Teen Titans #3, DC Comics, May-June 1966

"The Revolt at Harrison High"'s splash page shows the Titans being attacked by an animated gas pump... and it's all downhill from there. This one starts with the teen idols being called to the President's Commission on Education. They seem to think it's a principal's office for superheroes, but no, they want the heroes to tackle a real problem in America: the drop-out rate!
Like most government wars against concepts, it's a pretty shoddy affair. The Titans fly to Harrison ("Averagetown, America" - which isn't much of a change for this series), and discover that a supervillain has been giving high-paying (read: criminal) jobs to high school drop-outs, so that if you put the villain out of business, everyone will go back to school. It's that simple, folks.

The villain in question: Tremble in fear at the mighty girth of... Ding-Dong Daddy Dowd! Well, that's another one that won't be remembered in Who's Who 20 years later. He runs a garage that apparently specializes in vehicles for criminals, from Batmobile-escaping drag racers to ice cream vendors with machine guns. Or how about that jeep on the cover? It shoots surfboard out its trunk! (What is it with Bob Haney and stabbing people with surfboards?)

But while Aqualad gets a nasty bump on the head there, he does later get the awsome moment of the issue. After being outwitted by Ding-Dong Daddy Dowd's Vehicles of Villainy (alliteration mine), they try to infiltrate his drop-out pit crew. As a sort of rite of passage, they beat up some bikers. Aqualad gets thrown into a barrel of water by a biker that was apparently pulled from Victorian London, but that's not gonna stop Aqualad, is it?
Yow! The big question is, just how deep is that barrel?!?

I'm not sure how bad these bikers are though...
"Grab the chick and muss her hair." Times really have changed if that's all they want to do to her. But as we already know, Wonder Chick takes good care of her hair... even when it's just a wig. And she definitely knows how to "endear" herself...By showing off some Rosario Dawson-like talent! Don't call Haney a sexist though, she's the one that makes the collar.

Lessons learned in this Educational Extravaganza:
1. Girls can kick your ass.
2. Only boys with mechanical aptitude are ever likely to drop out of high school.
3. "A Teen Titan gets mad when you ruffle his cool!"

More lessons to come, so stay in school, kids!