Tales of the Teen Titans (1984) 44

Tales of the Teen Titans (1984) 44
Jul 1984

The Judas Contract: Book Three - There Shall Come a Titan!
By Marv Wolfman, George Perez, Dick Giordano, Mike DeCarlo, Todd Klein, Adrienne Roy

Adeline Kane Wilson tells Dick Grayson about how and where she met Slade Wilson, Deathstroke the Terminator. It was a little over 20 years before, in the early 1960s. Captain Adeline Kane was one of the instructors at a special training facility at Camp Washington. Major Slade Wilson was her star pupil. He was the best of the best but she trained him to be even better.

Tales of the Teen Titans 44

The Judas Contract
Book Three: There Shall Come a Titan
by Marv Wolfman, George Perez
Jul 1984

- origin of Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke the Terminator as told by Adeline Kane Wilson, his ex-wife
- how they met, how he gained his superpowers, how their son Joseph lost the ability to speak
- training at Camp Washington, Vietnam, Wintergreen, inability to leave the military life behind
- rounded borders on the panels in the origin story told by AKW, nice touch
- The Jackal kidnapped Joseph, clearly a reference to Carlos
- Joseph is a mutant, Dick makes some reference to Mutants, is this a veiled reference to the X-Men x-over?
- ends with the introduction of Nightwing and Jericho, explanation of the name Dick has adopted
- demonstration of Jericho's powers by taking over Nightwing