in a photograph as Miss America in The Sandman #57. One Year Later A much older Joan Dale returns in the fifth issue of Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters (January 2007) to confront a youthful imposter bearing the mantle who has, under the orders of Father Time, managed to neutralize and capture the new team of Freedom Fighters. In issue #6, Joan reveals that she never lost her powers, but used them to create the illusion that she had aged in order to retire and live a normal life with her husband. Now that Derek Trevor has died, she lets the illusion slip and resumes her youthful, heroic guise to aid Uncle Sam and his new team. While fighting the impostor Miss America, Joan discovers that the impostor is a gynoid and destroys her. Miss Cosmos In the new 2007 Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters series, Red Bee mutated into an alien-insect creature and mind-controls Joan into absorbing Human Bomb's explosive energy and taking it into space. Joan then explodes, presumed to be dead. Unbeknownst to her allies, Joan manages to keep her consciousness alive, rebuilding a new, young body from extant space materials. Evolved into a new form of life, she discards her Miss America identity to claim her new moniker: Miss Cosmos. The New 52 In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. Joan Dale makes her debut in Human Bomb #2. Depicted as a telepath, she helps Michael Taylor to control his powers and gather information about the criminal organization C.R.O.W.N. The New Golden Age A panel in "The New Golden Age" one-shot revealed in the bios of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher that Miss America was taking on a saboteur called Moth at a school. This inspired friends Betsy Rose and Molly Preacher to take on the names of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher in order to help Miss America take on Moth's plans to destroy the Statue of Liberty. Afterwards, Miss America gave them the relics of Betsy Ross and Molly Pitcher as she took them on as her sidekicks until the days after World War II when both girls mysteriously vanished. Powers and abilities Miss America has the powers of transmutation on a molecular level. Her own inexperience with the physical sciences initially curtailed her use of the powers early in her career, usually using it for simple changes that were