[2] Miss America is originally Joan Dale, a courageous reporter who had a dream in which the Statue of Liberty appeared to her and, giving her the power to transmute elements, instructed her to battle evil.

In later stories she wears a costume consisting of a sleeveless red blouse, a red-and-white striped skirt, and a blue cape fastened with a silver star.

She is briefly referenced in the first appearance of the Freedom Fighters in the pages of All-Star Squadron, when she is said to have been a member of that group who was thought to have had been killed when Uncle Sam attempted to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor from occurring on Earth-X.

Uncle Sam learns of the attack and assembles a group of heroes called the Freedom Fighters (with Hourman, the Invisible Hood, Magno, Neon the Unknown, and the Red Torpedo) to prevent it.

In issue #6, Joan reveals 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 has died, she lets the illusion slip and resumes her youthful, heroic guise to aid Uncle Sam and his new team.

In the new 2007 Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters series, Red Bee mutated into an alien-insect creature and mind-controls Joan into absorbing Human Bomb's explosive energy and taking it into space.

[13] A panel in "The New Golden Age" one-shot revealed in the bios of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher that Miss America was taking on a saboteur called Moth at a school.

Afterwards, Miss America gave them the relics of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher as she took them on as her sidekicks until the days after World War II when both girls mysteriously vanished.

Following her recent return, Miss America appears to have become much more proficient with her powers, claiming that she would be able to transform an enemy's organs to glass or shrink them to microscopic size.

Her powers grew so strong that her disembodied consciousness reconstructed a new physical body out of Star Stuff from the universe after dying from absorbing an explosive detonation.

Bestowing her vast cosmic powers, enough to tear through alien warships (which seem to have faded with time) as well as hinting at an odd form of Regeneration and Immortality through her total conversion abilities.

In this storyline, Diana and her then love interest, Trevor Barnes, recently complete an adventure in Skartaris and attempt to return to their proper dimension.

To avoid damaging the timestream, she disguises herself as "an obscure heroine during the war" (Miss America), whom she remembers that Hippolyta mentioned meeting once.

Outside of regular DC Comics continuity, James Robinson and Paul Smith feature Miss America in 1993's The Golden Age.

Later in the story, disturbed by the increasingly moody and abusive actions of her lover, Joan steals Thompson's locked journal and heads to her friend Paula Brooks, the reformed costumed thief once known as the Huntress/Tigress.