Justice League Europe
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Publisher | DC Comics |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Ongoing series |
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Publication date | List
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Creative team | |
Created by | Keith Giffen J. M. DeMatteis |
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Justice League Europe (JLE) is a
Justice League Europe was published for 68 issues (plus five Annuals) from 1989 to 1994. Starting with issue #51 the title was renamed Justice League International (vol. 2). Like Justice League America, the series featured tongue-in-cheek humor but was a much more action-centric series than Justice League America.
The action-themed nature of the series was most overt with the series' most famous arc "The Extremists". The arc featured the Justice League Europe fighting
The team was originally headquartered in Paris, France but later moved to an abandoned castle in Great Britain.
Publication history
The Old World Team
After the membership of the Justice League had grown to an unwieldy number of characters, DC split it into two teams. The original Justice League Europe consists of:
- Captain Atom (field commander)
- Elongated Man
- Power Girl
- Flash (Wally West)
- Rocket Red
- Animal Man
- Metamorpho
- Catherine Cobert (bureau chief)
- Sue Dibny (information manager, later bureau chief)
Later members of the original team include:
- Crimson Fox (joined issue #10)
- Blue Jay(joined issue #19)
- Silver Sorceress (joined issue #19)
Justice League: Breakdowns
"Breakdowns" was a 15-issue crossover between the Justice League America and Justice League Europe titles, revising the organization.
Maxwell Lord is initially in a coma from a failed assassination attempt. He is later possessed by JLE foe Dreamslayer of the Extremists. Following the end of the "Breakdowns" saga, he has no more mental powers, apparently drained completely when possessed by Dreamslayer.
The Queen Bee, ruler of the country Bialya, is killed in a coup d'état led by Sumaan Harjavti, the twin brother of the original dictator ruler, Rumaan.
Despero awakens and escapes Manga Khan's starship to wreak havoc on New York City, seeking vengeance against the Justice League. A force of the Justice League's best (Martian Manhunter, Power Girl, Fire, Rocket Red, Metamorpho, Flash, Guy Gardner, Major Disaster) with the Conglomerate (led by Booster Gold) and Lobo were unable to stop him. Ultimately, it was Kilowog and L-Ron who subdued Despero by transferring L-Ron's consciousness into the cybernetic control collar that remained around his neck.
While possessing Maxwell Lord's body, Dreamslayer kidnaps and later murders Mitch Wacky on the island of
The Silver Sorceress, one of the former Champions of Angor and Justice League member, dies defeating Dreamslayer. Her gravesite is on the island of KooeyKooeyKooey.
The U.N. withdraws its support from the Justice League and it disbands. The Martian Manhunter seemingly takes a leave of absence, although later re-emerges under the persona of Bloodwynd.
Also, the Breakdowns storyline reorganized the JLE. The team relocated to London and several characters left or were replaced. The new lineup starting in issue #37, led by Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) consisted of:
- Flash (Wally West)
- Aquaman
- Dr. Light
- Power Girl
- Crimson Fox
- Elongated Man (and Sue)
Expansion
The release of Justice League Spectacular launched the revised Justice League titles with new writers and artists.[3] The Justice League titles expanded to four by June 1993: Justice League America (formerly Justice League International), Justice League Europe (retitled as the second volume of Justice League International), Justice League Quarterly, and Justice League Task Force. In late 1994 Justice League International and Justice League Quarterly were cancelled and replaced by a new monthly title in January 1995, Extreme Justice.
With new writers and artists in the various titles coming and going, there was little consistency in continuity and quality. The more powerful and recognizable characters such as Superman, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), and Batman came and went out of the various Justice League titles, replaced by new or lesser known characters such as
In the summer of 1996, with sales fading, all three remaining monthly series were cancelled and replaced by JLA.
Doomsday Clock
In the
Recurring characters
- Power Girl's cat
- Batman
- Inspector Camus
- Mitch Wacky
- Beefeater
- Duke Donald
- Godfrey (also known as Gaius)
- Erewhon
- Lionheart
- Seneca
- Osiris
After Justice League Europe
La Fraternité de Justice et Liberté
Some time after the cancellation of the series, it was revealed in an issue of
- Crimson Fox (Constance D'Aramis)
- Firestorm(Ronnie Raymond)
- Blue Devil
- Icemaiden(never actually appeared)
- Amazing-Man (Will Everett III)
JLA Showcase #1
In 1999 Greg Weisman wrote a story for
- Captain Atom
- Flash
- Kilowog
- Metamorpho
- Blue Jay
Formerly Known as the Justice League / I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League
Several members of this incarnation of the Justice League later formed the
Writers
- Keith Giffen: #1-35, Annual #1
- J. M. DeMatteis: #1-9, 13, Annual #1
- William Messner-Loebs: #10-13
- Gerard Jones: #14-50, Annual #2-3
Collected editions
Title | Material collected | Published date | ISBN |
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Justice League International Volume 5 | Justice League Europe #1–6 and Justice League International Annual #2–3, | January 2011 | 978-1401230104 |
Justice League International Volume 6 | Justice League Europe #7–11 and Justice League America #31–35 | May 2011 | 978-1401231194 |
Justice League International Omnibus Vol. 1 | Justice League Europe #1-6 and Justice League (vol. 1) #1-6, Annual #1, Justice League International (vol. 1) #7-25, Annual #2-3, Justice League America #26-30, Suicide Squad #13 | October 2017 | 978-1401273866 |
Justice League International Omnibus Vol. 2 | Justice League Europe #7-25, Annual #1 and Justice League America #31-50, Justice League America Annual #4, Justice League Quarterly #1, Justice League International Special #1 | November 2020 | 978-1779502964 |
In other media
- In a parody of the Super Friends, the sketch "That's What Superfriends Are For" on Mad features the founding team of Justice League Europe (minus Rocket Red and Metamorpho).
- In the show Fire, tells Emily that she was accepted by the group; while Emily is happy for her, she tells her the group is not in the top five of Justice Leagues.
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-7566-6742-9.
Spinning out of the pages of Justice League International, an offshoot of the Justice League set up camp in Paris. Written by Keith Giffen and J. M. DeMatteis with art by Bart Sears.
- OCLC 213309017
- ^ Manning "1990s" in Dolan, p. 252: "With the [Justice League] titles spearheaded by Superman mainstay Dan Jurgens, writer Gerard Jones and artists Rick Burchett and Ron Randall jumped on board as well to help revitalize the franchise".
- ^ Doomsday Clock #5 (May 2018). DC Comics.