We begin with the Teen Titans in "To Order Is to Destroy" by Steve Skeates, George Tuska, and Nick Cardy. While waiting outside the office of the school psychologist Dr. Pauling, Johnny Adler overhears the doctor recommending a brain operation to a student who has trouble studying. Fearing the doctor, Johnny leaves the office. Then he is attacked by a group of students who are being mind-controlled. Johnny takes refuge in a small cabin, but he is unable to reach help until Wally West comes to campus on a college tour. Wally helps Johnny, then leaves to bring in the Titans.
When the Titans arrive on campus, they find that Johnny has been captured and forced to have the brain operation too. Now he is part of the student group controlled by Paulson, who orders the Titans attacked. While the Titans battle the students, Johnny overcomes his programming and goes after Paulson. He gets Paulson to issue a desist order to the students. After Paulson is arrested, the damage to the students' minds is reversed. This story was reprinted in Super-Team Family #7 (1976) and Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 2 TPB (2007).
The back-up story is the Hawk and the Dove in "From One to Twenty" by Steve Skeates, George Tuska, and Nick Cardy. While patrolling the back alleys for crime, Hawk witnesses a newsdealer giving twenty dollars worth of change to a customer who paid with a one-dollar bill. Hawk suspects that the customer is running a shakedown racket and follows him. When the man is mugged, Hawk goes after the muggers, but he is knocked out.
Don finds his brother and working together they return to the newsstand. They see the same man performing the same transaction. They realize that it isn't a shakedown, but both men are involved in counterfeiting. Hawk and Dove apprehend the men and leave them for the police. This story was reprinted in Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 2 TPB (2007).
Edited by Dick Giordano.
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