A small group of All-Star Squadron members from Earth-Two were recruited by their former teammate Hank "Commander Steel" Heywood to travel to his new home on Earth-One. This world had no established costumed crusaders, which he felt were necessary during the waning days of the war. And so, the following All-Stars journeyed to Earth-One using a portal which Steel established throught the Mekanique mechanism of the future: Airwave, TNT, Dyna-Mite, Sargon (who came later in 1951), Zatara, Robotman and the Guardian. In addition, James "Guardian" Harper brought with him the four members of the Newsboy Legion which he mentored through the years, these being Tommy Tompkins, Big Words, Gabby and Scrapper. James Harper also brought his younger brother Will, who would eventually become father to Roy "Speedy" Harper of Earth-One!
Commander Steel had himself inadvertently been focibly displaced onto Earth-One in the midst of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, due to being caught in a dimensional mechanism utilized by Nazi scientist Gootsden which he obtained from the alien Monitor. Around this same time, the Monitor had sent a sentient android construct known as Real American to Earth-Two, which essentially took Steel's place... although instead of an ally of the All-Star Squadron, he was their bitter foe.
A corresponding number of superheroes arrived on the Earth-Two adjacent dimension of Asgard from the post-Crisis Earth-0. These Justice Society members were Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Flash, Green Lantern, Atom, Hourman, Sandman, Sandy, Johnny Thunder (with his Thunderbolt), Starman, Doctor Mid-Nite, Wildcat. Additionally, the post-Crisis versions of Power Girl*, Star-Spangled Kid, Doctor Fate** and the Spectre*** temporarily resided in Earth-Two’s Asgard. These heroes experienced perpetual recycling of these events in this realm.
Eventually, the group known as the Daemen from post-Crisis Earth-0 took the place of the Justice Society during the Ragnarok War. These villains turned anti-heroes included: Arquoi, Blaquokar, Calabri, Dhaozan, Feth Sudol, Gulgak, Huromon, Inztuk, Kistimaak, Piztok, Tzingaas and Zhazor. Each of the Earth-0 Society/Daemen met tragic ends in battle in Earth-Two’s reality, although the events would play out an infinite number of times from the start of the battle until its conclusion.
As for the ex-All-Stars now residing on Earth-One, most of them soon after arriving on their new home retired their costumed careers. Some of them, such as Larry "Air Wave" Jordan, John Zatana, Will Harper and probably John "Sargon" Sargent each settled down to start families. Others such as the Guardian and Paul "Manhunter" Kirk had their lives tragically cut short through traumatic events. Robotman had a brief career on Earth-One where he was included in the Justice League’s first case. Shortly after, he moved back to Earth-Two where he was inadvertently placed in suspended animation for several years while his pal Chuck Grayson was kept alive yet brain dead for decades. TNT and Dyna-Mite were kept within protective bunkers when their powers started to become wildly controllable. The Newsboy Legion lads grew up tobecame prominent geneticists, with their sons taking over for them in the late 1970s.
* This Power Girl duplicate was her universe’s version of the Supergirl duplicate Nightflame who, like the Asgardian Power Girl, is a clone of the heroine in a pocket dimension… hers called the Innerverse.
** This Earth-0 Doctor Fate corresponded to the enigmatic Doctor Chaos entity who briefly battled Superboy on Earth-One (while Doctor Chaos’ human partner Burt Belker was the counterpart of Kent “Doctor Fate” Nelson’s father Swen Nelson)
*** This Earth-0 Spectre filled the void in Earth-Two's universe left behind by the Spectre of that dimension, who migrated for a time to Earth-One.
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