Justice League Europe
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Justice League Europe was a DC Comics book run that was a spin-off of Justice League International (which was renamed Justice League America at the time). It ran for a total of 68 issues (plus five annuals) from 1989 to 1994. Like Justice League America, the series featured a lot of tongue in cheek humor but was a much more action-centric series than Justice League America. The action themed nature of the series was most overt with the series's most famous arc "The Extremists". The arc featured the JLE fighting a cadre of psychopathic villains patterned after Marvel Comics villains; Doctor Doom, Magneto, Doctor Octupus, Sabretooth and Dormammu.
The team was originally centered out of Paris, France but later moved to an abandoned castle in Great Britain.
Some time after the cancellation of the series, it was revealed in an issue of Starman that Justice League Europe was being reformed (as La Fraternité de Justice et Liberte). The new team consisted of Crimson Fox, Amazing Man, Blue Devil, Firestorm, and Icemaiden. Icemaiden turned out to be Nash, daughter of The Mist (the fate of the real Icemaiden is unknown) who destroyed the team forever when she murdered Crimson Fox, Blue Devil, and Amazing Man (Blue Devil was later restored to life by Faust).
Several members of the JLE, alongside members of the JLI, later formed the Super Buddies, whose humorous adventures were featured in the miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League and I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League.
Original Team Members
- Captain Atom (leader)
- Power Girl
- Flash III (Wally West)
- Elongated Man
- Animal Man
- Metamorpho
- Rocket Red 4 (deceased)
- Wonder Woman
- Sue Dibny (technical support) (deceased)
- Catherine Cobert (administrator)
Later Recruits
- Crimson Fox (deceased)
- Silver Sorceress (deceased)
- Blue Jay
- Dr. Light IV
- Aquaman
- Green Lantern II (Hal Jordan)
- Tasmanian Devil
- Maya
Prominent Allies
- Batman
- Power Girl's cat "Guy" - Named for her rival, Guy Gardner, as a spoof and in sarcasm after the cat successfully terrorized him.
- Inspector Camus
- Mitch Wacky
- Beefeater
- Duke Donald
- Godfrey a.k.a. Gaius
- Erewhon
- Lionheart
- Seneca
- Osiris
La Fraternité de Justice et Liberte
- Crimson Fox II (deceased)
- Firestorm (presumed deceased)
- Blue Devil
- Icemaiden (never actually appeared)
- Amazing Man II (inactive, possibly deceased)
See also
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