Suicide Slum (official name Southside) is a notorious fictional slum in publications from DC Comics. The area was first introduced in the "The Newsboy Legion" feature as a slum in New York City. It was later placed in Superman's city, Metropolis, when the Newsboy Legion was reintroduced. The Southside also known as The Simon Project in the Post-Crisis continuity.
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Famous quotes containing the words suicide and/or slum:
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession.”
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
“The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound to be dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)