The Batman always told me that one clue would open up another, then another. As usual, he was right. I guess that's why he's the best and I guess that's why I now realize how lucky I was to work with him. 
- — Robin
New Teen Titans #38 is an issue of the series New Teen Titans (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1984.
Synopsis for "Who Is Donna Troy?"
Rescued from a burning apartment building as an infant by Wonder Woman and raised by Queen Hippolyta on Paradise Island, Donna (Wonder Girl) Troy has never known her true identity. Now, with their wedding in the offing, Terry Long asks Robin to investigate the secret of Donna's unknown past. At the site of the fire-gutted building, Robin finds a child's doll which Donna vaguely remembers. Subjecting the doll to chemical and computer analysis, he traces it to a kindly old toy shop owner who had once repaired it for a Mrs. Cassiday of Willowbrook Orphanage in Virginia. Locating Mrs. Cassiday in a nursing home in Florida, Dick brings Donna to meet her, and they learn that Donna's mother had brought her to the orphanage when she learned she was dying of cancer. Donna was then adopted by a couple named Stacey. Returning to Virginia, they find the former Mrs. Fay Stacey, now remarried as Fay Evans, and foster mother and daughter are tearfully reunited. Dick and Donna then learn that, two years after Donna's adoption, her foster father had been killed in an accident, and his wife, penniless, had been forced to give Donna up for readoption. Donna is satisfied at this, but Robin investigates further and discovers that the couple who died in the apartment building fire had not adopted Donna, but were go-betweens for a child-selling scheme run by a crooked lawyer. Finally aware of her past, Donna visits the grave of her natural mother, Dorothy Hinckley.
Appearing in "Who Is Donna Troy?"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Amazons
- Paula (Flashback only)
- Queen Hippolyta (Flashback only)
- Wonder Woman (Flashback only)
- Fay Evans (Also as Fay Stacey) (First appearance)
- Terry Long
Antagonists:
- Sam Channing (Flashback only)
- William Harrison
Other Characters:
- Carl Stacey (First appearance; dies)
- Cindy Evans (First appearance)
- Dorothy Hinckley (Dies in flashback)
- Elmira Cassiday (First appearance)
- Elmo
- Hank Evans (First appearance)
- Jerry Evans (First appearance)
- Mrs. Channing
- Starfire (In a photograph only)
- Uncle Max
- Batman (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Paradise Island
- United States of America
- Florida
- Cherry Lake Farms
- Sunharbor Manor
- Cherry Lake Farms
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Dick Grayson's appartment
- Terry and Donna's appartment
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Virginia
- Lancaster Penitentiary
- Newport News
- 223 Elm Street
- Mystic Mountain Toy Shoppe
- Willowbrook Orphanage
- Florida
Notes
- Robin states that he has known Donna Troy for 8 years, since before the formation of the original Teen Titans. This dates the events of The Brave and the Bold #60 as having happened 8 years prior to this issue, in the Pre-Crisis Earth-One timeline.
- Donna Troy states that, while Queen Hippolyte raised her, it was Wonder Woman who adopted her as her legal ward.
- This issue is reprinted in The Best of DC #61, New Teen Titans: Who is Donna Troy? and Teen Titans: A Celebration of 50 Years.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Teen Titans Recommended Reading
- Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- New Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Tales of the Teen Titans (Volume 1): #41-58
- New Teen Titans (Volume 2)/New Titans (Volume 1)
- Team Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 2)
- JLA/Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 3)
- Titans (Volume 2)
- Blackest Night: Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans (Volume 4)
- Teen Titans (Volume 5)
- Convergence: New Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Convergence: Titans (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 3)
- Teen Titans (Volume 6)
- Teen Titans Academy (Volume 1)
- Titans (Volume 4)
- World's Finest: Teen Titans (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans: Year One (Volume 1)
- Teen Titans Go! (Volume 1)
- The New Teen Titans: Games (Volume )