(More Fun Comics 068, 1941)
The Green Men are little alien bigheads who rock up to our Solar System one day in their mobile planet and start siphoning life from the people of New Jersey in order to create a life-extension fluid. To this end, they depopulate at least three entire cities before being stopped, which is cool and dramatic as a bit of villainy and plays merry hell with the idea of a unified comics continuity: whither the monuments to the people of Lakehurst, Brent City and Memphis Beach?
(of course it's hard to estimate exactly how many people that is, but as the low end of what can be called a city is generally agreed to be around 1500 we're talking 4500 people at minimum)
There's a lot of running around and malarky by both the Green Men and the Spectre - the green ray guns and bighead mental powers that they use on him are able to disable but not kill him, while he spends a long time trying and failing to shoot their planet into a star - but ultimately the Spectre engages in a good old ironic punishment and traps them in a little ball for all eternity. How's the extended lifespan now?
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