1st Issue Special No. 2 - May 1975
the Green Team
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The Green Team is a fictional comic book team of rich-kid adventurers whose only published starring appearance made it a cult item by a legendary comic creator. The team appeared in DC Comics' 1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975), created by writer Joe Simon (the co-creator of Captain America and legendary artist Jack Kirby's longtime collaborator) and artist Jerry Grandenetti.
The team consisted of Commodore Murphy, boy shipping magnate; J.P. Huston, oil tycoon; Cecil Sunbeam, a Hollywood film director known as "The Starmaker"; and Abdul Smith, a shoeshine boy who made a killing in the stock market. All that was needed to join the group was a million dollars.
The boys paid fortunes to anyone who could offer them a worthy adventure. In their 1st and only published story, they funded the "Great American Pleasure Machine", a sort of roller coaster ride that brings so much pleasure, it drives the villain of the piece insane.
As a text page in 1st Issue Special #2 (May 1975) explained, their jumpsuit uniforms had many pockets for money, with special locks, and they carried ticker-tape wristwatches, a chain of keys that would unlock any of their many labs and money vaults in far-flung lands, and a quarter-million dollars each that any of them could whip out at any time in the name of adventure.