The "big five" movie studios of the golden age in Hollywood California were Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, RKO Pictures, and 20th Century Fox. This quintet dominated the movie industry during the period of the 1930s and 1940s. On Earths One and Two, there were two others who grabbed the attention of masked marauders, both good and bad. These were Verner Brothers Studios & Stellar Studios.Frank T. Fanum founded Stellar Studios, and by 1948 they were one of the renowned studios in Hollywood (although physically just outside of the actual city on Earth-Two). At that time, a masked man gave Farum a portion of a script for their latest blockbuster Thief in the Night, and another man named Evil Star was threatening the studio as the script might possibly expose his criminal rackets. After battling various henchmen, the Justice Society eventually confronted their leader, and exposed Evil Star as Guy Pompton, owner of a movie prop store that Stellar Studios used.
Decades later, Star-Spangled Kid along with his fellow Seven Soldiers of Victory returned to the 20th century following their battle with the Nebula Man, and the Kid discovered that his inheritance as Sylvester Pemberton included ownership in Stellar Studios. Reclaiming it to produce future movies, he hired various young superheroes as Infinity, Inc. to act as local protectors, in an agreement with Los Angeles to reopen the studios on land they owned.
On Earth-One, owner Jock Verner and his brother founded Verner Brothers Studio, and in 1984 he hired professional stuntman and special effects expert Daniel Cassidy to create the title character for the Blue Devil movie. While wearing his prototype suit, Cassidy melded with it while battling an other-worldly creature. From this point, the superhero Blue Devil faced various threats that seemed to gravitate towards him, as Cassidy was a "weirdness magnet".
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