The team was introduced in
Justice League of America #87 (February 1971), written by Mike Friedrich. The Champions of Angor come from the alien planet of Angor. When Angor is attacked by a spacefaring robot, they defeat it and track the robot back to its home planet. At the same time, the Justice League of America is defeating and tracking another robot that threatens Earth. Both teams assume the other to be the enemy and confront each other. The original members were: • Wandjina: The group leader. Named after an
Aboriginal Australian weather spirit, he has super-strength and weather control powers. •
Silver Sorceress (Laura Neilsen): A powerful but unpredictable magic-user, with a costume incorporating a headdress. •
Blue Jay (Jay Abrams): A hero with the ability to shrink in size and fly. • Jack B. Quick (Harry Christos; later known as Captain Speed): A speedster with brief flight abilities. The team later appear in
Keith Giffen's
Justice League International with Angor now being an alternate Earth. In issue #2, Wandjina, Blue Jay and Silver Sorceress come to Earth in order to destroy all nuclear weapons, since they were the only survivors of a nuclear disaster that wiped out Angor and did not want the same thing to happen on Earth. Their teammate, Captain Speed, later dies of radiation poisoning. Wandjina sacrifices himself to prevent a nuclear meltdown in
Bialya, and the others give themselves up to Russian authorities. Wandjina's corpse is later reanimated as a weapon by
Queen Bee of Bialya. The citizens do not understand that Wandjina has died and come to revere him as a hero.
Justice League Europe #15 (June 1990) begins a story in which Silver Sorceress and Blue Jay escape from prison. Blue Jay goes to the League for help, while Silver Sorceress returns to Angor. A flashback reveals that the nuclear disaster was caused by a group of villains called the
Extremists. The Extremists capture Silver Sorceress and make her take them to Earth, where they again attempt to seize control of the world's nuclear weapons. It is eventually revealed that (with one exception) these are robot duplicates of the Extremists, created for an amusement park. The owner of the amusement park is sent to Earth to switch them off. Blue Jay and the Silver Sorceress join Justice League Europe.
Justice League Quarterly #3 (1990) features Mitch Wacky (the amusement park owner) traveling back in time to prevent the Extremists from destroying Angor. This story introduces more members of the team (now called the Justifiers), including: • The Bowman - An archer, first appearing in one panel of the "Extremist Vector" storyline in
Justice League Europe #15-18. Other appearances include "When You Wish..." in
Justice League Quarterly #3, the "With a Vengeance!" storyline in
Superman/Batman #20-24, and in the
Lord Havok and the Extremists series. • Tin Man - An armored hero with a heart condition. • T.A. - A heroine with metal wings. • Bug - A hero in
Justice League Quarterly #3 and as a villain in "With a Vengeance!" In 2008's
Final Crisis storyline, the Justifiers are controlled by the
Anti-Life Equation, and "justify"
Darkseid's rule of the Earth. ==Other versions==