Teen Titans #42 is an issue of the series Teen Titans (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1972.
Synopsis for "Slaves of the Emperor Bug"
Wonder Girl acquires a mysterious beetle-shaped brooch, which comes to life and claims to be a transformed golden warrior, doomed to this form by a mystical enemy since ancient times. She and Lilith convince the skeptical male Titans to come to Yucatan on a quest to restore the beetle's true shape, but when the others are endangered, Wonder Girl leaves to pursue her goal alone. The other Titans locate her in time to save her from death by snake-bite, but then the entire team is taken captive in a hidden cavern by Johnny Carpetbag, a hobo who is actually a servant of the beetle-entity. The revived "beetle" proves to be a gigantic bug-creature, not a handsome humanoid warrior as it had claimed, and Wonder Girl, with the help of the beetle-god's revived enemy, Mordron, is barely able to free her teammates before the entire cavern is destroyed in the battle between the two sorcerous creatures.
Appearing in "Slaves of the Emperor Bug"
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Supporting Characters:
- Mordron
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- Lord Beetle
- Johnny Carpetbag
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