I've got to research the backstory some day, but, as I write this now, it is almost completely unsurprising to learn the game was originally inspired by a comic book series with the name I've given the thread title, for comic writers borrow even more heavily from one another than game developers.
It doesn't seem entirely too much coincidence, then, that Hannah seems semi-plausible for the woman featured in THIS story:
Source: Justice League of America v1 #1
Writer: Gardner Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Date: November 1960