Intergang was founded in the 1920s by gangster Moxie Mannheim, who was later killed by rivals.[3] It was then revived by Morgan Edge and run by Moxie's son Bruno Mannheim.[a][3] Bruno was, however, getting orders and weaponry from Darkseid, who was using Intergang to help track down the Anti-Life Equation.[5]
Morgan Edge was the head of the Galaxy Broadcasting Systemtelevision network (which had recently purchased the Daily Planet and had Clark Kent transferred to its Metropolis affiliate WGBS-TV as its anchorman). It was later revealed that this was not the real Morgan Edge, but a clone 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]
Post-Crisis
Vincent Edge as seen in The Adventures of Superman #500.
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 actually DeSaad, 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 father Vincent Edge, and Intergang was taken over by Bruno Mannheim, who trained on Apokolips with Granny Goodness. A later retcon 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 and Cat 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 the Newsboy Legion, was released. Discovering that the Newsboys were, seemingly, the same age as when he first fought them, he determined to find out how such a thing could be.[10] Meeting renegade Project Cadmus geneticist Dabney 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 henchmen Ginny "Torcher" McCree, Mike "Machine" Gun, Noose, and Rough 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. The new Intergang spent much of their time tracking down Jimmy Olsen, whom Moxie believed knew Superman's secret identity.[11]
Following a short-lived attempt by Morgan Edge to regain control, Lex Luthor gained control of Intergang, retaining Moxie as a figurehead.[12] 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[13] 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.[14]
Intergang is later seen in Metropolis robbing a bank during the Justice League's absence, only to be stopped and beaten by the Avengers.[15]
52
In the pages of 52, Intergang members Noose and Rough House visit Kahndaq and offer Adrianna Tomaz as tribute to Black Adam in exchange for safe passage for their group's smuggling activity. Both of them are killed by Adam.[16]
In week 9, Question tells Renee Montoya that Intergang is preparing for an invasion of Gotham City. Montoya and the Question investigate and learn that Intergang has been reorganized as a semi-religious group that venerates Cain 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 like Kite-Man, Mirage, Rawson, and Sewer King while Lamelle, Magpie, Squid, and Ventriloquist swear their allegiance to Intergang.[17]
Mannheim later appears as a giant who wields alien technology, claiming that someone other than Darkseid is behind Intergang's current activities.[18]
Gotham Underground
In Gotham Underground, Intergang is in a gang war with Tobias Whale with Whale's former member Johnny "Stitches" Denetto acting as Intergang's representative.[19] Intergang buys him out and makes Whale the CEO of Kord Enterprises which has become a front for Intergang's criminal activities.[20]
The New 52
In 2011, The New 52 rebooted the DC universe. Gotham City has fallen to Intergang's Religion of Crime branch.[21] 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.[22]
Attackers from Intergang ambush Lois Lane and Jon 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 then surrounded by Intergang thugs. Breaking off his fight with Blackrock, Superman manages to save Lois and Jon as the Intergang thugs are caught in the explosion.[23]
Membership
Here is the known membership of Intergang:
Leaders
Moxie Mannheim - First leader of Intergang and the father of Bruno Mannheim. Known as "Boss Moxie".[10]
Morgan Edge - Second leader of Intergang and the son of Vincent Edge.
Vincent Edge - Third leader of Intergang and the father of Morgan Edge.
Bruno Mannheim - Fourth and current leader of Intergang and the son of Moxie Mannheim. He was later retconned as the original leader of Intergang.
Aku Kwesi - A criminal who was responsible for murdering Vixen's mother.[25]
Anomaly - A clone of murderer Floyd Barstow who briefly was a member of Moxie Mannheim's Intergang branch.[26]
Blackrock - Bradley Glenn with the Blackrock armor granting him super strength and leaping ability.[27][28]
Chiller - Pale assassin and former member of the 1000 who is a foe of Booster Gold.[29]
Dabney Donovan - A mad scientist that formerly worked for Project Cadmus and allied with Moxie Mannheim. He cloned Moxie into a younger body and cloned the dead members of his gang.
Ginny "Torcher" McCree - A pyrokinetic operative of Intergang and girlfriend of Mike "Machine" Gunn who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen.[11] She later committed suicide following the death of one of Gunn's clones.
Joe Danton - An Intergang operative who was a short-time leader following the death of Morgan Edge's clone. He was killed by a car bomb.[6]
Johnny "Stitches" Denetto - A crime boss who had his face peeled off by Tobias Whale back when he used to work for him. DeSaad sewed a new face onto him on Bruno Mannheim's behalf which was made from dead humans and animals. Denetto became a crime boss and Intergang's representative for Gotham City.
Macho Gato - Raoul is a member of the late Benny Red's gang who is killed by Mike Gunn and Ginny McCree.[31] Dabney Donovan obtains Raoul's DNA and creates a clone of him named Macho Gato who possesses a tiger-like appearance.[26]
Mari Nichol - The daughter of the second Doctor Polaris.
Max Danner - An Intergang operative who become leader following Joe Danton's death.[7]
Mike "Machine" Gunn - An operative of Intergang and boyfriend of Ginny "Torcher" McCree who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen. He can shape his hands into guns that can fire bone bullets.[11] Donovan also made several other clones of Gunn. One clone of Gunn died fighting Superman. The second clone was shot by Moxie as a show of good faith towards Lex Luthor. The third clone was killed during a police chase following a jailbreak.
Noose - An operative of Intergang who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen. He can extend his fingers to give them a tentacled appearance.[11] He was later killed by Black Adam.
Rough House - A super-strong operative of Intergang who Dabney Donovan cloned from one of Moxie's original henchmen.[11] He was later killed by Black Adam.
Samuel Simeon - An Intergang crime boss who Superman saved from an assassin sent by SKULL.[9]
Shockwave (Arnold Pruett) - A Chicago-based supervillain for hire who wields armor that enables him to generate high-frequency waves.[32]
Steel Hand - An Intergang mobster with a prosthetic right hand made of steel. He was responsible for using a sniper to murder Thaddeus Brown before being brought to justice by Mister Miracle.[33]
Tobias Whale - He ended up bought out by Intergang and made the CEO of Kord Industries to serve as a front for Intergang's activities.
Torque - Dudley Soames is a detective from the Blüdhaven Police Department who was secretly allied with Blockbuster. His head was twisted 180 degrees by Blockbuster for crossing him yet survived. Due to his head remaining at this angle, Torque uses mirrored glasses to see forward which allowed him to see all 360 degrees of the battlefield.[35]
Whisper A'Daire - An operative for Ra's al Ghul and former member of the League of Assassins who can transform into a king cobra or a humanoid king cobra-like creature.
Other versions
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 in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,[citation needed] led by Bill Church Sr., his wife Mindy, and his son Bill Church Jr. of Multiworld Communications. This version of the group is not involved with Apokolips.
Intergang appears in Superman: The Animated Series, initially led by Bruno Mannheim until he is killed while preparing Earth for Darkseid's invasion and Granny Goodness takes over leadership.[36]
Intergang appears in the Smallville episode "Stiletto",[citation needed] initially led by Ron Milano, head of the Ace o' Clubs, before Bruno Mannheim kills him and takes over leadership. Additionally, Mr. Freeze and Prankster appear as members of Intergang in the series' comic book continuation, Smallville Season 11.[37]
Intergang appears in the Supergirl episode "Dream Weaver".[39] They collaborate with Wyatt Kote, warden of Van Kull Prison, to use its alien prisoners to commit illegal activities under the cover of a work release program. However, Supergirl and Martian Manhunter foil the scheme, with Kote being arrested and the alien prisoners involved receiving commuted sentences.
Intergang appears in Black Adam.[43] This version of the group is an international crime syndicate, with its Kahndaq sect led by the militant Ishmael Gregor, who seeks to rule Kahndaq via Sabbac's demonic power and the Crown of Sabbac.
Intergang appears in the Arrowverse tie-in comic Earth-Prime #2, consisting of Bruno Mannheim, Barrage, Hi-Tech, Loophole, Thaddeus Killgrave, Sleez, and Terra-Man.[44]
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