New Titans Annual #6

Availability

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Details

Publisher

DC Comics

Cover date

Sep 1990

Format

Comic

Pages

64

Key

1st app. Trinity

Credits

writer

Marv Wolfman

penciller

Tom Grindberg, Paris Cullins, Curt Swan

inker

Al Vey

colorist

Adrienne Roy

letterer

Harvey Kworkman, John E. Workman Jr.

artist

Curt Swan

editor

Jonathan Peterson

Story

Karras’ sister Xyannis and her lover Zorgan are shown as wanton criminals. A flashback reveals the tragic past of Xyannis: At the time that Koriand’r was taken into slavery by the Citadel, Tharras and Salja were also supposed to send their eldest daughter, Xyannis. However, King Tharras refused to comply with the order, and instead told the Citadelians that Xyannis had died during the attack by the Citadel on Tamaran. Instead, he put her in stasis and sent her into space so she could escape slavery. Everyone thought she had died, including her brother, Karras. As fate would have it, Xyannis nonetheless was found and put into slavery. In fact, she was bought and sold 17 times. Then, she came upon a new master, Zorgan, who had observed her powers of flight. He then set out to successfully win her in a gambling match from her current owner. Using his knowledge and her powers, they set out on a crime spree. Back in the present, Xyannis Zorgan flee the authorities and travel to Tamaran, where they claim innocence and manipulate the Tamaraneans into doing their fighting for them. Arriving on Tamaran, Xyannis is reunited with her brother, Karras, who is acting as advisor to Queen Komand’r. Back on earth, The Titans battle the Society of Sin (formerly the Brotherhood of Evil), with their new member, Trinity. Following that, Queen Komand’r. summons her sister, Starfire to return to Tamaran to aid them. The Titans oblige and Starfire is reunited with her family and estranged husband, Karras. The Titans and Tamaraneans are able to defeat the posse sent to bring in Xyannis and Zorgan. But Karras deduces the truth and learns they had all been played for fools. The Titans and Karras track down Xyannis and Zorgan to their planet. They had already enacted the second phase of their plan: they planted bombs all over the planet and threatened to detonate them unless they were given absolute power as leaders of the world. Karras fights his sister, but refuses to kill her. Her lover Zorgan kills her as she is about to reveal the locations of the remaining bombs. In a heated confrontation, both Karras and Zorgan are mortally wounded. Raven is able to use her powers to divine the locations of the remaining bombs before Zorgan dies. As Karras lay dying, he bids a tearful good-bye to Starfire and his love, Taryia. Later, Taryia reveals that she is pregnant with Karras’s child and that his bloodline would continue.

Characters

Nightwing (Richard 'Dick' Grayson) · Cyborg (Victor Stone) · Starfire (Koriand'r / Kory Anders)