The 1980's were an all-around miserable time for the world's greatest super team. In March of 1984, several super powered childen of JSA members crashed a Justice Society meeting, demanding to be admitted as new members. They were rejected, as the majority of members felt they were still too young. The JSA's children left and formed their own super hero team, Infinity, Inc., and were joined by several of the JSA's newest members : Star Spangled Kid (later known as Skyman), Power Girl, and the Huntress. This caused some hard feelings between the JSA and Infinity, Inc. for awhile (see the Infinity, Inc. comic book series).

In January of 1985, the JSA were put on trial for treason against the USA, based on evidence obtained from the Golden Age Batman's diary, which he left in the care of a friend before he died. It turned out the allegations were actually part of a complex code Batman used in his diary, and the JSA were exonerated (see the four issue limited series America vs. the Justice Society comic book).

Almost right after that farce came the event known as The Crisis On Infinite Earths, where a being known as the Monitor attempted to either destroy or collape all parallel universes into a single universe. All alternate realities were wiped out save five, each with a different "Earth" : Earth-1, home of most of the DC Universe, Earth-2, home of the JSA, Earth-S, home of the Fawcett Comics characters, Earth-X, home of the Quality Comics heroes, and Earth-C, home of the Charlton Comics characters. These five Earths were eventually merged into one, with the history of that Earth being rewritten. Some new characters came into existance, while others disapeared from memory and were never know to exist in this new worlds (see the twelve issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths comic book).

During the Crisis, Robin and Huntress died, the Golden Age Superman and his wife, Lois Lane Kent, were trapped in another dimension, and The Golden Age Wonder Woman and her husband, Steve Trevor, were transported to Olympus to live as gods. History forgot all these great heroes, their esistance remembered only by those who fought in the Crisis. Robin and Huntress were laid to rest in a private cemetary on the Hall Estate, owned by the Golden Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl.

As a result of the new Earth's history, Power Girl was no longer Superman's cousin, but grand-daughter of Arion, Lord of Atlantis. Lyta Trveor, the Fury, was no longer the daughter of Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor, but instead became the daughter of a previously non-existant heroine, the Golden Age Fury. Since there was no Golden Age Wonder Woman in the new continuity, the JSA's Golden Age secretary was revealed to be Miss America, the old Quality Comics heroine who was also a member of the Freedom Fighters. It was later revealed that there was indeed a Golden Age Wonder Woman in this new Earth's history, but it was Queen Hippolyta, the current Wonder Woman's mother, who time travelled back to fight alongside the JSA for awhile.

As if this wasn't miserable enough, while attending funeral services for the Huntress and Robin, the JSA was brought into an inter-dimensional conflict in Limbo and forced to fight the great monsters of Norse Mythology for all eternity. Trapped in Limbo were Hawkman, Flash, Green Lantern, Dr. Mid-Nite, Hourman, Starman, Wildcat, Johnny Thunder, Atom, Sandman, and their associates Hawkgirl and Sandy The Golden Boy. Of the active members at the time, only Spectre, Dr. Fate, Power Girl, and the Star Spangled Kid managed to avoid Limbo. Power Girl and the Star Spangled Kid went on to join Infinity, Inc. (see The Last Days of the Justice Society Special one-shot comic book).

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