Young Justice is an American superhero animated television series . It is not a direct adaptation of Peter David, Todd Dezago and Todd Nauck's Young Justice comic series . The series debuted with an hour-long special on November 26, 2010, with the first two episodes, "Independence Day" and "Fireworks" Young Justice premiered on September 9, 2011, on Teletoon, in Canada . The main setting is a fictional universe apart from the previous DCAU and other continuities (designated at one point as Earth-16)