Trenchcoat Brigade
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The Trenchcoat Brigade is a four-issue mini-series of comic books that was published in the 1999 by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. The title references an offhand joke used by John Constantine in the earlier Books of Magic to label a loose affiliation of mystics including himself, Phantom Stranger, Doctor Occult, and Mister E who share a preference for trenchcoats as their preferred 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.)
They first appeared together in Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic series, in which they attempted to guide Tim Hunter through various realms of Magic in the DC Universe in order to teach him all of Magic's abilities and consequences.
