# Justice League story in New York Daily News **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 29, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281 "2013-03-29T18:50:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/1 "2013-03-29T18:50:28Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/2 "2013-03-29T19:00:57Z")
I can find no record of there ever being a Justice League comic strip. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/3 "2013-03-29T19:03:56Z")
I don’t know anything about the strip, but the villain sounds more like [General Immortus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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). ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/4 "2013-03-29T19:04:30Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I can find no record of there ever being a Justice League comic strip. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/5 "2013-03-29T19:10:46Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I don’t know anything about the strip, but the villain sounds more like [General Immortus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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). Thanks. That may help my search. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/6 "2013-03-29T19:19:14Z")
[Here](http://www.thespeedingbullet.com/wgsh/ep01_10/ep1.html) you go. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/7 "2013-03-29T19:22:47Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > [Here](http://www.thespeedingbullet.com/wgsh/ep01_10/ep1.html) you go. So it actually was Savage? That’s even more broken than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/8 "2013-03-29T19:23:36Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > [Here](http://www.thespeedingbullet.com/wgsh/ep01_10/ep1.html) you go. Thank you! Here’s the wikipedia page [The World's Greatest Superheroes - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Greatest_Superheroes) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/9 "2013-03-29T19:25:43Z")
It’s worth noting the strip was titled “World’s Greatest Superheroes” rather than any variation on “Justice League”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/10 "2013-03-29T19:36:54Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > It’s worth noting the strip was titled “World’s Greatest Superheroes” rather than any variation on “Justice League”. Yeah, but considering the characters I can see why the OP remembered it as Justice League. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/11 "2013-03-29T19:39:59Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Thank you! Here’s the wikipedia page [The World's Greatest Superheroes - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Greatest_Superheroes) 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”. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/12 "2013-03-29T19:48:54Z")
Would you rather they were “Superh…oes?” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/13 "2013-03-29T20:09:56Z")
yes ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/14 "2013-03-29T22:30:15Z")
So would I, actually. It would represent a major shake-up for a moribund genre. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/15 "2013-03-30T14:48:49Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Thank you! Here’s the wikipedia page [The World's Greatest Superheroes - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Greatest_Superheroes) “The Disco Disappearances”? Guest-starring Black Lightning? Only in the '70s! ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281/16 "2013-03-30T22:22:21Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > So would I, actually. It would represent a major shake-up for a moribund genre. I seem to recall a X-Rated comic called XXX-Women. They may not have been hoes but they sure dressed like it!