Real name: Akkuru
First appearance: Teen Titans I#2 (Mar-April 1966)
Abilities: Superhuman strength
Worst act: Attempted murder
Quote: "Roaaarrrrr!"
Created by: Bob Haney (script), Nick Cardy (pencils/inks), and Stan Starkman (letters)
Here in #2 we see the Titans relaxing in their secret HQ. They're chilling and answering fanmail, which begs the question of how secret this place is supposed to be. Although these aren't all letters from fans, no, they also have requests for help.
And boy is their latest one a doozy. Seems a young lad from Smedleyville has a problem. No, he doesn't need a date or dealing with acne. He's being stalked by a caveman.
An old enemy in fact. Yeah, seems the lad in question is actually a caveboy, frozen in ice alongside the giant that terrorrized his tribe until they both got frozen deep in the mountains. Garn, as he calls himself, got thawed out first and was found by a kindly farmer.
Garn managed to grasp modern English and norms pretty quick, even enrolling in the local school and getting a girlfriend. When Akkuru thaws out, however, all that modern society jazz doesn't do much against a giant with an axe.
The town folk, especially, as they want to blame Akkuru's rampages on Garn. Despite the fact that he is clearly not a giant. The Teen Titans arrive to the rescue though and during the course of the fight Akkuru is killed when he falls into a river.
Garn must have taken that wanting to be normal thing to heart because this was the last anyone saw of him.
Utterly insane and plot twists coming from ever field. In other words a perfect Haney yarn.
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