- For the DC Comics character, see Miss America (DC Comics); for the beauty pageant, see Miss America.
Miss America is a fictional character, a superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe. She debuted in Marvel Mystery Comics #49 (1943), and was created by Otto Binder and Al Gabriele.
Madeline Joyce was an heiress who gained superhuman strength and the ability to fly when a mad scientist's device was struck by lightning. The device and scientist were destroyed, but Madeline, as the patriotically-garbed Miss America, went on to appear regularly in the pages of Marvel Mystery Comics and All-Winners Comics. She joined the short-lived Golden Age superhero team, the All-Winners Squad, and was made a member of the retconned World War II team, The Invaders, and the subsequent post-WWII team, the Liberty Legion.
Miss America was a magazine from Marvel (then Timely Publications) for years, although the Miss America character only appeared in the first issue; a model dressed in the Miss America costume would appeared in photograph on the cover of several subsequent issues. Beginning with the second issue, superhero stories were discarded from Miss America in favor of making the series a magazine oriented towards teenage girls. Long-running teen humor character Patsy Walker debuted in Miss America #2.
In the 1970s, Miss America was revealed to have married fellow WWII-era superhero Robert Frank, the Whizzer, and to have had a son with him, only for Madeline to die in childbirth thanks to radiation poisoning from their son, the radioactive mutant Nuklo. It was also suggested during this time that Madeline and Robert Frank were the parents of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch of The Avengers, although this was ultimately refuted when it was revealed that Magneto and his wife Magda were their true parents.
Miss America appeared in the 1990s Spider-Man animated series, as one of the Six Forgotten Warriors. She was voiced by Kathy Garver.
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