Squadron Supreme: Death of a Universe was released in 1989.

And watching them all is former team founder Nighthawk, who assembles his own team to stop the Squadron's super-fascism. Along the way, the Squadron must deal with dissension from within and without, along with assorted super-powered threats, and their continued slide down the slippery slope of morality. The series chronicles the Squadron's yearlong efforts their steps include forcible disarmament of the world's armies and individual gun owners, inventing a 'behavior modification' device for brainwashing criminals against crime, developing non-lethal weapons and personal force-fields, and creating life-sustaining hibernaculum to keep the terminally ill in suspended animation.

With little resistance, the Squadron appeared on national television and announced their 'Utopia Program', promising to return control after a year. The Squadron also decided to take the opportunity to address all of the world's problems, vowing to eliminate hunger, crime, war, poverty, and disease. After the defeat of the Overmind, the Squadron decide that the best and fastest way to repair the shattered infrastructure, quell civil unrest, and restore people's faith is to take control of the world and get it back on track. It takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth flashbacks reveal that the Squadron Supreme was dominated by the alien Overmind, who used them to turn the United States into a fascist nation and conquer the planet. Squadron Supreme came into its own in Mark Gruenwald's 1985 limited series. The Squadron Supreme themselves clashed with the Avengers in 19, with at least one of these encounters due to mind control. Subsequent stories focused on their heroic equivalents, the Squadron Supreme, which existed in the alternate universe of Earth-712. They clashed with The Avengers in an unofficial intercompany crossover, with the two teams manipulated by Kang the Conqueror and the Grandmaster in one of their schemes. The Squadron Sinister, four villainous Captain Ersatzes of the Justice League of America, were created by Roy Thomas and Sal Buscema and first introduced in 1969. A team of Justice League Captain Ersatzes who starred in a twelve-issue Marvel Comics comic book miniseries credited with being one of the earliest Deconstructions of the superhero genre (it came out in the mid 1980s, preceding DC Comics' Watchmen, but following Spider-Man).

Squadron Supreme by Mark Gruenwald