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Cover: Alé Garza & Scott Williams

Teen Titans #50

Oct 2007 · DC · 3.99 USD; 4.75 CAD
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About this Issue

Teen Titans Vol. 3 #50 marks a genuine generational handoff in one of DC's flagship team titles: it is simultaneously Geoff Johns' farewell to the book he relaunched in 2003 and Sean McKeever's formal debut as ongoing writer, making it the clearest creative pivot point of that volume's eight-year run. The issue uses Bart Allen's funeral as an emotional anchor to honor the Wolfman/Pérez era while pushing the team toward a darker future, with the closing pages teasing the 'Titans of Tomorrow...Today!' arc that would define McKeever's early tenure. Its anthology structure — four writers, three penciling teams — was itself an editorial statement about the title's history and its ambitions going forward. The 'Friday Night Nights' flashback segment was later selected for reprinting in the retrospective hardcover Teen Titans: A Celebration of 50 Years, signaling that DC considered its nostalgic content among the most reprint-worthy material from this era of the series.

Contains 4 stories
Passage
27 pp · Superhero
Robin [Tim Drake]Flash [Barry Allen]Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]Wonder Girl [Cassie Sandsmark]Cyborg [Victor Stone]Raven [Rachel Roth]Miss Martian [M'Gann M'Orzz]Changeling [Garfield Logan]Kid Devil [Eddie Bloomberg]Ravager [Rose Wilson]Starfire [Koriand'r]Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]Superman [Conner Kent] (From the future)Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz]Wonder Woman [Cassie Sandsmark] (From the future)Red Devil [Eddie Bloomberg] (From the future)Batman [Bruce Wayne]Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]LoboSuperman [Clark Kent]Lois Lane (Cameo)Batman [Tim Drake] (From the future)Flash [Bart Allen] (From the future)
Friday Night Lights
6 pp · Superhero
Kid Flash [Bart Allen]Robin [Tim Drake]Changeling [Garfield Logan]Wonder Girl [Cassie Sandsmark]Superboy [Conner Kent]Krypto
Dear Barry...
4 pp · Superhero
Kid Flash [Wally West]Wonder Girl [Donna Troy]Changeling [Garfield Logan]Starfire [Koriand'r]Cyborg [Victor Stone]Raven [Rachel Roth]
Untitled Superhero story
1 pp · Superhero
Superboy [Conner Kent]Wonder Girl [Cassie Sandsmark]Robin [Tim Drake]Impulse [Bart Allen]Secret [Greta]Arrowette [Cissie Jones-King]

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History

DC editorial used the milestone issue number as a deliberate occasion to bridge outgoing and incoming regimes: Geoff Johns, who had written the series since its September 2003 relaunch, contributed a closing segment alongside series-launch artist Mike McKone, while Sean McKeever and penciler Randy Green were officially introduced as the new regular team. The issue's most talked-about editorial flourish was engineering a reunion between Marv Wolfman and George Pérez — the architects of the 1980s New Teen Titans — for their first collaborative Titans story in years, giving the anniversary book an explicit thread connecting modern continuity to the Bronze Age foundation. The book was edited by Eddie Berganza with Adam Schlagman as associate editor, and carried a 48-page count to accommodate its multi-story format.

Trivia · 7 facts

  • Written by four writers — Sean McKeever, Geoff Johns, Marv Wolfman, and Todd Dezago — with art by Randy Green, Mike McKone, George Pérez, Todd Nauck, and their respective inkers.
  • Issue #50 marks the final Teen Titans work by Geoff Johns, who had written the series from its 2003 relaunch through issue #45 and returned for this milestone; Sean McKeever and Alé Garza take over as the ongoing regular team.
  • The main story, titled 'Passage,' centers on a Titans memorial gathering for Bart Allen (Kid Flash/Flash IV), whose death occurred in The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13 shortly before this issue.
  • Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) fights alongside the team against Lobo and is informally invited back to Titans Tower, beginning his association with this roster.
  • The issue's closing sequence introduces two members of the dystopian Titans of Tomorrow — Superman and the Flash — directly setting up McKeever's 'Titans of Tomorrow...Today!' arc in issues #51–54.
  • Marv Wolfman and George Pérez reunited for a new Titans story, their first collaboration on the characters in years, as a deliberate anniversary homage to their landmark 1980s New Teen Titans run.
  • The 'Friday Night Nights' Wolfman/Pérez flashback segment was selected for reprinting in the DC retrospective hardcover Teen Titans: A Celebration of 50 Years; the issue's main story is also collected in the Teen Titans Vol. 8: Titans of Tomorrow trade paperback. A variant cover by Mike McKone was also published alongside the standard Alé Garza/Scott Williams cover.

Full credits

colorist Rod Reis
colorist Tom Smith
colorist David Curiel
letterer Rob Leigh
cover pencils Alé Garza
cover inks Scott Williams

Reprints

Reprinted in Teen Titans #8 (2008), Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus #[nn] (2013), Teen Titans: A Celebration of 50 Years #[nn] (2015), Teen Titans #14

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