| Intergang | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (October 1970) |
| Created by | Jack Kirby |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Organized crime |
| Leader(s) | Darkseid Bruno Mannheim Lex Luthor Moxie Mannheim |
| Agent(s) | Frank Sixty Whisper A'Daire Kyle Abbot Morgan Edge Vincent Edge |
Intergang is a fictionalorganized crime syndicate appearing inAmerican comic books published byDC Comics. Armed with technology supplied by the villainousNew Gods of the planetApokolips, they consistently appear as enemies ofSuperman.[1]
Intergang appears in the TV seriesLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,Supergirl,Superman & Lois, the animated seriesSuperman: The Animated Series,Young Justice, andMy Adventures with Superman, and theDC Extended Universe filmBlack Adam (2022).
Intergang first appeared inSuperman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133 (October 1970) and was created byJack Kirby.[2] Members of Intergang were first shown in the first issue of Kirby'sForever People in 1971.[3][4]
Intergang was founded in the 1920s by gangsterMoxie Mannheim, who was later killed by rivals.[3] It was then revived byMorgan Edge and run by Moxie's sonBruno Mannheim.[a][3] Bruno was, however, getting orders and weaponry fromDarkseid, who was using Intergang to help track down theAnti-Life Equation.[5]
Morgan Edge was the head of theGalaxy Broadcasting Systemtelevision network (which had recently purchased theDaily Planet and had Clark Kent transferred to itsMetropolis affiliate WGBS-TV as itsanchorman). It was later revealed that this was not the real Morgan Edge, but aclone from the "Evil Factory". When the clone could not bring itself to kill the original Edge at the order of Darkseid, the real Edge was imprisoned. The original Edge would later escape with the help of Jimmy Olsen. During an ensuing battle with Intergang, the clone was mistaken for the original by Intergang hitman Tombstone Gear and incinerated. The real Edge was soon free to resume his role as Galaxy's president.
Following the clone's death, different Intergang members had to run Intergang in Edge's absence. Joe Danton was the first to run Intergang and he was later killed by a car bomb.[6] Then Max Danner became the new Intergang leader.[7] He led Intergang in some criminal activities until he got apprehended. Clark Kent appeared as a key witness until he had to briefly leave to rescue Mr. Xavier. The outcome of the trial was not shown.[8] When Intergang was dissolved, SKULL took over their territories. When a SKULL assassin was sent after Intergang crime boss Samuel Simeon, he was saved by Superman, though he was later apprehended by Superman trying to start a new mob outside of Metropolis.[9]
In post-Crisis continuity, Morgan Edge was the leader of Intergang, until he suffered a heart attack due to stress. While he believed he was working for Darkseid, his Apokoliptian contact was actuallyDeSaad, whose only aim in supplying him with weaponry was to cause suffering. While he was in the hospital his legitimate businesses were taken over by his fatherVincent Edge, and Intergang was taken over by Bruno Mannheim, who trained on Apokolips withGranny Goodness. A laterretcon has it that Mannheim was the original leader of Intergang, dealing knowingly with DeSaad. How Edge took over is unrevealed.
Eventually, Intergang was brought down by Clark Kent andCat Grant, Mannheim was arrested, but managed to escape. He attempted to disappear through a Boom Tube, but it collapsed when he was halfway through.
Some time later, Mannheim's father Moxie Mannheim, a gangster who had been in prison since the 1940s after being captured by theNewsboy Legion, was released. Discovering that the Newsboys were, seemingly, the same age as when he first fought them at the time when he realigned withGranny Goodness andVirman Vundabar (whom he had a history with), Moxie determined to find out how such a thing could be.[10] Meeting renegadeProject Cadmus geneticistDabney Donovan, he arranged for himself and his dead gang members from the 1940s to be cloned into youthful bodies with superpowers which involved Dabney having to do some grave robbing. This led to his lieutenantsGinny "Torcher" McCree,Mike "Machine" Gun,Noose, andRough House being cloned and receiving superpowers. Using Vincent Edge to arrange a meeting between Metropolis' gang-leaders, an older clone of Moxie exploded enough to kill them all with Noose killing Vincent Edge. As Dabney Donovan went to look for fresh DNA samples to make use of, Moxie declared himself the new head of Intergang.[11] Donovan cloned Benny Red's gang member Raoul to serve Moxie's Intergang branch. At the time when they freedAnomaly, Moxie's Intergang branch encounteredGuardian who remembered fighting his gang in the 1940s and learned that Donovan cloned his gang back to life. Following Guardian's fight with Anomaly, Moxie's gang and Donovan got away.[12] Moxie's lieutenants spent much of their time tracking downJimmy Olsen, whom Moxie believed knewSuperman'ssecret identity.[13]
Following a short-lived attempt by Morgan Edge to regain control,Lex Luthor gained control of Intergang, retaining Moxie as a figurehead. As an act of good faith while returning the LexCorp geneticist that his minions captured, Moxie shot the Mike Gunn clone.[14] Mike Gunn was later sprung from prison by Ginny McCree, there was a police chase that led to Gunn getting wounded and both of them getting confronted by Superman outside Dabney Donovan's back alley location. Gunn died of his wounds and McCree committed suicide as Donovan came out and got himself apprehended by the police. Mickey Cannon showed up with paperwork that persuaded Dan Turpin to hand Donovan over to him. Moxie informed Luthor about what happened and that he needs Donovan to replicate his dead lieutenants. Luthor advises him to continue doing as he says and not do any bombings and jailbreaks or else he'll end up like Gunn and McCree.[15] Moxie and his remaining lieutenants Noose and Rough House were captured by Superman with Noose having been apprehended when trying to collect protection money and Moxie and Rough House being apprehended after Superman defeated the giant robot lobster. When last seen, Intergang was run by criminal cyberneticist Frank Sixty who was responsible for the giant robot lobster.[16]
Intergang is later seen in Metropolis robbing a bank during theJustice League's absence, only to be stopped and beaten by theAvengers.[17]
In the pages of52, Intergang members Noose and Rough House visitKahndaq and offerAdrianna Tomaz as tribute toBlack Adam in exchange for safe passage for their group's smuggling activity. Both of them are killed by Adam.[18]
In week 9,Question tellsRenee Montoya that Intergang is preparing for an invasion ofGotham City. Montoya and the Question investigate and learn that Intergang has been reorganized as a semi-religious group that veneratesCain as a heroic figure for committing the first murder. In issue #25, Bruno Mannheim is revealed to be the current head of Intergang as well as a cannibal who kills and eats those who refuse to join the group likeKite-Man,Mirage, Rawson, and Sewer King while Lamelle,Magpie,Squid, andVentriloquist swear their allegiance to Intergang.[19]
Mannheim later appears as a giant who wields alien technology, claiming that someone other than Darkseid is behind Intergang's current activities.[20]
InGotham Underground, Intergang is in a gang war withTobias Whale with Whale's former member Johnny "Stitches" Denetto acting as Intergang's representative.[21] Intergang buys him out and makes Whale theCEO ofKord Enterprises which has become a front for Intergang's criminal activities.[22]
In 2011,The New 52 rebooted the DC universe. Gotham City has fallen to Intergang's Religion of Crime branch.[23] During a gunfight between his gang and the police, Mister Untouchable claimed that Intergang has cut him out of the action occurring in Metropolis by selling the location of their meth laboratory to the law enforcement.[24]
Attackers from Intergang ambushLois Lane andJon Kent when she is driving him home from school. They run Lois' car off the road and into the woods. While Jon knocks out one of the attackers, Lois contacts Superman who defeats the attackers. Later at their barn, Lois and Clark figure out that their attackers are from Intergang and had followed Lois from her meeting with Cora Benning suspecting that she is "Author X". Bruno Mannheim was informed by two of his men that the attack on "Author X" has failed. He throws the two men into the swimming pool and electrifies it. Lois and Jon later visit Cora Benning's office and find a note stating that she was taken by Intergang. While leaving the office, the three of them encounter Bruno Mannheim in the hall who claims that he is asking for directions. Lois thinks to herself that Mannheim is trying to get her to lower her guard. When Lois goes to pick up Jon from school and finds him in the library, they are ambushed by Intergang agents who then trap them in a tool closet which they set on fire. Jon's superpowers manifest as he manages to break down the door. When Jon gets Lois out of the burning tool closet, they are surrounded by Intergang thugs. Breaking off his fight withBlackrock, Superman saves Lois and Jon as the Intergang thugs are caught in the explosion.[25]
Here is the known membership of Intergang:
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A possible future incarnation of Intergang appears in "Armageddon 2001", in which they take Metropolis hostage with a nuclear bomb. However, one of their members grows nervous and detonates it too early, leading to several deaths, such as Lois Lane's, and Superman destroying every nuclear weapon on Earth.
Intergang appears inDC Universe Online,[citation needed] with Bruno Mannheim, Whisper A'Daire, andKyle Abbot as prominent members.
Intergang appears in theArrowverse tie-in comicEarth-Prime #2, consisting of Bruno Mannheim,Barrage, Hi-Tech, Loophole, Thaddeus Killgrave, Sleez, andTerra-Man.[45]
Superman frequently dealt with a heavily-armed group of criminals known as Intergang. The armorers of Apokolips provided the weapons to Intergang as the first part of an invasion.
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