Really? Where do they do that?
I'm seeing a lot of misinformation on this thread and not a lot of clarification.
Did you go to comics.org? If you had, you'd have gotten the clarification. Here it is. Comics.org's listing for BB 54 clarifies its relationship to the Teen Titans with the following:
"Indexer Notes
"Kid Flash, Robin and Aqualad - later to become the Teen Titans."
I did go to comics.org. There are no stated "factors" for what constitutes a first appearance. As I said, a lot of misinformation on this thread. Not the least of which the claim that wikis are authoritative, something my middle school kid knows is not the case (he'll get down graded for citing wikis as sources in his papers).
I never said there were factors for what constitutes a first appearance. I said they explain what factors are relevant to the Teen Titans' first appearance. It lists the three individual superheroes who appear and explains that they later become the Teen Titans.
Calling something misinformation does not make it so. Impugning an industry source does not make them un-credible. I'm well aware that it's a wiki. Overstreet is not. In my experience, Overstreet has more errors. The fact that something is a wiki doesn't just address the fact that it could be wrong (as can ANY authority), it tells us that it has mechanisms in place to fix those errors. And calling them a wiki doesn't mean they're wrong.
Or else by now you'd have shared the BB 54 panel that proves them wrong. Which you haven't.
My apologies if I'm being dense, but I don't follow what the bolded statements mean. What exactly explains the relevant factors of TT's first appearance? The second bolded "explains" loses me, too. There's no explanation, just a statement.