Miss Victory Realizes She's In A Comic

Seen as being the original patriotic superheroine, Miss Victory was drawn by Blue Beetle and Cat-Man artist Charles "Chas" Quinlan in 1941. The character was Joan Wayne, no relation to a certain Batman, who was a government stenographer when she smelled trouble during wartime would put on her red-white-and-blue outfit with the occasionally chest-exposing top as the masked maiden Miss Victory. There's never been a definitive example of if she had any genuine superpowers, but her knack for to surviving deadly situations has left many to believe she was at least partially invulnerable with varying levels of enhanced strength. One of her adventures had Joan working for the Secretary of Commerce checking up on some hometown pals who were in Washington as defense workers. Joan goes to her friend Maggie Duckett that had been kidnapped by Nazi spies who sent their agent Fritz to sabotage a munitions plant as Mr. Duckett. Joan changes into her heroic persona to stop the Nazis who had broken into her office for investigation papers. Miss Victory grabs a mob and cleans up the Axis rats while making a quick getaway from answering to the police by sliding down the banister which she just made slippery. As she surfs away, Miss Victory informs the cops if they want to catch her to do so in the pages of Captain Aero Comics which is the title her stories were featured in. Now, how the blonde beau became self-aware that she is in reality a comic book character is never explained, but this indicates that Miss Victory was one of the first comic heroes with knowledge she exists in a fictional universe. So, forget Howard The Duck, She-Hulk, Deadpool, and Spider-Gwen as Miss Victory predates all the other fourth wall breaking superheroes as she realized that Nazis infiltrating the nation's capital during WWII was something that happened on a daily basis in comic books.