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Justice League Elite was a 12-issue comic book limited series published monthly by DC Comics in 2004 and 2005. The title was created by writer Joe Kelly and penciller Doug Mahnke.

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.

"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.

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.

• Sister Superior, sister of The Elite's first leader Manchester Black.
• Coldcast, the only original member of The Elite in the JLE.
• Menagerie II, joined with an alien weapon crèche which drove her insane, now in a metahuman prison facility.
• Manitou Raven and his wife Dawn (who later becomes Manitou Dawn).
• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
• Flash (Wally West)
• Major Disaster, a former supervillain
• Kasumi, apparently an assassin but actually an undercover Batgirl (Cassandra Cain)
• 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.

• 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)

• 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