His greatest ongoing title…
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Comics great George Perez announced his retirement in January (click here) and we’re celebrating his illustrious career across 13 days with the TOP 13 GEORGE PEREZ COUNTDOWN — ranking his best work going back to his professional beginnings in the 1970s. I’m personally most familiar with Perez’s DC output, so I’ve enlisted 13th Dimension contributor Anthony Durso to make the daily picks. (He also made that fancy banner.) Get your arguments ready, folks! — Dan
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Pick #4 was The Avengers. Next up on the countdown:
3. THE NEW TEEN TITANS
In 1980, Teen Titans was a book that had been cancelled just two years prior — and yet Marv Wolfman and George Perez pitched a revival to DC anyway. They’d keep original members Robin, Kid Flash and Wonder Girl (as well as former Titans West member Beast Boy, now renamed Changeling) and add brand-new characters Raven, Starfire and Cyborg. It was lightning in a bottle. The New Teen Titans debuted in a special preview in DC Comics Presents #26 and the title quickly became a sensation, rivaling Marvel’s X-Men in popularity. The stories added a stronger soap-opera element to the Titans that wasn’t seen in the days of the Mad Mod or Ding-Dong Daddy, and fans loved it. I was a late arrival to the NTT bandwagon, starting with Issue #7, but I was instantly hooked. Perez continued on the book (by then retitled Tales of the Teen Titans) until Issue #50, by which point he had already helped launch the Baxter-paper New Teen Titans Vol. 2, for which he illustrated the first five issues. Why only five? It might have something to do with the ominous red skies that started forming in 1985… — Anthony Durso
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NEXT: The #2 Pick…
Anthony Durso is the owner of Retropolis Tees and the custom toy-package website The Toyroom.
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February 4, 2019
This is a true golden moment.
February 4, 2019
Another welcome post right here. I enjoyed reading up on it. 🙂