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History

The Conglomerate is a corporate-sponsored DC Comics superhero team, created by Claire Montgomery as competition to the Justice League International, led by her ex-husband Maxwell Lord. The Conglomerate has had three incarnations, the first led by Booster Gold, and including Praxis, Maxi-Man, Echo, Vapor, Reverb and Gypsy. This team initially was hostile towards the JLI (Booster had recently quit the group over his perceived lack of respect from his peers), but the two groups gradually became more friendly. Eventually all the members of this version of the Conglomerate drifted away. DC Comics (originally called Detective Comics, Inc. ... Batman and Superman, two of the most recognizable and iconic superheroes. ... The Justice League, featuring the Flash, Superman, Aquaman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern. ... Maxwell Lord is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Gypsy is a DC Comics superheroine. ...

However, the Conglomerate had an upcoming competition with the JLI, and Montgomery quickly recruited an all new team, consisting of Deadeye, Fiero, Frostbite, Elasti-Man, Element Man, Scarab, Slipstream, and Norman the Doorman, interdimensional heros who later were revealed as villains from Qward and defeated by the Justice League. Qward is a fictional world existing within an antimatter universe that is part of the DC Comics universe. ... The Justice League is a DC Comics superhero team. ...

Current Status

The final version of the group was led by the British hero Templar, and featured returning Conglomerate members Echo and Reverb (now Hardline), as well as more established heroes Nuklon and Jesse Quick. The current status of this Conglomerate is unknown, however Jesse Quick is now a member of the JSA, and Nuklon (now Atom Smasher) is allied with Black Adam, making it appear that the team has dissolved. Atom Smasher (sometimes spelled with a hyphen) is a superhero in the DC Comics Universe. ... Jesse Chambers, aka Jesse Quick, is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ... JSA may stand for: Japanese Government Team for Safeguarding Angkor Japanese Standards Association Job Seekers Allowance Justice Society of America JSA (Korean movie) aka Joint Security Area Junior State of America - A student run organization This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might...

Other Corporate Teams

Other corporate superhero teams have been active in the DC Comics universe. The most well known are the Blood Pack, Hero Hotline, Power Company and the Captains of Industry. DC Comics (originally called Detective Comics, Inc. ... Bloodlines was a intracompany crossover that spanned all of the annuals published by DC Comics in 1993. ... Hero Hotline is a fictional DC Comics corporate superteam introduced in Hero Hotline #1 1989. ... The Power Company was a short-lived DC Comics series focusing on the exploits of a team of professional superheroes of the same name, created by writer Kurt Busiek and artist Tom Grummet. ... The Captains of Industry were a fictional DC Comics superteam introduced in 1988s Firestorm the Nuclear Man issue #88. ...