, IDENTITY CRISIS of course being where it hit the not just breaking, but vomiting, point, Alan Moore and Frank Miller usually being blamed(though post-Crisis, I'd really blame Dan Jurgens, Mike Grell, and a few others). But the truth was that it was just the "Marvelizing" of DC. And that began with Marv Wolfman, who also wrote COIE. A lot of people forget that, as bright and round as everything looked, NTT was actually a pretty dark, dark book much of the time.

Coming from me that's not a criticism. I LIKED NTT, a lot, as a teen. But it is the truth: it started with Wolfman, and interesting that these things often come through Slade. This, IDENTITY CRISIS, and let's not forget the very first issue of INIFINITE CRISISS and the graphic impalement, between the tits, of Phantom Lady.

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thebat_man
2009-07-29 10:51 pm UTC (link)

The redarkening of DC is not "Marvelizing" DC. DC was dark in the beginning before Marvel.

DC was lightened because DC editor Whitney Ellsworth created a Code of Conduct Editorial Board in 1941 which included a ban against all killings and excessive violence. The editorial policy was to get away from Batman and other characters vigilantism and to bring them over to the side of the law and make them all as wholesome and tame as possible. It was intended to protect DC from the growing criticisms of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s by Sterling North, Fredric Wertham, Greshon Legman, and the U.S. Senate which lead to the 1954 Comics Code Authority forcing E.C., Gleason, Fox, Fiction House and Quality out of business. Long before Marv Wolfman's New Teen Titans in the 1980s, the redarkening of DC really began with Denny O'Neil, Neal Adams, Elliot S. Maggin, Len Wein, Bernie Wrightson, Michael Fleisher, Jim Aparo and Marshall Rogers taking a stand against the censorship Code and liberating DC in the 1970s with dark and gritty groundbreaking material.

This all paved the way for Marv Wolfman, Frank Miller and Alan Moore.

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