The Elite is a team of super-powered anti-heroes appearing in stories published by DC Comics. The team took early influences from The Authority.
They made their first appearance in the story "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?", published in Action Comics #775 (March 2001). The story, which was voted number 1 in Wizard Magazine's Top Ten Comics of the Decade. was written by Joe Kelly, pencilled by Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo, inked by Tom Nguyen. They appeared in a number of stories as antagonists, before some of them merged with members of the Justice League to form Justice League Elite.
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