Rona was an escape prisoner from the 7th dimension, sealed in a marble statue and left in the 3rd dimensional realm of Earth-One. When she mentally connected with young reporter Jimmy Olsen, she sought to gain his affection upon her release from her immobile state. Given the nature of her being and her native plane of existence, Rona displayed tremendous mental abilities allowing her to transmute objects with only a thought.
Joan Dale was a reporter for the Daily Star who was accidentally recruited against her will into becoming a test subject of Project M. Using an experimental procedure, the scientists at the Project gave Joan to transmute matter. Believing she was granted powers by the massive copper sculpture in New York Harbor known as the Statue of Liberty, Joan began her new mission as a heroine.
Eventually following their initial encounter, Jimmy and Rona decide to wed, after she provides Olsen with a serum that strengthens his physique. During their courtship, Rona finds a romantic rival in Lucy Lane, herself a longtime on-again off-again girlfriend of Jimmy.
Joan soon after resigned from her journalistic career at the Star and began working as secretary for F.B.I. agent Tim Healy, while secretly aiding him on his cases in her masked alter ego of Miss America. After seven known adventures, both of Joan's aliases seemingly vanished from the public eye.
Likewise, Rona disappeared shortly after her relationship with Jimmy culmintated in their engagement, as she was tracked down and captured by the Interdimensional Patrol. Their charge against the transmutter? Murder, as she used a substance known as Curare to transform several former suitors into lifeless statues. After Jimmy was given an ancedote devised by Superman and produced by the Patrol, they left Earth-One with Rona.
Miss America was recruited by the hero known as Uncle Sam into joining him and other mystery men of Earth-Two in his Freedom Fighters. Together, they traveled to Earth-X to prevent an aerial attack on Pearl Harbor as had transpired on Earth-Two. Yet despite repelling the Japanese air forces, Joan and most of her allies seemingly perished during the battle.
Rona reappeared several months after her last appearance, attempting to thwart the wedding of Jimmy and Lucy while removing competition for his affections, even overpowering 5th dimensional Miss Gzptlsnz who likewise schemed against the couple. Once more, the Interdimensional Patrol arrived to reincarcerate Rona, this time never to be seen again!
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