I've been a huge fan of the Earth-2 versions of Superman & Robin ever since they appeared as members of the JSA. I'd love to see both characters appear in modern time
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Power Girl (Karen Starr / Kara Zor-L)
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Miss America (Joan Dale / later Joan Dale Trevor; 1st retconned replacement for Wonder Woman)
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Hippolyta (2nd retconned replacement for Wonder Woman)
I've been a huge fan of the Earth-2 versions of Superman & Robin ever since they appeared as members of the JSA. I'd love to see both characters appear in modern time
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Are there any actual stories with Miss America as a member of the JSA? I would be interested to read one, as this was one of those very underdeveloped retcons that was probably doomed from the start, but had some story potential. Her power set is very interesting and unique for a Golden Age female hero.
I don't know if there actually are.
At the time Roy Thomas was using her as a Wonder Woman replacement, the "modern-day" JSA was removed from existence, off fighting a never-ending Ragnarök in another dimension.
Miss America's retconned presence with the JSA back in the 1940s may have been confined to occasional usage in Roy's Young All-Stars, the successor title to All-Star Squadron.
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As I mentioned, DC back then didn't really seem to have a lot of love for the Golden Age heroes and their adventures.
They tried to write-off / eliminate the original JSA right after CoIE, and when those heroes were brought back a few years later, they were given a series that DC pulled the plug on after less than 12 issues, only to try and kill most of them off with Zero Hour.
Replacing the original Golden Age / Earth-2 Wonder Woman didn't seem like a priority for management. Roy Thomas first planned to use the newly-introduced "Golden Age" Fury as her replacement, including making her the retconned mother of the Lyta Trevor-Fury in Infinity Inc. But the only time I'm aware of a reference to her replacing Golden Age Wonder Woman as a JSA member was in a poster for a proposed JSA movie in an issue of Infinity Inc.
After that, Roy went with making Miss America the replacement for Wonder Woman in the retconned JSA, but then let Miss America marry a Derek Trevor and they became the adoptive parents for Lyta Trevor.
I'm not sure how many other writers would have been interested in writing a JSA story set in the 1940s using Miss America instead of the Golden Age Wonder Woman back then, nor how likely it would be for DC's editors then to give it approval.
Eventually, when John Byrne took over the Wonder Woman title (and when Lyta Trevor was no longer around in stories), Hippolyta wound up going back in time to become the retconned Golden Age Wonder Woman.