One night, Martha shows up at Donald’s classroom and finds that he’s been murdered by the Ice Man, a large thug who works for a local gangster called the Pope.

In the institution, she discovers that experiments are being secretly performed on children to genetically alter their minds, effectively turning them into human computers.

[2] Martha Washington's first appearance, a four-issue mini-series published in 1990, features her joining the PAX Peace Force — a reinvented U.S. Army — and engaging in various heroic efforts, such as saving the rain forests of South America from crazed cattle ranchers.

She eventually has to thwart the megalomanical plans of Colonel Moretti before he brings the country to the brink of destruction.

The war effort is undermined by frequent technology failures, the disappearances of America's brightest minds, and a general malaise among the people.

As she sees the destruction she indirectly caused, Washington realizes it was this weapon that destroyed Oklahoma and not a nuclear device.

The building she lands in is shelled by PAX (her own side) and she is forced to head to Mercy Hospital with a wounded soldier of the Manhattan military.

The back-up story is "Attack of the Flesh Eating Monsters", originally published in black and white in Dark Horse Presents #100-4.

Martha fights off an attack by monsters conforming to 1950s pulp-SF stereotypes; she discovers that this is merely a psychological study conducted by the world-controlling AI, named Venus.

[2] A three-issue series published in 1997, Martha Washington Saves the World depicts the arrival of an actual alien spaceship.

Surrounded by Soldiers apparently under siege from unknown foes, who are described as "barbarians who won an awful victory",[1] Martha gives a brief speech of inspiration and as she dies, she gave her final words to the soldiers for courage "Give me liberty" before turning her body into a blast full of fireworks.