The Elite (DC Comics)

The Elite
The original line up from Action Comics #775. Clockwise: Menagerie I (foreground), Hat, Manchester Black and Coldcast.
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Action Comics #775 (March 2001)
Created by Joe Kelly
Doug Mahnke
In-story information
Member(s) Coldcast
Hat
Manchester Black
Menagerie
Menagerie
Vera Black

The Elite is a team of fictional super-powered antiheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, in particular those featuring Superman and The Justice League. The Elite 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, inked by Tom Nguyen and penciled by Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo. They appeared as antagonists before some of the characters merged with members of the Justice League to form the Justice League Elite.

Team members

  • Manchester Black is the team's first leader. A British telekinetic vigilante, currently inactive after realizing that he'd become as bad as the villains he wanted to fight.
  • Vera Black is a British psionic cyborg, sister of Manchester Black and the second leader of the Elite.
  • Coldcast is a very large and muscular African-American man who wore dreadlocks and chains and manacles around his neck and wrists. He is capable of manipulating electromagnetism. He was eventually inspired by Superman to fight on the side of heroes.
  • The first Menagerie is a Puerto Rican woman with a symbiotic suit of armor that allows her to transform into a chimeric creature. She was lobotomized and rendered comatose. The second Menagerie is the sister of Menagerie I. She joins with an alien weapon cache that drives her insane, and later incarcerated metahuman prison facility.
  • The Hat is a young and a powerful Asian Earth elemental with a measure of invulnerability and an ability to breathe fire. He is armed with a magic hat from which he can pull any item he desires, summon demons, and wield magic. He quits the team shortly after Vera Black takes over.
  • Bunny is a bacterial colony that became a floating fortress before The Elite brought her to their universe to use as a base of operations. It contains many wonders such as Excalibur and the skeleton of Pegasus.

Collected editions

All appearances of The Elite apart from 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,[1][2][3]
    • Volume 2 (collects Justice League Elite #5–12, 192 pages, 2007[4][5][6]
  • Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told Volume 1 (includes Action Comics #775, 192 pages[7][8][9]

In other media

The Elite appeared in Superman vs. The Elite,[10] with Manchester Black voiced by Robin Atkin Downes, Vera Black voiced by Marcella Lentz-Pope, Coldcast voiced by Catero Colbert, Menagerie voiced by Melissa Disney, and Hat voiced by Andrew Kishino.

References

  1. ↑ Titan ISBN 1-84576-191-X
  2. ↑ DC ISBN 1-4012-0481-3)
  3. ↑ JLE Vol. 1 profile at DC Archived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Titan ISBN 1-84576-632-6
  5. ↑ DC ISBN 1-4012-1556-4)
  6. ↑ JLE Vol. 2 profile at DC Archived April 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ Titan, 2006 ISBN 1-84576-399-8
  8. ↑ DC, 2004 ISBN 1-4012-0339-6)
  9. ↑ Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told profile at DC Archived October 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ Rich Sands (2012-02-13). "First Look: Pauley Perrette Plays Lois Lane in a New Animated Superman Adventure – Today's News: Our Take". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2014-05-30.
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