The New Teen Titans #27
New Teen Titans (Vol. 2) #27 is a pivotal chapter in Marv Wolfman's mid-series Brotherhood of Evil arc, staging a two-front war that forces the post-'Judas Contract' Titans roster — now including Jason Todd as Robin and Jericho — to contend simultaneously with the Brain-led Brotherhood and the Church of Blood, underlining how dramatically the series had expanded its villain bench in the years following the Wolfman/Pérez founding run. The issue demonstrates the storytelling ambition of the Vol. 2 era, weaving Deathstroke's family mythology (Adeline Wilson, Slade Wilson) into a Brotherhood-driven narrative and leaning into Zandia as a recurring geopolitical backdrop that gave Wolfman's Titans a globe-spanning scale uncommon in superhero books of the period. Coming at the precise moment when George Pérez was no longer the series' interior artist, the issue also marks the consolidation of the Kerry Gammill/Romeo Tanghal creative partnership that would carry the book through the late-1980s stretch of Wolfman's run.
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Written by Marv Wolfman with interior pencils by Kerry Gammill and inks by Romeo Tanghal, the issue was edited by Len Wein with Nicola Cuti as assistant editor and Dick Giordano serving as managing editor and cover artist alongside Eduardo Barreto. It appeared at a demanding point in Wolfman's schedule: Wikipedia's Teen Titans entry notes that Paul Levitz stepped in to script or fully write issues #28–33 in order to give Wolfman breathing room after his workload on Crisis on Infinite Earths and History of the DC Universe caused him to fall behind — meaning #27 was among the last issues Wolfman delivered solo before that temporary handover. The Vol. 2 series had been launched in August 1984 as part of DC's 'hardcover/softcover' prestige initiative, published on higher-quality paper exclusively through comic specialty shops, with the same stories later reprinted in standard format through Tales of the Teen Titans.
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- Cover-dated January 1987; part of New Teen Titans Volume 2 (the DC direct-market prestige series launched August 1984), distinct from the concurrent Tales of the Teen Titans reprint title.
- Story title: 'The Brotherhood of Evil!' — written by Marv Wolfman, penciled by Kerry Gammill, inked by Romeo Tanghal, colored by Adrienne Roy, lettered by Albert DeGuzman; cover by Eduardo Barreto; executive editor Dick Giordano, editor Len Wein.
- Featured Titans roster includes Cyborg (Victor Stone), Changeling (Garfield Logan), Jericho (Joseph Wilson), Robin (Jason Todd — his first Robin, second Boy Wonder), Starfire (Koriand'r), and Wonder Girl (Donna Troy), reflecting the post-'Judas Contract' team configuration.
- Antagonists include the full Brotherhood of Evil line-up — the Brain, Monsieur Mallah (Warp/Jean-Louis Droo, Plasmus/Otto von Furth, Houngan/Emil LaSalle, Phobia/Angela Hawkins III) — alongside Church of Blood operatives including the Confessor; the story is set in Zandia, the Brotherhood's criminal island-nation sanctuary.
- Deathstroke (Slade Wilson) and Adeline Wilson appear in the issue, continuing the Wilson family threads Wolfman had been developing since Deathstroke's debut; both appear as illusions rather than in direct action within this chapter.
- The story was reprinted approximately one year later in Tales of the Teen Titans #87 (cover date March 1988), DC's lower-cost newsstand reprint companion to the Vol. 2 series.
- Subsequently collected in the New Teen Titans Archives Vol. 4 (2008), The New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 2 (2012), New Teen Titans Vol. 4 TPB (DC's 2014–2022 trade paperback line, collecting #21–27), and New Teen Titans Vol. 13 TPB (collecting #24–31 alongside Tales of the Teen Titans #84–88 and Annual #2).
- Issue #27 sits just before the creative handover documented by Wikipedia, in which Paul Levitz scripted or fully wrote #28–33 to relieve Wolfman, who had fallen behind due to his simultaneous work on Crisis on Infinite Earths and History of the DC Universe.
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The Teen Titans battle the Brotherhood of Evil in Zandia and Twister finds out the truth about what happened to her family.
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