# Favorite superhero team
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 22, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553 "2016-07-22T03:24:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/61 "2016-08-10T16:10:16Z")
The Toxic Crusaders.
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### Author:  [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/62 "2016-08-10T22:21:00Z")
**Section 8** :
Sixpack
Bueno Excellente
The Defenestrator
Dogwelder
Friendly Fire
Jean de Baton-Baton
Flemgem
Shakes
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### Author:  [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/63 "2016-08-11T07:16:47Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#):
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> The thread’s gotten this far without anyone mentioning Batman and the Outsiders? They were my favorite team of the '80s (at least before Batman quit and Looker joined)
Mike W. Carr’s work on this is I think overlooked. Batman telling the Justice League to sod off and forming his own group - which had two other members who also told the JLA that they weren’t interested - was a creative masterstroke. It was a schism. Many of the villains were one-dimensional, but the concept was great.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/64 "2016-08-11T13:34:53Z")
I figure reasonable folks can disagree over whether the coolest adventurer in comics is the Phantom or Mandrake the Magician – the latter of whom invariably teams up with Lothar, the African prince who happens to be the world’s strongest man. But I ask you: who could serve as a fourth Defender Of The Earth?
**FLASH!** Aa_Aaa!_
He’llSaveEveryOneOfUs!
**FLASH!** He’s a **MIRACLE!** King of the **IMPOSSIBLE!** Savior of the **UNIVERSE!**
He’sForEveryOneOfUs! StandForEveryOneOfUs! Every man! Every woman! Every child!
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### Author:  [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/65 "2016-08-11T14:54:08Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> I figure reasonable folks can disagree over whether the coolest adventurer in comics is the Phantom or Mandrake the Magician – the latter of whom invariably teams up with Lothar, the African prince who happens to be the world’s strongest man. But I ask you: who could serve as a fourth Defender Of The Earth?
>
> **FLASH!** Aa_Aaa!_
>
> He’llSaveEveryOneOfUs!
>
> **FLASH!** He’s a **MIRACLE!** King of the **IMPOSSIBLE!** Savior of the **UNIVERSE!**
>
> He’sForEveryOneOfUs! StandForEveryOneOfUs! Every man! Every woman! Every child!
Well, yeah. The DotE was King Features super-team. Unless you bring in time travel (so Prince Valiant could join), who else is there? Dennis the Menace? Beetle Bailey? Leroy Lockhorn? Popeye? (Wait – that might work.)
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/66 "2016-08-11T15:53:42Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#):
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> Well, yeah. The DotE was King Features super-team. Unless you bring in time travel (so Prince Valiant could join), who else is there? Dennis the Menace? Beetle Bailey? Leroy Lockhorn? Popeye? (Wait – that might work.)
Dunno if you know this, but Mandrake and Flash Gordon and the Phantom – and, yes, Prince Valiant – are in the middle of a comic-book team-up with Jungle Jim. (And, yes, having Flash Gordon also means Dale Arden and Ming the Merciless, and so on.)
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### Author:  [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/67 "2016-08-11T21:43:17Z")
The Cavity Creeps. (“_We! make! holes-in-teeth! We! make! holes-in-teeth!_”)
Runners up were the X-Men, issues 100-200 give or take a few.
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### Author:  [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/68 "2016-08-12T20:20:10Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> Dunno if you know this, but Mandrake and Flash Gordon and the Phantom – and, yes, Prince Valiant – are in the middle of a comic-book team-up with Jungle Jim. (And, yes, having Flash Gordon also means Dale Arden and Ming the Merciless, and so on.)
I didn’t! Thanks, I’ll go check out [comicskingdom.com](http://comicskingdom.com)
EDIT: Oh, you said comic book, not strip. Have to find a comic shop that carries it, in that case.
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-superhero-team/760553/69 "2016-08-12T20:25:22Z")
> [@Cartoonacy](#):
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> I didn’t! Thanks, I’ll go check out [comicskingdom.com](http://comicskingdom.com)
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> EDIT: Oh, you said comic book, not strip. Have to find a comic shop that carries it, in that case.
It’s under the title “Kings Quest” – following up the “Kings Watch” series with Flash and Mandrake and Lothar and the Phantom a while back.
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