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All-Star Squadron

Cover of All-Star Squadron #31 (Mar, 1984). Art by Jerry Ordway. Jerry Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American Writer, Penciller and Inker of Comic books He
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance Preview:
Justice League of America #193 (August 1981)
First full appearance:
All-Star Squadron # 1 (September 1981)
Created by Roy Thomas
Rich Buckler
Jerry Ordway
In story information
Base(s) Trylon & Perisphere
Roster
See:List of All-Star Squadron members

The All-Star Squadron is a DC Comics fictional superhero team that debuted in Justice League of America #193 (August 1981). DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company In Comic books and other stories with a long history first appearance refers to the first occurrence to feature a Fictional character. Roy Thomas (born November 22 1940, Missouri, United States) is a Comic book Writer and editor, and For the US Representative from Minnesota, see Rich T Buckler. Jerry Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American Writer, Penciller and Inker of Comic books He A trilon is a Triangular prism -shaped object turning on an axle (either mechanically or manually to show different letters or images The Trylon and Perisphere were the central structures known as the Theme Center of the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940. Members of DC Comics ' All-Star Squadron, a Superhero team made up of characters from the Golden Age of Comic Books and characters that were DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do The Justice League sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short is a Fictional DC Comics superhero team. Created by Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway. Roy Thomas (born November 22 1940, Missouri, United States) is a Comic book Writer and editor, and For the US Representative from Minnesota, see Rich T Buckler. Jerry Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American Writer, Penciller and Inker of Comic books He

Contents

The concept

All-Star Squadron #1 contains "An Open Letter to the Readers" written by Roy Thomas. In it he describes the impetus for the series, namely, DC wanted a comic book telling tales of the Justice Society of America. The last series to do so was All Star Comics, which lasted only seventeen issues, ending in 1979. As Roy Thomas put it, DC management gave him "a chance to write a return of the JSA. " Instead of writing stories in the modern era, however, Roy Thomas decided to place the tales during World War Two. The setting would be DC's fictional world of Earth-Two, established during the 1960s. The cast of characters, however, would include a large ensemble of heroes from both the DC stable and the Quality Comics Group (which had been purchased by DC). Quality Comics was an American comic book Publishing company that operated from 1939 to 1956 and was an influential creative force in what historians and fans call With so many characters to choose from, the creative team decided to concentrate on "quite promising characters who have been ignored or underplayed for years," instead of those Earth-Two characters who had counterparts on Earth-One. Roy Thomas writes, "If we lost the original GL, we gained the Earth-Two Robotman; if we dropped Jay (Flash) Garrick, we picked up on Johnny Quick; Liberty Belle could stand in for Wonder Woman till more super-powered ladies came along. Alan Scott is a Fictional character, a Superhero from the DC Comics universe and the first superhero to bear the name Green Lantern For the Doom Patrol character see Robotman (Cliff Steele. Robotman is the name of a Golden Age DC Comics Superhero Jay Garrick is a Fictional character, a Comic book Superhero in the DC Comics universe and the first to use the name Johnny Quick is the name of a Golden Age DC Comics character with the power of Superhuman speed For other Liberty Belle, see Liberty Belle (disambiguation. Liberty Belle is the name of three fictional Superheroines We even tossed in an Earth-Two version of the venerable Plastic Man, whose series in ADVENTURE was just folding. Plastic Man ( Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional Comic-book Superhero originally published by Quality Comics and later Adventure Comics is a Comic book series published by DC Comics from 1935 to 1983 . . "

The All-Star Squadron was an example of "retroactive continuity" or "retcon", as it rewrote the already-established history of DC superheroes that had been published during the 1940s. Retroactive continuity is the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction The first known use of the term "retcon" was by Roy Thomas in the letter column of All-Star Squadron #20 (April, 1983). Several story lines ironed out continuity errors (and quite a few were created), fleshed out characters' origins and rewrote earlier stories to jibe with later established continuity.

The Trylon and Perisphere, actual structures constructed in New York City for the 1939 New York World's Fair, housed the Squadron's headquarters. A trilon is a Triangular prism -shaped object turning on an axle (either mechanically or manually to show different letters or images The Trylon and Perisphere were the central structures known as the Theme Center of the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940. The City of New York The 1939-40 New York World's Fair, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair) was one of the largest The All-Star Squadron had a robotic butler named Gernsback, who was based on the Elektro robots from the fair and was probably named after Hugo Gernsback. A robot is a mechanical or Virtual Artificial agent In practice it is usually an electro-mechanical system which by its appearance or movements Elektro is the nickname of a Robot built by Westinghouse in Mansfield Ohio between 1937 and 1938 Hugo Gernsback ( August 16 1884 – August 19 1967) born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourg American Inventor

Originally, the All-Star Squadron was supposed to exist on "Earth-Two", a parallel world used by DC as the venue for stories occurring during the 1940s, and including heroes only published during that era as well as the early versions of characters still published up to the present day such as Batman and Superman (the contemporary versions of those characters existed on "Earth-One"). The DC Multiverse is a Fictional continuity construct that exists in stories published by Comic book company DC Comics. Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own The Batman of Earth-Two is a parallel version of the fictional DC Comics superhero who was introduced after DC Comics created Earth-Two, a parallel The Superman of Earth-Two is a Fictional character, a Comic book Superhero published by DC Comics. After the 1985 DC Comics event Crisis on Infinite Earths merged the parallel worlds into one continuity, the duplicate superhero versions were eliminated. Crisis on Infinite Earths is a twelve-issue American comic book Limited series (identified as a "12-part maxi-series" and crossover The All-Star Squadron was then itself retconned and left only with the characters unique to that time period, so that Superman, Batman & Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman were not alive at that point in history, and were thus never Squadron members. Richard John "Dick" Grayson is a fictional Superhero that appears in Comic books published by DC Comics. This was accomplished by cancelling it after #67 and replacing it with a successor series, Young All-Stars. The Young All-Stars are a team of fictional DC Comics Superheroes They were created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas and Michael Bair introduced

In a nod to the original JSA adventures in All Star Comics, writer Roy Thomas tried to include at least a cameo appearance by the golden-age Hawkman in every issue, since Hawkman was the one hero to appear in every golden-age issue of All Star, including the two pre-JSA issues. All Star Comics is a 1940s Comic book series from All-American Publications, one of the early companies that merged with National Periodical Publications Carter Hall is a DC Comics Superhero, the original Hawkman. Created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville, he first appeared Unfortunately, the artwork for issue #49 was printed without Hawkman's cameo included, so it became the only issue to break the streak. The string of appearances, however, had already been broken several issues into a mid-70s revival of All Star Comics, numbering and all.

Fictional history

The book chronicled the adventures of a large team of superheroes, including members of the Justice Society of America, Freedom Fighters, and Seven Soldiers of Victory, as well as a small number of solo heroes. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics Superhero group the first team of superheroes in Comic book history Freedom Fighters is the name of a DC Comics Comic book Superhero team made up of characters acquired from the defunct company Quality Comics. The Seven Soldiers of Victory (also known as Law's Legionnaires) is a fictional team of Comic book Superheroes in the DC Comics universe The premise was that, on the day of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered available superheroes at the White House and asked them to work together to battle sabotage and keep the peace on the home front during World War II. Pearl Harbor is a Harbor on the Island of O{{okina}}ahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including At the time, many of the Justice Society members had been captured by the villain Per Degaton, but the available heroes were asked to first guard against a potential attack on the American West Coast. Per Degaton is a Fictional character, a DC Comics Supervillain who can travel through time Degaton himself used some stolen Japanese planes to launch such an attack, so the new Squadron's first major mission was to stop the attack and rescue the captured heroes, who also became part of the new group. The rationale for not using the Squadron in combat situations in the European or Pacific Theaters of War was that Adolf Hitler had possession of the Spear of Destiny, a mystical object that gave him control of any superheroes with magic-based powers or a vulnerability to magic (including Superman, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, and others) who crossed into territory held by the Axis Powers. The European Theatre of Operations ( ETO) was an area of heavy fighting across Europe during World War II, from Nazi Germany's Invasion of Poland The Pacific War was the part of World War II —and preceding conflicts—that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands and in East Asia, between Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately The Holy Lance (also known as the Spear of Destiny, Holy Spear, Lance of Longinus, Spear of Longinus or Spear of Christ) is the name The Superman of Earth-Two is a Fictional character, a Comic book Superhero published by DC Comics. Alan Scott is a Fictional character, a Superhero from the DC Comics universe and the first superhero to bear the name Green Lantern Doctor Fate (also known by the Diminutive, Fate) is the name of a succession of fictional sorcerers who appear within DC Comics ' universe The Axis powers also known as the Axis alliance Axis nations Axis countries or sometimes just the Axis were those Countries America's entry into World War II caused several of the members of the JSA to enlist, or be drafted in their civilian identities. These included Starman, Hawkman, The Atom, and Johnny Thunder. Starman ( Ted Knight) is a fictional Comic book Superhero in the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Justice Society For other meanings of the term see Hawkman (disambiguation Hawkman is a Superhero in the DC Comics universe. Al Pratt is a character in the DC Comics Universe, the original hero to fight crime as the Atom. Johnny Thunder is the name of three Fictional characters in comics published by DC Comics.

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Roy Thomas (born November 22 1940, Missouri, United States) is a Comic book Writer and editor, and Paul Kupperberg (b 1955 is a former Editor for DC Comics, and a prolific Writer of Comic books and newspaper strips. Mike Baron is the creator of comic books Badger and (along with Steve Rude) Nexus. Dannette "Dann" Thomas is the former wife of Comic book writer and editor Roy Thomas and has at times worked with him on All-Star Squadron For the US Representative from Minnesota, see Rich T Buckler. Jerry Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American Writer, Penciller and Inker of Comic books He Richard Howell ( October 25, 1754 - April 28, 1802) was Governor of New Jersey from 1794 to 1802 Arvell Jones, whose earliest work is billed Arvell Malcolm Jones, is an American Comic book Illustrator. Todd McFarlane (born March 16, 1961) is a Canadian Comic book artist writer toy manufacturer/designer and media Entrepreneur who is best known Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945, in Toronto Ontario) was the twenty-second Premier of Ontario from June 26, Michael (or Mike Clark may refer to Michael Clark (boxer Michael Clark (physician (1861-1926 physician rancher and politician Tony DeZuniga (b 1941) is a Filipino Comic-book Artist best known for his work for DC Comics, where he co-created the characters Michael A Hernandez is an American comic book artist (who is better known as Michael Bair) best known for his work as an inker Wayne Boring (born June 5 1905, Minnesota; died February 1987 Pompano Beach Florida) was an American Comic book Don Heck ( January 2, 1929 – February 23, 1995) was an American Comic book Artist best known for co-creating Paul Kupperberg (b 1955 is a former Editor for DC Comics, and a prolific Writer of Comic books and newspaper strips. For the US Representative from Minnesota, see Rich T Buckler. Joe Kubert (born September 18, 1926) is a Jewish - American Comic book Artist who went on to found the Joe Kubert School Jerry Ordway (born November 28, 1957) is an American Writer, Penciller and Inker of Comic books He Arvell Jones, whose earliest work is billed Arvell Malcolm Jones, is an American Comic book Illustrator. Todd McFarlane (born March 16, 1961) is a Canadian Comic book artist writer toy manufacturer/designer and media Entrepreneur who is best known Michael Deane Harris (born January 23, 1945, in Toronto Ontario) was the twenty-second Premier of Ontario from June 26, Michael (or Mike Clark may refer to Michael Clark (boxer Michael Clark (physician (1861-1926 physician rancher and politician Michael A Hernandez is an American comic book artist (who is better known as Michael Bair) best known for his work as an inker Tom Grindberg (Born November 3, 1961) is a Comic book illustrator The Justice Society of America, or JSA, is a DC Comics Superhero group the first team of superheroes in Comic book history Freedom Fighters is the name of a DC Comics Comic book Superhero team made up of characters acquired from the defunct company Quality Comics. The Seven Soldiers of Victory (also known as Law's Legionnaires) is a fictional team of Comic book Superheroes in the DC Comics universe The Young All-Stars are a team of fictional DC Comics Superheroes They were created by Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas and Michael Bair introduced The Crusaders is the name used by two teams of Superheroes one group appearing in DC Comics and the other in Marvel Comics, at around the same time as part
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