Editing Teen Titans (section)

====''The New Teen Titans'' (vol. 2)====
The ''New Teen Titans'' relaunched with a new #1 issue in August 1984<ref>Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 209: "As one of DC's most popular team books, ''The New Teen Titans'' was a natural choice to receive the deluxe paper quality and higher price point of the new Baxter format. With the regular newsstand title having already changed its name to ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' with issue #41, the path was clear for a new comic to once again be titled ''The New Teen Titans''. Featuring the trademark writing of Marv Wolfman and the art of George Pérez, this second incarnation was a success from the start, providing readers with the perfect blend of high-quality paper with high-quality storytelling."</ref> as part of a new initiative at DC informally referred to as "hardcover/softcover". ''The New Teen Titans'' along with ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' and ''Batman and the Outsiders'' were the first and only titles included in this program. The same stories were published twice, first in a more expensive edition with higher-quality printing and paper distributed exclusively to comic book specialty stores, then republished a year later in the original format, distributed to newsstands. The title was renamed ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' with issue #41, while a new concurrently published series named ''The New Teen Titans'' (vol. 2) launched with a new #1 following the release of ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' #44 and ''Annual'' #3, the conclusion of the "Judas Contract" storyline. After both titles ran new stories for one year, with ''Tales of the Teen Titans'' #45–58 taking place prior to the events of ''The New Teen Titans'' (vol. 2) #1, and a filler issue reprinting a digest-only story and the original preview story from ''DC Comics Presents'' #26, the series began reprinting the first 31 issues of the "hardcover" series (sans several back-up stories focusing on Tamaran that ran in ''New Teen Titans'' #14–18), the first ''Annual'', and the lead story from the second ''Annual'', before being cancelled with issue #91.

Issue #1 of ''The New Teen Titans'' (vol. 2) created controversy when Grayson and Starfire were depicted in bed together, although it had been established for some time that they were a couple. The initial storyline, "The Terror of Trigon",<ref>{{cite comic| writer= Wolfman, Marv| penciller= Pérez, George| inker= Pérez, George| story= Shadows in the Dark!| title= The New Teen Titans| volume= 2| issue= #1| date= August 1984}}<br />{{cite comic| writer= Wolfman, Marv| penciller= Pérez, George| inker= Pérez, George| story= The Search for Raven| title= The New Teen Titans| volume= 2| issue= #2| date= October 1984}}<br />{{cite comic| writer= Wolfman, Marv| penciller= Pérez, George| inker= Tanghal, Romeo| story= Souls as White as Heaven...| title= The New Teen Titans| volume= 2| issue= #3| date= November 1984}}<br />{{cite comic| writer= Wolfman, Marv| penciller= Pérez, George| inker= Tanghal, Romeo| story= --Torment!| title= The New Teen Titans| volume= 2| issue= #4| date= January 1985}}<br />{{cite comic| writer= Wolfman, Marv| penciller= Pérez, George| inker= Tanghal, Romeo| story= The Terror of Trigon!| title= The New Teen Titans| volume= 2| issue= #5| date= February 1985}}</ref> featured Raven's demon father attempting to take over Earth and Raven's own struggle to remain good despite Trigon's demonic blood inside her. Pérez left the series after issue #5.<ref>{{Cite journal | title=George Pérez signs contract with DC, Takes leave of absence from ''Titans'' | journal=The Comics Journal | issue=#92 | date=August 1984 | page=16}}</ref> [[José Luis García-López]] followed Pérez as the title's artist and [[Eduardo Barreto]] followed García-López. [[Paul Levitz]] scripted or fully wrote issues #28–33 to give Wolfman time to catch up on his writing after he fell behind by taking on ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'' and ''[[History of the DC Universe]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=New Writers on Titans |magazine=[[Comics Feature]] |issue=51 |date=January 1987 |publisher=Movieland Publishing |page=5}}</ref>