Justice League Elite

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For other use of the term within comics, see Elite (comics).

Justice League Elite was a 12-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.

Reminiscent of the 1993 monthly comic book Justice League Task Force, 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)

This new formation of the Justice League faction suddenly creates a confusion as both Justice League Elite and Justice League Europe both have used the abbreviation JLE.

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.

Team members

Members of JLE include:

Sister Superior, sister of The Elite's first leader Manchester Black
Coldcast, the only original member of The Elite in the JLE
Menagerie II, sister of the first Menagerie
Manitou Raven and his wife Dawn (later Manitou Dawn)
Green Arrow
Flash
Major Disaster, a former supervillian
Kasumi, apparently an assassin but actually an undercover Batgirl Cassandra Cain
Naif al-Sheikh, an expert in espionage

Publication

Justice League Elite Volume 1 (reprints: Action Comics #775, JLA #100, JLA Secret Files 2004 (lead story), and Justice League Elite #1-4, tpb, 208 pages, 2005, Titan ISBN 184576191X DC ISBN 1401204813)

External links

[Details of the 12 issue limited series]

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