Real names: Baltzar and Verna
First appearance: Teen Titans I#6 (Nov-Dec. 1966)
Abilities: Animal trainer Hypnotist
Worst act: Theft, kidnapping
Created by: Bob Haney (script), Bill Molno (pencils), Sal Trapani (inks), and Stan Starkman (letters)
The first appearance of Beast Boy in a Titans book. Pity it'd be some time before he formerly joined, but he was a regular in the Doom Patrol at the time.
Which ties into this yarn for a bit, as Beast Boy, frustrated at being unable to join either team formerly due to his Scrooge-ish guardian, opts to run off to the circus.
The carnies running the place, instead of seeing the value in a boy who can change into any animal imaginable, decide to hypnotize him and make him knock over stores. Seems like waste.
Honestly this feels more like a Beast Boy tale than a Titans one, with Haney trying to push the shapeshifting hero as the 5th Titan (which is a bit insulting to Speedy, who technically had that title).
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