Ms. Victory (1921-1960)

Active (1939-1945)

Ms. Victory was the superheroic identity of Alexis Galis, daughter of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Galis and Broadway star and American screen actress Margaret Perry.

It was while Alexis was attending her first year at Bryn Mawr College in the United States that she discovered that she was what another age had termed a "Jovian." She had remarkable abilities beyond those of normal men and women, among these the ability to fly.

At the beginning of her sophomore year, Alexis's parents celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary with a three-month trip abroad. On September 3, 1939, the couple boarded the S.S. Athenia in Liverpool bound for Montreal, just as England declared war on Germany. Without warning, a German U-Boat fired two torpedos into Athenia's hull. Although most of the passengers were rescued, 112 passengers and crew were killed, including 28 Americans; Stavros and Margaret Galis were among those lost at sea.

Devastated, Alexis dropped out of Bryn Mawr. She took on the name Miss Victory and became a costumed defender of of Allied convoys from North America and the South Atlantic to the United Kingdom and Russia. She soon became an ally of the half-Atlantean hero Man O War, who first appeared in early 1940 battling German destroyers, aircraft and U-boats seeking to lay mines off of British ports.

In 1941, when the U.S. entered the war, that the government authorized its new super-soldier, Captain Freedom, to form an offensive military super-team, Freedom Battallion. The ferociousness of Ms. V's one-woman campaign against the German Navy made her a perfect candidate for the new team.

After the War, Alexis retired her superheroic identity and married Michael Ackerman, the Bowman I. As heiress to the Galis fortune, she dedicated her efforts to philanthropy. In 1947, she gave birth to fraternal twins, a girl and a boy. When he was old enough, Stavros "Steve" Ackerman (who displayed no superhuman abilities), became Arrow II under the tutelage of his father and Thomas Quinn, Bowman II. He eventually took up the mantle himself as Bowman III.

In 1957, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, but told no one. The following year, she arranged the purchase of a small private school in Michigan, which she renamed Ravenswood Academy.

She died two years later, at the age of 39.