Remembering Artist Vince Argondezzi

Remembering artist Vince Argondezzi on his birthday (March 20, 1960 - December 14, 2018) with his Millennium crossover covers for Infinity, Inc. (#46 and #47, January and February, 1988), where the Infinitors matched wits with the Floronic Man, and dealt with the Harlequinn (who was an agent of the the Manhunters).

JLA JSA Last Multiple Crisis

One last batch of JLA/JSA team-ups with the meetings of the heroes of Earth-1 and Earth-2....

...this one is a bit special, as these tales had not been collected in a tradepaperback for individual release (unlike all the other team-ups before).

A sad state of affairs, as the Crises faced by the teams got personal, and involved....then the red skies came!

Crisis In The Thunderbolt Dimension

This JLA/JSA team-up from Justice League Of America #219 (October, 1983) by Gerry Conway, Roy Thomas, Chuck Patton and Romeo Tanghal (and cover by George Perez) started off fast....with the Flashes of two worlds taking down a terrorist gang on Earth-1.  Barry Allen and Jay Garrick took a little time to review the annual gatherings (including their first meeting), with Jay wondering why his Earth was called Earth-2, when super-heroes started their first.

As the two headed towards a JLA transporter tube, their musings were cut short when they were attacked by Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt!  While Jay was simply startled by the attack, Barry was put into a coma, which put some worry into Jay's need to see the Justice League.

Meanwhile, the various JLA and JSA members were catching up with each other on the JLA Satellite (Green Lantern Hal Jordan talking about his recent return to Earth duty, Firestorm thinking he and Power Girl could be an item after the last JLA/JSA team-up....)....when, suddenly a pink thunderbolt comes through the satellite wall, taking out JLA members (except for Earth-2 originators Black Canary and Red Tornado), but only blacking out the JSA members.  The JSA members put the JLAers in the infirmary, with Jay bring Barry along.  The members gather to review, and find the Thunderbolt damaged the Transmatter Machine that allows free flow between Earth-1 and Earth-2.

Jay asks Black Canary about when she switched Earths after Aquarius killed her husband (on a JLA-JSA team-up), and Dinah responds, taking her through how she then went to Earth-1 and joined the JLA.  Red Tornado interrupts, telling of how all the other current JLAers, like Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest were also either comatose or unreachable.

Power Girl finds the Crime Champions (villains from the two Earths) out attacking various mystical sites on Earth-1, and the heroes split into teams to chase them down, with Starman and Black Canary staying on the satellite.  Starman convinces Black Canary they must go to the Thunderbolt dimension to track down this errant Thunderbolt (and find out what happened to Johnny Thunder).  In the Thunderbolt dimension, they find the Thunderbolt, who takes them captive for the Johnny Thunder of Earth-1 (the evil doppelganger of the JSA's heroic Johnny Thunder, first faced in an early JLA/JSA team-up), as well as the preserved corpses of.....Larry Lance and Black Canary!

The Doppelganger Gambit

Under a George Perez cover, the story continues in Justice League Of America #220 (November, 1983) by Roy Thomas, Chuck Patton, Romeo Tanghal and Pablo Marcos.  The JSAers and Red Tornado start to head to the various places the Crime Champions are attacking when they are stopped by Sargon the Sorcerer (a mystic who was a member of the All-Star Squadron, but had in more recent years been on Earth-1).  Sargon explains he found the Earth-1 Jim Corrigan comatose as well (Jim being the host on each Earth of the Spectre), and he joined the heroes splitting up for battle.  The JLAers were still comatose in the JLA Satellite, and the Earth-1 Johnny Thunder was just beginning to explain the corpses of Larry Lance and the Black Canary to Starman and the Black Canary, who were prisoners of the Thunderbolt.

They also saw the JSA's Thunderbolt as a captive, and the Thunderbolt was told to explain things.  The Thunderbolt explained how in the late 1940s, Johnny started to work more with Black Canary, and she even replaced the T-bolt as Johnny's partner (then took his place as a member of the JSA, as well as his spot in Flash Comics).  Dinah Drake (Black Canary) even started dating detective Larry Lance at her florist shop (which drove a wedge between Johnny and the Black Canary).

The JSA then had to disappear, and Larry and Dinah were married.  Years later, Larry and Dinah were playing with their young daughter, Dinah Laurel Lance, when they were attacked by JSA foe, the Wizard, who put a spell on the young girl, cursing her with a sonic scream.  Distraught, Dinah called Johnny Thunder, who summed the Thunderbolt to keep young Dinah safe in the Thunderbolt dimension (as he was unable to cure the girl), and then wiped the memory of the three of young Dinah's existence.  Meanwhile, back on current Earth-1, Jay Flash and Hourman faced the Fiddler and Chronos at the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, Red Tornado and Huntress faced the Icicle and the second Dr. Alchemy at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, and Power Girl and Sargon faced the Wizard and Felix Faust at Stonehenge in England.

The JSA Johnny Thunder finally frees his mouth, and say, you'd see how fast he got free and knocked out the Earth-1 Johnny Thunder, and had the T-Bolt revive the JLA to go help with the Crime Champions (Elongated Man and Flash with Chronos and Fiddler; Firestorm and Green Lantern with Dr. Alchemy II and Icicle, and Zatanna with Felix Faust and the Wizard.

The JSA's Johnny Thunder, along with the Earth-1 Superman and Spectre, explained to Black Canary, how, when Superman was taking the Black Canary off Earth-2 after the defeat of Aquarius (and Larry's death), that she was wracked with pain, and remembered her daughter.  Getting the Thunderbolt to take her to the Thunderbolt dimension, she saw her now adult daughter, who had grown but was still comatose, and found that the original Black Canary was dying from being near the bolt that Aquarius threw to kill Larry Lance.  Superman and the Thunderbolt gave the child a copy of Dinah Drake Lance's Black Canary costume, and Dinah's memories, with the new Black Canary (Dinah Laurel Lance) making her (unknowning) debut as a JLA member (thus making Black Canary a legacy character).

The JSAers Flash had last appeared in his last solo team up with Barry Allen and a multidimensional battle in Wonder Woman, Hourman and the Thunderbolt after the JLA and JSA faced the Secret Society of Super-Villains, Starman after the JLA, JSA and All-Star Squadron fought (and forgot) Per Degaton, Power Girl when the JSA briefly met Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew, while Huntress had been in her solo series in the back of Wonder Woman's title.  The JSAers next appeared in Infinity, Inc. #1, except for Huntress (back to her Wonder Woman back-up slot) and the Spectre (who last appeared in the second to last Brave and the Bold with Batman, and next in the second Swamp Thing Annual).

Family Crisis

Something a little different for the next JLA/JSA team-up in Justice League Of America #231 (October, 1984) by Kurt Busiek and Alan Kupperberg, with a cover by Chuck Patton and Dick Giordano.  Most of the JLA was busy (Green Lantern/Hal off Earth, Atom/Ray searching for his jungle friends, and the rest dealing with the return of the Martian Manhunter), so Superman, Wonder Woman and Flash (dealing with the trial of his murdering the Reverse-Flash) were alone in the JLA Satellite (with Supergirl, who just celebrated the anniversary of her being revealed to the world), when some young kids appeared and took them to Earth-2 to help JSAers Doctor Fate, Dr. Mid-Nite, Green Lantern (Alan Scott) and Starman against...

...flying monkeys?

After the teams defeat their odd foe, and get confronted by a spectral head proclaiming doom....the JLA and JSA talk to the family....the Champion family of Victoria Champion, her brother Ian Champion and Aunt Meredith.  They tell of their father, physicist Dr. Joshua Champion, who was working on dimensional travel in his lab out in Arizona, when Victoria went to seem him....but didn't see him in his lab (but heard his voice....).

The family gathered as he was missing, but then he appeared, in holographic form, to threaten them...not at all sounding like himself....thus, they decided they needed to find help.  Superman, Flash, Dr. Mid-Nite and Starman went with the girls to find Dr. Champion, while Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Dr. Fate and Green Lantern stayed behind with Ian, to give the girls something to home in on and to protect Earth-2.  Both teams fought mystical monsters, yet it was the other dimensional team who confronted the Commander, who took those heroes under his influence (except for Dr. Mid-Nite, whose visual difficulties allowed his mind to remain free of the Commander's attempt at mind control).  The team found Dr. Champion, and was to return him to the rest of his family (unknowingly carrying out the Commander's plan).

Battlegrounds

The saga continued in Justice League Of America #232 (November, 1984) under a cover by Chuck Patton and Dick Giordano, as Kurt Busiek and Alan Kupperberg continued the adventures of reuniting the Champion family.

Oddly, the last issues adventure was summed up by the Monitor (an incredibly powered being watching over the Earth and more, as he was preparing with Lyla for the Crisis On Infinite Earths).

As the heroes reunited, the Commander put his plan into action (as he had possessed Dr. Champion).

While the heroes were battling, Victoria, displaying more powers beyond dimension hopping, battled the Commander, and was able to drive him from her father's mind.

The Commander, though, was able to survive, transferring his energy into the Pentagon, where he explained how Dr. Champion had made mental contact with the Commander, and the Commander had planned on using Dr. Champion to help him break out of his desolate, dead dimension (that he himself had destroyed, leaving him with nothing to do...).

Dr. Fate, working with the Champions, was able to open a dimensional portal that the other heroes were able to push the Commander through (with a little observing by the Monitor, which provided an odd distraction for the Commander, who could sense the Monitor watching him), but the heroes and the Champion family were also sucked into limbo as well.  Thinking themselves lost, they found Earth-3's Crime Syndicate of America floating in limbo (in the prison the JLA and JSA had put them in), and where able to return home, with the JSA going back to Earth-2, the Champion family taking off into the ether....and Supergirl, Superman, Wonder Woman and Flash....well, they found themselves slightly out of time (though it took until Justice League of America #237 for them to find out....when they met a whole new Justice League formed in the wake of the Martian invasion that took the rest of the team out of the satellite when this all started!).

The JSAers had a semi-regular home now, and had come into this crossover from issues of Infinity, Inc., and appeared next in the first issue of the four issue mini-series, America Vs. The Justice Society (with the Monitor's interactions leading up to the Crisis detailed in these meetings with the JLA and JSA....and more!).

Last Crisis On Earth-Two

The last pre-Crisis (or pre-aftermath of the Crisis, as this was happening during the Crisis On Infinite Earths) JLA/JSA team up started in Infinity, Inc. #19 (October, 1985) by Roy and Danette Thomas, Todd McFarlane and Steve Montano, with a cover by Todd McFarlane and Tony Dezuiga.  Infinity, Inc. was a team formed by the Star-Spangled Kid, with the sons, daughters and other inheritors of the mantles of the Justice Society of America, and were based in California on Earth-2.

The Infinitors (minus missing Obsidian, who was involved on the Monitor's satellite) were rushing Jade to the hospital (as she had been poisoned by Mr. Bones of the villain team of Helix).  The hospital they were at was the home of Dr. Charles McNider (the original Dr. Mid-Nite) and his protege, Dr. Beth Chapel.

The Earth was just starting to be enveloped with red skies, and the team was confronted by Commander Steel (a member of the All-Star Squadron who had disappeared during World War II) and Mekanique (a new being who Commander Steel was working with for her ability to traverse dimensions). 

Commander Steel was accidentally sent to Earth-1 (in All-Star Squadron #50, when Harbinger recruited Firebird) and was here to recruit Infinity, Inc. to help with some "super-powered young criminals who...now call themselves the "new" Justice League". 

The Infinitors go with Commander Steel and Mekanique (leaving Star-Spangled Kid behind).  Meanwhile, Hawkman, Flash, Wonder Woman and Dr. Fate of the JSA to discern the direness of the Crisis.  On Earth-1,  Commander Steel briefs his team on the Bunker (the JLA's Detroit headquarters, as he has details on it....it was his, and he let his grandson, Steel, have it...but he doesn't tell Infinity, Inc. that).  Inside, the teams meet and battle, with Martian Manhunter helping the JLA members exit, with the Infinitors left without Commander Steel and Mekanique and more mysteries....which they promise to solve....

The Final Crisis

...in the last JLA/JSA team up in Justice League Of America #244 (November, 1985) by Gerry Conway, Joe Staton and Mike Machlan (with cover by Staton/Machlan).

Here, the JLA is regrouping, as Elongated Man scouts out the damaged JLA Satellite (wrecked during the Martian invasion which helped end the original JLA and led to the newest members of the team: Vibe, Vixen, Steel and Gypsy, as well as their Detroit Bunker HQ).  Elongated Man explains to Vibe about the multiple Earths (who doesn't believe him). Meanwhile, the Infinitors are checking out the Bunker, thinking something is wrong, as Fury finds Mekanique in the Med Bay, working on the cybernetic Steel, realizing they might be on the wrong side, as Commander Steel finds her, knocking her out.

As Martian Manhunter fixes the JLA's Transmatter Machine (that allows people to go between worlds), and Zatanna gives the machine power (with the JLA going to Earth-2), the Crisis hits the Motor City.  Commander Steel and Mekanique take out the rest of the Infinitors, with Commander Steel telling his reasons for turning his grandson, Hank Heywood III, into a cyborg....to make him stronger to face the challenges of the world. like he did during World War II. 

The JSA and JLA heard this, and attacked Commander Steel and Mekanique (revealing that they had confronted her before back when the All-Star Squadron had existed....but that story had yet to be told).  Mekanique teleported out (as much a mystery now as she was then...or would be), as the combined JLA, JSA and Infinity, Inc. started to deal with the red sky storms of the Crisis, and Commander Steel and Steel battled (with story points to be followed up in future issues of Infinity, Inc., All-Star Squadron, Crisis of Infinite Earths and Justice League of America....).

The Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America, as well as many other heroes and villains (like Seven Soldiers of Victory, Freedom Fighters, Marvel Family, Legion of Super-Heroes, Jonah Hex, New Gods and more), all were involved in the Crisis On Infinite Earths, which changed the entire DC Universe and DC Multiverse for decades to come!



The last two issues of JLA/JSA team-ups were reprinted in the Justice League: The Detroit Era Omnibus of 2018 and in the Crisis On Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition #2 of 2019, with all three JLA/JSA team ups being included in a massive multi-volume collection that included ALL the JLA/JSA stories, as well as Crisis Crossovers and Crisis On Infinite Earths.

 

Crisis Recruits

The Crisis On Infinite Earths started in Crisis On Infinite Earths #1 (April, 1985 by Marv Wolfman and George Perez), with the Monitor transforming his assistant, Lyla, into the Harbinger, and sending her off to recruit various heroes (and villains)  to help save the Multiverse.

While that first issue showed some of the recruitment meetings, others were handled in the individual titles of characters.

Here is where Harbinger reached out past the Crisis title.....

Firebrand

In "Crisis Point" for All-Star Squadron #50 (October, 1985) by Roy Thomas, Mike Clark, Vince Colletta, Arvell Jones and Tony DeZuniga (with cover by Jerry Ordway), Harbinger echoed her retrieval of the second Firebrand (Danette Reilly) from a War Bonds rally on Earth-2, April 1, 1942....

...but so much more happened as well.

The current JSA was "Shanghaied Into Space" in an adventure based on their appearance in All-Star Comics #13 (October-November, 1942 - but, instead of going to the eight other planets of their own solar system, they were sent through hyper-space to other dimensional versions of Sol's planets, that were inhabited).

The rest of the Quality heroes (including Plastic Man and Phantom Lady) followed Uncle Sam to Earth-X (an unfortunate world where, at the time, the Nazis were winning World War II).

Commander Steel, behind enemy lines, defeated his enemy, but was thrown into another Earth (Earth-1) that had no super heroes during World War II, and there he remained (having a grandson, who would be Steel in the JLA).

Johnny Chambers and Libby Lawrence (Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle) got married, and headed to their honeymoon, except for the red skies, which had Green Lantern (Alan Scott) come for their help, and then ended them up on Earth-S for a time.

The All-Star Squadron as a whole was a part of the Crisis from All-Star Squadron #50 to #60, and these issues were reprinted in the Crisis On Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition Volume 1 of 2018.

Obsidian

In "Helix Goes To Hollywood" from Infinity, Inc. #18 (September, 1985) by Roy and Danette Thomas, Todd McFarlane and Pablo Marcos, the members of Infinity, Inc. were facing their foes, the super villain team Helix, when Harbinger arrived to take Obsidian (Todd Rice) away.

The rest of the team soldiered on, getting involved in the Crisis up to Infinity, Inc. #25, as well as their first annual and being part of the last JLA/JSA team up in Justice League of America #244 (with these issues all being reprinted in the Crisis On Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition Volume 2 of 2019.

Firestorm

Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein were trying to settle into their new life at college in Pittsburgh in "Storm Warning" from Fury Of Firestorm #41 (November, 1985) by Gerry Conway, Rafael Kayanan and Ian Akin (cover by Rafael Kayanan and Dick Giordano).

Harbinger, bring along Psycho-Pirate, came to retrieve Firestorm (and Psycho-Pirate's emotion manipulation powers caused a little bit of a problem first, as he induced fright in Martin Stein, the "thinking" half of Firestorm).

This issue and the next of Fury of Firestorm were this titles Crisis crossovers, and were reprinted in the Crisis On Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition Volume 1 of 2018.

Cyborg

Cyborg (Victor Stone) was Harbinger's recruit from New Teen Titans #13 (October, 1985) by Marv Wolfman, Eduardo Barreto and Romeo Tanghal, in "Crisis".

This issue showed that some time had passed between Harbinger taking Cyborg to the Monitor's satellite and the effects of Crisis hitting Earth...

...as shown when the Titans, Outsiders and Superman dealt with some Crisis problems (mirroring issue #3 of the main Crisis series), as well as the Titans involvement in Crisis #4-#9, and Wonder Girl getting help from Firehawk in Fury of Firestorm #42, while Nightwing, Starfire and Jericho go back to Starfire's homeworld of Tamaran (which unfolds over the next few issues of New Teen Titans, also involving the Omega Men).

New Teen Titans #13 and #14 are reprinted in the Crisis On Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition Volume 2 of 2019.

Green Lantern

The last individual recruited was Green Lantern in Green Lantern #194 (November, 1985) by Steve Englehart, Joe Staton and Bruce D. Patterson in "5".  Green Lanterns Katma Tui and John Stewart were coming back from a space mission, when they see the red skies on Earth, and check in with Green Arrow and Black Canary in Star City to find out what is going on.

That is when Harbinger shows up to recruit John, but first a battle happens between Green Arrow, Black Canary and Katma against Harbinger.

Explaining her need, she takes John along (as soon as he "fixes" his costume).  Meanwhile, former Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner are taking steps to get their hands on a Power Ring, with the Guardians of the Universe providing an unexpected answer.

John Stewart goes through the same scenes he did in Crisis #1 and #2, fighting Shadow Demons and learning about the threat the worlds face.  This story, and the rest of the Green Lantern Crisis issues are reprinted in the Crisis On Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition Volume 1 of 2018.

The other original recruits of the Monitor were King Solovar of Gorilla City, Dawnstar of the 30th Century Legion of Super-Heroes, Blue Beetle of Hub City, Psycho-Pirate (JSA foe), Arion (lord of ancient Atlantis), Psimon (of the Fearsome Five), Geo-Force (of the Outsiders), the Golden Age Superman, Green Lantern foe Dr. Polaris, and Firestorm foe Killer Frost (the second version of his original foe).

This group faced a breach of Monitor's satellite by the Anti-Monitor's Shadow Demons, and then were dispatched through time and space to protect the Monitor's towering tuning forks in an attempt to stave off the Crisis.....

Watching The Monitor: Infinity Inc., Huntress and All-Star Squadron of Earth-2

The previous adventures of the Monitor and Lyla focused on their interactions with Earth-1, but they were observing the entire DC Multiverse.


Here are their observations of Earth-2, where they were checking out the groups there.

Atomic Dreams - Nuclear Nightmares

First up, part of the origin of Infinity, Inc., from Infinity, Inc. #8 (November, 1984) by Roy and Dann Thomas, Jerry Ordway, Mike Machlan and Tony DeZuniga.

The members of Infinity, Inc. were the sons, daughters and proteges of the Justice Society of America, and were dealing with those mentors having turned evil due to exposure to the "Stream Of Ruthlessness" (which turned heroic people evil).  As the Golden Age Atom battled Nuklon, the Monitor negotiated with the Ultra-Humanite (a foe of the Golden Age Superman).

Sadly, this story has yet to be reprinted.

The Rise And Fall Of The Phantom Empire

Next up, Lyla and the Monitor are looking even further back, all the way to World War II on Earth-2, with the All-Star Squadron, in All-Star Squadron #40 (December, 1984) by Roy Thomas, Richard Howell and Bill Collins, under a cover by Arvell Jones.


The All-Star Squadron was a gathering of all the heroes of Earth-2 during World War II, focusing more on heroes who hadn't been members of any group before, like Johnny Quick, Liberty Belle, Robotman, and new heroes, like Firebrand and Amazing-Man.  Here, they defeated the Phantom Empire in Detroit (and readers learned that their super-powered front man, the Real American, was an android, supplied to them using future technology, by the Monitor).  Events of this story led to Amazing-Man becoming a member of the All-Star Squadron.

This story has yet to be reprinted.

The Final Blackout

Last, but not least of the tales of Earth-2, is Wonder Woman #321 (November, 1984), which has the last of the back-up tales of the Huntress (Helena Wayne, Batman's daughter) by Joey Cavalieri, Rod Whigham and Rick Magyar.

After a particularly hard time on a case, Helena Wayne (who became a hero after the death of her mother, the Catwoman....who had married Bruce Wayne/Batman, as these two had careers in the 1940s on Earth-2, and ended them in the 1950s).  In Huntress' reflections, as the Monitor cataloged her, Lyla wondered about her own place in the events to come. 

This tale of the Huntress has yet to be reprinted (though the first half of Huntress' back-ups has been, twice), and the mini-series promised never happened, thanks in part to the Crisis On Infinite Earths.

Shadows

To be fair, Vigilante #14 (February, 1985) by Marv Wolfman and Trevor Von Eeden, didn't contain an appearance by the Monitor or Lyla, nor did it focus on the Earth-2 Vigilante, who was a member of Seven Soldiers of Victory of Earth-2, but instead focused on Adrian Chase, who had on occasion opposed the New Teen Titans of Earth-1.

But, the super-suit which allowed Mr. Hammer to blend into the shadows likely was supplied by the Monitor (and this Vigilante had his beginnings in the first tale that Lyla appeared in).

The Monitor and Lyla also observed a team-up of the JLA/JSA and Supergirl, and they would continue to watch Earth-2, as well as other times and places from World War II, to the wild west to the far future as events progressed to the Crisis On Infinite Earths.

Charter Members of Infinity, Inc. Part 2

Infinity, Inc. was the next generation of super-heroes (at least on Earth-2, a world where folks like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash Jay Garrick, Green Lantern Alan Scott and Hawkman Carter Hall were heroes in the Justice Society for decades....).


It seemed like these new heroes were to replace the JSA...


...but, they were also related to the Justice Society.

Northwind

Norda Cantrell was the winged godson of the original Hawkman, half-human and half-Feitheran.  Hawkman first encountered the Feitherans in Flash Comics #71 (May, 1946), and in the early issues of Infinity, Inc., it was revealed that Hawkman went back their with Fred Cantrell, who became accepted by the inhabitants of the city.  Fred married Osoro (the daughter of Feithera's leader, Worla), and they produced Norda.  Norda was a favorite of the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl, putting a wedge between the two and their own son, Hector, who couldn't fly.  Norda went to track down Hector around Christmas, bursting in on Hector, Lyta and Al Rothstein as they were making plans to storm the JSA HQ and join the team.  Norda ended up flying along as Northwind, and became a charter member of Infinity, Inc. during the course of the Generations Saga.

Northwind's flight and agility was an asset to Infinity, Inc., as was his Feitheran technology (such as the "Globglass Gun" he had, which disabled opponents by messing with their equilibrium), and he served with the team regularly until soon after the Crisis On Infinite Earths, when he returned home to his people, getting in touch with his mystical and religious side there (and learning of a prophecy about Hector Hall and the Silver Scarab), missing out on the end of Infinity, Inc..  Norda later returned, further mutated into bird form, as a member of Black Adam's Injustice Society of the World (along with former Infinity, Inc. members Atom-Smasher/Al Rothstein and Brainwave Jr/Henry King, Jr., and a new version of Eclipso). 

Jade

Jennifer-Lynn Hayden started as a lady of mystery...but her glowing green skin and power pulse that allowed her to manipulate energy marked her as a relative of Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern (though that was in doubt for the earliest issues of Infinity, Inc.).

Jennie-Lynn Hayden had found her brother, as both she and Todd had been adopted, ending up with Julian and Myrna Hayden, with a quite suburban life...until she started turning green here and there, which can be a problem!  Jennie-Lynn used this ability to find her brother, and the two showed up at JSA HQ when the other four future Infinity, Inc. members did.

Jade remained a member of Infinity, Inc. for its entire run, even befriending Solomon Grundy (a foe of the Golden Age Green Lantern), then moved away from her brother, working with the Blood Pack (a group of heroes who got their powers from their bloodlines being mixed with alien DNA), losing her powers for a time and becoming the girlfriend of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner (and becoming a Green Lantern herself), then getting the powers back, joining the Outsiders, dying during Infinite Crisis, but coming back during the Blackest Night to join the Justice League of America along with Jesse Quick (being sort of a female Flash/Green Lantern team). 

Obsidian

Todd Rice was Jennie-Lynn's brother, and his ability to become a shadow didn't particularly tie him to any JSAer, but he was also the son of the original Green Lantern.  Todd didn't live the good life of his sister, being adopted by James Rice, who abused the boy, and Todd developed mental problems because of the abuse, suffering a deep depression (not helped by his powers of darkness, to turn into a shadow and bring out people's darkest fears).  Still, he found his sister and the two were there for the beginning of Infinity, Inc.  (though it took a while for the siblings to find out who their mother was....hint, it was one of the Golden Age ladies here!).

Todd hung in to the end of Infinity, Inc. as well, and continued on with his sister, until she left him too....and Obsidian joined the Justice League America with Nuklon (and Fire, Ice Maiden, Blue Devil, Flash Wally West, a merged Hawkman and more, and among others, fought with the Killer Elite, which included Deadshot and Merlyn as members), then worked with Manhunter Kate Spencer for a bit, as well as fighting his darker nature (which at times made Todd a villain, usually due to the influence of Eclipso).

Brainwave, Jr.

Henry King, Jr. is a bit of an odd case in more ways than one.  He premiered one issue before the other members of Infinity, Inc. (in All-Star Squadron #24 of August, 1983, by Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway) and set the stage for the other members to appear.  Henry is also the member that didn't have a relation to a JSAer, but instead was the son of one of their most persistent villains, the Brain Wave.  Odder still, his mother was revealed to be Merry, the Girl of 1000 Gimmicks (Merry Pemberton, the cousin of the Star-Spangled Kid), but the details of this union were never revealed.

Brainwave, Jr. crashed the party when the other future Infinitors crashed JSA HQ, and he ended up tagging along when Ultra-Humanite sent the other six back to the 1940s (to fight the All-Star Squadron), and it was Brain Wave, Jr., who, along with Tarantula who helped save the day (and more importantly, saving Albert Rothstein's mom....so Nuklon could eventually be born!).

Henry was attracted to Jennie-Lynn, which upset Todd to no end, especially with Henry's mind powers (which expanded after he absorbed his father at the end of the Generations Saga).  Sticking with Infinity, Inc. to the end, Henry later went over to the dark side, forming the Legion of Doom out of JLA foes like the second Killer Frost, Major Force, the Madmen and other foes of the members of Extreme Justice, and being part of Black Adam's Injustice Society.

Star-Spangled Kid

Sylvester Pemberton started out all the way back in Star-Spangled Comics #1 (October, 1941) by Jerry Siegel and Howard Sherman.  The kid was a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the All-Star Squadron, and after some time-hopping of his own, even joined the Justice Society of America.  But Sylvester wasn't happy as a JSAer, feeling the need to leave the team and wanting to establish a name and direction for himself.

That he felt that much more after the death of the Crimson Avenger, and Sylvester was planning on telling the JSA he was going to leave the team, until these kids all bust in JSA HQ.  The Star-Spangled Kid had the Pemberton fortune, including owning an old movie studio in California, which Syl then turned into the base for Infinity, Inc., helping against new foes, like the team Helix, and even became friends with the female detective, Jonni Thunder.  The Star-Spangled Kid was one of the few JSAers not to be stuck in limbo after the Crisis On Infinite Earths, but he decided to adopt a new identity at that time, becoming Skyman.  Skyman only had the powers of flight thanks to his suit, which used what survived of his Cosmic Converter Belt, and faced off against Injustice, Unlimited (the inheritors of the mantle of the Injustice Society of the World).  Sadly, Skyman didn't survive to the end of Infinity, Inc. with his death being a major part of the end of the team.

Power Girl and Huntress

Karen Starr (aka Kara Zor-L) and Helena Wayne were both characters that came from the run of All-Star Comics in the 1970s.  They both briefly worked with the Infinitors, but neither stuck around for long.  Power Girl survived the Crisis On Infinite Earths, and Huntress....well, not so much.

Still, they were Earth-2's next generation of Superman and Batman, and though they weren't in Infinity, Inc. much, they were still charter members.

Infinity, Inc. began with the Generations Saga, and left quite a legacy, adding more members as well (female versions of Wildcat and a correctly spelled Dr. Midnight, as well as the son of Hourman, and even worked with Mr. Bones of Helix), all before the series ended after 53 issues and two Annuals (as well as team-ups with the Justice League of America, New Teen Titans and Outsiders).