Young All-Stars Annual #1 – “The Mekanique Paradox” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Mike Gustovich, Joe Kubert, Brian Murray, Michael Bair/Tony DeZuniga
This one starts with Mekanique and Per Degaton sneaking into the Perisphere (aka All-Star Squadron headquarters). Degaton is a bit nervous about going into the stronghold of his enemies, but Mekanique seems confident they can handle even a full team of All-Stars. We get a recap from Mekanique of her appearance in 1942 (in All-Star Squadron 58), when she saved a couple of innocent people to safeguard her
future from being taken over by a power-mad dictator. She lets Degaton know that she was lying the whole time; saving those people actually ensured that the dystopian future will come about, ruled by Mekanique’s creator, Rotwang. (If this sounds like the movie Metropolis, it’s not a coincidence.) Mekanique also tells Degaton that her supposed love for Robotman is fake too, admitting that she loves only intellect. She seems to have an interest in Degaton, but naturally he’s already considering betraying her when he doesn’t need her anymore. She shows him a model of a futuristic city left over from the 
World’s Fair that she’s changed to match the city she came from. She pushes a button on a weird machine and tells Degaton the All-Stars will soon be defeated. Upstairs, the All-Stars have called a plenary meeting to discuss the insubordination of their junior members when they lied about Fury being the Blood Avenger. Since they managed to defeat the Blood Avenger (and Ultra-Humanite), some All-Stars figure they should be spared any punishment, but others suggest they should be demoted back to provisional status. The Young All-Stars don’t like that idea and walk out (including Fury and Tigress, who technically didn’t break any rules but choose to stick with their friends).
Outside, the Young All-Stars discuss what they might do next and we get a series of splash pages as each character muses about their immediate future. (Tigress hints that she might get bored with being a hero and turn to villainy, which actually does happen later.) As they get ready to leave, Dyna-Mite notices some weird purple lights coming from the Perisphere. Inside, the meeting hall is bathed in purple energy, which shrinks the All-Stars down to about six inches in height. They’re pulled into a vent and deposited in the miniature city 
Mekanique built. Mekanique is still at her normal size, so she makes like King Kong and attacks the All-Stars (which explains the prophetic dream Fury had back in the first issue of a “giant” Mekanique fighting the All-Stars). She pounds the All-Stars easily, but before she can finish them off, Fury and the other Young All-Stars show up to fight her. Since they’re still normal size, they have an advantage, but Mekanique’s force-field and electron blasts make her almost impossible to beat. Finally, Robotman (who’s still tiny) rides one of Tigress’s arrows toward a weak spot in the force-field, guided by Flying
Fox’s mystic senses. Robotman gets through and sabotages Mekanique’s robot body, causing her to implode and disappear, leaving only her head behind. Per Degaton has been hiding this whole time and decides to take off but figures the knowledge he gleaned from Mekanique will help him in the future … which we’ll see in the Infinity Inc Annual just below. There’s a back-up story about Danny (Dyna-Mite) Dunbar going home to visit his parents. he’s thinking about telling them about being Dyna-Mite, but they’re the stereotypical rich, absentee parents; they’re not home when he shows up and the butler tells him his father was 
named Ambassador to some South American country (which he didn’t bother to tell Danny), so they’ll all be heading down there immediately. Danny makes peace with that, but falls asleep and when he wakes up, the butler tells him his parents took off without him and arranged for him to go to summer school. Danny is heartbroken but pretends to be fine (and he’s probably used to it) and ends up looking forward to rejoining his real family … the Young All-Stars.
Infinity Inc. Annual #2 – “The Degaton Paradox” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Lou Manna, Todd McFarlane, Michael Bair, Mike Machlan/Tony DeZuniga, Jerry Ordway
This one starts with Wildcat and Mr. Bones sneaking into a warehouse in Long Beach to bust up a drug deal. During the fight, Wildcat smashes a guy through a wall and finds a hidden room full of machinery. She’s ambushed by Mekanique, who blasts Bones and takes off. Since the warehouse is on fire, Bones has to let Mekanique go to get the unconscious Wildcat out. Outside, an old man flees the fire and gets hit by a truck. Bones talks the driver and
his pal into taking him and Wildcat (and the old guy they hit) to a nearby hospital. It’s the hospital where Beth (Dr. Midnight) Chapel works and she checks Wildcat in under her civilian identity (Yolanda Montez) and the old man is admitted without a name. Later, one of the nurses hears him mumbling that his name is Per Degaton, but he’s way older than the Degaton we saw in the above story from 1942. Bones heads to Infinity Inc headquarters to tell the others about Mekanique and Degaton (minus Fury and Silver Scarab, who are preparing to get married, and Skyman, who’s arranging the wedding … 
obviously this takes place before Skyman’s death). Brainwave does a computer search, and we get recaps of Degaton’s various battles with the JSA, including Brainwave’s father finding him as a derelict a few years ago and convincing him to go after the revived Justice Society. We also get a recap of the All-Stars’ fight with Mekanique (which we saw above) and her confrontation with the Infinitors and the Justice League. In the hospital, Yolanda is fine, but her family urge her to give up being a superhero before she gets seriously hurt. Naturally, she refuses and Beth tells them to leave before informing Yolanda that Degaton died from his injuries. But Mekanique shows up in the
morgue to revive Degaton, and we get a rundown of how she ended up here after we saw her reduced to a disembodied head in the Young All-Stars Annual. Apparently, Degaton found the head and took it home, telling her his frustrations over his boss, Professor Zee. Mekanique still had feelings for him, so she told him to take the Chrono-Crystal from inside her head (which is what made it possible to travel back from her future time) and use it to power Zee’s time machine. We already know what happened there: Degaton used the Crystal to power the machine and shot Zee, who stumbled into the machine and 
sent it forward in time. Degaton tried to jump in too but missed it. When he told Mekanique she reminded him that the machine was set for Zee’s hundredth birthday sometime in the future, so they would just have to wait sixty years or so for it reappear. Degaton liked that idea, but didn’t like having a partner, so he buried Mekanique’s head and went off to join the Injustice Society. They were defeated by the JSA and when Degaton got out of prison, he retrieved Mekanique’s head and reconstructed her body with funding from hank Heywood. Now they’re reunited and Mekanique has returned the favour by reviving Degaton from the dead, but I don’t think he’s quite as in love with her as he pretends to be. Yolanda and Beth spot them leaving the hospital and follow
them to the hills, where Mekanique plans to home in on the Chrono Crystal to make the time machine appear here instead of in Gotham, where it originally vanished from. Mekanique hears Yolanda and ends up fighting her and Dr. Midnight. They keep her busy until the rest of the Infinitors arrive, but Mekanique is too strong for them. She ends up grabbing Yolanda as a hostage and the Infinitors are forced to back off until the time machine materializes. Professor Zee stumbles out and dies, followed by another Degaton, who disintegrates the older version of himself. Mekanique explains that Degaton 
split in two when he tried to jump in the time machine decades ago: one half missed and lived out the next sixty years, while the other made it into the machine and emerged just now, disintegrating his counterpart because two identical beings can’t co-exist. Mekanique is ready to travel in time with her boyfriend Degaton, but this is the young version who didn’t want anything to do with her. When she realizes how stupid she’s been to trust him, she blows herself up, taking Degaton with her. Jade shields the Infinitors from the blast, and some of them end up feeling kinda bad for Mekanique, who loved the same man twice and was betrayed both times. There’s a back-up story about
Yolanda’s little brother accidentally finding out she’s Wildcat (and her finding out he’s been skipping school a lot).