Diana Adams

Miss Masque is the secret identity of Diana Adams, a young socialite who decides to fight crime and injustice in disguise. Originally, Miss Masque had no super powers but relied on her wit and a pair of revolvers.

250px-Miss Masque — Golden Age Miss Masque

Disappearance

Lured to the Fighting Yank's side by a distress signal from his servant, Markham, she was tricked into Pandora's Urn when he told her it contained the essence of his ancestors and needed it to revive him from his "injuries".

Diana Adams 003 — Miss Masque is captured in the Urn.

Reappearance

After she was released from Pandora's Urn, she manifested the ability to possess others.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

"Possession": Masquerade can inhabit the body of a target person and access his/her thoughts and memories, but is unable to influence the target's actions (PS #7 p.14-15)
Able to enter a type of fugue state and draw together disparate facts to understand a situation.

Abilities

None known.

Strength level

Average human

Weaknesses

Once Masquerade "possesses" another person, she remains trapped within that person until a third party places her mask on the "possessed" individual (PS #7 p.14-15)

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: Two .45 Automatics

Notes

No special notes.

Trivia

Miss Masque (a.k.a. Masquerade) wore several different costumes in her 1940's incarnation; Alex Ross tried to work all of them into the Masquerade mini-series.

The series gives conflicting information about Masqurade's possible involvement with V-Man. PS #6 p.5 indicates that she's romantically involved with him, while Masquerade #4 indicates that she's surprised by V-Man's feelings for her.

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Links and References

Masquerade at Dynamite Entertainment