[1] The Fearsome Five were created by George Pérez and Marv Wolfman and first appeared in The New Teen Titans #3 (January 1981), going on to become recurring adversaries for the superhero group.

The team disbanded shortly after Deuce and Charger's first missions with the Five, with Mammoth and Shimmer deciding to renounce their life of crime and finding peace in a Tibetan monastery.

Mammoth barely survived a spear rammed through his head by Psimon, but Shimmer was turned into glass and then shattered by the telepath, and seemingly perished.

3) #13 -15 (August–October 2004), frequent Captain Marvel archenemy Doctor Sivana gathered Psimon, freed Mammoth,Gizmo and Jinx from prison, and was able to successfully restore Shimmer's shattered form, returning her to life, and put the team to work for him in a scheme to short sell Lexcorp stock by having them steal its accounts from its corporate building in Metropolis, and then driving down the stock by killing all the people in the building, and destroying two other Lexcorp properties.

Sivana used the money he made from the scheme to purchase a tropical island off the coast of Thailand to use as his lair, but the Five were defeated in their plan to take the facility and fire a nuclear missile at Canada.

In the final issue of the miniseries, Neutron is used by Lex Luthor as a power source for a teleportation device, and is seemingly killed when it self-destructs.

In The New 52 reboot of DC's continuity, the "Forever Evil" storyline introduces the Fearsome Five (consisting of Gizmo, Jinx, Mammoth, Psimon and Shimmer) when they are recruited by the Crime Syndicate of America to join the Secret Society of Super Villains.

(2004), consisting of Psimon, Doctor Light, Gizmo, Mammoth, and Jinx, the last of whom is working undercover to undermine the group on the Teen Titans' behalf.