The New Teen Titans #9 [Newsstand]
(July 1981)

DC, 1980 Series
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Volume
2
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981-04-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893122107
Editing
Len Wein (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #190.
This issue is a variant of The New Teen Titans (DC, 1980 series) #9 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

...Like Puppets on a String! (Table of Contents)

Teen Titans / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
George Pérez (signed as George Perez)
Inks
George Pérez (signed as George Perez)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Job Number
C-597
Genre
superhero
Characters
Teen Titans: Changeling [Garfield Logan]; Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Kid Flash [Wally West]; Raven [Rachel Roth]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Starfire [Koriand'r]; Wonder Girl
Donna Troy
Reprints
Keywords
puppets

Like Puppets on a String! (Table of Contents: 1)

Teen Titans / comic story / 25 pages (report information)

Script
George Pérez (credited) (plot); Marv Wolfman (credited) (plot, script)
Pencils
George Pérez (credited)
Inks
Romeo Tanghal (credited)
Colors
Adrienne Roy (credited)
Letters
Ben Oda (credited)

Job Number
J-7303
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Heart tripping wildly, Harold Appleton lunges toward the office door...
Feature Logo
The New Teen Titans [No 3-D effect]
Genre
superhero
Characters
Teen Titans: Changeling [Garfield Logan] (featured); Cyborg [Victor Stone] (featured); Kid Flash [Wally West] (featured); Raven [Rachel Roth] (featured); Robin [Dick Grayson] (featured); Starfire [Koriand'r] (featured); Wonder Girl (featured)
Deathstroke the Terminator [Slade Wilson] (cameo); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (flashback) (cameo); Terry Long; Puppeteer [Jordan Weir] (villain); Vernon Questor; Sarah Simms; Donna Troy; H.I.V.E. (villain); Harold Appleton; Jeremy Thornton
Synopsis
The Puppeteer attacks the Titans while trying to steal the plans for the Promethium Project from Dayton Industries. The Titans stop the Puppeteer but the Terminator slips in and steals the plans in all the confusion.
Reprints
Keywords
East Hampton; Long Island

Gold for Dessert (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Twinkies; Plastic Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Titans' Tower / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Marv Wolfman
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-766
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Dear Marv and George; There are several things I enjoy about the new Titans, but I'd like to point out just one of them.
Feature Logo
Titans' Tower

Indexer Notes

Includes letters from Michael Burkhalter, Jeff DeMos, Bill Henley Jr. and Gary Thompson.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Jox shoes / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ...Like Puppets on a String!
    Teen Titans
  2. 1. Like Puppets on a String!
    Teen Titans
  3. 2. Gold for Dessert
    Hostess Twinkies; Plastic Man
  4. 3. ["Dear Marv and George; There are several things I enjoy about the new Titans, but I'd like to point out just one of them."]
    Titans' Tower
  5. 4. ["Radical!"]
    Jox shoes
This issue was modified by
  • Katie
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Steven Samuels
  • Jim Van Dore