Real name: Unrevealed
First appearance: Teen Titans I#20 (March-April 1969)
Abilities: Mastermind
Worst act: Attempted murder
Created by: Neal Adams (script/pencils), Sal Amendola (pencils), Nick Cardy (inks), and Ben Oda/Morris Waldinger (letters)*
The * is there as this is somewhat of a controversial issue. Officially Neal Adam handled most of the work, but unofficially (allegedly) Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, and Nick Cardy did script and pencils.
As the story goes, Wolfman and Wein pitched an idea with the Titans encountering a new hero, who, when unmasked at the end, would be revealed to be a black man.
Well thus ruffled someone's jimmies thus Neal Adams was called in at the last minute to basically rewrite the whole thing and make everyone white.
The whole issue is a mess. A masked hero calling himself Joshua breaks into the Titan's Lair and begs them for help. Seems a bunch of teens are set to protest the police. Why? Seems the teens are actually being controlled by Fat Cat, a local mobster.
Oh, and Fat Cat is also working with the aliens from Dimension X (last seen in #16) and his agents include the Scorcher and Dr. Larner. Seems Fat Cat and his partners want the unrest to help them release the Meroul Being.
Our heroes stop them though, at least this time. The Aliens from Dimension X would be the focus for the next few issues.
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