Trenchcoat Brigade

The Trenchcoat Brigade is a loose team of psychic and mystic detectives who share a preference for wearing trench coats.

The name was an offhand joke made by John Constantine in reference to the title of Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous 1854 poem ""; a poem about a military event of the same name.

History
The group first worked together when they attempted to guide Tim Hunter through various realms of Magic in order to teach him all of Magic's abilities and consequences. The group would later re-unite when an apocalyptic vision glimpsed by Mister E sends John Constantine, the Phantom Stranger and Doctor Occult into a ruined future, where an ancestor of Constantine's reveals that they must save the world from a minor Russian god known as M'Nagalah.

Trivia

 * The Trenchcoat Brigade first appeared in Books of Magic #1 (December 1990).
 * The poem is in reference to the 1854 cavalry charge made by the British cavalry against a Russian artillery battery. Despite the order to charge being of questionable intelligence, the cavalry retained bravery and honour by never-the-less carrying out the order.