The Green Team (comics)
| The Green Team | |
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The Green Team from 1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975).
Cover art by Jerry Grandenetti |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance |
1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975) |
| Created by |
Joe Simon (writer) Jerry Grandenetti (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Member(s) | Commodore Murphy J.P. Huston Cecil Sunbeam Abdul Smith |
The Green Team is a fictional comic book team of rich-kid adventurers published by DC Comics. The team debuted in 1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975), and was created by Joe Simon and Jerry Grandenetti. In its initial appearance, the group was subtitled "Boy Millionaires". In 2010s comics, a revamped version of the group appears in a series called subtitled "Teen Trillionaires".
The Green Team's only published adventure appears in 1st Issue Special #2 (cover-dated May 1975), a try-out magazine of DC Comics. Two issues of a regular Green Team series were in various stages of completion but were not published.
Two inventoried stories were belatedly published in the first volume of Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (Fall 1978), a two-volume collection DC Comics printed on photocopiers to secure copyrights on the stack of unpublished material left over after the DC Implosion. In the first of the two unpublished adventures, the boys were pitted against giant lobsters and the Russian Navy. In what would have been the third issue, the Green Team face a villain called the Paperhanger who had special wallpaper that grew plants and trees, and who was a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler. They dispatch all menaces, then disappear into history in their private jet.
In subsequent decades, the Green Team appeared in one panel of Animal Man #25 (July 1990), written by Grant Morrison. In this self-reflexive adventure, Animal Man, on his way to meet writer Morrison, passes through a town populated by many obscure DC characters including Ultra the Multi-Alien, Max Mercury, Red Bee, the Space Canine Patrol Agents, and the Green Team. The boys beg Animal Man to rescue them from limbo and offer to bribe him with sacks full of cash. The team also appears in a single page of Adventures of Superman #549 (Aug. 1997), written by Karl Kesel, in which the boys meet the Newsboy Legion and Dingbats of Danger Street, financing a youth center for the two street gangs. Cecil Sunbeam and Abdul Smith appear in Ambush Bug: Year None #1 (Sept. 2008), written by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming. Ambush Bug is assigned to solve the murder of Jonni DC and the team provides clues as he investigates.
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