Golden Age Miss America (Joan Dale)

First appearance: Military Comics #1 (August 1941), published by Quality Comics







She appeared in a total of seven issues of Military Comics before disappearing into obscurity for awhile.

Roy Thomas later revived her not once, but twice (once pre-CoIE and again post-CoIE) at DC in the pages of All-Star Squadron and then Young All-Stars.

From Who's Who Update '88 Vol. 2 (September 1988):

From Miss America's last feature published by Quality Comics, in Military Comics #7 (cover-dated February 1942):






It would be more than forty years later before she would be featured in a story published by DC comics.
And in the meantime, about one year later, Timely Comics (predecessor to current Marvel Comics) would introduce its own heroine named "Miss America" in the pages of Marvel Mystery Comics #49.