[From the :Typewriter era.]

The first applicant knocked timidly and entered.
"Uh, hello," she breathed nervously, "Is this the right place for the superteam applications?"
Jessica smiled and nodded and offered the seat opposite.
"Yes. Actually you're the first. I was beginning to think that no-one would apply. I have to have a team assembled for Doctor Benitron by three."
The girl unbuttoned her soft black coat and sat.
"Oh! I'm not likely to be the only one am I?"
"I should expect there will be more... well with fewer applicants it makes the selection easier! Well let's start with your name." Jessica put biro ready to notepad.
"Janice Brooke," Janice replied. "That's Brooke with an e."
"Sorry, I mean your superhero name."
"Ah. I hadn't really thought about that."
"Well we can work that out. Let's move on. Country of origin?"
"Germany. Well... no... England. Or Germany. I'm not sure."
"I'll put England. Generally only large or hard-looking heroes are allowed to be from Germany. Okay, what are your special powers?"
Janice blushed a little. "I can sort of turn into a beetle."
"Oh right, so like armoured shell, ability to fly, can lift twenty times your own body weight... yes? Should prove useful. Maybe you could be called Kafka Girl... ha ha. Sorry."
"That's okay, I didn't understand anyway."
"Okay, when you transform, it's a bonus if all your clothes tear away in an elaborate energy vortex thing as you shout 'Insect Transform!' or something along those lines. Anything like that happen?"
Janice blushed again. "Well my clothes just sort of fall around me as I shrink." Jessica blinked.
"As you... shrink? Is this another power?"
"Well... I turn into a beetle. A little one."
Jessica looked disappointedly enlightened. "Oh I see," she scribbed out something on the notepad, "Well that makes you slightly less useful but you've got the cute looks that are essential, so if you'd just like to complete this tiebreaker sentence in less than eight words..."
"Uh, sure."
"I want to be a member of a Superteam because..."
"Um, I want to meet interesting people and erI like to wear costumes."
"That's fourteen wor... nevermind thattle do."
Jessica sent Janice to the physical examination room (The church hall across the road.) Almost as soon as she left a hulking asian man eased through the door. He stomped up to the desk and grunted "Superteam."

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Jessica seemed to pop up more often during this era.