Skipped ahead to Teen Titans #13 to see what crazy Bob Haney did for holiday cheer, especially considering some of his other efforts. And well... oh my... "The TT's Swingin' Christmas Carol", as Teen Titans #13 is criminally titled, is exactly what you think it is: A take-off on Dickens' famous Christmas story. You've got a junkyard owner called Ebenezer Scrounge working a Bob Ratchet to death so he can get enough money to buy an electric wheelchair for his son Tiny Tom. Subtle, it ain't.In case you missed the point, Robin's reading A Christmas Carol at the start of the story, while everybody else is reading their mentor's comic. Everyone? No. Kid Flash is a blasted traitor.
Aqualad, Kid Flash, Robin and Wonder Chick - as Wonder Girl is called throughout - are pulled into the story after Tiny Tom somehow sneaks onto the snowbound junkyard in his old wheelchair (it's a Christmas miracle!) and witnesses Scrounge shadily dealing with some crooks. Like every kid in America, he seems to have a direct line to the Titans, and they show up to help. Not always easy when you don't have a driver's license.
And in case you still haven't gotten the point, Robin calls attention to it! All similar names in similar situations, it's just like Dickens! By golly, you're right Robin! So of course the thing to do is make like the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to scare the old man into Doing The Right ThingTM. Except Dickens never wrote about gangsters that show up and activate a "tree" that pulls junk, wheelchairs and Titans to itself. And even if he had, I don't think he would have included their scheme to turn junk into gold-plated merchandise with a raygun.And that's why we have Bob Haney, God bless 'im.
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