The Creature Commandos are a fictional DC Comics team of military superhumans originally set in World War II.

[1] The original team was introduced in Weird War Tales #93 (November 1980),[2] created by J. M. DeMatteis and Pat Broderick.

The modern team first appeared in their own miniseries Creature Commandos #1–8 (May–December 2000); this version was written by Tim Truman and drawn by Scot Eaton.

[3] Marc Singer portrayed team leader General Matthew Shrieve in the third season of the Arrowverse series Arrow.

Asked how the Creature Commandos came about, writer J. M. DeMatteis recalled: I was doing War Tales [sic] for about six months before the DC Implosion put me out of work for almost a year.

[4]DeMatteis did not stay on the feature very long, and his replacement was Robert Kanigher, who wrote the series until Weird War Tales was canceled in 1983.

Project M is a secret government organization that began during World War II and specializes in experimental biotechnology and necromancy.

In their next mission to France to free scientist Dr. Renee Frederique, the Commandos ultimately found her in a death camp, and they had no choice but to kill her.

They were supposed to solve the disappearance of several Allied spotter planes, but discovered a hidden Axis naval base and were able to trick the dinosaurs in turning on the Japanese navy.

Shrieve took pictures for his commanders as proof of the island's existence, but Velcro destroyed them; he believed that the war would bring destruction to the dinosaurs.

Frankenstein, whose sense of time is not the same as his comrades, convinces his group to trust Superman and they join in with a fight against the threat that freed them, an attack by the villains Reactron and Metallo.

To keep pace with their aging physiology, Mazursky, the doctor who had originally mutated them, continued to perform a series of body modifications.

Other new members are: Aten, a mummy-like communications specialist; the Bogman, a humanoid amphibian grunt resembling the Gill-man; and recently-revived cyborg Gunner Mackey, who — along with his partner "Sarge" — died during World War II.

2), Maxwell Lord mentions Project M as still active, at least in the times of his cyberization, and claims he was able to use their resources to give himself a new human body, free from the manipulations of Kilgore.

In the Justice League: Generation Lost storyline, Maxwell Lord took control of the Creature Commandos to attack the old JLI embassy.

The rest of the team consists of Khalis (who appears to be an Egyptian mummy), Warren Griffith (a werewolf), and Vincent Velcoro (given vampiric powers through a modified version of the Man-Bat formula).

[14] Frankenstein's estranged wife the Bride was also a member of the team until leaving after learning the fate of her son, with Shrieve returning later on to re-team.

Following the end of WWII, Project M was shut down by Robert Crane while the Creature Commandos were captured and placed in stasis.

In the intervening years, Matthew recruited Solomon Grundy, Man-Bat, and Doctor Phosphorus to form a new iteration of the Creature Commandos, only for them to betray and kill him on General Sam Lane's orders.

In the present, the original Commandos escape, only to be hunted by Miranda, Matthew's granddaughter who blames monsters for ruining her life.

[19] Taking Miranda captive, the Bride reveals the truth behind Matthew's death while the original Commandos travel to Romania, where they find the village of monsters before it is attacked by a giant G.I.

Afterward, Griffith works to become human again and enters a relationship with Nina while Frankenstein, the Bride, and Miranda leave to participate in the Atlantean/Amazon war.

[20] The original team's adventures have been collected in the following trade paperback: The Creature Commandos appear in DC Showcase: Sgt.