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Shortly after the Justice League debuted in 1960, the sidekicks formed their own team: The Teen Titans. Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash first partnered up in the pages of The Brave and the Bold #54 (1964), written by Bob Haney and illustrated by Bruno Premiani. This team-up was successful, and they reunited five issues later, this time with Wonder Girl and a name for the group: The Teen Titans. Following another adventure in Showcase #59, the Teen Titans finally got their own title.

Soon enough, the team’s ranks were expanded to include Speedy (Roy Harper), Aquagirl (Tula), Bumblebee (Karen Beecher), Hawk (Hank Hall) and Dove (Donna Hall), Harlequin (Duela Dent) and three non-costumed heroes: boxer Mace (Mal Duncan), psychic Lilith and caveman Gnarrk.

But success really knocked at their door in the 1980s with the revival titled The New Teen Titans, with the now classic run by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. The group became more adult and independent while still maintaining their status as teenagers. New characters were introduced: Cyborg (Victor Stone), Starfire (Koriand’r) and Raven (Rachel Roth), as well as Beast Boy (Garfield Logan), a former member of the Doom Patrol. The team also produced one of their most critically and commercially successful storylines with The Judas Contract. In short, the New Teen Titans set the standard for all subsequent Teen Titans/Titans runs.

Over the years, the Titans have become one of DC’s most popular teams, with many of their young heroes becoming iconic in their own right. Discover the team’s entire history with our Complete Teen Titans Reading Guide, filled with romance, betrayal, death, and many other challenges.

Teen Titans Reading Order, The Complete Guide

Read all the Teen Titans adventures or discover their most iconic stories with our Teen Titans Reading guide, taking you from the swinging ’60s to the present, including the classic Marv Wolfman and George Pérez run, the modern run by Geoff Johns, and the popular run by Dan Abnett, and more.

While you’ll find some spin-off series, limited or miniseries with some classic Titans members in the guide, some of them have had a bigger superhero career than others outside of the group and have also their own reading guide. So for more stories: 

Silver & Bronze Age Teen Titans (1966-1978)

The young heroes-in-training unite and form their own team: the Teen Titans! This “junior” Justice League came together to help other young people and fight evil wherever they found it and all their Silver Age and Bronze Age adventures have been collected by DC Comics in the Omnibus format: 

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The Teen Titans Alternate Origin Stories

  • Teen Titans: Year One (2006) – From writer Amy Wolfram and artists Karl Kerschl and Serge LaPointe comes an early tale of the teenage super-team battling criminals, crushes, and celebrity to become the heroes of the next generation. Collects the entire six-issue miniseries.
  • World’s Finest: Teen Titans (2023) – From Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino, this spin-off of the Batman/Superman: World’s Finest series delivers a modern retelling of the early adventures of the original Teen Titans. Collects World’s Finest: Teen Titans #1-6.

The New Teen Titans (1980-1996)

Your Classic Starting Point! Marv Wolfman and George Pérez’s run introduced a timeless version team and defined the Teen Titans franchise for decades to come. It was DC’s flagship book of the 80s, which saw the introduction of classic characters such as Starfire, Raven and Cyborg. It also featured Dick Grayson’s transition from Nightwing, the backstory of Deathstroke in the classic story arc “The Judas Contract”, and much, much more.

ℹ️ The first 27 issues of The New Teen Titans have also been reprinted in the now-cancelled DC Archives hardcover series (4 volumes).

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DC Finest: Teen Titans 

DC Comics has started releasing this era of the Teen Titans in its DC Finest collection. This is just the start, with more volumes to follow, which will officially replace the old trade paperback editions.

  • DC Finest: Teen Titans – Terra in the Night! (1982-1983) [2026]
    Collects The New Teen Titans #21–32; The New Teen Titans Annual #1; Tales of the New Teen Titans #1–4; The New Teen Titans (Drug Awareness) #1–3; and Action Comics #536.
  • DC Finest: Teen Titans The Judas Contract (1983-1984)
    Collects stories from Action Comics #546; World’s Finest Comics #300; The New Teen Titans #33-40; The New Teen Titans Annual #2; Tales of the Teen Titans #41-47; Tales of the Teen Titans Annual #3; The Vigilante #3; and more.

With the 50th issue and the temporary return of Pérez to the title, the series was renamed The New Titans, dropping the ‘Teen’ prefix as the characters were no longer teenagers. This is also a new era for the team, set in the aftermath of The Judas Contract and the explosive events that reshaped the original Teen Titans. From the origin of Wonder Girl and Dick Grayson to the introduction of new villains, the return of Deathstroke, new team members, the death of the Titans, and more… This is the last part of the classic Marv Wolfman’s Titans run.

For a long time, this period was only available digitally. This is about to change with the imminent release of an Omnibus collecting the first part of this era.

  • The New Titans Omnibus Vol. 1 [2026]
    Collects The New Titans #50-70, The New Titans Annual #5-6, Batman #436-442, Hawk & Dove #11-12, Hawk & Dove Annual #1, Secret Origins Annual #3, Wonder Woman #47-48, a story from Secret Origins #46, and pages from Wonder Woman #22-23.

  • The New Titans (1984-1996) #71-130
    While we wait for Volume 2, those issues are available on Kindle or DC Universe Infinite.

    • The New Titans #81 is part of War of the Gods.
    • The New Titans Annual #7 is part of Armageddon 2001.
    • The New Titans Annual #8 is part of Eclipso: The Darkness Within.
    • Titans: Total Chaos (Collects New Titans #90-92, Deathstroke, the Terminator #14-16 and Team Titans #1-3)
    • The New Titans Annual #9 is part of Bloodlines: Outbreak.
    • The New Titans#0 is part of Zero Hour (see below).
    • The New Titans #116-117 are collected in Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner

Team Titans LogoFirst introduced in New Titans #79, the Team Titans were initially presented as a shadowy group stalking the Titans, before their backstory was revealed in New Titans Annual #7. This spin-off series focuses on a team of Titans from a dystopian future who travel back in time to prevent their timeline from happening. Marv Wolfman wrote the first 12 issues, but chose to leave to focus on his other two titles: New Titans and Deathstroke. Jeff Jensen and Phil Jimenez then took over writing duties until the series was cancelled.

The possible future of the Team Titans was destroyed in the events of Zero Hour.

Zero Hour DC Event Comic Reading Order

Zero Hour! When a mysterious force of entropy begins slowly erasing time itself, all of reality comes under attack! As history unravels around them, heroes from across the globe, including the Titans, race to repair the damaged timestream. However, even if they stop the source of the chaos, the world they save will never be the same.

While not one of the more famous crises, this one also changed the DC Universe, as it ended in a reboot for some parts of the continuity, impacting the Titans and Team Titans.

  • Zero Hour: Crisis in Time Omnibus
    Collects Action Comics #703, Adventures of Superman #516, Anima #7, Batman #511, Batman: Shadow of the Bat #31, Catwoman #14, Damage #6, Darkstars #24, Detective Comics #678, The Flash #0 and #94, Green Arrow #90, Green Lantern #0 and #55, Guy Gardner: Warrior #24, Hawkman #13, Justice League America #92, Justice League International #68, Justice League Task Force #16, L.E.G.I.O.N. ’94 #70, Legionnaires #18, Legion of Super-Heroes #61, Outsiders #11, Robin #10, Steel #8, Superboy #8, Superman #93, Superman: Man of Steel #37, Team Titans #24, Valor #23, Zero Hour #4-0, and stories from Showcase ’94 #8-10, along with a foreword by Dan Jurgens, afterword by series editor KC Carlson, the Zero Month Sampler, and an extensive gallery of promotional and behind-the-scenes material.

    • Recently reprinted in two DC Finest Volumes: 
      DC Finest: Events – Zero Hour: Part One        (Superman (1987) #93, The Flash (1987) #94, L.E.G.I.O.N. #70, Green Lantern (1990) #55, Super-Man: The Man Of Steel (1991) #37, Team Titans #24, The Darkstars #24, Valor #23, Batman (1940) #511, Batman: Shadow Of The Bat #31, Detective Comics (1939) #678, Legionnaires #18, Hawkman (1994) #13, Showcase ‘94 #8-9, Steel #8, Superboy (1994) #8, Outsiders #11, and Zero Hour: Crisis In Time #3-4.)
      DC Finest: Events – Zero Hour: Part Two       (The Flash #0; Green Arrow #90; Adventures of Superman #516; Justice League America #92; Action Comics #703; Justice League International #68; Legion of Super-Heroes #61; Green Lantern #0; Superman: The Man of Steel #0; Guy Gardner: Warrior #24; Justice League Task Force #16; Catwoman #14; Robin #10; Showcase ’94 #10; Damage #0, #6; Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #0-2; Anima #7.)

A New Team of Teen Titans (1996-1998)

Under the creative guidance of Dan Jurgens, a new iteration of the Teen Titans has formed. But can this group live up to the legacy of their predecessors? The Atom, who was de-aged following the events of Zero Hour and is now a teenager, must lead the group consisting of Prysm, Joto, Risk and Argent. They are joined halfway through by Arsenal as a mentor and Captain Marvel. 

Around the same time, Tempest became the star of his own title for a 4-issue limited series by Phil Jimenez.

  • Teen Titans (1996) #1-24 & Annual #1
    Available on Kindle and DC Infinite Universe

    • Teen Titans #13 is part of Genesis
    • Teen Titans #19 is part of Behold! The Millennium Giants!
  • Aquaman: Tempest
    Collects Tempest#1-4, Teen Titans Spotlight #10 and 18 and Showcase ’96 #1

Following poor sales, Teen Titans was cancelled. The team made its return in a 3-issue miniseries under the Titans name and with the more classic lineup of Nightwing, Troia, Arsenal, Tempest, the Flash, Cyborg, Changeling, Damage and Argent, joined by new member Jesse Quick. This led to Titans, written by Devin K. Grayson that lasted until issue #50. Once again, this period has not been collected by DC Comics yet. 

Young Justice Logo (Reading Order)The Teen Titans have grown up to become the Titans. They were no longer a teen team of superheroes… until Young Justice! The team was founded by Robin (Tim Drake), Superboy (Kon-El), and Impulse (Bart Allen), and quickly became a beacon for the young superheroes in the DC Universe.

  • Young Justice Omnibus Vol. 1
    Collects Young Justice #1-19; Young Justice #1,000,000; JLA: World Without Grown-Ups #1-2; Young Justice: The Secret #1; Young Justice Secret Files #1; Secret Origins 80-Page Giant #1; Young Justice in No Man’s Land #1; Supergirl #36-37; Superboy #74; Young Justice:, Sins of Youth #1-2; Sins of Youth Secret Files #1; Sins of Youth: JLA Jr. #1; Sins of Youth: Aquaboy/Lagoon Man #1; Sins of Youth: Batboy and Robin #1; Sins of Youth: Kid Flash/Impulse #1; Sins of Youth: Starwoman and the JSA #1; Sins of Youth: Superman Jr./Superboy Sr. #1; Sins of Youth: Wonder Girls #1; and Sins of Youth: The Secret/Deadboy #1.
  • Young Justice Omnibus Vol. 2 [2026]
    Collects Young Justice #20-55; Robin #101; Superboy #91 and #99; Impulse #78 and #85; Secret Files & Origins Guide to DCU 2000 #1; Young Justice: Our Worlds at War #1; JLA/JSA Secret Files #1; Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day #1-3.

ℹ️ For more information and other collections, check out our Young Justice Guide. 

Teen Titans by Geoff Johns, Judd Winick and others (2003-2011)

Modern Starting Point! Spinning out of the Graduation Day storyline is a new popular era for the Teen Titans, written by Geoff Johns (at the same time he was redefining Green Lantern). Impulse, Robin, Superboy, and Wonder Girl are the newest recruits for the group, joining classic members Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven for a plot-driven and heavy continuity run.

  • Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Compendium One [2026]
    Collects Beast Boy #1-4, Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day #1-3, Teen Titans/Outsiders: Secret Files #1, Teen Titans (vol. 3) #1/2 and #1-31, Teen Titans/Legion Special #1, Outsiders (vol. 3) #24-25, DC Special: Return of Donna Troy #1-4, Supergirl (vol. 5) #2-3, and a story from Legends of the DC Universe 80-Page Giant #1; and pages from Supergirl #1 and #4. 

Infinite Crisis Logo Reading Order

Infinite Crisis! OMAC robots are rampaging, magic is dying, villains are uniting, and a war is raging in space. And in the middle of it all, a critical moment has divided Earth’s three greatest heroes: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. This is the Infinite Crisis event written by Geoff Johns. The writer naturally put the Titans front and center during this event that will lead to a tragedy… For the full story, check out our Infinite Crisis reading order

ℹ️ The event has also been reprinted in the hard to find at the moment Infinite Crisis Omnibus.

Launched at the same time that the new Teen Titans comic was the companion series Outsiders written by Judd Winick. After the Titans disbanded in Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, Arsenal and Nightwing started their own team that included at first Grace, Indigo, Metamorpho, Thunder, and Jade. Dick chose to call the team Outsiders, establishing the team as super-villain hunters.

ℹ️ The first Outsiders team was founded by Batman. For more information, check out our Outsiders Guide. 

Geoff Johns concludes his run on the Teen Titans. He was succeeded by Sean McKeever (#51-71), Bryan Q. Miller (#72-74), Felicia D. Henderson (#75-76, #79-87), and J.T. Krul (#77-78, #88-100). During this time, Wonder Girl goes solo for an action-packed 6-issue miniseries written by J. Torres and pencilled by Sanford Greene and Nathan Massengill.

Following the conclusion of The Outsiders, a new ongoing Titans series was launched, with Judd Winick at the helm for the first ten issues. The series featured a classic line-up of characters, including Nightwing, Starfire, Donna Troy, Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven, who worked together to stop a series of attacks on former and current Titans members.

The team’s rebuilding process is put to the test several times after that, a challenge made more difficult by the DC Universe’s involvement in one of the era’s biggest events, Geoff Johns’ Blackest Night.

Deathstroke’s Titans! Following the events of Blackest Night came Brightest Day, which dealt with the resurrection of twelve heroes and villains. Among them was Osiris, who joined Deathstroke’s new team of mercenaries, which also included Cheshire, the Tattooed Man, and others. 

New 52 Teen Titans (2011-2016)

The DC Universe was rebooted following the events of Flashpoint for the grittier, darker New 52 era, with Scott Lobdell as writer and Brett Booth at the art. All of the history of the previous Titans was erased. This new, first iteration of the group consisted of Red Robin, Kid Flash, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Solstice, Bunker and Skitter. New members would join along the way, such as Beast Boy and Raven. The deconstruction of the Teen Titans during this period was not well received, to say the least, and this is widely considered to be one of the worst Teen Titans runs. 

Rise of the Ravagers is a crossover story between Teen Titans, Legion Lost, and Superboy, putting everyone in a deadly arena where young teen metahumans must fight each other to the death for survival. But can they defeat the teen death squad known as The Ravagers?

  • The Culling: Rise of the Ravagers
    Collects, in reading order Superboy #8, Legion Lost #8, Teen Titans #8, Teen Titans Annual #1, Superboy #9 ,Legion Lost #9 , andTeen Titans #9

Spinning directly out of this crossover was the Ravagers series, which ran for 10 issues and featured Beast Boy, Terra, and Caitlin Fairchild of Gen13 in major roles. 

The events of Ravagers are ignored in the next Teen Titans relaunch.

The Teen Titans were relaunched with Will Pfeifer as the main writer, although the title is a mostly direct continuation of Lobdell’s run – except that it ignores the events of the Ravagers spin-off. The team is joined by Tanya Spears, who took on the mantle of Power Girl following Karen Starr’s return to Earth 2.

During this era, Arsenal and Starfire were teaming up with Red Hood in Scott Lobdell’s Red Hood and The Outlaws (not specifically recommended either). Then, Starfire struck out on her own for a light-hearted, self-contained solo title created by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti.

The removal of previous incarnations of the Titans from this timeline was widely criticised and had a negative impact on some of the older Teen Titans characters. DC began to rectify this in the Titans Hunt miniseries, which restored the original 1960s version of the Titans to the canon and paved the way for the next era.

  • Titans Hunt
    Collects Titans Hunt #1-8, Justice League #51, And Titans Rebirth #1. A miniseries setting the stage for the new Titans’ era.

Rebirth Teen Titans (2016-2021)

Five years later, DC Comics decided to restore the DC Universe to a form closer to the pre-Flashpoint era with the Rebirth relaunch. This marked the return of Wally West to the main continuity. The speedster reunited with his friends and teammates, including Nightwing, Lilith, Arsenal, Donna Troy, Bumblebee and Tempest, in a new, popular Titans series written by Dan Abnett.

At the same time, a second Titans title was published, written by Benjamin Percy. This ‘teen’ version was led by Damian Wayne, who recruited Ace West as Kid Flash, Jackson Hyde as Aqualad, and Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven.

The Lazarus Contract! Slade Wilson has discovered that the original Wally West has returned and sees this as an opportunity to resurrect his son, Grant. This led us to this crossover story featuring the Titans, the Teen Titans, and Deathstroke. While the title is a nod to the classic New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract storyline, the parallel stops there.

Batman who laughs Icon Reading Order

Batman discovered a dark multiverse beneath the core DC multiverse, which gives us Dark Nights: Metal, the Start of the Dark Multiverse Saga. While Titans members naturally appears during the events and tie-ins, they are mostly background or muscle characters. You’ll still find the Teen Titans tie-in in the Resistance collection, as more of a “monster of the week” filler than anything else. 

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Teen Titans by Kami Garcia and Gabriel Piccolo (2019-2026)

As part of their DC Graphic Novels for Young Adults imprint (formerly called DC Ink), DC Comics published Kami Garcia and Gabriel Piccolo’s Teen Titans graphic novel series. The story takes place in an alternate reality (Earth 100) where the Teen Titans are new and just now coming together: 

Teen Titans: Raven | Teen Titans: Beast Boy | Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven | Teen Titans: Robin | Teen Titans: Starfire | Teen Titans: Together [2026]

In the aftermath of Dark Nights: Metal, a new era started for the Justice League and the Titans as the recent events launched the superheroes in a new direction. 

Unfortunately, Damian Wayne was not making the best decisions. Convinced that traditional methods of fighting crime were no longer effective, he assembled a new team to try a different approach in Adam Glass’s run on the Teen Titans.

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Originally published in the Walmart-exclusive titles Teen Titans Giant #1-7 and Titans Giants #1-7, Dan Jurgens’s ‘Burning Rage’ story has no serious continuity ties, but features a back-to-basics approach with Tim Drake as Robin and a roster closer to that of the Teen Titans cartoon team.

Teen Titans Infinite Frontier/Dawn of DC (2021-2024)

Before the start of a new era, DC explored a possible future with Future State, which introduced Red X, a character originally created for the Teen Titans TV series. This story acts as a teaser for the next comic, Teen Titans Academy, , in which the original New Teen Titans have reunited to establish the Titans Academy. There, they will train the next generation of superpowered teenagers… if they can survive the rigorous training programme, that is!

Concurrently, DC delivered an adjacent story inspired by the live-action TV show Titans lineup but using comic continuity:

Then the DC Universe was hit by the events of Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths and Lazarus Planet, which brought the Infinite Frontier era to a close and paved the way for the Dawn of DC. Following the Justice League’s extended hiatus after these events, the Titans, led by Nightwing, briefly became the DC Universe’s main superhero team. To mark the occasion, the group relocated to Blüdhaven, where Dick Grayson lives, with Tom Taylor serving as the main writer on both books.

For a more detailed look at this era (and a few more stories)…

Horror devastates the DC Universe! Heroes and villains are stuck in the Nightmare Realm during the Knight Terrors event, where the Titans face a fever dream turned reality in the form of the Terror Titans!

Beast World, a Titans event! The world is in peril, and it seems that the only superhero who can save it is… Beast Boy! But that’s just the beginning, as things take a turn for the worse, transforming all-powerful heroes and villains into ferocious beasts! For an issue-by-issue reading order, check out our Titans: Beast World guide.

  • Titans: Beast World
    Collects Titans: Beast World #1-6 and Titans (2023) #6-7. 
  • Titans: Beast World Tour
    Collects Titans: Beast World: Waller Rising #1, Titans: Beast World Tour: Metropolis #1, Titans: Beast World Tour: Gotham #1, Titans: Beast World Tour: Central City #1, Titans: Beast World Tour: Atlantis #1, Titans: Beast World Tour: Star City #1, And Stories From Nightwing (2016) #109-110 And Action Comics #1060.
  • Titans Vol. 2: The Dark-Winged Queen
    Collects Titans (2023) #8-15. This is the end of Tom Taylor’s run.

Titans: Beast World was part of a series of events where Amanda Waller manipulated and took advantage of the crisis in the shadows! It all came to an end with Absolute Power where Waller found a way to neutralize the ability of every metahuman around the world. But the superhero community will not go down without fighting in this event, concluding the Dawn of DC era. 

Titans All In (2024-Present)

After the events of Absolute Power, John Layman and Pete Woods became the main creative team for the Titans as the team looks towards the future and their place in it. This also brings about some changes, with Wally West leaving the team and Nightwing stepping down as leader, with Donna Troy succeeding him.

Last stand against the power of Apokolips! As heroes and villains, including Cyborg, enter a tournament to confront Darkseid and save the Earth, the rest of the Titans lead a global evacuation of the planet and face new dangers in other worlds. Their story runs parallel to the main event, so you can actually read most of it independantly for the rest. We recommend taking a look at our DC K.O. Reading Guide for those who want the full story and more details. 

After the recent events, writer Tate Brombal and artist Sami Basri gather a new team of Titans for a new run that has recently started…

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Published under the DC GO! imprint, which exclusively publishes webcomics on the DC Universe Infinite service, Renaissance of Raven is the work of Sina Grace and Nico Bascuñán that sees Raven centuries into the past to the forgotten kingdom of Galonia. 

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