There comes a time when it is time to put away the items of childhood and become grown adults in our own rights.  For Robin, the Boy Wonder, created in 1940, his puberty and subsequent adolescence had lasted until this comic book.  His contemporary, Kid Flash, created in 1959 joins Robin as the two former kid sidekicks divest themselves of their previous identities and become men.

In this rather short tale it starts out with the Titans raiding a hideout of Brother Blood’s only again to wind up looking as if they are the bad guys when they know Brother Blood’s sect is planning some deviltry, to come to pass in the next story actually.

As the Titans return home they reconvene at Titans tower except Kid Flash becomes the first Titan to reveal his secret identity to Terra as he gains entry to Titans Tower in civilian clothing.  Explaining that his powers seem to be hurting him when he uses them, his confusion over Raven’s manipulations of his emotions, and stating he wants to finish college, Wally leaves the Titans his Kid Flash ring and claims that Terra should take his place on the team.

It is at this point that Robin makes a surprise announcement as well.  He has donned the costume of Robin for the last time.  The Titans assume he is quitting his adventuring days as well and Robin.. I mean Dick Grayson, now corrects them.  He wants to spend some time figuring out who he is and what new identity he will have.  Until such time as he makes his costumed return he nominates Wonder Girl for field leader.

At the end of the issue, Frances Kane is there to drive Wally back to Blue Valley and Dick Grayson wishes him well.

 

You have to love a super villain who takes his hot tubbing this seriously.

There is no time to rest however as the Titans find themselves embroiled in a plot of Brother Blood’s making as Dick Grayson goes undercover in the Church of Blood only to be discovered and brainwashed by Brother Blood and after nearly killing the Titans several times (with Terra to provide the timely save, of course), the Titans return home to lick their wounds, believing Brother Blood to be dead, again…..

Little do they know what is waiting for them is a story that will go down as not only one of the best in Titans’ history, but in the history of comics itself.

That sweet little new member of theirs, Terra.. the one who keeps saving them, time and time again?

Yeah.. that won’t go bad for them, now will it?

Next Up:  The Judas Contract!