Miss America (Marvel)(01 - Madeline Joyce)
Real Name: Madeline Joyce
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Powers: An electrical discharge from an unknown experimental equipment gave Madeline Joyce the ability to levitate herself through psionic means. By using her levitation ability in connection with carefully planned leaps, Miss America could use her power to fly. She could attain any height at which she could still breathe (approximately 20,000 feet).
Weaknesses: She could use this power for about 2 hours before mental fatigue would force her to rest. Also fatigue poisons accumulate much slower in her body than that of a normal human, giving her a heightened "vitality."
Bio: Socially aware teenaged Madeline Joyce was born in Washington, D.C.. She was the niece and ward of radio mogul James Bennet, who was sponsoring a Professor Lawson, a scientist claiming to have gotten superpowers through a device that had been struck by lightning. Joyce, secretly tampering with the contraption during a thunderstorm that night, herself gained the ability to fly and great strength after lightning similarly struck, knocking her unconscious. Joyce survived to fight crime as Miss America.
Later, she became a member of Timely's superhero team the All-Winners Squad, fighting alongside Captain America and Bucky, the original Human Torch and Toro, the Sub-Mariner, and the Whizzer in the group's adventures.
It was revealed later that Joyce married fellow Golden Age superhero Robert Frank (the Whizzer), and which she had a son with him. However, Joyce died in childbirth due to radiation poisoning from her offspring, the radioactive mutant Nuklo.
Notes: Timely's Miss America may be the only character in comics history to have been kicked out of her own, self-titled publication. She only appeared in issue #1 of Miss America--but the title continued for years.
First Appearance: Marvel Mystery Comics (1939) #49 Favorite Characters:
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Issue Appearances: AAFES 8th Edition [New Avengers: The Promise] (2009)
All Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009)
All-Select Comics (1943)
All-Winners Comics (1941)
Amazing Heroes (1981)
Avengers/Invaders (2008)
#12 - 'The Last Full Measure.' Blonde Phantom Comics (1946)
Captain America (1968)
Captain America And Bucky (2011)
Captain America: Patriot (2010)
#1 - 'Born On The 4th of July' #2 - 'All-Winners' #3 - 'Truth & Justice' Citizen V and the V-Battalion: The Everlasting (2002)
#1 - 'Time Enough for Living' Giant-Size Avengers (1974)
#1 - 'Nuklo - The Invader That Time Forgot!' Giant-Size Avengers/Invaders (2008)
Giant-Size Invaders (1975)
#2 - 'A Drive in the Country' Girl Comics (2010)
Marvel Mystery Comics (1939)
Marvel Premiere (1972)
#29 - 'Lo, the Liberty Legion!' #30 - 'Hey, Ma! They're Blitzin' the Bronx!' Marvel Two-In-One (1974)
Marvel-Comic-Sonderheft (1980)
#13 - 'Captain America' #14 - 'Captain America' Miss America (Vol. 1) (1944)
Miss America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2008)
Saga of the Sub-Mariner (1988)
Sun Girl (1948)
Superior Spider-Man (2013)
The Avengers (1963)
The Invaders (1975)
#6 - 'And Let the Battle Begin' #35 - 'Havock on the Home Front' #36 - 'Crushed by the Iron Cross' #37 - 'The Liberty Legion Busts Loose' #41 - 'Beware The Super Axis!' The Invaders (1993)
#1 - 'The Invaders Return' #2 - 'Havoc in Hollywood' #3 - 'Your Young Men Shall See Visions' The Marvel Encyclopedia (2006)
HC - 'The Marvel Encyclopedia' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (1983)
#14 - 'Book of the Dead and Inactive 2 : Marvel Boy to Zuras' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition (1985)
#18 - 'Book of the Dead (Hyperion to Nighthawk)' The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Golden Age 2004 (2004)
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Master Edition (1990)
The Sensational She-Hulk (1989)
#22 - 'Blondes and Bombshells' The Twelve (2008)
The Twelve: Spearhead (2010)
The Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1982)
#2 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' The Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1985)
#5 - 'The Others Call It...All Hallows Eve' Timely 70th Anniversary Collection (2010)
Timely Presents (1999)
Uncanny Origins (1996)
#2 - 'The Son of Magneto' What If? (1977)
#4 - 'What If... The Invaders Had Stayed Together After World War Two?' Women of Marvel: Celebrating Seven Decades Handbook (2010)
X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl (2006)
TPB#1 - 'Dead a Long Time, Part 1' #2 - 'Dead a Long Time, Part 2' #3 - 'Dead a Long Time, Part 3' #4 - 'Dead a Long Time, Part 4' #5 - 'Dead a Long Time, Part 5' Group Affiliation(s): All-Winners Squad Invaders (Marvel) Liberty Legion Famous Quotes: - Add a Famous Quote None.
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