Tales of the Teen Titans #47
Published and © by DC, October 1984
Title: “Final Conflict!”
Synopsis: After surviving a deep-sea explosion, the Teen Titans press forward with their attack against H.I.V.E.
Writers (co-plotters): Marv Wolfman and George Pérez
Writer (script): Wolfman
Penciler: Pérez
Artist (finisher): Mike DeCarlo
Review: That’s it? Really? After years of build up, the Teen Titans’ final showdown with H.I.V.E. ends with a whimper. This issue is an above-average superhero comic on its own, but falters as part of the larger work. It’s been said that a story is only as good as its villain. And while the involvement of Terminator and Terra masked it for a good long while, H.I.V.E. ultimately proves to be a generic big bad without a compelling raison d’être. To be fair, why should readers have expected more from the Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Eliminations (or is that Extermination)?
Grade: B
Cool factor: The new female H.I.V.E. Master is off-putting in an interesting and terrifying way …
Not-so-cool factor: … so let’s kill her off, never to be seen again. Hmm.
Collector’s note: According to the Grand Comics Database, there is a 95¢ Canadian variant of this issue.
Character quotable: “We have met the enemy and they are dead.” – The H.I.V.E. Master, a wee bit overconfident
Editor’s note: This review was written Sept. 11, 2025.
