Justice League story in New York Daily News

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Back in the 1970s the New York Daily News had a “Justice League” comic strip which I followed until I moved - the plot line was about a series of natural disasters all over the Earth, which turned out to be caused by a super-villain who was very long-lived, lived in a space station, and was somehow using the disasters to steal life-span from the casualties he caused (in retrospect, I think the villain must have been Vandal Savage, or a thinly disguised version of him); I never read the end of the story. Anyone remember this storyline? Is it collected anywhere?

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I can find no record of there ever being a Justice League comic strip.

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I don’t know anything about the strip, but the villain sounds more like General Immortus than Vandal Savage. He’s usually a Doom Patrol adversary, but a lot of his schemes center on various forms of life extension for himself. I don’t think Savage had any concerns on that score (at least, not until recently).

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Huh. It was definitely a multiple-hero team, with DC characters (Batman and Superman, for sure). The Daily News had “comic strip” versions of novels (I recall them doing “The Sword of Shannara”) - maybe they had permission to reprint a Justice League story in serialized form?

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Thanks. That may help my search.

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Here you go.

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So it actually was Savage? That’s even more broken than usual.

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Thank you! Here’s the wikipedia page The World's Greatest Superheroes - Wikipedia

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It’s worth noting the strip was titled “World’s Greatest Superheroes” rather than any variation on “Justice League”.

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Yeah, but considering the characters I can see why the OP remembered it as Justice League.

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It’s childish, I know, but I find it amusing that, at least on my screen, “The World’s Greatest Superheroes” was shortened to “The Wor…st Superheroes”.

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Would you rather they were “Superh…oes?”

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yes

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So would I, actually. It would represent a major shake-up for a moribund genre.

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“The Disco Disappearances”? Guest-starring Black Lightning? Only in the '70s!

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I seem to recall a X-Rated comic called XXX-Women. They may not have been hoes but they sure dressed like it!