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The League To Destroy...
The League To Destroy Superman
Superman Daily Newspaper Strip - March 10, 1941 to April 19, 1941The daily newspaper strip will spend the better part of 1941 pitting Superman against a coterie of revenge-driven killers and madmen. Having put away a number of crooks and thugs, and having foiled no small share of inventive and insidious plots, Superman has easily acquired the ire of all sorts of nefarious nogoodniks who have been, up to this point, merely sitting around and brooding about revenge.It takes a crooked real estate mogul named Roland to bring them together under a single roof, calling on his fellow crooks to contribute funds to make for a million dollar bounty on the Man of Steel’s head and then entertaining all comers as they pitch their schemes to kill Superman. It’s like Dragon’s Den for bad guys, an American Idol of super-assassins…Although the Superman Revenge Squad will become a popular set of adversaries later on in Superman’s Silver Age, Roland’s assembly predates them by a couple of decades - making them the FIRST team of baddies dedicated to Superman’s destruction (and possibly the first dedicated revenge squad in comics). They won;t have a name until the next chapter of the arc (it’s a good one, though), but they’ve already secured a place in Superman lore.
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