You may be wondering who Sara Hunter is. Well, I wish I could tell you more than I can because I know little of her history. If I look up her name all I find is a fan page on deviantART that has one bit of the comic she appeared in. As you can tell from the comic above this was the comic based on the Teen Titans cartoon, but it’s not one of the regular issues.
To help promote a now defunct learning site called SparkTop, DC Comics used the Teen Titans in a special comic packed in with a few other DC comics at the time, including the Justice League Unlimited comic I reviewed yesterday. This isn’t new. A few issues before this some short comics based on the game HeroScape popped up and way back in the 1980s DC did this to promote their own Masters Of The Universe run, which saw Superman returning to Eternia after the events of the DC Comics Presents crossover that was also meant to promote this run. In this case however, the Titans team with a girl named Sara Hunter, who we’re told is an old friend of Beast Boy’s when his parents and her parents went treasure hunting together. I’m not sure that fits into his lore but I’m not as well versed on either the toon version or the regular DC version of Beast Boy beyond being adopted by the Doom Patrol before joining the Titans.
As for Sara, I thought she was the mascot for the site or something but what little I can coax out of the Internet Archive on the site doesn’t even show her outside of the comic. This was available online on the site along with the short story the above image comes from. I wasn’t sure if this qualified as a Scanning My Collection article or a Free Comic Inside article (I’ll list it under both in the categories) so it’s just its own article.
“Run, Sara, before you get a crappy reboot too!”
Teen Titans: SparkTop
DC Comics (2006, published in comic books for January, 2007)
WRITER: Marc Sumerak
PENCILER: Todd Nauck
INKER: Lary Stucker
COLORING: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Jared K. Fletcher
EDITOR: Bill Rosemann
