The Elite

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 (writer) Doug Mahnke (artist)
In-story information
Member(s)	Coldcast Hat Manchester Black Menagerie Menagerie Vera Black

The Elite is a team of fictional super-powered antiheroes featured in a DC Comics series.

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.

Manchester Black was 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 was a British psionic cyborg, sister of Manchester Black and the second leader of the Elite.

Coldcast was 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.

Menagerie was a Puerto Rican woman with a symbiotic suit of armor that allowed her to transform into a chimeric creature. She was lobotomized and placed in a coma.

Menagerie was the sister of Menagerie I. She joined with an alien weapon cache that drove her insane. She is now in a metahuman prison facility.

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