Justice League Elite

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

Justice League Elite

The cover to Justice League Elite #1.
Art by Doug Mahnke and Tom Nguyen.

Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication dates	2004-2005
Number of issues	12

Creative team
Writer(s)	Joe Kelly
Artist(s)	Doug Mahnke
Creator(s)	Joe Kelly Doug Mahnke

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. They operated out of Somerset, New Jersey.

[edit] Membership

Sister Superior, sister of The Elite's first leader Manchester Black.
Coldcast, the only original member of The Elite in the JLE.
Menagerie II, joined with an alien weapon crèche which drove her insane, now in a metahuman prison facility.
Manitou Raven and his wife Dawn (who later becomes Manitou Dawn).
Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
Flash (Wally West)
Major Disaster, a former supervillain
Kasumi, apparently an assassin but actually an undercover Batgirl (Cassandra Cain)
Naif al-Sheikh, an Arab expert in international espionage who was brought in by Vera Black because she believed his hatred of metahumans would keep the team in check.

[edit] 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 1-84576-191-X DC ISBN 1-4012-0481-3)

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Creators	Gardner Fox
Characters	List of Justice League members
Related teams	Justice League Elite \| Justice Society of America \| Outsiders \| Super Buddies \| Teen Titans \| Young Justice
Headquarters	Secret Sanctuary \| Justice League Satellite \| Justice League Watchtower
Ongoing series	Justice League of America (vol. 2) \| JLA: Classified \| Justice \| Justice League Adventures / Justice League Unlimited
Previous series	Justice League of America \| Justice League International \| Justice League Europe \| Justice League Quarterly \| Justice League Task Force \| Extreme Justice \| JLA
Other media	Cartoons: The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure \| Super Friends \| Justice League \| Justice League Unlimited Live Action: Legends of the Superheroes \| 1997 TV Pilot Video Games: Justice League Task Force \| Justice League: Injustice for All \| Justice League: Chronicles \| Justice League Heroes