@NatDuv121 yes he was one of the founding members of the original teen titans, all three robins where teen titans, Tim drake is the most recent robin to join
the only teen titans cartoon i saw was the one with robin, beastboy, cyborg, raven and starfire. i didn't know that there was a 1967 show called teen titans with the sidekicks of flash, wonderwoman, aquaman and green arrow.
it amazes me that so many >ahem< fans seem to think comic-books were created 20 years ago or that that all animation is based on Pokemon. Kids today don't know how good it was to buy a stack of 6 or 8 comics for a under buck and then watch them on all on Saturday mornings, which were loaded with action-packed super-hero cartoons made here in America!
@BrooklynChivalry actually a big chunk of "imported videogames" are based on Manga or Japanese Comic Books. Many Anime and Games from Japan were Comics first then cartoons than game, then sometimes cartoons and comics again. The anime of the 60s-90s were almost always based on comic books. Japan went through a golden age of comics which lead to anime, just like we did.
Yes, I am aware of all that. I have been involved in these genres for decades and have watched it decline.
I prefer dramatic anime & manga, as I am a longtime fan of Leiji Matsumoto (Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock), Shotaro Ishinomori (Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider), and Go Nagai (Devilman, Cutie Honey), and prefer my American super-heroes to look like American Nick Cardy or Jim Aparo art than this newer exaggerated anime style of the passed 10-15 years.
@BrooklynChivalry I happen to be a kid and am not described by any of that. 6 comics for a buck? Man, that would be great. And i have about 300 comics from the silver age, which, in my opinion, was the best period. Most comics today are not as good. I feel like Robin in the issue of Batman where Comissioner Gordon says something about "Kids these days" and Robin gets miffed. As he said, "I prefer to think of myself as an example, not the exception."
However, there are others that do indeed think anime began with Pokemon, and Teen Titans originated on the Cartoon Network. The sad thing is, some of those fans aren't kids either.
And comics today are nowhere near as good as they were in the Silver-Bronze-ages. Nowadays, everything has to be a gimmick to warrant that $3 to $5 cover price, and sadly this trend started about the exact same time as Pokemon arrived, hence my dismay.
No, my head isn't up my ass, so there is no need to be obnoxious. I am cultured and have appreciation for American pop-culture.
This was produced in Hollywood USA in 1967, not Japan a few years ago. I was merely clarifying that once upon a time, animation was produced here in America, and the characters resembled and were proportioned like their comic-book counterparts.
Only three episodes of this series were produced for the original "SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN HOUR OF ADVENTURE" [on CBS' 1967-'68 Saturday morning schedule], and rotated with "The Atom", "Hawkman", "Green Lantern", "The Flash", and "Justice League of America" (and each of those were just three episodes).
Aqualad couldn't talk to fish. In one episode of the Aquaman series he wished for that power but only was able to summon hideous sea monsters. His power then failed so he couldn't get rid of them.
I never knew there was Teen Titans cartoon series before t he cartoon network one. However,t I do recall reading that during the early 1980s when the New Teen Titans comic book was a top 10 bestseller that DC Comics wanted to do a Saturday morning cartoon series, but at that time, because of a quirk with the copyright, Robin wouldn't have been able to be a part of the team without Batman. Or the show would had to be: Batman and the Teen Titans.
"The fabulous foursome for right against might! " Robert Smigel was obviously parodying this intro with "THe X-Presidents" on Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse! Looks like they even rotoscoped the same animation!!! I never this, thanks for uploading it!
I can't believe how wrong they got Wally West's Kid Flash look here. He never has the weird red/yellow combo along with black hair as we see there. Terrible!
@NW1977 That always bugged me. Filmation drew him this same way when he was with the Flash. Kid Flash's actual costume is so much better, and it's not like it's too complex to animate or anything.
@putzthewondersloth Can he even talk to fish? (Though he and Aquaman both had some water control powers in these cartoons, throwing water-bolts and making whirlpools and such, that they didn't have in the comics.)
Aqualad once called kid flash "twinkle toes". LOL - I always remembered that, even though it was forty three years ago. The story lines and plot of these were okay for the time. We had war in Vietnam, manned space flight and lunar landings, hippies, sippies and chippies EVERYWHERE in California at the time! Some of the same stories cannot be used today because of societal changes. They are no longer deemed appropriate.
@dynagravitomagnetic The dialog is extremely painful in these, now, though, as they are so obviously written by middle-aged men trying desperately to sound like "hip teens".
@KCOliver1960 The "Pre-Teen Titans", you mean? We should consider ourselves lucky they didn't make them "chibi", so they looked like Jim Henson's Teen Titans Babies.
wblstudios: Raven didn't exist, yet. She was created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez in the 1980's for The New Teen Titans era, whereas The Fab Five--Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Speedy, and Aqulad--were all created in the 1960's (licensing for Robin was unavailable, due to The Boy Wonder's commitments to Batman at the time).
Filmation didn't get the rights to the Robin character, because Robin was on Batman at the time. Filmation got the rights to do the Batman cartoon (with Robin) in 1968. Robin was a founder of the original Teen Titans in the comics.
dtemplar: Yep. And Robin--Dick Grayson continued to lead the Titans into the 80's when Marv Wolfman and George Perez introduced fans to The New Teen Titans, with the core characters and storylines being those that inspired the 2003-2006 cartoon: Robin, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy were the core characters & storylines based on the Nightwing vs Deathstroke fued, The Judas Contract, something akin to The Technis Imperative, The Terror of Trigon, BB's coming of age, and Terra II.
um... that was werid
Sig1976 33 minutes ago
Acept no subsitutes!
srb9 2 weeks ago
Where the fuck is robin?
13biglou1992 3 weeks ago
I actually watched a few of these, and i have to say that the newer series with star-fire, raven, beast-boy, and cyborg is better.
aqworlds20 2 months ago
Where the hell is robin he is the leader of the team isnt he?
Comandoes15 3 months ago
Wow this is.... lazy....
FireIsTheCIeanser 4 months ago
where is robin?
tammy5309 4 months ago
BAck in my childhood this sucked big fat dick. Think of how much it sucks now.
bassinum 4 months ago
Wow that's old
Peiniar 5 months ago
Teen Tightans.
gillesding 5 months ago
they're so white, they're really really white
rodfreier 5 months ago
these teen titans suck especial aqua lad the robin team teen titans would slaughter these guys like cows
123grit 5 months ago
@123grit Robin is apart of that team...this is the 60s. Plus the anime Titans were terrible.
NatDuv121 4 months ago
@NatDuv121 The television rights to Robin were unavailable to Filmation. He had already been optioned as part of the live action Batman series.
LadyDeirdre 4 months ago
@LadyDeirdre DC has always been crappy when it comes to rights distribution. That bat embargo was definitely the worst yet.
NatDuv121 1 month ago
@NatDuv121 who?
cartoonkingforeever 1 month ago
@cartoonkingforeever Dick Grasyon, Jason Todd, Tim Drake and Bruce Wayne's son Damion Wayne.
NatDuv121 1 month ago
@NatDuv121 oh your talking about robin not appearing in this cartoon? but robin has appeared in tons of cartoons
cartoonkingforeever 1 month ago
@NatDuv121 yes he was one of the founding members of the original teen titans, all three robins where teen titans, Tim drake is the most recent robin to join
cartoonkingforeever 1 month ago
@cartoonkingforeever All 4 male robins now. Damion being the most recent to join.
NatDuv121 1 month ago
Robin's missing..he's the heart of the team hahaha..
ralph1405cr 5 months ago
the teen titans with the power of a seizure intro :D
metastoner 5 months ago
the only teen titans cartoon i saw was the one with robin, beastboy, cyborg, raven and starfire. i didn't know that there was a 1967 show called teen titans with the sidekicks of flash, wonderwoman, aquaman and green arrow.
Artproductions2010 5 months ago
That was seizure inducing. @_@
Kazeneko 5 months ago
wheres the robot? lol
17sith 5 months ago
such a fabulous foursome.
metalZiZiZiZi 5 months ago
...I can't get over the fact that Wally's hair is BLACK...also the very clear lack of Dick.
DarkestElemental616 6 months ago
no manches que cambiazo de los teen de esos enteonoces de los cuales tenemos ahora
justealucard 6 months ago
So getto...and so trippy at the same time. Interesting how there is no Robin, and Kid Flash's design was changed.
brinpol 6 months ago
Hahaaaaaa foursome.
Blackharp 6 months ago
Holy crap, reminds me of that Pokémon episode that gave all those kids seizures.
AalzBobMarley 6 months ago
@AalzBobMarley I guess you mean every episode then
holybovine 6 months ago
EVERYTHING EXPLODES!!
DreadDormmamu 7 months ago
*explode*
kingarthur20 7 months ago
Wow...
it amazes me that so many >ahem< fans seem to think comic-books were created 20 years ago or that that all animation is based on Pokemon. Kids today don't know how good it was to buy a stack of 6 or 8 comics for a under buck and then watch them on all on Saturday mornings, which were loaded with action-packed super-hero cartoons made here in America!
Now everything is just an imported videogame...
BrooklynChivalry 7 months ago
@BrooklynChivalry actually a big chunk of "imported videogames" are based on Manga or Japanese Comic Books. Many Anime and Games from Japan were Comics first then cartoons than game, then sometimes cartoons and comics again. The anime of the 60s-90s were almost always based on comic books. Japan went through a golden age of comics which lead to anime, just like we did.
Sunkincid 7 months ago
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BrooklynChivalry 6 months ago
@Sunkincid
Yes, I am aware of all that. I have been involved in these genres for decades and have watched it decline.
I prefer dramatic anime & manga, as I am a longtime fan of Leiji Matsumoto (Battleship Yamato, Captain Harlock), Shotaro Ishinomori (Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider), and Go Nagai (Devilman, Cutie Honey), and prefer my American super-heroes to look like American Nick Cardy or Jim Aparo art than this newer exaggerated anime style of the passed 10-15 years.
BrooklynChivalry 6 months ago
@BrooklynChivalry I happen to be a kid and am not described by any of that. 6 comics for a buck? Man, that would be great. And i have about 300 comics from the silver age, which, in my opinion, was the best period. Most comics today are not as good. I feel like Robin in the issue of Batman where Comissioner Gordon says something about "Kids these days" and Robin gets miffed. As he said, "I prefer to think of myself as an example, not the exception."
DreadDormmamu 7 months ago
@DreadDormmamu
Some fans are "in the know" such as yourself.
However, there are others that do indeed think anime began with Pokemon, and Teen Titans originated on the Cartoon Network. The sad thing is, some of those fans aren't kids either.
And comics today are nowhere near as good as they were in the Silver-Bronze-ages. Nowadays, everything has to be a gimmick to warrant that $3 to $5 cover price, and sadly this trend started about the exact same time as Pokemon arrived, hence my dismay.
BrooklynChivalry 6 months ago
@BrooklynChivalry I think i see your point.
DreadDormmamu 6 months ago
@BrooklynChivalry You've seriously got your head up your ass m8
TheMrDeegan 6 months ago
@TheMrDeegan
No, my head isn't up my ass, so there is no need to be obnoxious. I am cultured and have appreciation for American pop-culture.
This was produced in Hollywood USA in 1967, not Japan a few years ago. I was merely clarifying that once upon a time, animation was produced here in America, and the characters resembled and were proportioned like their comic-book counterparts.
BrooklynChivalry 6 months ago
@BrooklynChivalry Comics cost like 20$ now.
Dante95nyc 5 months ago
And people say Pokemon was bad
PSNGreyLynx 7 months ago
GAH! I'm getting mild seizures watching this intro!
77redrum77 7 months ago
Only three episodes of this series were produced for the original "SUPERMAN/AQUAMAN HOUR OF ADVENTURE" [on CBS' 1967-'68 Saturday morning schedule], and rotated with "The Atom", "Hawkman", "Green Lantern", "The Flash", and "Justice League of America" (and each of those were just three episodes).
fromthesidelines 7 months ago
I love how kid Flash's costume and hair look like a reverse kid Flash. all wrong.
mocrg 8 months ago
Aqualad couldn't talk to fish. In one episode of the Aquaman series he wished for that power but only was able to summon hideous sea monsters. His power then failed so he couldn't get rid of them.
FoxPlant2006 9 months ago
This cartoon had the nickname of the seizure generator.
Robomack 9 months ago 12
yeah Rucker
I did'nt know about this one either
jimbear62 10 months ago
Yep. The 1960s was the age of seizure-vision.
TinklestheGoat 10 months ago 13
Accept no subsistutes THIS is the Teen Titans!
srb9 10 months ago 2
lol...aquaman
judo563 10 months ago
What the hell? I had no idea they were this old, wow I have a lot to learn.
CaptainJetJakal 11 months ago
they use play reruns of this when I was kid back in the day . good stuff !
cwfmichigan 1 year ago
I never knew there was Teen Titans cartoon series before t he cartoon network one. However,t I do recall reading that during the early 1980s when the New Teen Titans comic book was a top 10 bestseller that DC Comics wanted to do a Saturday morning cartoon series, but at that time, because of a quirk with the copyright, Robin wouldn't have been able to be a part of the team without Batman. Or the show would had to be: Batman and the Teen Titans.
Ronin10867 1 year ago
"The fabulous foursome for right against might! " Robert Smigel was obviously parodying this intro with "THe X-Presidents" on Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse! Looks like they even rotoscoped the same animation!!! I never this, thanks for uploading it!
DoctorPretorious616 1 year ago
I can't believe how wrong they got Wally West's Kid Flash look here. He never has the weird red/yellow combo along with black hair as we see there. Terrible!
NW1977 1 year ago
@NW1977 That always bugged me. Filmation drew him this same way when he was with the Flash. Kid Flash's actual costume is so much better, and it's not like it's too complex to animate or anything.
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
"Screw Robin and his training!"
bannerman06 1 year ago
aaaahhhh seizures
wargarurumon 1 year ago
@wargarurumon So many seizures!
Maswartz226 1 year ago
Aqualad! He can... uh, swim!
putzthewondersloth 1 year ago 5
@putzthewondersloth Can he even talk to fish? (Though he and Aquaman both had some water control powers in these cartoons, throwing water-bolts and making whirlpools and such, that they didn't have in the comics.)
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
i prefer the other series
powerofyouth101 1 year ago
oh my god this is sooooo bad
DeadVenom01 1 year ago
this looked like a stupid cartoon compared the the titans cartoon of today
imaginepeace63 1 year ago
the TEEN WUSSIES!! hahaaha aqua lad was a chump... whats he gonna do, throw jelly fish at you..... the new teen titans are better
djbombero2002 1 year ago
Is the intro really characters against a seizure worthy background?
ThePickledTheif 1 year ago
Aqualad once called kid flash "twinkle toes". LOL - I always remembered that, even though it was forty three years ago. The story lines and plot of these were okay for the time. We had war in Vietnam, manned space flight and lunar landings, hippies, sippies and chippies EVERYWHERE in California at the time! Some of the same stories cannot be used today because of societal changes. They are no longer deemed appropriate.
dynagravitomagnetic 1 year ago
@dynagravitomagnetic The dialog is extremely painful in these, now, though, as they are so obviously written by middle-aged men trying desperately to sound like "hip teens".
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
@GoblinXXX That was the general criticism starting in 1964 through 1967 in the comic series.
MrReneManuel 1 year ago
i agree with dave wonder girl does luck dykey and if yougot that refrence then you get a cookie
mohawkman2006 1 year ago
Did-- did Kid flash and Spedy just fly away? 0:11
mikehedgecat 1 year ago
Well this was news for me.
Remoniq 1 year ago
When I looked at this intro, I realised directly that it was made by the infamous Filmation
They made alot of cartoons, but so much that all of the cartoons don't have the right quality (Quantity and not Quality)
toby070 1 year ago
I'll take these Filmation Teen Titans over that crappy Anime Teen Titans anyday.
KCOliver1960 1 year ago
@KCOliver1960 The "Pre-Teen Titans", you mean? We should consider ourselves lucky they didn't make them "chibi", so they looked like Jim Henson's Teen Titans Babies.
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
0_o that was interesting...
mtcc21 1 year ago
I had no idea that Donny and Marie ( Osmond ) starred in a TV Cartoon Series way back in '67 !
Relax... I was kiddin'...
13DCH 2 years ago 3
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wow that shiit is beyond gay. -_-
jrion2 2 years ago
The REAL Teen Titans! Not the Pokemon Rippoff !!
srb9 2 years ago 2
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No Raven?
Fuck this shit.
wblstudios 2 years ago
wblstudios: Raven didn't exist, yet. She was created by Marv Wolfman and George Perez in the 1980's for The New Teen Titans era, whereas The Fab Five--Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Speedy, and Aqulad--were all created in the 1960's (licensing for Robin was unavailable, due to The Boy Wonder's commitments to Batman at the time).
TherealRNO 2 years ago 5
wow the background is seizurific
plateshutoverlock 2 years ago
Segments from this original 1967 Teen Titans series were used on USA's "Superman/Batman Adventures" in the mid-1990s.
SeanElGatoTelevision 2 years ago
Wow, I never knew this cartoon existed
Rucker1980 2 years ago 49
@Rucker1980 Yes it did. In glorious Black and White when I first saw it.
MrReneManuel 1 year ago
No Robin?
CreatureFeatures75 3 years ago 3
Filmation didn't get the rights to the Robin character, because Robin was on Batman at the time. Filmation got the rights to do the Batman cartoon (with Robin) in 1968. Robin was a founder of the original Teen Titans in the comics.
dtemplar21977 3 years ago 21
dtemplar: Yep. And Robin--Dick Grayson continued to lead the Titans into the 80's when Marv Wolfman and George Perez introduced fans to The New Teen Titans, with the core characters and storylines being those that inspired the 2003-2006 cartoon: Robin, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy were the core characters & storylines based on the Nightwing vs Deathstroke fued, The Judas Contract, something akin to The Technis Imperative, The Terror of Trigon, BB's coming of age, and Terra II.
TherealRNO 2 years ago