Professor Ivo of Earth-One invented a technology whereby a synthetic being could gain powers through its absorption cells. This android was named Amazo, a being capable of replicating all of the powers of the heroic League, and later android servants in Ivo's image. Ivo-Two made more primitive robots that nevertheless did the same trick. Amazo's agenda was to defeat the newly formed Justice League and, utilizing their replicated abilities, collect seemingly inaccessible ancient objects from around the world, from which an immortality serum could be distilled. Amazo succeeded in providing his master the means to extend his life another 500 years, although the automaton was himself defeated.
A cabal of scientists from around the world of Earth-Two gathered together in the early days of World War II to find a solution to their global conflict. Developing an artificial vessel, shapped as an eye, and creating an android through whom they would project their combined personalities into named Akhet, they hoped to trick the governments of the world into joining forces together to combat the threat of an alien invasion. When Akhet and his starcraft landed in Washington, D.C., he immediately faced the All-Star Squadron, including their allies in the Justice Society of America. Possessing the mental might of his creators, Akhet was initially able to overpower the heroes. Soon, they discovered that the mastermind behind Akhet was one of the scientist, Anton Hastor, who usurped the project to fullfill his own ambitions for power. When Hawkman and Hawkgirl defeated him, Akhet was likewise vanquished, nevermore to return to plague these heroes.
Amazo would be redeployed on a few more occasions, twice at the bidding of the Justice League in order to reinvigorate themselves after particularly disheartening attacks by their enemies as well as a pawn of another scientist in T.O. Morrow who was trying to destroy the Justice League.
Two other robots would bedevil these two teams of justice. Criminal scientist Doctor Indrom used the lives of 100 super-villains from across the cosmos to become the core for his World Beater robot, possessing all their superhuman powers. Although initially defeating the Justice League, the Super Friends were able to defeat him by exploiting the weaknesses of the powers the automaton possessed. Then there was Nazi scientist Helmutt Streicher who built the Murder Machine, which nearly vanquished Batman, Flash and Green Lantern in their first adventure together.
Around the time period that the Panzer debuted, Wonder Woman's All-Star Squadron allies assisted teammate Amazing-Man against another non-living yet sentient being named Real American. This automaton was fulfilling his master's prejudicial programming. Just as the All-Stars faced and vanquished this robot in their world's Detroit, it was the Justice League of Detroit who themselves finally eliminated the threat of Amazo.
Shortly before Amazo’s reappearance in Detroit, another robotic rogue battled that city’s League. This cyborg, Commander Steel, tangled with the Justice League and Justice Society, whom he felt dishonored traditional heroism as he perceived it.
And just as Real American was assembled on Earth-One and lived out its existence on Earth-Two, so too had Commander Steel left his native Earth-Two to live his remaining years on Earth-One.
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