Comic Title: Superboy #185
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1972
On Sale Date: March 2, 1972 Newsstand Date March 2, 1972
Source: Direct Currents, Action Comics #411, Page 37

Newsstand Date March 2, 1972
Source: House Ad, Flash #214, Page 40

Newsstand Date March 2, 1972
Source: Comic Reader, #82

Copyright Date March 2, 1972
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1972

Frequency: Monthly, (semi-monthly May)
Cover Price: $0.50
Page Count: 96
Editor: E. Nelson Bridwell

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Astounding Separated Man"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Teen Titans (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #60 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Teen Titans (first named appearance; last appearance in Teen Titans #4; next appearance in Showcase #59)
• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #342; next appearance in Batman #174)
• Kid Flash (last appearance in Flash #149; next appearance in Flash #156)
• Aqualad (last appearance in Aquaman #23; next appearance in Aquaman #24)
• Wonder Girl (Donna Stacey Hinckley Troy; first appearance; last appearance in Teen Titans #4; next appearance in Showcase #59)

Villain(s)

• The Separated Man (Jake Trask; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #59; next appearance in Batman #174)
• Flash (last appearance in Justice League of America #36; next appearance in Flash #154)
• Aquaman (last appearance in Aquaman #23; next appearance in Justice League of America #38)
• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Justice League of America #36; next appearance in Wonder Woman #155)
• Hippolyta (last appearance in Wonder Woman #154; next appearance in Wonder Woman #155)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Brian Holmes (formerly the Separated Man, and creator of the serum that causes the transformation; no further appearances)
• Tommy Holmes and Judy (Professor Holmes's son and his girlfriend; no further appearances)
• Martha (Tommy Holmes's aunt and guardian; no further appearances)
• Various citizens of Midville (no further appearances)

Comments:
The Teen Titans have been formally organized and named since the events in Brave and the Bold #54, with Wonder Girl and Speedy included as charter members, as revealed in Teen Titans #53, and have been involved in one other case together, as recounted in Teen Titans #4, prior to the events of this story.

Kid Flash's costume is colored incorrectly, with yellow leggings, throughout this story. The earpieces on his mask are also mistakenly colored yellow in several later stories.

Wonder Girl is not to be confused with Wonder Woman as a teenager. Wonder Girl is Wonder Woman's adopted sister and Hippolyta's adopted daughter. The author of this story mistakenly believed that the Wonder Girl appearing concurrently in Wonder Woman's magazine was an entirely separate character, so she was included in the Teen Titans. Since Wonder Woman's adult adventures are contemporary to the Titans, her adventures as a teenage Wonder Girl must have taken place years before the Teen Titans stories. Therefore, the Wonder Girl appearing in Teen Titans must be an entirely separate character as confirmed in Teen Titans #22, where her name Donna Troy is also revealed. Donna's given name, Donna Hinckley, and adopted name, Donna Stacey, are both revealed in New Teen Titans #38.

Synopsis:
Now organized as the Teen Titans, Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Wonder Girl respond to a call for help from the teenagers of Midville. The youngsters' "Teen Government for a Day" project is violently disrupted by the reappearance of the Separated Man, a gigantic being able to separate his body parts, the creation of Professor Brian Holmes, father of the young "mayor for a day." The revived menace is actually Jake Trask, the professor's former prison cellmate, who has stolen the scientist's molecular formula and used it on himself, but the citizens of Midville believe the creature to be a transformed Professor Holmes, as was the case when the Separated Man previously appeared. With the aid of the professor and the Midville teenagers, the Teen Titans are able to subdue the Separated Man long enough to administer an antidote which restores him to normal.