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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 Superhero es 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. 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 Robot ic 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. ALL-STAR SQUADRON MEMBERS
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