Lorraine was a university student, initially kidnapped by industrialist Henry Hewitt and used as a hostage victim and a test subject for his own experimentation, attempting to replicate the nuclear incident which birthed. This process created Lorraine's alter ego of Firehawk, an ally of Firestorm. Danette was a volcanologist who inadverentely was caught up in the schemes of time traveling tyrant Per Degaton on his artificial island, with his henchman Wotan blasting the young woman with a bolt of energy. This radiation combined with synthetic lava she fell into transformed her into Firebrand,
During the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Firehawk teamed up with New Teen Titans member Donna "Wonder Girl" Troy, as the two were looking for Donna's husband and Lorraine's father. Due to the time and spacial displacing effects of the Crisis, the duo ended up in 1776, where they assisted historical hero Tomahawk into thwarting a navial invasion of the British upon Manhattan. Meanwhile, Tomahawk's ally Miss America was temporally displaced to 1985, where she allied with Firebrand to thwart an attempted incursion upon Cape Canaveral by the Ultra-Humanite's forces.
Within these two stories, we know which Earth these events took place on. In Firebrand and Miss America's case, they were in 1985 Florida on Earth-Two given the prescence of Danette's god-daughter Terri Rothstein. From notations within this story, it was the Tomahawk of this world's Miss America who encountered Firehawk and Wonder Girl. Hence, the two heroines crossed universes to the 1776 New York of Earth-Two for their adventure with Tomahawk.
As for the Tomahawk and Miss America of Earth-One, they apparently were unaffected by the Crisis' events. However, that Miss America would be pulled into the 20th century by a separate event, due to the machinations of the Lord of Time. It was on that occasion he was used as a pawn, at first to strike out with four fellow historical heroes, against both the Justice League and Justice Society. However, his ultimate goal with her and her allies was to use them and the twin teams of two Earths to help him destroy his malfunctioning Eternity Brain. Whether the Tomahawk of this Miss America's Earth-One ever had occasion to travel to the modern age and encounter heroes of that era is unknown.
Lorraine Reilly was only a part-time superheroine, mostly joining Firestorm in occasional adventures before seemingly retiring, as she was uncomfortable with both her powers and her alter ego. This was perhaps due to her being made a pawn by Hewitt in a blackmail scheme to get her senator father to vote on a bill that allowed the evil businessman to have a monopoly on nuclear research. As an only child, Lorraine didn't have a positive example to face, with even her on-again off-again boyfriend Firestorm not being enough to motivate her career as a costumed crimefighter.
Danette Reilly would take the opposite approach, encouraged with the knowledge that her brother Rod had fought crime as the masked man known as Firebrand. Following his example, she joined the new All-Star Squadron as the second Firebrand, and two other sterling rolemodels in her on-again off-again love interest Sir Justin, aka the Shining Knight, as well as the leader the Squadron in Liberty Belle. Even when her own father, himself an industrialist, was blackmailed and ultimately killed in her prescence by Nazi agents... Danette's fiery zeal burned brightly within her heart to fight evil until the end of World War II alongside her teammates.
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