Miss Victory
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Miss Victory (later known as Ms. Victory) is a comic book superheroine. Although her origins go back to the 1940's, she is now best known as a central character in the current Femforce comic published by A.C. Comics.
The original Miss Victory began her career during World War II, as one of the many comic book costumed crimefighters who went to make up the Golden Age of Comic Books. She appeared in Captain Fearless Comics #1 and #2; and Captain Aero Comics #6-17, #21-26. Miss Victory was secretly stenographer Joan Wayne, whose work in a Government department, coupled with her desire to help the war effort, led her to don the patriotic guise of Miss Victory: a tight fitting red white and blue costume with plunging neck line and V emblem across her chest.
Along with hordes of other Superman-inspired patriotic crimefighters, Miss Victory had no formal origin story nor introduction. She also had no actual super powers - just her determination to see good vanquish evil. And like almost all her costumed counterparts, she vanished once the interest in superhero comics started to tail off at the end of the 1940s. But that was not the end of Miss Victory's story, for her daring (for the time) costume had clearly made an impression, and decades later she was to be revived and re-invented for a modern comic book audience.
The new Miss Victory possesses superhuman strength, together with the ability to fly (although only over short distances). Her true identity is Dr. Joan Wayne, a research scientist in the United States Department of Defense, who in the 1940s developed the "V-formula" to increase the strength/stamina of allied troops. The formula, however, only worked on Joan herself, and she became a superheroine. The formula also prevented her from ageing, so that the Ms. Victory of 2004 (who is over 80 years old) is still a young, attractive woman.
In the mid '90s, Joan Wayne temporarily resigned her leadership of Femforce, and was replaced by her grown-up daughter Jennifer (the only other person on whom the V-formula would work). Jennifer is usually referred to as "The Second Ms. Victory".