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Liberty Belle (Libby Lawrence) debuted in 1942. Her powers of enhanced speed, strength, and stamina were linked to the ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. #July4th #philadelphia #popculture
Yank & Doodle are twins Rick & Dick Walters, being too young to enlist in the army during World War II, are still able to fight spies and saboteurs. They are super-strong & invulnerable, as long as they're near each other; when apart, they have no superpowers. #July4th
The Fighting Yank debuted in 1941. Bruce Carter III obtains his powers when the ghost of his ancestor Bruce Carter, a Revolutionary hero, appears to him & shows him the location of a magical cloak that could give the wearer invulnerability and super strength #July4th #popculture
Miss Victory debuted in 1941. She was revived & updated in 1984 as a central character in the Femforce comic book series. She was secretly government stenographer Joan Wayne. #popculture #July4th
Miss America (Joan Dale) debuted in Military Comics #1 (1941). She's a reporter who had a dream in which the Statue of Liberty appeared to her, gave her the power to transmute elements, & instructed her to battle evil. Joan wakes to find that she now has these powers.
At the end of the 1930s, America was feeling patriotic, & The Shield was the first patriotic comic book hero. He's chemist Joe Higgins who developed a formula giving him super strength. He became an FBI agent (whose secret identity is known only to FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover).