Tiny Titans #38
Tiny Titans #38 is a dense showcase for the series' beloved Atlantis/underwater corner of the DC universe, pulling together Aquagirl's rival 'Underwater Titans' team, Aqualad, Lagoon Boy, Lagoon Girl, Aquababy, and a Starro-driven pet-club disaster into a single issue. It features the continued development of Aquacow as a key member of the League of Just Us Cows — the series' ongoing parody Justice League made up of bovine counterparts to DC heroes — alongside supporting marine characters like Jeremy the Jellyfish, Steve the Seahorse, Jimmy the Mussel, and Topo. The issue appeared during the same calendar year the series won its second Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids, placing it at the creative peak of Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani's run. Characters and concepts first invented in Tiny Titans — most famously Bat-Cow — later crossed over into mainstream DC continuity, making this issue part of a body of work with genuine influence on the broader DC universe.
In Tiny Titans #38, a lighthearted underwater mishap unfolds when Mera asks Aqualad to check on Aquababy—only for Aquagirl to point out the obvious: everyone’s pants are already soaked. Written and illustrated entirely by Art Baltazar, this playful chapter captures the series’ signature charm with its simple, silly premise and expressive, cartoonish style, all wrapped in a cover by Baltazar that perfectly matches the tone.
In a playful underwater moment from Tiny Titans #38, Mera asks Aqualad to check on Aquababy, only for Aquagirl to gently point out the shared predicament—everyone’s pants are soaked, making the whole situation a little too relatable to be taken seriously.
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Tiny Titans was conceived and executed entirely by the team of writer Franco Aureliani and writer/artist Art Baltazar, published under DC's all-ages Johnny DC imprint beginning in February 2008. The series ran fifty issues and was never handed off to a different creative team, making every issue — including #38 — a direct product of the same two creators from start to finish. Issue #38 sits in the mid-to-late run of the series, roughly two-thirds of the way through its lifespan before concluding with #50 in early 2012, and reflects the period when Baltazar and Franco had fully established the series' recurring comedic institutions like the Pet Club and the League of Just Us Cows.
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- Published March 16, 2011 by DC Comics under the Johnny DC all-ages imprint; part of Volume 1 of the Tiny Titans ongoing series (2008–2012).
- Written and drawn by Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani, who served as the sole creative team for all 50 issues of the series.
- The issue's central storyline involves Aquagirl's rival 'Underwater Titans' team in Atlantis, to which Aqualad and Lagoon Boy are recruited; Star-Spangled Kid's pet-club pets are revealed to be Starro's mind-controlling spores, which take over the Underwater Titans — with Aqualad and Lagoon Boy narrowly escaping.
- Aquacow — the aquatic cow member of the League of Just Us Cows and pet of Aquagirl — appears in this issue as part of the underwater storyline; she is among the series' original bovine creations alongside Bat-Cow and Flaming Head Cow.
- The issue features an unusually large cast of Aquaman-family characters: Aquaman, Mera, Aqualad (Garth), Aquababy (Arthur Curry Jr.), Aquagirl, Lagoon Boy, Lagoon Girl, Topo, Steve the Seahorse, Jimmy the Mussel, and Jeremy the Jellyfish.
- Lagoon Girl and Aquagirl are established in the Tiny Titans universe as female counterparts to Lagoon Boy and Aqualad respectively — original character concepts unique to the series.
- Tiny Titans won the Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids in both 2009 and 2011, making issue #38 part of the Eisner-winning run.
- Bat-Cow, who also appears in this issue as part of the League of Just Us Cows, was later adapted into mainstream DC continuity by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham in Batman Incorporated Vol. 2 #1 (2012) — one of the most direct examples of a Tiny Titans invention crossing into the main DCU.
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Reprinted in Tiny Titans: The Treehouse and Beyond! #[nn] (2012)
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