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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. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Justice League Task Force was a monthly comic book series published by DC Comics from June 1993 to August 1996; it lasted 37 issues. ... The term black op has two related meanings: Black operation which is a type of covert operation. ... The Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a fictional DC Universe superhero team. ...

"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. 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). ...

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. History The Elite are the top chosen to Darkseid, heir of Apokolips. ... The Hat is a Japanese anti-hero in the DC Comics team called The Elite. ... Somerset is a census-designated place located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ...

Membership

• Sister Superior, sister of The Elite's first leader Manchester Black, sees the elite as a means of atoning for her brother's actions.
• Coldcast, the only original member of The Elite in the JLE, and inspired by Superman to fight for right after his earlier actions in the Elite.
• Menagerie II, joined with an alien weapon crèche (Formerly bonded to her now-comatose sister) which drove her insane, now in a metahuman prison facility.
• Manitou Raven and his wife Dawn (who later becomes Manitou Dawn), serving as the team's magical expert.
• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen), serving as the team's tactical expert and left-winger, commonly coordinating their battles from the base; has a brief affair with Dawn
• Flash (Wally West), working in the Elite after recent events caused him to question the League's policy of only reacting to threats; he was a member of both teams simultaneously, but used a new, dark costume for his 'Elite' work
• Major Disaster, a former supervillain who wished to try something new in the hero business
• Kasumi, apparently an assassin who killed two hundred men before she was sixteen, but actually an undercover Batgirl (Cassandra Cain) sent by Batman to monitor the Elite
• 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.

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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)

External links

• DC's JLE mini-site with 6 page preview of JLE #1.
• Details of the 12 issue limited series
• Review of Justice League Elite #1