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The answer to "Who Is It" is Jim Harper, the Guardian. Got it on question #2.

He was pretty cool. Where the hell is he, dead or something?

He disappeared with the rest of Cadmus in one of those "Okay, wipe the slate clean" deals in Superboy.

Franklin Richards seems to be the obvious "add a baby to the comic" kid. It's actually a very sweet moment when the Thing is grumbling about the kid's name, and then they mention his middle initial is "B" for Benjamin, and suddenly he's all smiles. Oh, and he was always cute during the Byrne era, when he was hanging out with the Power kids.

I think that the cover of issue 3 of Crisis gets 4 and possibly 5 Titans of your list (if the bird above Flash is Gar).

As for the character most associated with the Titans, it's Dick Grayson. Not Robin nor Nightwing, Dick. To me it's really HIS book, where has has grown as a character and a person.

Purely because my favourite issues of New Teen Titans were Who is Donna Troy, and the Wedding of Donna Troy and Terry Long, it has to be Donna Troy.

Wait,

There was a Giffen/PAD run on the Will Payton Starman?

Maybe it shows that I'm too young to have read the Wolfman/Perez Titans when it was new, and that I'm not a huge fan of the series, but Cyborg is always the character that comes to mind when I think of the Titans. He's been pushed as the soul of the team in recent years so, okay - works for me.

Magneto and the original Brotherhood of Eeeeeevil Mutants were transformed into babies in an issue of DEFENDERS (# 15) by Magneto's own creation "ALPHA ; the Ultimate Mutant".

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Yay! I also got Guardian at #2!!! That's the best I've ever done on one of these.!

There was baby Etrigan in the Justice League cartoon.

Cover theme: Lady Quark, Starman and Pantha all die in Infinite Crisis (not 100% sure, but it seems it could be possible).

I associate Starfire most with the Titans, as I feel like I don't see her much elsewhere and all her history was fleshed out here. I still don't feel like I know Cyborg all that well.

"There was a Giffen/PAD run on the Will Payton Starman?"

No, just one fill-in issue.

I got all 6 of the classic Titans here on a non-Teen Tiatns cover from Beast Boy's mini series (with kid Flash to boot).

I associate Starfire most with the Titans. They were her first (and really only) friends on Earth, one classic Titan is her best friend, another is her former fiance. The Titans are her life, and she has grown so much in the pages of those books.

And here's the cover, since my embedded link didn't work...
http://spider-bob.com/heroes/dc/images/BeastBoy03.jpg

For what it's worth, I have a special place in my heart for the Pantha/Red Star interaction in Titans.

This is especially amazing given that I didn't read the issues in question until ten years after they came out.

But I associate Gar Logan with the titans more than anyone else. It's in the same sort of way I associate Nighthawk with the Defenders more than anyone else.

Is the cover theme mullets? Was it really that easy? I never have a clue what theme is, but this time it seems so obvious.

From the Early Silver Age of DC Comics, where Batman fought aliens and/or was mutated every month, I give you-"Batman Becomes Bat-Baby!".

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=16904&zoom=4

"They’ve shown up a few times since, usually as whatever lineup the X-Men currently were using…"

Around the time of the "Big Trouble in Little Italy" issue, the "X-Babies" got their own one-shot.

I believe the adjective was "amazing".

Weren't there seven classic members of the New Teen Titans? Kid Flash was missing from your list, Brian, and he was a member until issue #39!

Anyway, my pick for the cover game is Wonder Woman #287, which has all seven of those original members! ("And a Huntress thriller too! Wow!")

I personally don't count him as a classic member. Yeah, he was there until #39, but the other six were there until issue #70 of the NEXT series, so for about 100 issues more than Wally.

Guardian. Got on #3.

this theme would probably apply to way too many covers, but how about "they all feature characters using recycled names?"

I don't think the X-Babies talked "cute", at least not in their original appearances.

The First example I thought of was Elsie Dee,or LCD,the little girl robot form Larry Hama's Wolverine run.
"Wogan"

X-Babies Reborn included a collective appearance by "The Mighty 'Vengers" (Avengers as babies (although for both X-Men and Avengers versions, they're toddlers not babies)). And are you counting "mini marvels" in your tally of kid versions? There was a good one (I thought) in WWH: Prologue.

There's the Best Of DC Digest 58 featuring the Super Juniors, baby versions of Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman and Flash.

I love the X-babies! Every appearance with them I've read is just silly fun. There's an Art Adams Excalibur story with them and Kitty Pryde vs. Mojo that just kicks all kinds of butt.

heh. Fanboy.

Usually when I think of the Titans I think of Nightwing, mostly because he was the character I liked the most and first encountered as a Titan (before I knew it was Dick Grayson, back when I was just getting into comics). But when I think of the recent cartoon, it's Beast Boy, because to me he's the true heart of that version of the team.

Real late to the party here, but I've got another cover for ya'.

Blue Beetle #13 (1987)

The cover features Dick Grayson, Donna Troy, Changling, Cyborg, and Starfire. Sure, their backs are to the reader, but they're all identifiable...

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