For the Fourth of July, Meg Griffin decided to wear an American flag
bikini. She is going to celebrate Independence day at the beach. Things did not go the way Meg expected
For the Fourth of July Meg Griffin of
Family Guy was dressing up
as DC Comics Miss America (Joan Dale) to celebrate the United States.
She is strikinig a superhero pose. It ends up like too many Heroines.
Joan Dale was the war-time superhero Miss America, powered by the spirit of the Statue of Liberty itself. She was a member of the All-Star Squadron and the Freedom Fighters.
In
the late spring of 1941 on Liberty Island, reporter Joan Dale had a
dream that the Statue of Liberty came to life and granted her the power
to alter the nature of matter. She creates a colorful costume and
becomes Miss America, one of America's first heroines. In truth, she had
been abducted by the top-secret government agency, Project M,, and her
powers were actually the result of a secret experiment. They believed
the experiment to be a failure and had returned her to whence she had
been taken, leaving her none the wiser.
Later that year,
the Japanese plotted their attack on Pearl Harbor. Uncle Sam learned of
the attack and assembled a group of heroes called the Freedom Fighters
(with Hourman, the Invisible Hood, Magno, Neon the Unknown, and the Red
Torpedo) to prevent it. The mission was doomed and all but Uncle Sam
seemingly perished in the fight. Sam later discovered, however, that
three of his allies had survived: Miss America among them. After the
mission, she was reclaimed by Project M.
When Robotman and the
Young All-Stars visited Project M, they discovered that Miss America was
indeed alive, albeit comatose. A battle with the Ultra-Humanite broke
out, which awoke Joan from her coma. She promptly returned to the
defense of her country and in late May 1942, she joined the Justice
Society of America as the group's secretary.
Lyta became pregnant
with the child of her teammate and lover Dr. Fate, however, Hector soon
died. She moved back home with her adoptive parents, Joan and Derek
Trevor, and was soon reunited with Hector, who had become the new
Sandman. Learning that Hector could only exist one hour outside the
Dream Dimension, Lyta and Hector married and Lyta joined Hector in the
Dream Dimension. Joan and Derek Trevor attended the wedding.
A
much older Joan Dale returned, to confront a youthful impostor bearing
the mantle who had, under the orders of Father Time, managed to
neutralize and capture the new team of Freedom Fighters.
Joan
revealed that she never lost her powers, but used them to create the
illusion that she had aged in order to retire and live a normal life
with her husband. Now that Derek Trevor had passed away, she lets the
illusion slip and resumes her youthful, heroic guise to aid Uncle Sam
and his new team. While fighting the impostor Miss America, Joan
discovered that she is in fact an android and destroyed her.
Later
Red Bee, mutated into an alien-insect creature, mind-controlled Joan
into absorbing Human Bomb's explosive energy and taking it into space.
Joan then exploded, presumed to be dead. Unbeknowst to her
allies, Joan managed to keep her consciousness alive, rebuilding a new,
young body from extant space materials. Evolved into a new form of life,
she discarded her Miss America identity to claim her new moniker: Miss
Cosmos.
Months later, Joan returned to aid the Freedom Fighters
again as Miss America, explaining that her cosmic power upgrade proved
temporary and that since her boosted powers faded she is now actually
weaker than she was before.
Eventually,
Joan Dale's powers apparently faded and she retired as Miss America.
She married Admiral Derek Trevor, and eventually they become the
adoptive parents of Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor Hall, who became the
modern-day Fury in Infinity, Inc.
For the Fourth of July Meg Griffin of Family Guy was dressing up as Marvel Comics Miss America (Madeline Frank) to celebrate the United States.
Miss America (Madeline Joyce Frank) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics
#49 (Nov. 1943), and was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al
Gabriele for Timely Comics, the 1940s precursor of Marvel, in the period
fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books.
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.
In
the latter, she was 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 two
Golden Age adventures. In the second of these, she wore glasses, one of
the extremely few superheroes to require them. Miss America made her
final Golden Age appearance in Marvel Mystery Comics #85 (Feb. 1948).
Joyce
was later revealed to have married fellow Golden Age superhero Robert
Frank (the Whizzer). Because the two had been exposed to radiation,
their first child was the radioactive mutant Nuklo. However, Joyce died
of complications stemming from childbirth with her second, stillborn
child due to radiation poisoning from her first offspring while at
Wundagore Mountain, Transia. It was also suggested during
this time that Joyce and Frank were the parents of Avengers members
Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, although this was ultimately refuted
when it was revealed that Magneto and his wife Magda ielewere those
twins' biological parents. Miss America was then retconned in 1976 as a
member of the World War II super-team the Liberty Legion, set ton,
D.C.between the creation of the Invaders and the post-war All-Winners
Squad. As a member of the Liberty Legion, she battled the Red Skull, and
alongside the Liberty Legion and Invaders she batted the Nazi
super-team Super-Axis.
Miss America returned from the dead for 24 hours in the 2006 miniseries X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl,
where she was revealed to be spending an eternity in Hell. However, in
the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z, select entries
of characters featured in that miniseries, including that of the
Ancient One, state that the characters in hell were impostors.
Miss
America's reanimated corpse later appears as a cyborg resident of the
Core, a subterranean city populated by advanced robots. The cyborg does
battle with Miss America's former teammate, the Human Torch, and
attempts to lull him into a false sense of security. The Torch however,
realizes that the cyborg is not really his old friend, merely a puppet
using her body.
