Teen Titans: Year One (New Edition)

Illustrated by Karl Kerschl
Paperback
$16.99 US
On sale Mar 12, 2024 | 144 Pages | 9781779525727

The famed Teen Titans overcome their teenage awkwardness as they become the super heroes they're meant to be in this pivotal origin story of the team!

When the fabled heroes of the Justice League of America begin behaving worse than villains, can their young trainees--Aqualad, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Kid Flash, and Robin--set things right? From writer Amy Wolfram (Teen Titans animated series) and artists Karl Kerschl (Adventures of Superman) and Serge LaPointe (Batman Begins) 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.
Amy Wolfram is an Emmy-nominated writer for television, movies, and comic books. She is super excited to be writing DC Super Hero Girls graphic novels! If she had to pick a favorite Super Hero Girl--she'd pick them all! Best known for writing for Teen Titans for both television (Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!) and comics (Teen Titans: Year One, Teen Titans Go!), Amy has also had fun writing for many of her favorite characters; Barbie, Stuart Little, Ben 10, Thunderbirds Are Go, and Scooby-Doo. When she's not busy writing she enjoys crafting and quilting.

Karl Kerschl has been drawing comics professionally since the age of eighteen. He has worked on a number of titles for Marvel and DC Comics, including Superman, The Flash, Deadpool, Spider-Man, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman and co-created the YA series Gotham Academy.
He is currently hard at work on the Eisner-Nominated fantasy-adventure series ISOLA, which he co-created with his friend Brenden Fletcher and is published by Image Comics.
His ongoing webcomic, The Abominable Charles Christopher, won the Eisner Award for best webcomic in 2011.
He lives in Montréal with his family but is proud to have grown up in Welland, Ontario.

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The famed Teen Titans overcome their teenage awkwardness as they become the super heroes they're meant to be in this pivotal origin story of the team!

When the fabled heroes of the Justice League of America begin behaving worse than villains, can their young trainees--Aqualad, Wonder Girl, Speedy, Kid Flash, and Robin--set things right? From writer Amy Wolfram (Teen Titans animated series) and artists Karl Kerschl (Adventures of Superman) and Serge LaPointe (Batman Begins) 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.

Author

Amy Wolfram is an Emmy-nominated writer for television, movies, and comic books. She is super excited to be writing DC Super Hero Girls graphic novels! If she had to pick a favorite Super Hero Girl--she'd pick them all! Best known for writing for Teen Titans for both television (Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!) and comics (Teen Titans: Year One, Teen Titans Go!), Amy has also had fun writing for many of her favorite characters; Barbie, Stuart Little, Ben 10, Thunderbirds Are Go, and Scooby-Doo. When she's not busy writing she enjoys crafting and quilting.

Karl Kerschl has been drawing comics professionally since the age of eighteen. He has worked on a number of titles for Marvel and DC Comics, including Superman, The Flash, Deadpool, Spider-Man, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman and co-created the YA series Gotham Academy.
He is currently hard at work on the Eisner-Nominated fantasy-adventure series ISOLA, which he co-created with his friend Brenden Fletcher and is published by Image Comics.
His ongoing webcomic, The Abominable Charles Christopher, won the Eisner Award for best webcomic in 2011.
He lives in Montréal with his family but is proud to have grown up in Welland, Ontario.

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