| "Millennium" | |||
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 Cover ofMillennium #5 (February 1988), art byJoe Staton and Bruce D. Patterson. | |||
| Publisher | DC Comics | ||
| Publication date | January – February1988 | ||
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| Main character(s) | Justice League International Green Lantern Corps New Guardians Manhunters | ||
| Creative team | |||
| Writer | Steve Englehart | ||
| Penciller | Joe Staton | ||
| Inker | Ian Gibson | ||
| Letterer | Bob Lappan | ||
| Colorist | Carl Gafford | ||
| Editor | Andy Helfer | ||
| Softcover | ISBN 978-1-4012-2065-5 | ||
"Millennium" was acomic bookcrossover story line that ran through an eight-issue, self-titled,limited series and various other titles cover dated January and February 1988 byDC Comics. The limited series was published weekly,[1] which was a departure for an American series. It was written bySteve Englehart, and with art byJoe Staton andIan Gibson.[2]
The story takes place at a time when theGuardians of the Universe left Earth's dimension along with their mates, theZamarons. However, one Guardian, Herupa Hando Hu, and his Zamaron mate, Nadia Safir, travel to Earth and announced to the world that they would select ten people to become thenew Guardians of the Universe and give birth to a new race of immortals. They gather Earth's superheroes and sent them to find the chosen people around the world, includingThomas Kalmaku and theFloronic Man.
Unknown to everyone, the roboticManhunters had obtained the sphere thatHarbinger used to store the information she had gathered about the universe afterCrisis on Infinite Earths. Using the sphere, the Manhunters learn the secret identities of Earth's heroes, and had planted their agents close to them. On finding out about the search for The Chosen, the Manhunters decided to prevent it, and had their agents reveal themselves and attack Earth’s heroes. The heroes, joined by Harbinger, defeat the Manhunter agents.
The Heroes managed to gather most of the Chosen, but two were killed over the course of the series, one (Terra of theTeen Titans) was dead, and one was senile. Another Chosen, a white supremacist from South Africa named Janwillem Kroef, eventually left the group because it contained non-white members. The Guardian and the Zamaron then died activating the latent powers of the remaining Chosen. They became a new superhero group, TheNew Guardians, which had its own comic book series afterwards, also by Englehart and Staton. The new series only lasted 12 issues.
The spirits of Herupa Hando Hu and Nadia Safir reappear and explain that alternate plans had been put in motion, and that a group of beings created by Kroef would be the true Chosen. The New Guardians later disbanded. The current status of the second Chosen is unknown.
Millennium an eight-part miniseries, written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Joe Staton [was] delivered in weekly installments.