Socially aware teenaged heiress Madeline Joyce was born in Washington, D.C., and 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 (she originally had x-ray vision, as well as other powers, but after her few early appearances they were retconned). The panicky scientist, seeing the apparently dead young woman, destroyed the device and then killed himself. Joyce survived to fight crime as the patriotically garbed Miss America, appearing regularly in Marvel Mystery Comics and All Winners Comics.
Miss America was one of Timely's first female superheroes. She was also one of two heroes with the same name- Quality Comics had a different version. Madeline was more successful. She would later marry the Whizzer, Bob Frank, and come to be the adoptive parents of Wanda and Pietro. Sorta. She also wore glasses. I don't know how she maintained a secret identity.
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