Originally Posted by
Shamrock Holmes
Given that the Deathstroke and Titans issues were written by Marv Wolfmann, who though he didn't get it right all the time (for instance, IIRC he gave three contradictory datapoints for Dick's age in the same issue once), was the regular writer for those titles so might be expected to get it right at least in the broadstrokes, whereas the Action Comics issue was written by Peter David, who seems to have been more of a "pinch hitter" floating around various books as needed, I'd be more inclined to dismiss the Action Comics reference first.