User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 201 "Happy New Year!" discussion/@comment-4607276-20120430002832/@comment-3465526-20120430031558

First black member of the Teen Titans and lamest of all the lame 1970's token black superheroes. Poor Mal was the worst executed comics character of his day -- five, six, (eight? -- seemed like it) super-hero identities and each one lamer than the last. (I think they made him Guardian for a while if I remember correctly)