Friday, April 2, 2010

Google Yourself???

Have you ever 'Googled' yourself? Admit it, we all have. My name never yielded anything interesting, so I decided to 'google' Madeline. What did I find? In 1943 Marvel had a comic book character named "Miss America", whose real name was Madeline Joyce.

So, hheeerrrreeeee she is, Miss America!!!!


Socially aware teenaged Madeline Joyce was born in Washington, D.C.. She 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. Joyce survived to fight crime as Miss America.

Later, she became 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 adventures.

It was revealed later that Joyce married fellow Golden Age superhero Robert Frank (the Whizzer), and which she had a son with him. However, Joyce died in childbirth due to radiation poisoning from her offspring, the radioactive mutant Nuklo.

http://marvel.com/universe/Miss_America

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_America_%28Marvel_Comics%29