Topic: What if Superboy had joined the Teen Titans?
Eryk Davis Ester
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Of course, once Wonder Woman's history was retconned out in Crisis, Wonder Girl created completely new problems for continuity!
From: Liberty City | Registered: Jul 2003
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Seriously though...it's great that the writer, adn editor presumably of one book had no idea who the character he was using was.
From: Turn around... | Registered: Jul 2003
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That was the beauty of the DC Atomic Age and Silver Age! The editors were super-powerful and held an iron grip on their comics.
Mort only had to say: No Superboy in Teen Titans! And boom--done.
Robert Kanigher, who IMO was a brillant writer on his war comics and apparently a great friend and good man, was also a notorious abrupt and ferocious editor. He edited all (5) war comics for DC, plus Wonder Woman and the Metal Men. These latter two comics were his "off the wall" type stuff that was just about the craziest two comics of all DC history.
If a writer came up to Kanigher to ask about Wonder Girl, Kanigher might punch him in the mouth! (That's a huge exaggeration but you get the point of the DC offices those days).
Kanigher basically edited and wrote Wonder Woman throughout the majority of her existance by the time the Silver Age was coming to an end. He started in the late Golden Age doing both. He also notoriously dumped his entire past continuity several times and started over. Her history was basically all up in his head. Its that kind of thing that inspired the creation of fanzines to straiten stuff out.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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Eryk Davis Ester
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Yeah, Wonder Woman's own history was incredibly self-contradictory, and Wonder Girl's stories often conflicted with Wonder Woman's, so it's no wonder no one could figure it all out!
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Superman always comparing Batman to Robin, whom he knew in his youth!
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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