Cover: Nick Cardy

Teen Titans #16

Jul 1968 · DC · 0.12 USD

📊 ~64,173 copies sold its debut month

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“The Dimensional Caper!”

About this Issue

Teen Titans #16 is a representative mid-run Silver Age entry featuring the complete original quartet — Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West), Wonder Girl (Donna Troy), and Aqualad (Garth) — operating as a cohesive, self-sufficient team without any adult Justice League supervision, which was the defining creative premise of the Haney-era title. The issue's 'believe the kid, not the grown-ups' structure is a textbook example of how writer Bob Haney repeatedly used the series to dramatize a generational divide, casting teenagers as the only characters capable of recognizing a genuine threat. Nick Cardy's artwork, split across three tightly choreographed chapters, demonstrates the panel-composition inventiveness that made him the visual identity of the Silver Age Titans. While the issue introduces no major recurring character, it sits squarely within the run that established the Teen Titans as DC's flagship youth-driven franchise, a foundation on which Marv Wolfman and George Pérez would build the landmark New Teen Titans revival twelve years later.

writer Bob Haney · artist, inker Nick Cardy · letterer Joe Letterese · cover Nick Cardy

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Raw (VG) $14

CGC 9.8 · 4 in census $1,793*

CGC 9.6 · 12 in census $383

CGC 9.4 · 14 in census $286

CGC 9.2 · 13 in census $171

CGC 9.0 · 13 in census $113*

CGC 8.5 · 4 in census $77*

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CGC 8.0 · 6 in census $59*

CGC 7.5 · 5 in census $48

CGC 7.0 · 8 in census $48*

CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $48*

CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $48

CGC 5.5 · 2 in census $23*

CGC 5.0 none in existence

CGC 4.5 · 2 in census $20*

CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $20*

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History

The issue was scripted by Bob Haney — co-creator of the Teen Titans concept — and both penciled and inked by Nick Cardy, the artist most closely identified with the title's Silver Age visual style. Haney had been piloting the series since its 1966 launch, consistently framing stories around teenagers being dismissed or endangered by oblivious adults, a formula that gave the book its cultural currency during the late-1960s youth-culture moment. The story was released to newsstands on May 23, 1968, carrying a cover date of August 1968, placing it in the same publication window as a period when DC was experimenting with more socially topical content across its teen-focused line. No production anomalies or editorial controversies are documented for this specific issue.

Trivia · 7 facts

Cover date: August 1968; on-sale date: May 23, 1968 (DC, Teen Titans Vol. 1, Silver Age).
Story title: 'The Dimensional Caper!' — structured across three chapters totaling approximately 22–24 pages.
Active roster in this issue: Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West), Wonder Girl (Donna Troy), and Aqualad (Garth) — the full original quartet, with no guest members.
First appearance of the Aliens of Dimension X, an advance extraterrestrial invasion force using a parallel-dimensional replica of a high school as their staging ground.
The story includes an in-joke via Aqualad dismissing a far-fetched claim as sounding like something from a 'Brand Yeeesh' comic — a thinly veiled nod to Marvel's then-current satirical title Not Brand Echh (1967–1969).
Reprinted in The Brave and the Bold #116 (DC, December 1974–January 1975).
Subsequently collected in: Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 1 (2006), Silver Age Teen Titans Archives Vol. 2 (2013), Teen Titans: The Silver Age Omnibus (2016/2017), and Teen Titans: The Silver Age Vol. 2 (2018/2019).