The Elite (DC Comics)
| The Elite | |
|---|---|
 The original line up from Action Comics #775. They are: Menagerie I (foreground), Hat, Manchester Black and Coldcast (background, left to right) | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Action Comics #775 (March 2001) |
| Created by | Joe Kelly (writer) Doug Mahnke (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| 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.
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, his sister and the second leader of The Elite
- Coldcast, capable of manipulating electromagnetism, he was eventually inspired by Superman to fight on the right side
- 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 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.
Publication
They have appeared in a number of titles and all but Action Comics #795 have been reprinted in trade paperbacks:
- Justice League Elite:
- 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]
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
References
- The Elite at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- A profile of the team