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The All-Star Squadron was an American comic book (1981-1987) created by Roy Thomas and published by DC Comics about the adventures of a large team of superheroes which comprised of most of the feature characters owned by the company that appeared in the Golden Age of Comic Books, and included members of the Justice Society of America, Freedom Fighters, Seven Soldiers of Victory and Young All-Stars as well as a number of heroes who had previously battled crime alone.

History

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. The first known use of the term "retcon" was by Roy Thomas in the letter column of All-Star Squadron #20 (April, 1983).

The Trylon and Perisphere, actual structures constructed in New York City for the 1939 New York World's Fair, housed the Squadron's headquarters. 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.

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"). After the 1985 DC Comics event Crisis on Infinite Earths merged the parallel worlds into one continuity, the duplicate superhero versions were eliminated. The All-Star Squadron was then itself retconned and left only with the characters unique to that time period, so that Batman, Superman, etc., were never Squadron members.

Membership

Young All-Stars

Creators

Writers

Artists

Cover Artists
  • Rich Buckler - # 1, 3-6, 36 (Sep 1981, Nov 1981-Feb 1982, Aug 1984)
  • Joe Kubert - # 2, 7-18 (Oct 1981, Mar 1982-Feb 1983)
  • Jerry Ordway - # 19-33, 50, 60 (Mar 1983-May 1984, Oct 1985, Aug 1986); Annual #1-2 (1982-83)
  • Rick Hoberg - # 34-35, 37-39 (Jun 1984-Jul 1984, Sep 1984-Nov 1984); Annual #3 (1984)
  • Arvell Jones - # 40-44, 46, 52, 55, 58-59, 64-66 (Dec 1984-Apr 1985, Jun 1985, Dec 1985, Mar 1986, Jun 1986-Jul 1986, Dec 1986-Feb 1987)
  • Tim Burgard - # 45 (May 1985)
  • Todd McFarlane - # 47 (Jul 1985)
  • Mike Harris - # 48-49, 61-62 (Aug 1985-Sep 1985, Sep 1986-Oct 1986)
  • Mike Clark - # 51, 53-54, 56-57 (Nov 1985, Jan 1986-Feb 1986, Apr 1986-May 1986)
  • Mike Bair - # 63 (Nov 1986)
  • Tom Grindberg - # 67 (Mar 1987)

Resources

DC Comics superhero teams | DC Comics titles | Retroactive continuity comics | United States-themed superheroes | Golden Age superheroes

 

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