The Trenchcoat Brigade

The Trenchcoat Brigade
The Trenchcoat Brigade #1, cover art by Glenn Fabry.
Publication information
PublisherVertigo
ScheduleMonthly
FormatLimited series
Publication dateMarch – June 1999
No. of issues4
Creative team
Written byJohn Ney Rieber
Artist(s)John Ridgway
Letterer(s)Elle De Ville
Colorist(s)Alex Sinclair
Editor(s)Cliff Chiang
Stuart Moore

The Trenchcoat Brigade is a four-issue comic book limited series that was published in 1999 as a part of DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, featuring several mystic DC Universe characters.

The title references an offhand joke used by John Constantine in the earlier Books of Magic series to label a loose affiliation of mystics including himself, Phantom Stranger, Doctor Occult, and Mister E who share a preference for trenchcoats as their outdoor wear (Constantine was knowingly paraphrasing the title of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous "The Charge of the Light Brigade", about a reckless military event).[1]

  1. ^ Irvine, Alex (2008). "The Books of Magic". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The Vertigo Encyclopedia. New York: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 38–41. ISBN 978-0-7566-4122-1. OCLC 213309015.