CADRE
Membership: Black Mass, Crowbar, Fastball, Nightfall, Overmaster, Shatterfist, Shrike I, Shrike II
Base of Operations: Mobile
First Appearance: Justice League of America #235 (February, 1985)
History: (Justice League of America #235) - The Cadre was brought together and given their powers by the alien parasite Overmaster. Overmaster pitted them against the JLA, supposedly to determine the fate of Earth. The JLA discovered the alien being that Overmaster was drawing his powers from, and convinced this being to remove the Cadre from the field of battle.
(Green Lantern IV #12) - The Cadre were present for a gathering of bounty hunters, intergalactic and Earthbound that took place six hundred feet under Thames.
Comments: Created by Gerry Conway & Chuck Patton.
The Cadre received profiles in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #4 and The DC Comics Encyclopedia.
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