We begin with the Teen Titans in "Greed... Kills" by Steve Skeates and Nick Cardy. The costumeless Titans are assigned by Mr. Jupiter to procure a charity donation from businessman Hargood P. Tout, but become sidetracked by a premonition of Lilith's which has them preventing a robbery. When one of the thieves, is hit by a car while making his getaway, the Titans call it a night. The police are interested in the old man as one of them recognized him as Kevin Murphy, who supposedly died in a fire ten years prior.
The next day the Titians are rebuffed when they meet with Tout about a donation to Jupiter's criminal rehabilitation charity, Tout espousing about law and order and how he would never help lazy criminals. The Titans are unsure how to continue, as Mr. Jupiter told them not to come back till they had secured the donation. Lilith, with another premonition, suggests they wait till tonight and visit the old guy in the hospital who was hit by the car.
That night, two assassins break into the hospital and kill one of the officers on Murphy's room and have the other officer pinned down. The Titans arrive in time to take out the assassins and go into Murphy's room with the cop as Murphy is awakening.
Murphy explains that the killers have been sent by Hargood Tout, who is revealed as Murphy's former criminal partner. After Tout had used his ill-gotten gains to become a legitimate businessman, he had tried to have Murphy done away with to prevent him from revealing Tout's shady past, but Murphy had faked his own death in order to foil his would-be assassins. Now revealed as being still alive, Murphy is again a target, until the Titans stop Tout's hirelings. The story ends abruptly with the Titans vowing to see that Tout faces justice.
Next is a two-page Kid Flash text story, "Whirlwind" by Steve Skeates, illustrated by Rich Buckler. These four illustrations are Buckler's first work at DC. When a man uses a device which turns him into a human whirlwind to rob a band, Wally West dons his Kid Flash uniform once again to stop him.
We end with our cover-story, "Some Call it Noise" starring Aqualad and Aquagirl by Steve Skeates and Nick Cardy. Aqualad and Aquagirl come ashore to enjoy part of an outdoor rock concert in a small coastal town. Meanwhile, a hospital patient becomes a berserk madman when given an injection of an experimental synthetic hormone. He escapes the hospital, and is drawn to the concert by the sound of the music. There he menaces the audience, knocking Aquagirl in the head before Aqualad overcomes him,
Aquagirl awakes in a daze and instead of heading back to the water, wanders inland. Aqualad barely manages to find her and return both of them to the sea before they die, having been on land beyond their one-hour time limit. This story was reprinted in DC Super Stars #7 and the entire book was reprinted in Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 2 TPB.
Edited by Dick Giordano.
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