Comic Title: Teen Titans #26
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Mar/Apr 1970
On Sale Date: January 15, 1970 Newsstand Date January 15, 1970
Source: Comic Reader, #76

Newsstand Date January 15, 1970
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V24 #11

Copyright Date January 15, 1970
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1970

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dick Giordano

Title: "A Penny for a Black Star"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Artist: Nicholas Peter Cardy
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Teen Titans Vol. 2 TPB (2007)
Teen Titans:The Bronze Age Omnibus HC (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Teen Titans (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Kid Flash (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Wonder Girl (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Speedy (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Hawk (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Dove (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Lilith (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Mal Duncan (join the Teen Titans; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)

Supporting Character(s)

• Mr. Jupiter (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)

Villain(s)

• Hell's Hawks (a street gang; Storm Trooper named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Angel (last appearance in Teen Titans #25; no further appearances)
• Cindy Duncan (Mal's sister; next appearance in Teen Titans #27)
• Jeannie (a clothing store owner; no further appearances)
• A boys club counselor and his wife (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Robin (in flashback to Teen Titans #25)
• Dr. Arthur Swenson (in flashback to Teen Titans #25)

Comments:
This story is continued from Teen Titans #25 and continues in Teen Titans #27.

Synopsis:
After training in Mr. Jupiter's survival course (located on the secret 13th floor of a city skyscraper), the former Titans are assigned to a field exercise: to survive in Hell's Corner, a tough inner-city neighborhood, with only a penny apiece to their names. Menaced by the Hell's Hawks street gang and unable to fight back without abandoning their new pacifist beliefs, the Titans are rescued by the intervention of Mal, a black youth. Taking jobs in Hell's Corner, the Titans encounter Mal again at an amateur boxing event where he is matched against Storm Trooper, leader of the Hell's Hawks, and wins.

Mal is recruited by the Titans and joins Mr. Jupiter's program, but feeling unworthy, tries to prove himself by stowing away aboard an experimental rocket flight.