The Unofficial Biography of...

Alter Ego: Joan Dale Trevor
Occupation: former secretary and reporter, now retired
Marital Status: married
Known Relatives: Derek Trevor ( husband ), Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor Hall ( adopted daughter ), Hector Hall ( son-in-law, deceased ), Daniel Hall ( grandson, transmorgified )
Group Affiliation: Freedom Fighters, All-Star Squadron, Justice Society of America
Base of Operations: New York, NY, later Washington DC
Current Status: retired
Height: 5'7" ( now 5'5" ) Weight: 123 lbs. ( now 135 lbs. )
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: black ( now streaked grey )
First Appearance: Military Comics# 1, 1941.

.....In the spring of 1941, recent college graduate Joan Trevor was eager to prove herself a capable reporter. Responding to an anonymous tip, she waited for her informant at the base of the Statue of Liberty. While waiting in the warm afternoon sun, she began to swoon and soon imagined that the Spirit of Liberty was speaking to her. It told her that she was to become the protector of freedom and was granted great powers to accomplish her goals.

.....What Joan did not know, at that same moment, she was drugged by an agent of a secret US government project, Project M. Taken to the Project's labs, the head of the project, Professor Mazursky, chided the agent for bringing a woman instead of a man for the experiments he wished to perform. With much at stake and with the processes ready to go anyway, they performed the experiments, to create super-human abilites, on Joan anyway. When nothing happened, they deemed the experiment a failure and returned the unconscious Joan back to her park bench, unaware that anything had occured.

.....On the way back from Liberty Island, Joan Dale fended off attackers by unconsciously using matter-rearanging abilities accidentily granted by the experimentation process. Over the next several months, Joan used these abilities finding the limits of her powers. On one occassion, stopping spies, she subconsciously created a costume for herself, and called herself Miss America. ( Due to either a lack of memory or concentration or a woman's perogative to change her clothes, her costume details varied slightly each time she created it ).

.....Just a few months after beginning her career, she was asked to join other mystery-men by Uncle Sam in halting an upcoming attack on the American Navy at Pearl Harbor. The mission was a failure, and she and the other Freedom Fighters were believed killed. Miss America, however, was thrown into a death-like coma and retrieved by Project M personel. She was placed in stasis for nearly six months, hovering between life and death, until she was accidentily revived. Aiding the Young All-Stars, she was brought into the All-Star Squadron and made a recording secretary for the Justice Society of America, not taking a very active role in many cases. It is believed that she served as a liason between the group and the FBI during the war years, and kept the Bureau abreast of the activities of the mystery-men.

.....Early in February, 1945, the Justice Society saved a Navy Officer named Derek Trevor, on an island in the south Pacific. Staying behind to nurse him back to health, the two fell in love, and after the retirement of the Justice Society, were married, as Joan retired her secret identity. It is not known whether she lost her abilites or still retain them.

.....Nearly thirty years ago, the childless Trevors were sought out by a pregnent Helena Kosmatos, and given her infant child, which she named after Wonder Woman, Hippolyta ( or Lyta for short ). The young girl soon demonstrated super-strength, and limited invunerability like her mother. When Lyta reached adulthood, she took on the secret identity of Fury, after her biological mother. .....The Trevors live in retirement outside of Washington DC., and have little contact with their former friends in the super-hero community.

.....Miss America had the powers of transmutation on a molecular level. Her own inexperience with the physical sciences curtailed her use of the powers, usually using it for simple changes, that were not permanant. There appeared to be an upper limit to the size of matter, and the duration of its transmutiation, but this was not ever made specific. After the war, her abilites either weakened or faded all together.

Listing of Comic Book Appearances

Secret Origins(v3) #26/2/Military Comics #1-7
All-Star Squadron #31,
Young All-Stars #
Young All-Stars Annual #1/1
Infinity Inc. # 48 (flashback)
Damage #12 (flashback)

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