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111-592: The Black Flash essentially fulfills the same role as Death for those who possess super-speed in the DC Universe, returning the speedster to their power source: the Speed Force . It is reportedly seen before the deaths of Barry Allen and Johnny Quick . Max Mercury has also seen the Black Flash while having had several near-death experiences. The specter speedster came for Wally West to draw back to

222-640: A superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics , frequently in eponymous monthly series. As the group's name indicates, the members are teenage superheroes, many of whom have acted as sidekicks to DC's premier superheroes in the Justice League . The original team later becomes known as the Titans when the members age out of their teenage years, while the Teen Titans name

333-467: A big silver ankh on a silver necklace. And she looked exactly like Mike Dringenberg's drawing of Death. Hadley died from colon cancer at the age of 48 on January 6, 2018. McKean also used a series of professional English models for representations of Death on covers of Sandman. Despite some rumors, Death is not based on Gaiman's friend Tori Amos . Death is the second eldest of the Endless ,

444-420: A cameo by Death". A one-shot issue titled Death Gallery (1994) was released as one of several art showcase comics from DC Comics spotlighting various Sandman characters released between 1994 and 1995. The Death Gallery featured representations of Death by more than thirty comics artists, including a rough sketch by Gaiman himself. In Endless Nights (2003) Gaiman shows Death several billion years ago, with

555-628: A conference designed to set functions for entities and leaves before it begins. In addition, it is mentioned in Brief Lives that she is the only one of the Endless who may survive the end of this incarnation of the universe. Death's realm - called "The Sunless Lands" - is not portrayed in detail in the series, except for a brief scene in her "house" in the Sandman Special , Song of Orpheus , and later in The Books of Magic series. This

666-420: A construct formed of darkness in response to the emerging light of the emotional spectrum. A more traditional version of Death, a skeleton in a bluish or purplish cloak, appeared as a host in such DC titles such as Weird Mystery Tales , House of Secrets , Ghosts , Weird War Tales (including being in the story in issue #94), DC Comics Presents #29, etc. Weird War Tales typically featured Death as

777-463: A couple, the return of Speedy as Arsenal, and the resurrection of Raven as a villain. Following Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! , the series saw a revamp: Nightwing was removed from the series by Batman editorial and a roster of new young heroes such as Damage and Impulse were inserted into the team to try and renew interest, along with Team Titan survivors Mirage and Terra II. New Green Lantern Kyle Rayner

888-536: A couple. The initial storyline, "The Terror of Trigon", featured Raven's demon father attempting to take over Earth and Raven's own struggle to remain good despite Trigon's demonic blood inside her. Pérez left the series after issue #5. José Luis García-López followed Pérez as the title's artist and Eduardo Barreto followed García-López. Paul Levitz scripted or fully wrote issues #28-33 in order to give Wolfman time to catch up on his writing after he fell behind by taking on Crisis on Infinite Earths and History of

999-721: A family of beings that personify natural forces. Death is an incomprehensibly powerful entity having been shown (in a flashback in Brief Lives ) to be virtually omniscient and able to intimidate the Furies, who show no fear of the other Endless, simply by raising her voice in The Kindly Ones . The witch Thessaly mentions that Death is the only one of the Endless who is bound by no rules, supported in Dream's portion of Endless Nights in which she briefly makes an appearance at

1110-529: A full army of villains called the Wildebeest Society and revealed to be a front for the remaining members of the supervillain group the H.I.V.E. The group fell under the control of Titan Jericho, who in turn was being possessed by the corrupted souls of Azarath. During the "Titans Hunt" storyline that followed (#71–84), Cyborg was destroyed and rebuilt, along with being lobotomized; Danny Chase and Arella (Raven's mother) were killed and resurrected as

1221-470: A hair brush, a visual pun referring to Marlo's recent 'brush with death', this appearance subsequently forming the basis of numerous major storylines involving Marlo becoming Death /Death taking Marlo's form, in particular " Chaos War " and Ben Reilly: The Scarlet Spider . Death appears in the Audible adaptation of The Sandman , voiced by Kat Dennings . Teen Titans The Teen Titans are

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1332-546: A little early and takes the opportunity to talk to Lucifer who is currently trapped between life and death. In Madame Xanadu , the title character calls out to her while chained up and denied access to her youth potions during the French Revolution . As she is a survivor from the days of King Arthur , she grows very old very quickly without them. She summons Death and reads her own cards, interpreting her Death card as predictive of her future destiny on earth. Death

1443-447: A markedly different personality — forbidding and joyless. She also appears in The Books of Magic (first volume, 1991, also written by Gaiman) at the very end of time, where her function is to set things in order and close the universe down. She meets Timothy Hunter and Mister E there after Mister E has taken Timothy all the way to the end of time, because only there can he kill Timothy without fear of interference. Death stops

1554-434: A marking similar to the eye of Horus around her right eye. She is pleasant, kind, down-to-earth, perky, and has been a nurturing figure for both incarnations of Dream . This irony has helped make Death one of the most popular characters from Sandman . Death was named the fifteenth greatest comic book character by Empire . Kat Dennings voices the character in Audible 's The Sandman (2019), while Kirby portrays

1665-401: A new #1 following the release of Tales of the Teen Titans #44 and Annual #3, the conclusion of the "Judas Contract" storyline. After both titles ran new stories for one year, with Tales of the Teen Titans #45–58 taking place prior to the events of The New Teen Titans (vol. 2) #1, and a filler issue reprinting a digest-only story and the original preview story from DC Comics Presents #26,

1776-411: A new team of Titans, anchored by Robin, Wonder Girl, and Kid Flash and soon followed by The New Teen Titans #1 (November 1980). The series, created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez , re-introduced Beast Boy as Changeling and introduced the machine man Cyborg, the alien Starfire, and the dark empath Raven. Raven, an expert manipulator, forms the group to fight her demonic father Trigon

1887-539: A psychopathic girl named Terra with the power to manipulate Earth and all Earth-related materials. She infiltrates the Titans in order to destroy them. "The Judas Contract" won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for "Favorite Comic Book Story" of 1984 and was later reprinted as a standalone trade paperback in 1988. Robin adopts the identity of Nightwing , while Wally West gives up his Kid Flash persona and quits

1998-443: A result, the Teen Titans briefly abandoned their identities to work as ordinary civilians, but the effort was quickly abandoned. Along the way, Aqualad left the series and the character of Mr. Jupiter, who was Lilith's mentor and employer, was introduced. He financially backed the Titans for a brief period. The series was canceled with #43 (January–February 1973). The series resumed with issue #44 (November 1976). The stories included

2109-417: A skeleton in some sort of military uniform relevant to the era and locality of the war depicted. This character appeared as recently as Elvira 's House of Mystery #2 (February 1986). How this pre-Crisis Death relates to Gaiman's Death, if at all, is unclear, although her older brother Destiny appeared with the character, and both Deaths have appeared with incarnations of Superman . Superman referred to

2220-535: A three issue miniseries entitled Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day , which saw Lilith's death and Donna Troy sent to another world after seemingly dying, along with the disbanding of the 1998–2002 Titans roster and the Young Justice team. The relaunch came on the heels of the debut of the Teen Titans cartoon on Cartoon Network and reflected DC Comics chief executive Dan DiDio's desire to rehabilitate

2331-524: A variety of characters have been featured heroes in its pages. Significant early additions to the initial quartet of Titans were Speedy (Roy Harper) , Aquagirl (Tula) , Bumblebee (Karen Beecher) , Hawk (Hank Hall) , Dove (Don Hall) , Harlequin (Duela Dent) , and three non-costumed heroes: boxer Mal Duncan , psychic Lilith , and caveman Gnarrk . The series would not become a genuine hit until its 1980s revival as The New Teen Titans under writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez . This run depicted

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2442-659: Is Jesse Quick . Similar creatures called the Time Wraiths appear in The Flash . These versions serve as the Speed Force 's enforcers by hunting down speedsters who attempt to change the timeline. A demonic version of the Black Flash (also known as the Speed Demon and Black Racer ) appears in Smallville Season 11 #12. It seeks out Impulse and Jay Garrick 's souls, but comes into conflict with

2553-430: Is an immortal being of virtual omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. She is not a god of death or agent of it, but Death itself: the end of life. As for the end of her role, Death has said: "When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights, and lock the universe behind me when I leave". Death is also capable of preventing aging and death if she chooses. In

2664-511: Is continued by subsequent generations of young heroes. First appearing in 1964 in The Brave and the Bold #54, the team was formed by Kid Flash (Wally West) , Robin (Dick Grayson) , and Aqualad (Garth) before adopting the name Teen Titans in issue 60 with the addition of Wonder Girl (Donna Troy) to their ranks. Over the decades, DC has cancelled and relaunched Teen Titans many times, and

2775-592: Is invited to train, but the two eventually leave, with the members joining the Justice League of America and Justice League International, respectively. The Titans fight the future, evil adult versions of the group ( Titans Tomorrow ) and Clock King and the Terror Titans, who are part of Darkseid's underground fight club for metahumans. After the Batman R.I.P storyline, Robin leaves and Wonder Girl leads

2886-528: Is so amused by this interpretation that she grants Madame Xanadu immortality, revocable any time Xanadu wishes. Death appeared in Action Comics #894, which was written by Paul Cornell . Gaiman helped write Death's dialogue to ensure that her characterization remained consistent with The Sandman . In the story, while searching for a black power ring , Lex Luthor encounters her. She appears again in issue #900 and in The Flash (vol. 3) #6, part of

2997-404: Is the only major character whose visuals didn't spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg. In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album. But Mike Dringenberg had his own ideas, so he sent me a drawing based on a woman he knew named Cinamon Hadley —

3108-559: Is through with the demonstration, "you can eat the banana". This was used in high school health classes and is also reprinted as an addendum to the Death: The High Cost of Living trade paperback. This version of Death also made a cameo appearance in the crossover special Avengers/JLA #2. She is represented in the Grandmaster 's home base, alongside Deadman , Hela and the purple-robed version of Death native to

3219-588: Is where she keeps her floppy hat collection, her goldfish Slim and Wandsworth and possibly her gallery. A brief glimpse of her realm can also be seen in The Little Endless Storybook , when Barnabas visits her, although this time in her "apartment suite". One day every century, Death is forced to live out the last day of a random person, to understand the value of the life she takes. At the end of Death: The High Cost of Living her Endless self briefly converses with her mortal self. Death

3330-815: The Ambush Bug Nothing Special one-shot (Sep. 1992) and a cameo in the Lobo comic book Lobo's Back #3 (Oct. 1992), in which she slaps Lobo for getting fresh with her. She observes the destruction of the Earth in Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 4 #38 (Dec. 1992). Death's popularity saw her spun off into two solo miniseries , Death: The High Cost of Living (1993), and Death: The Time of Your Life (1996). Both were written by Gaiman and illustrated by Chris Bachalo , and dealt with Death's encounters with various mortals. Death: The High Cost of Living became

3441-519: The Brightest Day crossover. In the AIDS -awareness eight-page comic Death Talks About Life by Gaiman and McKean (which was first included in various Vertigo titles, and later released as a stand-alone giveaway pamphlet), Death demonstrates safe sex by placing a condom on a banana held by John Constantine . Lightening the impact of the underlying message, she informs the reader that when one

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3552-469: The gestalt being Phantasm (an identity created by Chase early in the series); while Raven, Jericho, and obscure Titans ally Golden Eagle were killed. New character Pantha (based on plans for a female Wildcat character Wolfman conceived in the mid-'80s) joined the team, along with Deathstroke and Red Star. Deathstroke was also given his own solo book and the team received its first crossover tie-in since Millennium , with The New Titans #81 being part of

3663-748: The Black Lantern Corps . In the Titans: Blackest Night miniseries, an emergency team consisting of Donna Troy, Cyborg, Wonder Girl, Starfire, Beast Boy, Kid Flash and the new Hawk and Dove , is formed to defend the Tower. In the ensuing battle, the Hawk is killed after her predecessor Hank Hall tears her heart out. At the end of the Blackest Knight crossover, Hank Hall is resurrected and resumes his partnership with Dove. In

3774-740: The Marvel Universe , which, as the plots of other crossover comics have hinged upon, exists in the same continuum of fictional universes as DC's. Marvel's version of Death appears alternatively as a coldly beautiful woman in a purple robe or a walking skeleton (sometimes male and sometimes female in form, depending upon the context). She made an appearances in the Marvel Universe, at the wedding of Rick Jones and Marlo Chandler in The Incredible Hulk #418 trying successfully to evade "that Thanos creep" and handing Marlo

3885-548: The Millennium crossover event, with the second issue being the coda for the event. The series failed to catch on and was cancelled in 1988, along with Tales of the Teen Titans . The Team Titans were one of 100 groups sent back through time to prevent the birth of Lord Chaos , the son of Donna Troy and Terry Long. Their mission was to kill the pregnant Troy before she could give birth. Mirage , Killowat , Redwing, Terra , Nightrider , Prestor Jon and Battalion made up

3996-483: The "War of the Gods" storyline. Peterson also saw the launch of Team Titans , which featured a new genetically modified (and heroic) doppelganger of Terra and Donna Troy, who was depowered in the "Total Chaos" crossover. Peterson left the book before "Total Chaos" concluded, leaving Wolfman to deal with the fallout from Peterson's editorially mandated storylines, including the final break-up between Starfire and Nightwing as

4107-644: The Black Flash; Wally finally defeats the Black Flash by racing the creature to the end of time, to a point where Death would have no meaning, causing the creature to dissipate. The Black Flash appears to Bart Allen when the Flash loses his powers while battling the Rogues at the Getty Center . Despite a clash with Inertia (another possible candidate for the Black Flash), Bart is killed shortly thereafter by

4218-545: The Bold #54 (July 1964) by writer Bob Haney and artist Bruno Premiani . They appeared under the name "Teen Titans" in The Brave and the Bold #60 (July 1965), joined by Wonder Woman's younger sister Wonder Girl (Donna Troy). After being featured in Showcase #59 (December 1965), the Teen Titans were spun off into their own series with Teen Titans #1 by Haney and artist Nick Cardy . The series' original premise had

4329-597: The DC Universe . Pérez temporarily returned with issue #50, when the series took the name The New Titans without the "Teen" prefix, as the characters were no longer teenagers. Issue #50 told a new origin story for Wonder Girl, her link to Wonder Woman having been severed due to retcons created in the aftermath of Crisis on Infinite Earths . Pérez sketched through issues #55, 57 and 60, while only providing layouts for issues #58–59 and 61, with artist Tom Grummett finishing pencils and Bob McLeod as inker. Pérez remained as cover inker to issues #62–67. He would return for

4440-448: The DC Universe. The current incarnation of Death first appeared in the final chapter of Sandman 's first story arc Preludes and Nocturnes , "The Sound of Her Wings", (issue #8) where she gave Dream direction and a degree of understanding. Death instantly became very popular with readers, and she appears at least briefly in each of the nine subsequent story arcs. However, Gaiman attempted to entice and tease readers by rationing out

4551-584: The Endless is the ultimate personification of Death. It might be assumed, however, Nekron, the Racer, and the Black Flash are connected to her in some way. Alternatively, there may be multiple avatars or gods of Death in the DC universe, besides those claiming to be Death. Blackest Night has resolved this apparent contradiction or ambiguity, with Nekron no longer being referred to as an aspect of death but instead as

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4662-609: The Force Barrier was destroyed and the other forces were unleashed, the Black Flash was sent to hunt down Psych , Fuerza and Steadfast . The Black Flash killed Psych arrives within the Flash Museum and attacks Steadfast. The cosmically enhanced Hunter Zolomon takes Barry into the "Forever Force" (timestream) built by the Speed Force to which the Black Flash chases the two speedsters in order to kill (hoping to heal

4773-534: The New Teen Titans , a four-part limited series by Wolfman and Pérez, was published in 1982, detailing the back-stories of Cyborg, Raven, Changeling, and Starfire. Wolfman wrote a series of New Teen Titans drug awareness comic books which were published in cooperation with The President's Drug Awareness Campaign in 1983–1984. The first was pencilled by Pérez and sponsored by the Keebler Company ,

4884-535: The Outsiders were the first and only titles included in this program. The same stories were published twice, first in a more expensive edition with higher-quality printing and paper distributed exclusively to comic book specialty stores, then republished a year later in the original format, distributed to newsstands. The title was renamed Tales of the Teen Titans with issue #41, while a new concurrently published series named The New Teen Titans (vol. 2) launched with

4995-511: The Speed Force). Zolomon later sacrifices himself to the Force Barrier in order to finally heal the Speed Force, trapping the Black Flash. The second Black Flash is Barry Allen due to Professor Zoom altering the Speed Force for a time. The third Black Flash is the reanimated corpse of Eobard Thawne equipped with a power ring as a member of the Black Lantern Corps for a time. The Ame-Comi Girls universe version of Black Flash

5106-470: The Speed Force, but instead took Linda Park . Having seen portents of Wally's death, Max Mercury and Jesse Quick intercepted Wally before reaching the museum where Linda was waiting, with Linda thus being struck by the lightning that was meant to kill Wally. It later returns to try to take Wally again, freezing time except for those who possess a connection to the Speed Force. Max Mercury, Jay Garrick , and Jesse Quick all attempt to assist Wally by distracting

5217-605: The Teen Titans are betrayed by their teammate Terra (Tara Markov) . The 1990s featured a Teen Titans team composed entirely of new members before the previous members returned in the series Titans , which ran from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Subsequent stories in the 2000s introduced a radically different Teen Titans team made up of newer DC Comics sidekicks such as Robin III (Tim Drake) , Wonder Girl II (Cassie Sandsmark) , and Impulse / Kid Flash II (Bart Allen) , as well as Superboy (Kon-El) , some of who had previously featured in

5328-551: The Teen Titans helping teenagers and answering calls. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that Haney "took some ribbing for the writing style that described the Teen Titans as 'the Cool Quartet' or 'the Fab Foursome'. The attempt to reach the youth culture then embracing performers like The Beatles and Bob Dylan impressed some observers." Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy makes guest appearances before officially joining

5439-541: The Teen Titans were front and center during the build-up and events of the Infinite Crisis crossover. During the lead-in of the crossover, Donna Troy came back in a four-part crossover miniseries with The Outsiders called "The Return of Donna Troy" while Superboy and Cassie Sandsmark became a couple. During Infinite Crisis, Superboy was killed by his evil doppelganger Superboy Prime, Cyborg was severely damaged by cosmic forces unleashed by Alexander Luthor Jr., Starfire

5550-514: The Teen Titans while the newest three members (replacing Beast Boy, Starfire and Raven) that join the team are Red Arrow (Emiko Queen) , the half-sister of Green Arrow and daughter of the assassin Shado , Crush, the daughter of intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo , Roundhouse, a metahuman with the ability of transforming into a fireball, and Djinn, a powerful 4,000 years old genie. The Teen Titans have been adapted to other media numerous times, such as in

5661-501: The Terrible and the team remains together. Wolfman and Pérez's working relationship quickly evolved to the point where they were plotting the series jointly. Wolfman recalled that "once George moved to the same town I lived in, only five blocks or so away, we usually got together for lunch and would work out a story over the next few hours. In many cases I would then go home and write up a plot based on it, or sometimes George would take

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5772-497: The Titans as one of DC's top franchises. Launched at the same time was a companion series, a revived version of The Outsiders which featured Nightwing and Arsenal, along with several other Titans members (Captain Marvel Jr. and Starfire). The series featured several of the main teenage heroes from the Young Justice roster (Robin, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Impulse) and Starfire, Cyborg and Changeling (now rebranded Beast Boy to reflect

5883-457: The Titans purged Raven of evil once again in order to prevent Raven and the revived Citadel Empire from reconquering the Vega star system. The New Teen Titans was widely thought of as DC's answer to the increasingly popular Uncanny X-Men from Marvel Comics , as both series featured all-new members and depicted young heroes from disparate backgrounds whose internal conflicts were as integral to

5994-505: The Titans. It also featured the introduction of a new member in Jericho , Deathstroke's other son. Other notable New Teen Titans stories included "A Day in the Lives...", presenting a day in the team members' personal lives; "Who is Donna Troy?", depicting Robin investigating Wonder Girl's origins; and "We Are Gathered Here Today...", telling the story of Wonder Girl's wedding. Tales of

6105-463: The animated television series Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! , and the live-action television series Titans . Within DC Comics, the Teen Titans have been an influential group of characters taking prominent roles in all of the publisher's major company-wide crossover stories. Many villains who face the Titans have since taken on a larger role within the publisher's fictional universe, such as

6216-541: The assassin Deathstroke , the supervillain teams Fearsome Five and Brotherhood of Evil (archenemies of the Doom Patrol), the demon Trigon , the alien villian Blackfire (DC Comics) , the cultist zealot Brother Blood and the evil organization H.I.V.E. . Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West) and Aqualad (Garth) team up to defeat a weather-controlling villain known as Mister Twister in The Brave and

6327-421: The cartoon). Raven later returned to the team, reborn in a new teenage body while Jericho was brought back, having escaped death by possessing and laying dormant inside his father Deathstroke's mind. The series renewed interest in the Titans, but drew sharp complaints due to shifts in the personalities of the various Young Justice characters. Most notably, the decision to have Impulse rebrand himself Kid Flash and

6438-706: The character in the Netflix series The Sandman (2022–present) and Dead Boy Detectives (2024–present). Other personifications of Death have appeared in the DC Universe. In Captain Atom #42 Death appears alongside Black Racer of the New Gods and Nekron (a being embodying the will of "The Black", the solitude and peace death represents from Green Lantern ). The story stated that all three were equal, representing different aspects of death. Gaiman has denied this, however, and his stories make it clear that Death of

6549-534: The character's abusive attitudes towards her teammates post- Infinite Crisis ), Kid Devil is killed in battle, while Kid Eternity is revealed to have been beaten to death by the Calculator after being kidnapped by him. J. T. Krul became the writer with issue #88 and penciler Nicola Scott became the book's artist. The issue's teaser shows a line-up of Superboy, Wonder Girl, Raven, Beast Boy, Kid Flash and Ravager. The Titans undergo this roster change in issue #87,

6660-570: The deaths of Terra II and Young Frankenstein. The deaths led to Beast Boy resigning from the team to join the Doom Patrol along with Herald and Bumblebee, while Raven took a leave of absence in order to purge Jericho of the dark forces that were corrupting him. Robin and Wonder Girl eventually rejoined the Titans (now located in San Francisco, California) and helped foil Bombshell's plan to frame Miss Martian as Deathstroke's latest mole in

6771-483: The decision to Jettison his happy-go-lucky person in favor of a more serious personality. The series, under Geoff Johns, also dramatically retconned Superboy's origin with the revelation that he was a hybrid clone based on the combined DNA of Superman and Lex Luthor (a possibility Johns had first suggested in a fan letter published in the Superboy comic book several years before he was employed by DC). Under Geoff Johns,

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6882-598: The drawing that was later printed in Sandman 11 — and I looked at it and had the immediate reaction of, "Wow. That's really cool". Later that day, Dave McKean and I went to dinner in Chelsea at the My Old Dutch Pancake House and the waitress who served us was a kind of vision. She was American, had long black hair, was dressed entirely in black — black jeans, T-shirt, etc. — and wore

6993-592: The earlier Death with the term "Grim Reaper", so perhaps that could be regarded as a distinct character, however, in the pages of Weird War Tales , he called himself "Death." He also appeared when Weird War Tales was published under the Vertigo imprint and in the 2010 Weird War Tales one-shot . Death first appeared as a woman in The Witching Hour #56 (July 1975) in a tale told by Mordred (written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Ruben Yandoc ). She

7104-462: The end, the heroes realized that, now that they were in their early 20s, they had outgrown the name the "Teen" Titans. In the last panel, without speaking, they all go their separate ways. The title appeared again in 1999 for Giant Teen Titans Annual #1 (1967) ( ISBN   1-56389-486-6 ), a one-shot special that reprinted selected Silver Age stories in the 1960s-style 80-Page Giant format. DC Comics Presents #26 (October 1980) introduced

7215-426: The final issue before Krul's run. Following a mission to an alternate dimension to rescue Raven, the team splits. Bombshell and Aquagirl are missing in action , Miss Martian is in a coma and she and a powerless Static leave with Cyborg to go to Cadmus Labs in order to find a way to restore his powers. Damian Wayne , the current Robin, is announced as a new team member, officially joining in #89. A series for Static

7326-410: The first comic released under the newly instigated Vertigo branding in 1993, at which point The Sandman also moved from the DC to Vertigo imprint. A third miniseries, The Girl who Would Be Death by Caitlín R. Kiernan , was about a girl who purchased an ankh stolen from Death and tried to become her. Death is never actually seen in the series, but she speaks and acts in the third and fourth issues of

7437-625: The former and Superman . As the fastest of the two speedsters, the Black Flash primarily focuses its attention on Impulse until the latter sacrifices himself to destroy the demonic speedster, which goes on to inspire Garrick to come out of retirement and form the Teen Titans . Death (DC Comics) Death of the Endless is a fictional personification of death who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics . She first appeared in The Sandman vol. 2, #8 (August 1989) and

7548-589: The founding roster, including Solstice (Kiran Singh) , Bunker (Miguel Jose Barragan) , and Skitter (Celine Patterson), although this volume proved commercially and critically disappointing for DC. In 2016, DC used the Titans Hunt and DC Rebirth storylines to re-establish the group's original founding members and history, reuniting these classic heroes as the Titans, while introducing a new generation of Teen Titans led by Robin V (Damian Wayne) with Aqualad II (Jackson Hyde) and Kid Flash III (Wallace West) as

7659-411: The four-issue series. In 2003, the manga -style graphic novel Death: At Death's Door portrayed Death's activities during the fourth Sandman story arc Season of Mists . It was written and illustrated by Jill Thompson , and the format proved popular enough for Thompson to produce the similarly manga-influenced follow-up Dead Boy Detectives , featuring minor Sandman characters, and "featuring

7770-445: The franchise since Perez left after The New Teen Titans (vol. 2) #5. The project was put on hold when it was decided instead to have Perez return to the main book as artist and for their first project back together to be "Who Is Wonder Girl?" instead. Over the course of 1989 and 1990, George Perez and Marv Wolfman continued to work on Games with over half the project being completed. But the ascension of Jonathan Peterson as editor of

7881-446: The globe with Batman and Nightwing. Changeling and Raven attempted to keep the Titans going, resulting in a massive open call membership drive that saw a large number of heroes come and join the roster, which was anchored by Beast Boy and Raven. New members include Miss Martian, Kid Devil, Zachary Zatara, Ravager, Bombshell (who like Terra I, was a traitor working for Deathstroke), Young Frankenstein, and Osiris. During this period, Osiris

7992-433: The interim, Wolfman had rewritten the plot (most notably, changing the original ending where Nightwing personally executes the main villain of the series after his "games" result in the death of longtime Titan ally Sarah Simms and the maiming of Danny Chase) though retained several key details (the death of Simms and Chase losing his hands) and several additional twists (the introduction of a previously unknown sibling of Raven,

8103-430: The introductions of African American superheroine Bumblebee and former supervillainess-turned-superheroine Harlequin in issue #48 and the introduction of the "Teen Titans West" team in issues #50–52 consisting of a number of other teen heroes, including Bat-Girl (Betty Kane) and Golden Eagle . The revival was short-lived and the series was cancelled as of issue #53 (February 1978), which featured an origin story. At

8214-506: The leader. Following this, Damian quits the team. The book concluded with a three-part storyline spanning issues #98–100, which saw Superboy-Prime return to destroy the team. A large group of former Titans arrived and the series ultimately ended with Prime trapped in the Source Wall , seemingly for all eternity. The remainder of the issue consisted of pieces of artwork showcasing the various Teen Titans who appeared in that incarnation of

8325-506: The main series, Ravager and Jericho fight their father Deathstroke and the dead members of the Wilson family, resurrected as Black Lanterns. During this time, several back-up stories begin to run in the series: one called "The Coven", starring Black Alice , Zachary Zatara and Traci 13 and later, one starring Ravager. Later storylines involve the corruption of Wonder Girl at the hands of various factors (designed to address complaints about

8436-622: The middle ages, Death overheard a man claim he would not accept dying; she gave him that wish, while asking Dream to meet him once every century to see if he was ready to die. Death appeared in Captain Atom #42-43 (June–July 1990), alongside the Black Racer as one of several aspects of Death in the DC Universe. Gaiman reportedly took issue with this depiction, feeling that portraying her as merely an aspect of death diminished her importance. Other Giffen stories that feature Death include

8547-520: The murder on the grounds that "I took both of you billions of years ago". She sends Timothy back home, but forces Mister E to return the hard way. John Ney Rieber included her in The Books of Magic (vol. 2 #3-4), in which she lets Timothy Hunter hang out at her house and hold her teddy bear, Cavendish, while he is recovering from the venom of the Manticore . Hunter later encounters Death walking in

8658-407: The newly dead to allay their fears. He takes her advice and they both serve as aspects of Death. This version of Death was created by Mike W. Barr and Dan Spiegle . Maggie is blonde and bears only minor physical resemblance to Gaiman and Dringenberg's version, though her compassionate nature is a similarity. In The Spectre (vol. 2), The Phantom Stranger himself appeared to be the only psychopomp in

8769-461: The number of appearances from Dream's family, so Death did not appear as frequently as one might expect for such a popular character. At the end of the ninth Sandman story arc The Kindly Ones , there is a lengthy and noteworthy appearance from Death, in which she finally brings her brother peace. According to Gaiman, the initial visual design of Death was based on a friend of Dringenberg's named Cinamon Hadley. From The Sandman Companion : Death

8880-406: The original Titans now as young adults and introduced new characters Cyborg (Victor Stone) , Starfire (Koriand'r) , and Raven (Rachel Roth) , as well as the former Doom Patrol member Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) under his new alias of Changeling, who would all become enduring fan favorites. A high point for the series both critically and commercially was its " The Judas Contract " storyline, where

8991-526: The pages of Titans Secret Files and Origins #2. Between Teen Titans and Titans , a new generation of young heroes formed a team in Young Justice , consisting of Superboy, Robin, Impulse, Wonder Girl , Secret and Arrowette . The two series concluded with the three-issue miniseries Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day , which led to two new series: Teen Titans and Outsiders . Writer Geoff Johns ' Teen Titans series began in 2003, after

9102-469: The panicked Rogues when it appears Bart would win, even without powers. Most recently, the Black Flash is revealed to represent the Speed Force's dark aspect which is responsible for the empowerment of Wally's children. His connection to death is limited to those connected to the Speed Force. While an issue of Captain Atom suggests Death of the Endless, the Black Racer, and Nekron are all aspects of

9213-608: The rain in The Books of Magic #25, and there was later an arc about her in Hunter: The Age of Magic . In Hellblazer #120, Death appears briefly in a pub filled with ghosts. She also appeared in Mike Carey's Lucifer series when the eponymous main character was wounded and nearly died. Initially it appears that Death has actually arrived for Lucifer, but in fact she is there for Elaine Belloc who dies (temporarily) saving Lucifer's life. Death admits she has arrived

9324-404: The rest of the team. Believing Wolfman had grown stagnant, DC assigned Wolfman a new editor, Jonathan Peterson, and gave Peterson authority to override Wolfman over the direction of the book. With Peterson controlling the book's direction, the series was rapidly overhauled. The Wildebeest , a villain who used proxies and surrogates to hide his true identity while vexing the Titans, was expanded to

9435-409: The return of Cyborg. This led into Titans , written by Devin K. Grayson , starting with Titans Secret Files and Origins #1 (March 1999). This team consisted of Nightwing, Troia, Arsenal, Tempest, the Flash, Starfire, Cyborg, Changeling, Damage and Argent. One new member, Jesse Quick , joined. This team lasted until issue #50 (2002). The West Coast branch of the team, Titans L.A., appeared once, in

9546-468: The revelation that the main villain was a schizophrenic King Faraday, and the destruction of Titan Tower, that make it impossible to fit into canon, reducing it to an alternate universe side story in Teen Titans lore. Due to fan backlash over the hardcover/softcover move to the direct market with the main title, a new newsstand Titans book was launched in August 1986 called Teen Titans Spotlight . The series

9657-632: The same force, Neil Gaiman (creator of Death of the Endless) disagrees with this idea, stating that his creation is the ultimate personification of Death. During the Final Crisis , Wally theorizes that the Black Racer pursuing himself and Barry is in fact the Black Flash. A charred corpse, appearing to be the Black Flash, was found in Iowa by two boys in The Flash: Rebirth . When

9768-481: The second was illustrated by Ross Andru and underwritten by the American Soft Drink Industry , and the third was drawn by Adrian Gonzales and financed by IBM . The New Teen Titans relaunched with a new #1 issue in August 1984 as part of a new initiative at DC informally referred to as "hardcover/softcover". The New Teen Titans along with Legion of Super-Heroes and Batman and

9879-410: The series as was their combat against villains. The two teams met in the 1982 crossover one-shot entitled "Apokolips... Now", which teamed Darkseid , Deathstroke and Dark Phoenix against both teams. The story was written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Walt Simonson and Terry Austin . In 1989, Marv Wolfman and George Perez began planning a prestige format special, their first work together on

9990-514: The series began reprinting the first 31 issues of the "hardcover" series (sans several back-up stories focusing on Tamaran that ran in New Teen Titans #14–18), the first Annual , and the lead story from the second Annual , before being cancelled with issue #91. Issue #1 of The New Teen Titans (vol. 2) created controversy when Grayson and Starfire were depicted in bed together, although it had been established for some time that they were

10101-480: The series finale #130 (Feb. 1996) providing cover art. Issues #60 and #61 were part of a five-part crossover with Batman, "A Lonely Place of Dying" and along with issue #65, featured the debut of Tim Drake as the third Robin. The brief return of Perez and the addition of Tom Grummett failed to move sales for the book, which were starting to decline. Furthermore, the addition of Danny Chase (a teenage psychic) drew negative fan response due to his abusive attitude towards

10212-530: The series, and Perez moving off of New Titans in order to work on The Infinity Gauntlet for Marvel led to the book being shelved. In the early '00s, Marv Wolfman and George Perez approached DC about completing the book as a stand-alone graphic novel. The book was completed in 2010 and published in 2011. The plot had the New Titans be forced by King Faraday to go after a mysterious mastermind who forces his victims to play deadly "games" for his amusement. In

10323-454: The similar title Young Justice . Later prominent additions from this era included Miss Martian (M'gann M'orzz) , Ravager (Rose Wilson) , Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) , Kid Devil , and Blue Beetle III (Jaime Reyes) . Concurrently, DC also published Titans , which featured some of the original and 1980s members now as adults, led by Dick Grayson in his adult persona of Nightwing . DC's The New 52 reboot in 2011 later brought new characters to

10434-468: The special issue, it is also revealed that Death was known in ancient Greece as Teleute . Physically, Death is also opposite to the traditional western culture personification of death, the Grim Reaper. In The Sandman , Death instead appears as an attractive, pale goth girl dressed in casual clothes — often a black top and jeans. She also wears a silver ankh on a chain around her neck, and has

10545-524: The team and allowed Raven to cleanse Jericho of the Azarathian corruption that had turned him evil. Geoff John's final arc on the series would introduce a new villainous "Titans East" team, led by Deathstroke and Batgirl Cassandra Cain. Soon after, events related to the Countdown story arc impacted the Titans. Duela Dent and Bart Allen are killed; Cyborg leaves, and Supergirl joins and Blue Beetle

10656-488: The team in Teen Titans #19. Aqualad takes a leave of absence from the group in the same issue, but makes several later guest appearances, sometimes with girlfriend Aquagirl . Neal Adams was called upon to rewrite and redraw a Teen Titans story which had been written by Len Wein and Marv Wolfman . The story, titled "Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho!", would have introduced DC's first African American superhero, but

10767-405: The team's latest members alongside team mainstays Starfire, Raven and Beast Boy; while the Titans team from DC Rebirth were composed of Nightwing (Dick Grayson), The Flash III (Wally West) , Wonder Girl (Donna Troy), Tempest (Garth) , Arsenal (Roy Harper), Omen (Lilith Clay) and Bumblebee (Karen Beecher). After the events of Justice League: No Justice, Damian Wayne and Wallace West would remain in

10878-568: The team. Teen Titans was written and penciled by Dan Jurgens . It began in 1996 with a new #1 (October 1996), with Pérez as inker for the first 15 issues. Atom , who had become a teenager following the events of Zero Hour , leads the brand-new team (of Prysm , Joto , Risk and Argent ). Arsenal became a mentor about halfway through and Captain Marvel Junior/ CM3 joins the team. The series ended in September 1998. A contest

10989-576: The team. Red Devil loses his powers after Brother Blood absorbs them. Miss Martian returns with several teen heroes liberated from the Dark Side Club. A new team is formed: Wonder Girl, Blue Beetle and the now-powerless Red Devil are joined by Kid Eternity and Static, with the new Aquagirl, Miss Martian and a reformed Bombshell signing up. During the events of the Blackest Night crossover, some dead Titans are resurrected as members of

11100-503: The time; existing heroes Hawk and Dove , a duo of teenaged superpowered brothers, appear in issue #21; and time-displaced caveman Gnarrk aids the team in two issues. The series explored events such as inner-city racial tension and protests against the Vietnam War . One storyline beginning in issue #25 (February 1970) saw the Titans deal with the accidental death of a peace activist, leading them to reconsider their methods. As

11211-637: The title, contributed by various DC artists. A second ongoing Teen Titans series, titled Titans , launched in April 2008 with a cover date of June 2008, written by Judd Winick . The first issue was drawn by Ian Churchill and Norm Rapmund and the second was by Joe Benitez and Victor Llamas. The opening storyline follows the events of the Teen Titans East Special one-shot released in November 2007, revealing that Cyborg's team survived

11322-590: The verbal plotting we did and take it from there." The team's adversaries included Deathstroke the Terminator , a mercenary who takes a contract to kill the Titans to fulfill a job his son had been unable to complete. This led to perhaps the most notable Titans storyline of the era. 1984's " The Judas Contract ", in Tales of the Teen Titans #42–44 and Tales of the Teen Titans Annual #3, featured

11433-418: Was also brought onto the title and given a prominent romance with Donna Troy, whose marriage with Terry Long had collapsed in the pages of Team Titans before the book's cancellation. Sales saw a collapse and despite several crossovers with other books ( Damage , Green Lantern , Darkstars , and Deathstroke ), the series was cancelled with issue #130. The series finale saw the return of Blackfire as an ally, as

11544-507: Was an anthology series and featured individual members of the Titans in solo stories, often spanning multiple issues. The series also focused on former members of the group (such as Hawk and Aqualad) and the Brotherhood of Evil, detailing the formation of the second version of the group. As the move to the direct market effectively limited The New Teen Titans ability to be part of company-wide crossovers, two issues of Spotlight tied into

11655-519: Was announced. In January 2011, new Titan Solstice debuted in the January 2011 Wonder Girl one-shot. She entered the main Teen Titans title following the crossover with the Red Robin series. During the crossover, Tim asks the Titans for help in tracking down the Calculator after he tries to kill his friend, Tam Fox . Tim rejoins the team as Red Robin (rather than Robin) but Cassie would remain

11766-606: Was created by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg . In the DC Universe continuity, Death is both the end of life and a psychopomp . Like most personifications of death, Death meets with the recently deceased and guides them into their new existence. Unlike most personifications of death, she also visits people as they are born, according to Destruction in the Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus . Evidently, only she seems to remember these encounters. In

11877-532: Was depicted with short, curly, red-blonde hair, and was a rival for two men's affections. Both men die in successive car accidents. In Swamp Thing vol. 2, #6, The Phantom Stranger met Death in the form of a middle-aged gentleman, possibly inspired by Death Takes a Holiday . In the story, a young woman, Margaret "Maggie" Brennan, had what should have been a minor head injury and at one glimpse of Death chose to become Death's bride. As someone newly dead herself, she taught Death that he needs to show compassion for

11988-407: Was driven from the team due to a smear campaign launched by Amanda Waller after she manipulated him into killing a super-villain. The smear campaign against Osiris, along with the war between Black Adam and Intergang, led to Black Adam declaring war on the world. In the ensuing series of battles against the super-hero community, the Titans fought and lost a bloody battle with the villain, culminating in

12099-468: Was held in the letters pages to determine who would join the team. Robin (Tim Drake), won the vote, but editors on the Batman titles banned his appearance, forcing Jurgens to use Captain Marvel Jr. instead. His inclusion failed to boost sales and the series was then cancelled. The team returned in a three-issue miniseries, JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative , featuring nearly every Titan and showcasing

12210-417: Was lost in space with several other heroes, while Kid Flash became lost in the Speed Force, re-emerging in the Flash uniform and having aged to adulthood after a failed attempt to stop Superboy Prime. Following the events of Infinite Crisis , the Teen Titans fell into a state of chaos. Wonder Girl quit the group to join a cult she believed could resurrect Superboy, while Robin took a leave of absence to travel

12321-475: Was rejected by publisher Carmine Infantino . The revised story appeared in Teen Titans #20 (March–April 1969). Wolfman and Gil Kane created an origin for Wonder Girl in Teen Titans #22 (July–Aug. 1969) and introduced her new costume. Psychic Lilith Clay and Mal Duncan also join the group. Beast Boy of the Doom Patrol makes a guest appearance seeking membership, but was rejected as too young at

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