Tales of the Teen Titans #44

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  Page quality

  WHITE

  Label

  Universal

  Graded

  2021-10-07

  Key comments

  Dick Grayson becomes Nightwing. 1st appearance of Jericho. Origin of Deathstroke.

  Art comments

  Marv Wolfman story George Perez & Dick Giordano art George Perez cover

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Details

Publisher

DC Comics

Cover date

Jul 1984

Format

Comic

Pages

32

Variant

Direct Edition

Story arc

The Judas Contract

Major key

1st app. Nightwing (Dick Grayson), 1st app. Jericho (Joseph Wilson) Origin of Deathstroke, 1st app. Jackal (William Walsh)

Credits

writer

George Pérez, Marv Wolfman

penciller

George Pérez

inker

Dick Giordano, Mike DeCarlo

colorist

Adrienne Roy

letterer

Todd Klein

artist

George Pérez, Dick Giordano, Mike DeCarlo

editor

George Pérez, Marv Wolfman

Story

To convince him of the truth of her assertions, Adeline Wilson tells Dick Grayson the origin of the Terminator. In the early 1960s, Major Slade Joseph Wilson, a former Korean War hero, joined the special U.S. Army training course headed by Captain Adeline Kane. He proved her most apt pupil, and she took him aside for special additional training. A year later, he graduated from the course with honors and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Adeline met British Army Major Wintergreen, seemingly Wilson’s only friend, although she never learned the nature of the bond between the two men. A romance blossomed, and Slade and Adeline were married six months later. Slade served in Vietnam, while Adeline gave birth to their son, Grant. Then Slade volunteered for an experiment in resisting truth serums using a drug designed to stimulate the adrenal gland. The experiment went wrong, and a seemingly disabled Wilson was stricken from the active duty roster. Some time later, the Wilsons’ second son, Joseph, was born. Then, defying orders in order to rescue Wintergreen, who had been taken captive in Viet Nam, Slade was discharged by the Army. Restless, he became a renowned safari hunter, while rearing his two sons, Grant, who followed in his parents’ military footsteps, and Joseph, who excelled in music and art. One night while Slade was away, Adeline was attacked in their home and Joseph was kidnapped. Returning home, Slade revealed to his wife that he had been granted superhuman powers by the drug experiment which had seemed to disable him, and that he had used those powers to begin a secret career as Deathstroke the Terminator, an international mercenary assassin. In Tangiers, Terminator and Adeline confronted the terrorists who had captured Joseph in order to force Deathstroke to reveal the identity of his latest client. Rather than betray his employer, Terminator gambled on his superhuman speed to rescue his son before his captor could cut the boy’s throat. Joseph was saved, but the throat wound he received cost him the use of his voice. Furious with her husband, Adeline attempted to kill him, but succeeded only in shooting out his right eye. The couple then divorced, and much later, their son Grant died battling the Titans as the Ravager. As Adeline concludes her story, she reveals that she knows the whereabouts of the Terminator and his captives. Dick then assumes his new costumed identity as Nightwing for the first time. Returning to the others, he finds Joseph Wilson in costume as Jericho. Born a mutant due to the genetic side-effects of the chemicals that gave his father powers, Joe Wilson is able to possess the body of an opponent and usurp his will, an ability he demonstrates by using it on Nightwing. Convinced of Jericho’s sincerity, Nlghtwing allows him to join him in his attempt to rescue the Titans.

Characters

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