Real name: Unrevealed
First appearance: Teen Titans I#12 (Nov.-Dec.1967)
Abilities: Using alien tech
Worst act: Theft
Quote: "It's working! Fantastic! I shall make delivery on time--and keep my record unblemished!"
Created by: Bob Haney (script), Irving H. Novick (pencils) Nick Cardy (inks), and Morris Waldinger (letters)
One thing about 60's comics I both love and hate are the covers. You get promised an utterly wild time, but the story has nothing what was promised. Case in point we have an alien attacking Robin in space over a space DJ.
Yeah, space DJ. Seems a disc jockey gets blasted into low Earth orbit and while there an alien forces him to put in secret messages to the Deliverer. Why? So he can steal Earth monuments!
Yeah, that old chestnut.
The Titans get involved and wow, the space suits. It's like Haney stressed they needed helmets but nothing else, so we see Robin gadding about in a vacuum in shorts. Well, if Batman can breathe in space I guess Robin can too?
Also they seem to think Batman is just some guy on the TV, which raises many questions.
The Titans stop the bad guys of course but this is either Haney's best or worst. Things just happen and just roll with it.
Had many questions, but the Deliverer just raises more. Is this his normal job? Had did he throw in with aliens? He mentions his record, does his steal monuments regularly? What else does he deliver?
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