# Which is a better power for a supervillain?

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-is-a-better-power-for-a-supervillain/955595/9 "2021-12-09T00:34:32Z")

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Life Stealer has been done in a Vandal Savage story line

> [@Justice League story in New York Daily News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/justice-league-story-in-new-york-daily-news/654281):
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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 th…

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