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They went on to star in their own series, which ran for 25 issues, in which they faced a powerful wizard called Dr Gotham, who was summoning a being called the Sun King. Both ''Day of Vengeance'' and the subsequent series were written by Bill Willingham, best known for ''[[Fables]]''.
 
The original membership was:
 
* Jim Rook: Formerly the [[Sword and Sorcery]] hero Nightmaster, who now ran the Oblivion Bar and was the team's first leader.
* [[Blue Devil]]: Still using demonic powers to fight crime, and now worried that he was a walking [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]].
* Detective Chimp: Because [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]].
* Enchantress: Former [[Heel Face Revolving Door]] magic-user, now firmly a heroine. Became team leader after Rook left.
* Nightshade: Heroine with [[Casting a Shadow]] powers and shadow-teleportation. A [[Half-Human Hybrid]] whose mother came from the Shadow Dimension.
* Ragman: Gotham City's Tattered Tatterdemalion, who gains power from a costume made of the souls of the damned. In ''Shadowpact'' it turns out the suit is actually a tool of redemption - souls that work with Ragman instead of fighting him eventually get released to Heaven.
 
Later members were:
* Acheron: An illusion-casting ghost.
* Midnight Rider: A [[New Old West|modern-day cowboy]] with magic guns.
* Warlock's Daughter: the former apprentice of a magical villain from Willingham's run on ''[[Batman|Rob]][[Batman/Characters|in]]''.
* Zauriel: An angel, formerly a member of ''[[Justice League of America]]'', who is commanded to join the team while Blue Devil seeks repentence.
 
[[The Phantom Stranger]], while not a member of the team, took an interest in them, and was shown as the comic's narrator.
 
(Incidentally, ''Day of Judgement'', the 1999 [[Crisis Crossover]] by [[Geoff Johns]] that ''Day of Vengeance'' was a sequel to, introduced a team called Sentinels of Magic that included Enchantress, Blue Devil and Ragman, together with other magical characters such as [[Zatanna]], [[Madame Xanadu]] and the [[Golden Age]] [[Green Lantern]]. This team made one subsequent appearance (''JLA: Black Baptism'') and was then never mentioned again.)
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'''This series features examples of:'''
* [[Bus Full of Innocents]]: Dr Gotham's introduction has a literal one.
* [[Cast From Lifespan]]: Enchantress casts a spell like this to keep Nightmaster alive.
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