Justice League Elite
Justice League Elite is a twelve-issue comic book limited series published monthly by DC Comics in 2004 and 2005. The title was created by writer Joe Kelly and penciller Doug Mahnke. The limited series is a spin-off from the JLA title.
Justice League Elite
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- Doug Mahnke
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- English
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Justice League Elite is a twelve-issue comic book limited series published monthly by DC Comics in 2004 and 2005. The title was created by writer Joe Kelly and penciller Doug Mahnke. The limited series is a spin-off from the JLA title.
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The Justice League Elite was formed to attempt black ops that would not be acceptable for the JLA to "sully their hands" with. "The Justice League Elite are a not-exactly-sanctioned, don't-ask-don't-tell, covert operations unit-- newly formed to hunt and eliminate extra-normal threats to the earth before they go public". (JLA Secret Files and Origins 2004) The team was formed at the end JLA #100 from most of the second incarnation of The Elite (only missing Hat), members of the JLA and a couple of spies/assassins. They operated out of Somerset, New Jersey.
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• Schedule — Monthly • Limited — y • Superhero — y • Publisher — DC Comics • Startmo — September • Startyr — 2004 • Endmo — August • Endyr — 2005 • Issues — 12 • Main Char Team — Sister Superior Coldcast Menagerie Manitou Raven Green Arrow Flash Major Disaster Kasumi Naif al-Sheikh • Writers — Joe Kelly • Artists — Doug Mahnke • Tpb — Volume 1 • Isbn — 1-4012-0481-3 • Tpb1 — Volume 2 • Isbn1 — 1-4012-1556-4 • Subcat — DC Comics • Sort — Justice League Elite • Addpubcat1 — Justice League titles
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The group's appearances have been collected in two 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, DC) • Volume 2 (collects Justice League Elite #5–12, 192 pages, 2007, Titan, DC)
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- “Justice League Elite”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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• Sister Superior, sister of the Elite's first leader Manchester Black, sees the Elite as a means of atoning for her brother's actions. • Coldcast, the only original member of the Elite in the JLE, and inspired by Superman to fight for right after his earlier actions in the Elite. • Menagerie, joined with an alien weapon crèche (formerly bonded to her comatose sister) which drove her insane, now in a metahuman prison facility. • Manitou Raven and his wife Dawn (who later becomes Manitou Dawn after her husband's death), serving as the team's magical expert. • Green Arrow (Oliver Queen), serving as the team's tactical expert and left-winger, commonly coordinating their battles from the base; has a brief affair with Dawn. • Flash (Wally West), working in the Elite after recent events caused him to question the League's policy of only reacting to threats; he was a member of both teams simultaneously, but used a new, dark costume for his time with the Elite. • Major Disaster, a former supervillain who reformed and went on to join the Justice League. • Kasumi, supposedly an assassin who killed two hundred men before she was sixteen, but actually an undercover Batgirl (Cassandra Cain), sent by Batman to monitor the Elite. • Naif al-Sheikh, an Arab expert in international espionage who was brought in by Vera Black because she believed his dislike of metahumans would keep the team in check.
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