The Elite
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For other use of the term within comics, see Elite (comics).
| The Elite | |
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 The original line up from Action Comics #775. They are: Menagerie I (foreground), Hat, Manchester Black and Coldcast (background, left to right) |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Action Comics #775 (March 2001) |
| Created by | Joe Kelly (writer) Doug Mahnke (artist) |
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| Member(s) | Coldcast Hat Manchester Black Menagerie I Menagerie II Vera Black |
The Elite is a team of super-powered anti-heroes appearing in stories published by DC Comics. The team took early influences from The Authority.[1]
They made their first appearance in the story "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?", published in Action Comics #775 (March 2001). The story, which was voted number 1 in Wizard Magazine's Top Ten Comics of the Decade. was written by Joe Kelly, pencilled by Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo, inked by Tom Nguyen. They appeared in a number of stories as antagonists, before some of them merged with members of the Justice League, to form Justice League Elite.
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[edit] Team Members
- Manchester Black, the team's first leader, currently dead after he realized that he'd become as bad as the villains he wanted to fight.
- Vera Black, the sister of Manchester Black and the second leader of The Elite
- Coldcast, capable of manipulating electromagnetism, he was eventually inspired by Superman to fight on the side of heroes
- Menagerie I, joined with an alien weapon crèche, lobotomized and placed in a coma.
- Menagerie II, joined with an alien weapon crèche which drove her insane, now in a metahuman prison facility.
- Hat, armed with a magic hat, he quit the team shortly after Vera Black took over
- Bunny, a bacterial colony that became a floating fortress before The Elite brought her to their universe to use as a base of operations. It is the equivalent to The Carrier. On the rare glimpse inside, it appears to contain many wonders including Excalibur and the skeleton of Pegasus.
[edit] Publication
They have appeared in a number of titles and all but Action Comics #795 have been reprinted in trade paperbacks:
- Justice League Elite:
- Volume 1 (collects: Action Comics #775, JLA #100, JLA Secret Files 2004, and Justice League Elite #1-4, 208 pages, 2005, Titan ISBN 1-84576-191-X, DC ISBN 1-4012-0481-3)[2]
- Volume 2 (collects Justice League Elite #5-12, 192 pages, 2007, Titan ISBN 1-84576-632-6, DC ISBN 1-4012-1556-4)[3]
- Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told Volume 1 (includes Action Comics #775, 192 pages, Titan, 2006 ISBN 1-84576-399-8 DC, 2004 ISBN 1-4012-0339-6)[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ MacPherson, Don, "Critiques on Infinite Earths". Retrieved on 23 March 2008.
- ^ JLE Vol. 1 profile at DC
- ^ JLE Vol. 2 profile at DC
- ^ Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told profile at DC
[edit] References
- The Elite at the Comic Book DB
- A profile of the team
