Green Team (comics)

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The Green Team
The Green Team from 1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975), cover art by Jerry Grandenetti.
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
First appearance1st Issue Special #2
(May 1975)
Created byJoe Simon
Jerry Grandenetti
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 appeared in a series subtitled "Teen Trillionaires", thus adjusting for both inflation and the declining popularity of boy adventurers.

Publication history

The Green Team's first adventure appears in

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Cavalcade (Fall 1978), a two-volume collection DC Comics printed on photocopiers to secure copyrights on the stack of unpublished material left over after the DC Implosion. In the first of the two unpublished adventures, the boys are pitted against giant lobsters and the Russian Navy. In the second, the Green Team faces a villain called the Paperhanger who has special wallpaper that grows plants and trees, and who is a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler.[3]

In subsequent decades, the Green Team appeared in one panel of

Adventures of Superman #549 (Aug. 1997), in which the boys meet the Newsboy Legion and Dingbats of Danger Street, financing a youth center for the two street gangs. Writer Karl Kesel explained that he was a fan of the Newsboy Legion, and brought in the other two boy groups as a counterpoint to the Newsboys, since all three were created by Joe Simon and/or Jack Kirby.[2] Cecil Sunbeam and Abdul Smith, two members of the Green Team, appear in Ambush Bug: Year None
#1 (Sept. 2008).

As part of The New 52 reboot of DC's continuity, the Green Team and its sister book The Movement were re-established in 2013.[4] Written by Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani, and drawn by Ig Guara, the first issue debuted in May 2013 and focused on teens who use their financial resources to purchase power in the DC Universe, including super powers. This run lasted 8 issues and concluded in January 2014.

Fictional character biographies

The only prerequisite for joining the Green Team is possession of at least

one million dollars, primarily in cash. The boys pay fortunes to anyone who can offer them a worthy adventure. In their first story, they fund the "Great American Pleasure Machine", a sort of roller coaster
ride that brings so much pleasure, it drives the villain of the piece insane.

A text page in 1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975) explains, their jumpsuit uniforms have many pockets for money, with special locks, and they carry ticker-tape wristwatches, a chain of keys that unlock any of their many labs and money vaults in far-flung lands, and a quarter-million dollars each.

Membership

Original

The New 52

References

  1. ^ Markstein, Don. "The Green Team". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b Abramowitz, Jack (April 2014). "1st Issue Special: It Was No Showcase (But It Was Never Meant To Be)". Back Issue! (71). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 40–47.
  3. ^ Back Issue Magazine #18, TwoMorrows Publishing
  4. The Huffington Post
    . Retrieved February 8, 2013.
  5. ^ a b c d Rogers, Vaneta (February 24, 2013). "Art & Franco See GREEN TEAM as 'Most Outrageous' DC Book". Newsarama. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  6. ^ a b c Ig Guara (p), J.P. Mayer (i). "Riot Arc" The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires, vol. 1, no. 1 (July 2013). DC Comics.

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