Golden Girl

Golden Girl
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Captain America Comics #1
Created by	Joe Simon (writer) Jack Kirby (artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Betsy Ross
Team affiliations	Women's Auxiliary Army Corps All-Winners Squad
Abilities	Wears bulletproof cape

Golden Girl
Golden Girl (middle) appears alongside the Kid Commandos. From The Invaders #28.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	The Invaders #26 (March 1978)
Created by	Roy Thomas Frank Robbins
In-story information
Alter ego	Gwendolyne "Gwenny" Lou Sabuki
Team affiliations	Kid Commandos V-Battalion Penance Council
Notable aliases	Golden Woman
Abilities	Energy and light generation Golden force beam projection via her hands

Golden Girl is the name of two fictional superheroine characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, the first of them during the 1930-1940s period known to historians and collectors as the Golden Age of Comic Books.

Marvel Comics' first Golden Girl, Elizabeth Ross, first appeared, without yet a superhero identity, as Betty Ross in Captain America Comics #1 (cover-dated March 1941). A supporting character who appeared in occasional stories, she assisted the U.S. Army and was a love interest for Steve Rogers, Captain America's real identity. She succeeded Bucky as Captain America's sidekick in issue #66 (Dec. 1947), in the 12-page story "Golden Girl", by an unconfirmed writer and by penciller Syd Shores. Later, it was retconned that this was not Steve Rogers but Jeff Mace, the superhero Patriot and the third man to be called Captain America. Golden Girl appeared in Captain America stories through issue #74 (Oct. 1949), except for issue #71, and also in the Captain America stories in Marvel Mystery Comics #87-88 and #92 (Aug. & Oct. 1948, June 1949). Betsy's non superhero design has changed over the years; when she first appeared she was blonde, but later stories had her with red hair and wearing a blonde wig as part of her Golden Girl costume.

She was not specified as having been related to a Colonel Ross, a U.S. Army officer, in the Captain America story "The Wound No Man Could See" in Marvel Mystery Comics #88 (Oct. 1948). The 2010 miniseries Captain America: Patriot retroactively revealed that she was the aunt of General Thunderbolt Ross, and the great-aunt of his daughter Betty Ross, two characters introduced in The Incredible Hulk #1 (May 1962).