Miss America (America Chavez)

Miss America
America Chavez on a variant cover of America #1 (May 2017); Chavez's first self-titled issue. Art by Jamie McKelvie.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Vengeance #1 (Sept. 2011)
Created by	Joe Casey Nick Dragotta
In-story information
Alter ego	America Chavez
Species	Human
Place of origin	Utopian Parallel
Team affiliations	Teen Brigade Young Avengers A-Force Ultimates
Notable aliases	Ms. America, MAC
Abilities	Superhuman strength, speed, and durabilty Flight Inter-reality transportation

America Chavez, also known by her moniker Miss America, is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta, Chavez is the second character to use the moniker Miss America. Chavez first appeared in Vengeance #1 (September 2011) before starring in her own ongoing series, America, in March 2017 by writer Gabby Rivera. She is Marvel's first Latin-American LGBTQ character to star in their own series.

America Chavez first appeared in the 2011 limited series Vengeance by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta. Chavez later appears in the 2013 Young Avengers series by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie and in the 2015 series, A-Force, by G. Willow Wilson, Marguerite Bennett and Jorge Molina. Beginning in October 2015, Chavez has appeared in Ultimates by Al Ewing and Kenneth Rocafort as part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel initiative. At the 2016 New York Comic Con, Marvel announced that Chavez would receive her first solo series—simply titled America. That series, written by Latin-American LGBTQ novelist Gabby Rivera, launched in March 2017.. The series will be coming to an end in February 2018 due to poor sales.

America Chavez was raised by her mothers in the Utopian Parallel, a reality out of time and in the presence of the Demiurge. She appears to have inherited or absorbed some or all of her superpowers from the Demiurge's ambient magical presence. When America was approximately six-years-old, the Utopian Parallel was threatened by destruction. America's mothers sacrificed themselves to seal the black holes resulting in their particles being smeared across the Multiverse itself. Wanting to prove herself as a hero and knowing Utopia didn't require salvation, America ran away from her home and her responsibilities. She traveled across different realities, eventually adopted the moniker of Miss America, and began covertly acting as a superhero.