Teen Titans #20 [1969] featured a tale based on a Teen Titans story by Len Wein and Marv Wolfman, which would have introduced a black super-hero by the name of Jericho, but was never published. The character was changed to caucasian and renamed as Joshua. Although the cover still bears the original title: "The Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho."
Marv Wolfman reflects on the story: "The second Teen Titans was a story that no one has ever seen printed. It was a story that Len Wein and I co-wrote that was originally intended for Teen Titans #20. It was "The Titans Fit the Battle of Jericho," and Nick did probably one of the most incredible art jobs I had ever seen up to that time."
"It was absolutely brilliant to see because that was a technique I sort of remembered from art school and Nick did it so magnificently. The story hadn't been published, though it was written, penciled, inked, lettered, colored, and sent to the printers. But it was pulled back. It would have featured DC's first black super-hero. The story was never published. It was pulled back at the very last second for whatever reason. It was lost for a long time and some pages have finally showed up
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