Not only a patriotic theme for the month of July, it's also a "Tick Two-fer!"
I was having a hard time finding a patriotic-character theme for July this year; I've already done some of the most obvious ones, and others are obscure Golden-Age heroines like Liberty Belle that even die-hard comics fans wouldn't necessarily be familiar with.
Then I came across the book The Tick: Mighty Blue Justice! in my library. It's a compendium of information about the animated The Tick TV series... and reminded me that there was a heroine named "American Maid" as part of the supporting cast! Perfect.
Then, as I was searching the Web for better reference pics of American Maid, I found pics of the live-action TV show's version: Captain Liberty!
So here's Tetsuko as "Captain Liberty", wielding her Torch of... well, I'm not quite sure what (if anything) she called the torch she carries, or even of it does anything. (I never watched the live-action series, unfortunately.)
I did. It was so bad you couldn't stop watching it. Captain Liberty was played by Liz Vassey, who also played Lou on Brotherly Love with the Lawrence Brothers. There ends my geek oration......