Velma Stein

{| style="border:3px #353535 solid; border-radius:1px; border-radius: 10px 10px 10px 10px; padding:0.5em;" "I am an ancient sorceress who has faced and defeated some of the darkest threats ever to have existed. I am Moonglow."

- Velma Stein.

History Velma had been born with an aptitude for wielding magical energies. Where she learned to control these abilities is unknown but as an adult, Velma worked as a medium. After marrying her husband Phillip Stein, she decided to support her family by working as a professional crime fighter while her husband stayed home to raise their children. Her success as a crime fighter came to the attention of the Squadron Supreme, who asked her to join as their fifth recruit and was with them during her pregnancy with her son Andrew.

Velma was present when both the Squadron and Defenders battled Overmind and Null the Living Darkness. The various members of the Squadron were mentally controlled by Overmind and were used by him as an elite fighting force with which he could control their world.

The result of their interference with her world left it socially, politically and economically devastated, which prompted the Squadron to implement Power Princess's dream of a worldwide Utopia.

During the beginning weeks of the Utopia Program, Velma learned that she was pregnant, but hid this fact so that the Squadron would not ask her to take on a less active role. As her pregnancy developed, she used her magical illusion powers to conceal the change in her figure.

When the Squadron battled Nighthawk and his Redeemers, Velma suddenly went into labor. The Shape abandoned the battle to rush her to the hospital, where her newborn baby Benjamin Thomas Stein was delivered.

When the Squadron discovered the threat to Earth caused by the Nth Man, Velma wanted to join the Squadron in confronting the menace but was discouraged to do so as she had only given birth days earlier. Instead, Velma used her illusion powers to co-opt the identity of Moonglow, taking Benjamin along with her. Benjamin ultimately switched places with the Nth Man, and Velma and the other Squadron members were shunted to the mainstream Earth instead of returning to their own planet. During the Squadron's time on Earth, Velma maintained her Moonglow costume and code name, having revealed herself to her teammates.

Upon the Squadron's return to their own Earth, Velma returned to her family, who were saved from the new tyrannical regime of the Global Directorate thanks to the illusions Velma had placed on their home prior to her time with the Squadron. She was confronted by the enigmatic Mysterium (the Nth Man's new identity) to remain with her family and apart from the Squadron, as he cited cosmic reasons.

She was back with the Squadron when they were pulled into a conflict with the Squadron of Supremeverse.

{| style="" border="1" !Skills !!Description !Occultism !! Due to being an accomplished sorceress Velma has a rich understanding of magical lore. !Hand to Hand Combatant !! Velma is also expertly trained in hand-to-hand combat, a skill she found necessary to develop to compensate for having such a passive super-power. !Meditation  !! Velma explained she would meditate in order to activate her precognitive abilities, or even further enhance her telepathic abilities such as her defense and offense.