In the spring of 1941, one of the first female superheroes appeared on the scans In New York CityâMiss America. Early in her career. Miss America saved a school from a mysterious saboteur, inspiring two outcast teenagers and best friends. Betsy Rose and Molly Preacher. to take up masked identities of their own to help find the criminal. Thus, Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher were reborn the two girls eventually discovered that the saboteur. known as ‘the Moth.’ had plans to destroy the Statue of Liberty. Betsy and Molly were joined by Miss America, stopped the Moth before his nefarious act could be carried out. Impressed by the girls” courage. Miss America gave them each a historical relic of great power: to Betsy, a spool of thread from Betsy Ross, and to Molly, the pitcher used by Molly Pitcher in the Revolutionary War to supply water to American soldiers. As sidekicks to Miss America, Betsy and Molly fought to protect their neighborhood and city from secret Axis powers and criminal organizations. The two girls vanished the day World War 11 ended,
Using the spool of thread to help make her cape, Betsy had a degree of enhanced strength, speed, and, at times, flight Using the pitcher, Molly was able to create weapons, tools, and, in desperate times of stress, even flash floods. How these objects became empowered and where Miss America obtained them remains a mystery. Betsy’s younger brother, Johnny, spent years unsuccessfully trying to discover their origins, hoping to become a super-pottered young hero like his older sister, Both Betsy and Molly were also skilled hand-in-hand fighters, trained by Miss America herself.