Comic Title: New Teen Titans #43
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: May 1988
On Sale Date: January 26, 1988 Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: DC Releases, #48

Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #135

Copyright Date January 26, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Barbara J. Kesel (Randall)

Title: "Fear Itself"
Pages: 27

Feature(s):
Teen Titans (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Romeo Tanghal
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 5 HC (2021)
New Teen Titans Vol. 14 TPB (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Teen Titans (last appearance in Flash #12; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)
• Nightwing (last appearance in Flash #12; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)
• Wonder Girl (last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)
• Changeling (last appearance in Flash #12; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)
• Cyborg (last appearance in Flash #12; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)
• Raven (last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)
• Starfire (last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; next appearance in Infinity Inc. #51)
• Jericho (last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)
• Danny Chase (last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; next appearance in New Teen Titans #44)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sarah Charles (last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; next appearance in New Teen Titans #45)
• Sarah Simms (last appearance in New Teen Titans #41; next appearance in New Titans Annual #5)

Villain(s)

• Brotherhood of Evil (last appearance in Teen Titans Spotlight #11; next appearance in New Titans Annual #6)
• Brain (last appearance in Swamp Thing Annual #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #34)
• Monsieur Mallah (last appearance in Swamp Thing Annual #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #34)
• Phobia (real name Angela Hawkins revealed; last appearance in Teen Titans Spotlight #11; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mother Mayhem (last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; no further appearances)
• Jessica (named in this story; last appearance in New Teen Titans #42; no further appearances)
• Jonathan and Madelyn Lodge (a U.N. ambassador candidate and his wife; Jonathan dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Friends of Jonathan Lodge (Henry named; no further appearances)
• A street vendor (no further appearances)
• Mandy Wayne-Herrold (a police captain; no further appearances)
• Students of Sarah Simms (Brynne and Diane named; no further appearances)
• Arnold Katzman and his associates (Katzman dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Lord Hawkins (Phobia's father; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Trigon (visualized by Raven)

Synopsis:
The Titans visit Mother Mayhem and her newborn daughter in the hospital. Then they resume their civilian lives. Unlike most of the others, Raven stays in the city where she is drawn to a murder scene by powerful emotions. She learns that Phobia is involved. The villain is using her powers to induce powerful fear in her victims causing heart attacks.

After two men inline to become U.N. ambassadors are killed, Raven deduces Phobia's next target, Lord Hawkins. When Phobia arrives to kill him, she learns that the man she was sent to kill is her own father. She blames him for casting her out of the family, but Hawkins explains that is was her own vile nature that caused her to be shunned by the family. Phobia breaks down, and Hawkins offers to get her help. Raven then returns to Titans Tower and marks the file on Phobia closed.