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Adventure Comics #278

Cover Date: November 1960 | Written by Otto Binder | Art by Al Plastino

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Jumping over to Adventure Comics this time. I’m going to do my best to prioritize reading in chronological order over just reading series by series.

Today we’re going through “Supergirl in Smallville!”

We start out at the Midvale Orphanage, where one of Linda’s friends is upset because the power went out so she won’t be able to iron her clothes and be presentable for the family that’s coming to adopt her. Linda very sneakily uses her x-ray vision to heat up the iron, which leads to her friend getting adopted, which leads to Linda spying checking in on her friend and being happy that she’s so happy now in her new home.

But Supergirl’s not happy. Superman won’t let her be adopted (not sure how he’s enforcing that tbh), and she’s feeling sad and lonely.

So Linda hatches a plan to prove that she’s responsible enough to get adopted by a family and still keep her secret identity. She goes and fetches her Linda Lee Robot to cover for her while she’s gone, and then once again flies through time.

It turns out Linda’s plan is to go back to when Superman was still just Superboy, and find the Kents. She tells them everything, who she really is, that she’s from the future, and that she wants to spend a week embedded with them as a way to prove that she can keep her secret. Her thinking is that if she can not get herself outed while staying with the Kents, and most importantly, keep her secret from a younger Clark, then he’ll have to let her get adopted in the present time.

Martha and John are more than happy to help Linda out. They’re excited to have a daughter for a week, even though they’re going to tell Clark that she’s a distant cousin staying with them. This plan is getting needlessly complex.

So, she start showing Linda around, but Superboy returns home, via secret tunnel, and Kara has to outsmart Superboy, which she does by dumping a bunch of his trophy bullets (bullets that people have shot at him, which he keeps, for some reason). Superboy needs to pick them up off the floor, giving Supergirl time to slip out.

From there the Kents and Linda act like she just arrives as the distant cousin, and Clark seems to be none-the-wiser.

And of course weird stuff starts happening at random. Linda is out shopping when an electrical fire starts around her in the store she’s in. Before she can be outed, Superboy rushes to her aid. He flies her back home and tries to reassure her to not be scared as they’re flying, and I love Linda’s face in this panel:

So the next things that happens is that Superboy is trying to help build some kids’ fort after they’ve left for the day, but stumbles upon some green Kryptonite, weakening him immediately. He calls for one of his Superboy Robots (dang they really loved their decoy robots back then), but as the robot leaves the secret tunnel, it gets struck by lightning, frying its circuits.

So, in order to save the day, Linda pulls the hull of the robot apart and puts it on like it’s Iron Man armor. It’s lead lined for some reason so Superboy can’t find out the truth and Supergirl is protected from the Kryptonite. She arrives and disposes of the Kryptonite and waits for Superboy to dismiss his “robot” before leaving.

Later we see Linda repairing the robot before Superboy returns, which is what the cover also depicts.

Then Krypto shows up, and Linda’s worried about him seeing her, so she throws a stick “miles high”.

After that, she is introduced to Lana Lang, the Kents’ neighbor. Lana is suspicious that Clark is Superboy and has set up a (bad) trap to catch him in the act. She’s wired a bunch of apples to her tree so that a normal human couldn’t shake them off. Which... Alright. But instead she meets Kara and they have a nice afternoon together. Lana wants them to bake an apple pie together, but needs to get the ladder to pick some apples.

Linda offers to shake the tree, and accidentally stumbles into Lana’s trap she had meant for Superboy. Ma Kent, who was here the whole time, whispers to Krypto, who’s apparently also returned, and they stage it to look like it was Krypto burrowing from under the tree, and not Linda, that shook the apples lose.

Next thing that happens is that Linda notices Superboy is out helping build the Midvale Orphanage, which Linda is amused by.

After that, while walking on the sidewalk, Linda is almost hit by an out of control car, but uses her super-strength to stop it. The driver is shocked, and starts chasing Linda when she runs away. She’s able to dupe him by slipping into a store, taking off her wig, and changing really fast.

By now it’s getting late into the week and so far Supergirl has done a great job keeping her secret identity. Then, with Superboy off-planet, there a runaway blimp floating out towards sea. Supergirl’s able to retrieve it, and makes sure no one sees her.

BUT...

Instead of using the secret tunnel back to the house she flies in through the window, which the Kents scold her for.

And just like that, Supergirl’s failed her mission.

Once her week’s up, she returns to the present, sad that she failed and has thus proven Superman right. The story ends with Linda watching another friend get adopted, and realizing that she won’t be able to have that for a while, but she will have her happy week with the Kents.

Goodness Supergirl looks so sad in that time travel panel.

Yeah, so once again this just reinforces Kara’s lonely existence, having to sit by while her friends find homes, and accepting that she can’t have that.

Personally I think Kara’s being a too hard on herself, but I guess that’s something that’s been a staple of her character from the very beginning. The random time travel angle of this issue was a little odd, I wonder what kind of story we would have had if it was just her spending time with the present-day Kents.

Still getting to see Supergirl interact with some Super-staples like Krypto, the Kents, and Lana was a real treat.

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x5red · 10 months

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HI，can you tell me which comic said :Supergirl wore very plain clothes, long-sleeved blouses and long skirts to hide her muscles.? this from pre crisis supergirl wiki,but I just cant found this anywhere in pre crisis comic,can you found it?

I don't know about hiding her muscles, but the very early adventures of Supergirl, before her Linda Lee secret identity was adopted from Midvale Orphanage, saw her repeatedly wear very long plain dresses and her hair (wig) in pigtails.

The Danvers adoption story line was used by DC to revamp Supergirl, giving Linda (Lee) Danvers a more adult hairdo and teenage clothes. From that point on she usually followed the fashion of the day, which in the 60s meant very short skirts and tight tops. This is how Linda was dressed during much of her Adventure Comics run. But when 70s fashions shifted towards longer flowing dresses and more Bohemian themes, Linda very occasionally wore those too, for example once or twice during her Supergirl Volume 1 run.

It wasn't until her second comicbook volume in 1982, named The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl, that Linda again started to consistently wear longer sleeves and dresses, and again that was largely due to women's fashions in the early 1980s with their piecrust collars and billowing multi-layered skirts..

#supergirl #fashion

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docgold13 · 3 years

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365 DC Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…

May 11th - Supergirl

Kara Zor-El is the paternal cousin of Superman. She grew up in the city of Argo, a portion of Krypton that initially survived the destruction of the planet. The populace of Argo were able to survive for a time by creating a shield that enabled it to float through space, Unfortunately, Kryptonite radiation began to seep through meteor strikes in this shielding and the denizens were doomed. Kara was an adolescent at the time and her parents were aware of Jor-L’s success in sending his infant son to Earth. They fashioned a spacecraft of their own and sent Kara to earth.

The craft passed through some sort of cosmic anomaly which caused it to arrive on earth several years after her cousin; yet Kara didn’t age during the journey so she was now a good deal younger than her cousin. The yellow son of earth bestowed Kara the same powers as Superman, including greatly enhanced strength, speed, durability and flight. Kara adopted the secret identity of ‘Linda Lee Danvers’ and made Midvale Orphanage her home.

Taking on the name of ‘Supergirl’ she promised her cousin that she would keep her existence on Earth a secret, so that he may use her as a secret weapon; not that it stopped her from exploring her new powers covertly. Supergirl would go on to have numerous adventures, both alongside Superman and on her on. She time traveled to the 31st Century where she temporarily served alongside the Legion of Superheroes and was romantically involved with her fellow Legionnaire, Brainiac 5.

Sadly, Supergirl perished during the Crisis On Infinite Earths event; yet was later reintroduced in the post Zero Hour continuity with a similar albeit more contemporary backstory. Now a teenager again, Supergirl served as a member of The Teen Titans and was also a part of The Justice League; as well as spending time in the 31st Century as part of The Legion of Superheroes.

Actress Helen Slater portrayed the character in the 1984 Supergirl movie; Laura Vandervoort played the her in the television series Smallville; and Melissa Benoist has portrayed the Girl of Steel in the 2015 Supergirl television series. The heroine first appeared in the pages of Superman #123 (1958).

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from-a-reckless-writer · 3 years

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here's me jumping into the bandwagon :D

(read on ao3)

It's just after sunset when Kara finally gives in. She veers off from her patrol down to a route she knows by heart.

The moment she lands, the first thing she notices is how the sliding doors are a fraction open. It’s a small thing, nothing to even be thrilled about, yet still, her drumming heart cannot be helped.

"Knock, knock," she says, stepping inside.

Her heart turning anxious when she takes in the sight in front of her. The room is a mess; books on the floor, drawers open, Lena’s frazzled appearance. She's standing over a suitcase thrown open in the middle of the bed, a mountain of clothes on top of it.

She was told that Lena was going on a trip, that it would probably take three weeks tops.

Packing for a trip doesn’t look like this, this looks a lot like... leaving.

Going on a trip, Kara remembers that’s what her family told her too.

You and Kal are going on a trip but you don’t have to worry, we’ll be with you the rest of the way, they told her.

A trip implies there would be a home to come back to. And Kara believed it. She believed it for a total of ten seconds before her planet exploded and a shard of her home knocked her off-course.

"Need some help?" Her voice doesn’t tremble. Kara considers that a miracle, really.

"I didn't know Supergirl helped poor hapless women pack suitcases,” Lena retorts, walking over to her and kissing her cheek in greeting. It doesn't go unnoticed by Kara how clingy Lena's been since she's been back.

"Well, I wouldn’t exactly consider you poor and hapless," Kara counters.

"I may have had a slight,” Lena pinches her thumb and forefinger together, “panic over which and what to pack earlier.”

Yeah, Kara can definitely see that.

"Good thing I’m here then?”

"It's always good whenever you're around,” Lena says in such a casual way and it’s like the past year didn’t happen. As if it has always been this good. And...is this even allowed? This much affection from Lena? All the sweet words, the gentle touches, and the constant close proximity? It shouldn’t be allowed, not if it will be taken from her almost immediately after.

Unfair, is what it is.

******

“Okay, so why don’t we just move this out here yeah?” Kara voices, leaning over and hugging the lump of clothes to her chest, dumps it out from the suitcase and onto Lena’s pillows.

Lena’s fabric conditioner filling Kara’s senses entirely. For a brief moment, she considers stealing one of Lena’s shirts then and there. Something to tide her through once Lena leaves.

“Great. You’re on folding duty then,” Lena declares, “I’ll just go sort my babies, quickly. I’ll be right back.”

(Her 'babies' being the thick books lining every inch of this place.)

Lena disappears through the door. The domesticity of it all pulling at Kara’s chest.

In another world, where life ran a little differently, Kara would be packing their suitcases for a trip to Argo, or maybe one of the planets she’s always wanted Lena to see, or maybe it’d be nothing that grand. Maybe, just a trip back to Midvale. Lena would read to her on the whole drive there, her hair whipping from the winds down coastal roads.

Maybe not even a trip. Maybe in this other world, she’s assigned on folding duty, while Lena tinkers around their house. Maybe, even a dog or a cat. Maybe, something small at first, just an aquarium of fishes.

She doesn’t notice how deep into the fantasy she’s gotten till Lena speaks up from the door.

"My, my, CatCo would pay a million dollars to see this."

"Uh-"

"Supergirl found in bed, folding Lena Luthor's undies."

Kara looks down at her hand. She’s holding a lacy purple panty, she spots the matching bra laying a few inches away. She drops it lightning quick, feels her face flush.

"Oh, Rao. Lena, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to- I wasn't- It was just there and I-"

"Relax, Kara. I was just teasing,” Lena reassures her, she’s got three books tucked in her arms, she lays them down on the bed, before picking up the underwear Kara’s dropped and folding it neatly.

The contrast of the dark fabric against Lena’s pale fingers makes Kara flush an even brighter red.

Kara tries hard to exclude Lena's lacy panties in her fantasy.

She fails.

******

They give up on packing entirely two hours later. An all out pillow fight breaks out somewhere between Kara fishing out her favorite hoodie from the pile--discovering t'was not in fact missing like she thought it was--and Lena denying that she stole it.

They’ve fallen right on top of Lena’s clothes. Laying opposite each other, Lena lying upside down, her feet propped up on the pillows, toes touching the headboard, whilst Kara’s legs dangle at the end of the bed. Their heads close together.

From this angle, she can see the defined slope of Lena’s nose; stares at the way her lashes curl every time she blinks.

“So, what do you think you’ll find there?” Kara breathes out into the silence.

“I don’t really know,” Lena whispers.

“Let me rephrase then; what do you want to find?”

“I- I don’t know either.”

She tries to crane her neck to take a better look at Lena. Her eyes are closed, and it takes every ounce of self-control for Kara not to lean over and just press a kiss to Lena’s lips. It would be so, so easy. She settles for shifting just a bit closer instead, their temples touching.

It’s good enough.

“That’s okay," Kara murmurs, "not knowing is part of the adventure, right?”

She tries not to think about how she isn’t really part of this adventure. It isn’t about her, really. Kara’s decided the next three days will be about Lena. Kara will have time for breaking down once Lena leaves. The three days pales in comparison to how much Lena’s sacrificed in getting her back.

“I guess so.” she hears Lena say.

On the ceiling, Kara sees two shadows dancing with each other, tries not to look too deep into it.

And then,

“I had Jess trace down a couple of documents for me,”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. There’s an orphanage that could help me, she thinks.”

Kara’s ears perk up at that, she imagines Lena as a small child crying for her mom and then being whisked away from everything she ever knew. Kara wishes she could hold that little girl’s hand. Why did nobody hold Lena’s hand through it all? Kara wonders if somebody did, would Lena even have met her? Would she have needed somebody like Kara in her life? She likes to believe that Lena would still have met her. A reality without Lena was too painful, Kara knows all too well.

“Is that where you’re going to visit first?”

“Yeah.”

A brief silence engulfs them.

“Hey, Kara,” Lena calls out. “Do you think-”

There’s a deep exhale and a sigh.

“Do I think what?”

“Do you think my mom would want me to find her again? Do you think she’s proud of me?”

The question was so full of uncertainty and insecurity and there's nothing that Kara wants more than to just wrap around Lena and tell her how goddamn amazing she is.

“Oh, Lena," Kara whispers, "your mom would be so happy if you found her. I’d even say she’s been waiting for you. And of course, she’s proud of you!” Kara sits up at this, can’t contain all her awe for Lena.

“You’re amazing! Have you met you? Your mom would be so proud of you. I just know it, Lena.”

Lena opens her eyes, smiles shyly at her, reaches up to cup Kara’s cheek. Even though the angle is awkward, Kara feels her entire being light up at the touch.

“Thank you. You always know just what to say.”

Kara's right hand comes up to keep Lena’s hand steady, before tilting slowly to press a kiss to her palm.

She registers the up-tick in her heartbeat before letting go and laying back down again.

Kara’s beginning to understand, now. Lena doesn’t want to wonder anymore, maybe if she knew where she came from, who she could’ve been, and what kind of life she could’ve led, existing wouldn’t be as hard as it is now. Maybe Lena wanted to know that a Luthor isn’t all that she is. Even though Kara has repeated again and again that she is so much more. Lena needs to figure that out for herself, Kara guesses.

Maybe, Lena finally needs a name other than what has been ingrained in her. Maybe Lena needs to name the parts of herself she never had before.

“Maybe you came from a family of thieves,” Kara murmurs, closing her eyes too.

“Kara.” she feels Lena shift, she opens one eye to see Lena propped on her elbows leaning over her. “Are you saying you think being a hoodie thief is genetic?”

“You never know, Lena you never know,” Kara manages to say, her brain a loop of, Lena’s eyes are so pretty, so pretty, so pretty, her hair smells so nice, please kiss me, please kiss-

Kara closes her eyes again to make the chanting stop.

“You do know I'm a scientist, right?”

“Mm. Doesn’t make you any less of a hoodie thief.”

That earns her a pillow on the face.

“Personally, I think you’re some lost princess though," Kara divulges.

Lena lets out a loud incredulous laugh at that.

“What?" Lena blurts out, "You think I’m a princess?”

There’s a cheesy pick-up line there somewhere that Kara chooses to ignore.

“Well, you have the whole Snow White look down to a T, after all. Pale skin, dark hair. The whole ensemble really.”

"I can't believe I'm agreeing to this," Lena groans, “but, I think you might be right. God, I even have the whole evil stepmother-stepbrother dynamic down. Does that make you one of my dwarfs?”

“Dwarf? Really? Lena, really?”

She’s glad to learn that Lena had picked up a thing or two from their Disney marathons. That doesn’t mean Kara appreciates being called a dwarf though. She sits up and leans back on her elbows too; their faces inches from each other now. Lena’s eyes gleaming with mischief.

“You turn into Grumpy when someone eats your ice cream.”

Kara gasps, clutches her heart as if wounded and falls down dramatically. Lena just laughs at her, lies down again before asking, “Think I’ll find Prince Charming there, then?”

“You don’t need Prince Charming.”

I’m right here.

“True,” Lena agrees. Lena doesn’t need anybody, although would it really hurt if she says that she needed Kara the way Kara needs her?

“Ireland seems like the best place to run off into the sunset though," Lena wonders aloud.

“Is that what you wanna do?” Kara asks, “Just run off into the sunset?”

Because, because, if it is, I can do something even better. I can fly you off into the sunset. All you have to do is ask. Her heart is galloping in her chest and she’s grateful that out of the two of them, she’s the only one with super hearing.

“No, I don’t think so,” Lena answers and Kara lets out a none too subtle breath of relief.

“You don’t have to search for a home, you know,” Kara whispers. She just- She just needs Lena to know this, okay?

“I know,” Lena answers. “I still need to do this though.”

Once Lena Luthor makes up her mind there’s no changing it, it’s something Kara’s come to know through the years.

“You’ll come back soon though?”

“Maybe. Honestly, Kara? I don’t really know about ‘soon’. How close is ‘soon’ anyway? Would there even be a good reason for me to come back?”

How Kara held her all screams in the moment Lena said that, she doesn’t know.

******

There are balloons and cake and confetti but it doesn’t feel anything remotely close to a party.

It feels more something along the lines of, train wreck and heartbreak and building on fire. In short, disaster.

She vaguely registers Kelly asking her to hover and hang the banner. Why would she want to hang a banner screaming “We”ll Miss You!” in glittering blue? Kara grabs the ends of it and hangs it up anyway.

We’ll Miss You doesn't even begin to cover Kara’s feelings about Lena’s departure and oncoming absence.

But then again, this isn’t about her.

The door buzzes before Kara can spiral down her blackhole again.

Andrea comes in through the door with a bottle of champagne, which she hands off to Kara along with her coat. Kara fumbles after Andrea.

This isn’t CatCo! I’m not your employee! And champagne? Really? What is there to celebrate?

Lena arrives shortly after and streamers are let out. They make in-jokes and everyone’s laughing and Alex keeps telling Lena to bring home ‘some of the good stuff’ and Brainy keeps asking if he’s allowed to tinker with Lena’s projects while she's away, and Nia’s handing Lena an old film camera, “Document everything for me? Alright?" and Kara’s trying, she really, really is.

Even though she can’t understand how all of them are happy and smiling at the thought of Lena leaving them.

She doesn’t even notice what she’s doing till she’s bracing herself for take-off out in Lena’s balcony, when a hand lands on her wrist.

“Hey.” Lena anchors her back to the ground. It’s a mistake to turn and meet Lena’s eyes.

“Stay? Please?” Lena asks.

Unfair, Kara thinks again. It’s unfair that she gets to ask that.

******

Kara stays.

She stays till the lights are off, the blankets drawn and Lena’s snoring in her arms.

She’s eyeing the suitcase at the corner of the room.

I forgive you, she thinks, I forgive you for taking my heart in the suitcase you packed.

She didn’t even know it was trapped inside till Lena’s zipping everything up and Kara couldn’t breathe.

“Please, please, don’t go,” she pleads into the dark. .

Lena shifts, mumbles incoherently and burrows deeper into Kara.

******

The runway is shimmering after the early morning drizzle, and Lena Luthor looks like someone from a magazine, standing there in her velvet coat and aviators. There’s only the two of them, and there’s a smug pride in Kara about the fact that Lena didn’t want anybody here but her.

She’s leaving today. In a few hours, they’ll be on different continents. Kara wouldn’t be able to trace her heartbeat anymore. Lena made her promise not to chase the plane. She’s still pretty bummed about that.

“You know I’m gonna call you everyday, right?” Kara mutters in her ear, arms wrapped tight around Lena.

“I wouldn’t expect anything less from Kara Danvers.” Lena squeezes back, before pulling away.

“G-good.”

“Well, this is my ride,” Lena tells her, gestures to the jet behind her. “This is goodbye then.”

“For now.” Kara insists.

“For now.” Lena confirms, “Goodbye, for now.”

She turns to go but Kara can’t-

“Lena, wait.”

She tugs on Lena’s hand and she comes back to her willingly. Before Kara loses the nerve, she presses into Lena’s lips. She cups her face gently, feels the warmth of the sun on her cheeks, feels the moment Lena’s brain catches up to what’s happening.

It doesn’t taste like goodbye, Kara realizes. It tastes like a promise of something more.

“What was that for?” Lena breathes out, Kara can hear their hearts hammering in sync.

“Your reason to come back home.”

[special shoutout to @mssirey who gave great writing advice to this poor hapless writer（〃｀ 3′〃）i kith u on the forehead. ]

#if u see a typo no u dont #the reckless writer writes #a supercorp ficlet of sorts #here have a super self-indulgent fic before the next disaster of an ep drops #sg spoilers

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thesupergirls · 3 years

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Supergirl Comics Explained

[IMAGE ID: 5 Supergirls (Post-Crisis Kara Zor-El, Power Girl, Linda Danvers, Cir-El and Pre-crisis Kara Zor-El) flying through space. END ID]

TEST RUNS

Have you ever looked at the Supergirl Wikipedia page, or tried to start reading the comics and gone "Rao that's a lot of versions of the same character, what is going on there?!"

Well, I have lots of procrastinating to do and a mild obsession so I am going to attempt to summarise the history of Supergirl and her most prominent iterations in the comics. As far as I can tell, this is all correct, but I have not yet read every single appearance or version of Supergirl (I’m trying lol) and so I apologise if there are any mistakes.

Let’s start at the beginning. Supergirl, Superman’s cousin, was first introduced in 1959. But that’s not the first time a character named Supergirl had appeared. DC had previously test-ran three other female counterparts to Superman: Lois Lane as Superwoman, in a sort of 'what if' scenario occurring in Lois' head while she is hospitalised; Claire Kent 'Super-Sister', a genderswapped Superboy who, again, exists only in a dream; and Super-Girl, wished into existence by Jimmy Olsen to aid Superman, but fatally wounded soon after.

KARA ZOR-EL / LINDA LEE DANVERS (PRE-CRISIS)

The first real appearance of Supergirl was in 1959 during the 'silver age' of comics. This version of Supergirl was named Kara Zor-El, and was Superman's cousin. She survived the destruction of Krypton that sent Superman to Earth as she lived with her family in Argo City, a fragment of Krypton which survived. She eventually followed in Kal's footsteps when Argo City was also doomed to destruction. On Earth she adopted the identity of Linda Lee and lived in the Midvale orphanage until she was adopted by the Danvers', and changed her name to Linda Lee Danvers. She joined the Legion of Superheroes, and served as Superman’s ‘secret weapon’.

Supergirl Volume 1 and 2 catalogue her adventures, should you wish to read her solo runs.

In 1985, DC decided that their continuity had become too complicated, and proposed an event that would simplify the universe. They also decided that the impact of Superman as the 'last son of Krypton' was diminished by how many of his family seemed to have survived. Because of this, during the series 'Crisis on Infinite Earths' Supergirl sacrifices herself to help save the multiverse from destruction.

Pre-crisis Kara does make a few other appearances post-crisis, due to being pulled from the timeline for one reason or another. Ignoring this however, due to the rule that Superman should be the last son of Krypton, the next few characters to adopt the Supergirl mantle were of non-Kryptonian origin.

MATRIX / MAE KENT

Matrix became Supergirl in 1988. She was a protoplasmic matrix, shaped by an alternate reality Lex Luthor to resemble and contain the memories of his dead love, Lana Lang. Although not Kryptonian, she possessed some of the same powers - super strength, speed and the ability to fly. Additionally, she had invisibility, telekinesis and shapeshifting. She was sent to the main universe by Lex to recruit Superman to deal with criminals in her pocket universe, and remained in the main ‘New Earth’ universe after her alternate Earth was destroyed. She was adopted by the Kents and given the name Mae Kent.

Her solo comics are Supergirl Volume 3.

MATRIX / LINDA DANVERS (EARTH-BORN ANGEL)

Now in the New Earth universe, in a town called Leesburg, was a human woman named Linda Danvers (note the obvious similarity in name to the original Kryptonian Supergirl). Linda was involved with some rather dangerous and morally reprehensible activities and one day finds herself as the sacrifice for a demonic cult. Mae Kent attempted to save her, sacrificing her own life in the process.

The selflessness of Mae’s efforts to ‘save a woman beyond saving’ merges Mae and Linda into a being called the Earth-born Angel of Fire (There are 3 Earth-born Angels: Fire, Love and Light, each created by a similar selfless action). They could switch back and forth between the Linda Danvers and Matrix-Supergirl identity, but Matrix's ability to shapeshift any other way was lost. Powers of flight, strength and speed, and Matrix’s ability to produce 'psi-blasts' of telekinetic energy were retained in both forms. Due to their status as Earth-born Angel of Fire, they also had 'flame vision', wings of fire and the ability to teleport through a flaming portal (referred to as ‘shunting’). Linda became Supergirl in an effort to redeem herself from her dark past.

After they fulfilled their duty as one of the Earth-born Angels, Matrix and Linda were separated, but Linda retained slightly reduced powers of strength and invulnerability, and could leap long distances. She continued to act as Supergirl, although in a white, blue and red costume, rather than the classic red and blue. Eventually, the new Earth-born Angel of Fire (A combination of Twilight and Matrix) restored her full powers, and Matrix officially passed the Supergirl mantle onto Linda. During the Earth Angel saga, Kara Zor-El appears as an angelic figure to help guide Linda.

Linda’s volume as Supergirl, which includes the Many Happy Returns storyline mentioned below, is Supergirl Volume 4.

MANY HAPPY RETURNS

Shortly after having her powers restored by Matrix/Twilight and returning to Leesburg, Linda encountered a rocketship containing young, pre-crisis Kara Zor-El, displaced from her timeline and universe by the Fatalist. Her presence in the post-crisis era was destabilising time because she was destined to die in the crisis in order to save the multiverse. However, upon learning this, Linda could not bear to send the young Kara to her death, especially as they had become friends after Kara's arrival. She secretly took Kara's place, travelling to the pre-crisis era. However, pre-crisis Superman was able to detect that Linda was human rather than his Kryptonian cousin, who Linda attempted to pose as. Superman and Linda married and had a daughter, Ariella Kent. However, Linda also learns that she could not fix time by dying in Kara's place, and she agreed with the Spectre to return to her own time to send Kara instead, correcting the timeline. She agreed to this only on the condition that her daughter (who technically should never have existed) is saved from being erased as time corrects itself. She successfully sent Kara back to her time and saved the universe, but was heartbroken by her own actions. She also never learnt for certain if her daughter survived, and was so depressed by these events she gave up being Supergirl.

As an aside, you are probably wondering why this Supergirl is called Linda Danvers, as it is so similar to Kara Zor-El's original alias, Linda Lee Danvers. Originally, Linda Danvers (and her town of Leesburg) were named that as an homage to silver age Supergirl. However, their similar names are later explained as Kara naming herself that when she is returned to her time after the events of ‘Many Happy Returns’, due to some abstract memories of her friend Linda remaining, despite time correcting itself and thus erasing said memories.

KARA ZOR-EL / LINDA LANG (POST CRISIS)

Kara Zor-El, Superman’s cousin, reappeared as Supergirl in 2004. This time, she was the older cousin of Superman, but her rocket became caught in a kryptonite meteor, which is why she arrived on Earth later than him. Her human alias was Linda Lang, as Lana Lang became her foster aunt. (She also went by Claire Conner before this, but only briefly). She is also shown to be stronger and faster than Superman. Batman’s theory for this is that while Superman grew up on Earth, learning how to restrain himself and live as a human his entire life, this restraint is not nearly as intrinsic to Kara, due to her late arrival.

In her early appearances, she grapples with the belief that she was sent to Earth to kill her cousin Kal, however she later discovers these are false memories caused by prolonged kryptonite poisoning when stuck in the meteor.

There was also an apparent appearance of pre-crisis Supergirl in this volume of Supergirl (Volume 5), who attacks post crisis Kara and accuses her of being inadequate. This pre-crisis Kara is revealed to be a part of a test by the Monitors to ensure that post-crisis Kara is truly this universe’s Supergirl and not a post-crisis anomaly.

In the New Krypton saga, Kara discovers that her home on Krypton, Argo City, survived along with Kandor and they were miniaturized and combined by Brainiac. When the miniature city, dubbed ‘New Krypton’ is resized on Earth by Superman, Supergirl is reunited with her previously presumed dead family. This saga eventually culminates in a war between Earth and New Krypton, and New Krypton’s destruction, leaving Kara to grapple with the loss of her planet and family for a second time.

Like pre-crisis Supergirl, Kara fights alongside the Legion of Superheroes in the 30th century, and has an encounter with a Bizarro version of herself.

The Gates/Igle run in Supergirl vol 5 (beginning with #34) is often regarded as the best Supergirl run, and for good reason - I would absolutely recommend it.

KARA ZOR-EL / KARA DANVERS (NEW 52 AND REBIRTH)

In 2011, the ‘New 52’ wiped out all past continuity but again featured the Kara Zor-El version of Supergirl. Again, this Kara was older than her cousin Kal, but her pod kept her in stasis orbiting the sun for 20 years before she landed on Earth. A common theory for why she is stronger than Superman is that these two decades absorbing yellow sunlight unfiltered by the atmosphere bolstered her strength levels.

On Earth, she struggles with her grief, guilt and rage over the destruction of her planet and inability to establish relationships with people on Earth, which eventually leads to her suffering a breakdown and being recruited to the Red Lantern Corps. The climax of this storyline, ‘Red Daughter of Krypton’ shows her as the first member of the Corps who managed to destroy her own ring and survive without the aid of a blue power ring.

Her other adventures include training at the Crucible Academy, defeating the Worldkillers, and working as a member of the Justice League and D.E.O.

She loses her powers at the end of Volume 6, although they are restored by the D.E.O. in Rebirth, also post rebirth, she is adopted by the Danvers (who are D.E.O. agents this time) hence she goes by Kara Danvers.

The New 52 Supergirl comics are Supergirl Volume 6. The Rebirth comics are Supergirl Volume 7, this volume incorporates some elements from the Supergirl TV show, and is the most recent at the time of writing.

As a side note, Lana Lang is also rebooted in the New 52 and after witnessing the death of Superman, she (and Lois Lane) gained his powers and became Superwomen in the DC Rebirth. There were actually almost as many versions of Superwoman as there were Supergirl, including Luma Lynai, Kristin Wells, Dana Dearden, and genderbent Superman. A short breakdown of some of the different Superwomen is below, after the ‘Other Supergirls’ section.

OTHER SUPERGIRLS

Due to DCs multiverse (sorry, it's an ‘omniverse’ now isn’t it...), and general love of alternate versions of characters, there are many other versions of Supergirl. Elseworld stories such as ‘Supergirl: Being Super’ offer an alternative origin story for the character. Additionally, there are so many other alternate universe Karas, for example Earth-10’s Overgirl or Earth-3’s Ultragirl who I have not included on this list, as I didn't feel versions of Supergirl like this were major enough to warrant a mention in this section as we would be here forever, but this is a heads up and explanation as to why this list isn't completely exhaustive.

KARA ZOR-L / KAREN STARR (POWER GIRL)

Karen Starr was Kara Zor-El from an alternate universe, Earth-2, which was destroyed during Crisis on Infinite Earths. Like Kara, she is Kryptonian in origin (Except when she’s Atlantean - trust me, she has the *most* inconsistent and confusing backstory and powerset). She is depicted as older and more mature than Supergirl however. Hilariously, she was once depicted as being weak to natural elements, such as wood, despite being otherwise invulnerable. This invulnerability extends to kryptonite, as Kryptonians are only affected by kryptonite from their own universe so New Earth kryptonite, for example, does not harm her. However, it is worth noting that even this rule is inconsistent and so sometimes does not hold true, meaning there are instances where Kryptonians are affected by another universe’s kryptonite.

Power Girl is especially significant as she is a prominent character in DC Comics, being a member of the Justice League and JSA at various points. She makes frequent appearances, and has her own solo runs (Power Girl Volume 1 and 2). Note that like most DC characters, there are several versions of Power Girl, including a post-crisis (New Earth) and post-New 52 (Prime Earth) version.

ARIELLA KENT

The aforementioned Ariella Kent (daughter of Linda Danvers and pre-crisis Superman) also took the Supergirl name. Spectre did indeed save her from being wiped from existence and she was left to wander the universe. Due to her metahuman/ Kryptonian lineage, she had a huge number of powers, including the ability to time travel. Due to this she ended up in the 853rd century, and became known as the ‘Destroyer of Worlds’, as she was only six yet incredibly powerful and had no mentor figure or understanding of what she could do. Most of her appearances are in Supergirl Volume 4, however she also pops up in a single issue of Young Justice.

BIZZARO SUPERGIRL

There was a pre-crisis Supergirl, post-crisis Supergirl, and Power Girl version of Bizarro. For simplicity, I will just summarise that Bizarro Supergirl was a clone of Kara Zor-El, albeit imperfect and a little loopy. There are some differences between the different Bizarro Supergirls, although they are generally of good or neutral alignment. Interestingly, the New Earth version of Bizarro Girl is described as a ‘mirror’ of Kara, rather than opposites like their cousins.

There is also a Superwoman (Lois Lane edition) version of Bizarro, called Bizarress, created by Lena Luthor.

LAUREL GAND / ANDROMEDA

Not so much a Supergirl per se, but absolutely based on her. Laurel Gand was created post-crisis to replace Supergirl in the Legion of Superheroes stories. She was Daxamite and so shared the same powers as Kryptonians, as well as a similar basic backstory (tragic events forced her to leave her planet and escape to Earth). She was linked romantically to Brainiac-5, as Supergirl was, and the new Legion of Superheroes timeline made it so all of Kara's appearances were said to have actually been appearances by Laurel.

CIR-EL / MIA

Cir-El was created by Brainiac when he grafted Kryptonian DNA onto a human girl named Mia. He gave her false memories of being Lois Lane and Superman’s daughter, in order to use her as a trojan horse, and use her to unknowingly alter the future. When Cir-El learned this however, she threw herself into a time portal and prevented her own birth. Before this however, she fought Byakko alongside Natasha Irons and Traci Thirteen.

NATASHA IRONS / STEEL

Niece of the superhero John Henry Irons, aka Steel, who used technology to replicate Kryptonian powers. Irons created for her a suit of armor of her own so she could continue his legacy. She teams up with Cir-El and Girl 13 to accomplish this. I have included her on this list because, similar to her uncle, her Steel suit has the ‘S’ insignia on it.

SUPERWOMAN

There is some overlap between characters that use the mantle of Supergirl, and those who use Superwoman. For example, in some possible futures (for example the ‘Future State’ event) Kara herself graduates to Superwoman. However, like with Supergirl, many different characters have used the Superwoman moniker. I will admit that my Superwoman knowledge is more lacking than with Supergirl, but here is a summary of the most prominent characters who have gone by Superwoman.

LOIS LANE

As mentioned previously, Lois Lane first appeared as Superwoman in 1943, although it was only a dream. She gained actual powers a few times later, but it was always temporary. ‘Rebirth’ saw both Lois and Lana Lang gain more permanent superpowers due to a solar energy explosion caused by New 52 Superman’s death. Lois had Superman’s powers, Lana’s manifested a little differently (see below). This Lois later died fighting Bizarress. In case you were wondering how Prime Earth has a Lois Lane if she was killed, the answer (to my understanding) is that she was replaced by New Earth Lois Lane (as was Superman).

LANA LANG

While Lois gained powers similar to Superman’s, Lana gained the ability to convert solar radiation to other forms of electromagnetic energy. Lois and Lana both went by Superwoman until Lois’ death, which left Lana as Superwoman alone. Her powers were eventually reabsorbed by Superman, rendering her without powers once more.

LUMA LYNAI

Luma was a woman from a distant planet, and she derived powers from orange suns (similar to Kryptonians deriving powers from yellow suns). She had a romantic relationship with Superman, but it didn't last as the yellow sun of Earth made her ill, and she was forced to leave.

KRISTIN WELLS

There are, confusingly, two characters called Kristin Wells who use the ‘Superwoman’ identity. One is a Kryptonian soldier, and the other a descendant of Jimmy Olsen. The latter Kristin Wells was a history professor from the 29th century, and descendant of Jimmy Olsen, she used technology from her time to become a superhero in the 20th century and help out Superman. The other Kristin Wells (aka Karsta Wor-Ul) was a Kryptonian soldier. She was living as a space pirate when Krypton exploded, and eventually settled on Earth.

DANA DEARDEN

Dana Dearden was a Superman fanatic who stole mystic artifacts which granted her the powers of Hercules, Hermes, Zeus and Heimdall. With these powers she became Superwoman, and attempted to get Superman to fall in love with her. Due to this, she was often referred to as ‘Obsession’, and this became her primary alias.

LUCY LANE

Lois was not the only Lane to take up the role of Superwoman. Her younger sister Lucy also became Superwoman after getting superhuman powers from a government project she was working on with her father in the military. Her powers manifested the same as a Kryptonian under a yellow sun, but as she was not Kryptonian, she did not share their weakness to Kryptonite. She also used her powers for evil, unlike her sister, and was revealed to be behind several murders. She was seemingly killed by post-crisis Supergirl, but was later revealed to be alive.

ALTERNATE UNIVERSES

As with Supergirl, and most other characters in DC, there are many other versions of Superwoman, from different versions of Earth. Most notable of these are Earth-11’s gender-swapped Superman and Earth-3’s evil Wonder Woman counterpart, who goes by Superwoman.

Thank you for reading all of this if you made it to the end! I hope you have found this enjoyable and/ or informative. If I missed anything or you have any questions, please let me know - as you can tell, I love talking about this stuff.

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Another Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow post/update because even if this book ends up being a train wreck, it will be a beautiful one, thanks to the art team.

(Also it’ll be...some of the only Kara content until the show returns.)

As always, we will begin with the ARRRRRRRTTTTT:

(The one with the text is from Mat Lopes’ IG.)

(I’ve mentioned this in a previous post but if you’re one of the two people reading these things, and you want to see more of the art, I TOTALLY recommend either following or at least checking out the artists’ various social media accounts.)

I feel like I said this in a prior post as well but I am absolutely THRILLED, each time I see a little preview of the art, because ALREADY, there is a more dynamic range of facial expressions than in all of the Future State Superwoman book.

I usually hate dragging books/creative teams but the more I sit with it, the more I just. Cannot stand Future State. It sucks, so bad.

Anyways.

The thing that actually prompted this update was not the gorgeous art--rather! It was another little blurb from King:

A FASCINATING DEVELOPMENT!

Mostly because, even though the basic frame of Kara’s origin story is the same as it was sixty years ago, both Rebirth and the New 52 updated it and tweaked it, a little.

Like. Clark doesn’t abandon her, in the New 52. And Rebirth tries to retroactively apply the TV show origin by introducing Eliza and Jeremiah, but by that time in the comics, Kara’s already lived on Earth for a while as basically an unaccompanied minor.

There’s no Midvale, no orphanage, no time as Clark’s ‘Secret Weapon.’

So, King saying that they’ll somehow make use of Kara’s ORIGINAL origin...intriguing!

(Exactly what that will look like, hard to say. He could just be using themes as opposed to straight up incorporating the actual events.)

Though I’m wondering if this will make use of DC’s new mandate of, ‘everything happened! Everything is in continuity!’

What are they calling it? The Omniverse?

(It’s basically a fancy way of saying continuity no longer matters.)

And important to note, that this miniseries IS, in fact, in the current DC mainline continuity. It’s not like Strange Adventures or Mister Miracle, two titles that are out-of-continuity, prestige-format, standalone stories.

We know the Supergirl book is in the current continuity, because PKJ (the guy writing Superman) has confirmed that Kara won’t be featured in the Superman titles much, since she’ll be in space for this book.

(PKJ also, again, alluded to grand plans for Kara--someone asked why Jon was a candidate for the League, and Kara wasn’t. He said that there’s stuff going on with Kara that would make it tough to keep her on a team.)

(ZERO CLUE what that means, and we likely won’t have any further info for a good while. If this series runs without delays/interruptions, it should wrap up in January of next year.)

(Though I suppose I could guess? What with the TV show ending, and Kara about to appear in the movies, I could see them letting Kara ‘graduate’ to Superwoman in the comics, and passing the ‘Supergirl’ title to a younger, diverse character, to better match what they might potentially have in mind, for the DCEU?)

But, as has been established, I’m EXTREMELY bad at guessing so WHO KNOWS.

Anyways. My sincere apologies to the folks following this blog for stuff UNRELATED to meticulously tracking the progress of an as-yet unreleased Supergirl comic. I...have a feeling there will be more posts about this. XD

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SUPERGIRL #23-28 DECEMBER 2018 - MAY 2019 BY MARC ANDREYKO, KEVIN MAGUIRE, EVAN SHANER, EMANUELA LUPACCHINO, SEAN PARSONS, WADE VON GRAWBADGER, FCO PLASCENCIA, CHRIS SOTOMAYOR, KARL KESEL, NATHAN FAIRBAIRN, LAN MEDINA, RAY MCCARTHY, SCOTT HANNA, EDUARDO PANSICA, BRAD WALKER, ANDREW HENNESSY, DAN JURGENS, TOM DERENICK AND JULIO FERREIRA

SYNOPSIS (FROM DC DATABASE)

Supergirl confronts a hologram of Appa Ali Apsa, who admits he and the remainder members of the Circle are responsible for the destruction of Krypton. Kara demands answers. Apsa replies the truth is complex, and although he is already dead, his co-conspirators are still alive, spread throughout the galaxy, and probably unwilling to admit their guilt. Apsa asks if she is truly ready for the truth, and after an instant of hesitation, Kara nods. Apsa explains the history is too long and he couldn't risk placing it in a single archive, so he stored it in several data crystals and spread it throughout the universe. Apsa hands over one data stone to Kara, and entrusts finding all stones and bringing the Circle to justice to her before vanishing.

Right then the pocket dimension around Supergirl breaks apart, and Kara finds herself surrounded by a squad of Green Lantern Corps. Kara tries to de-escalate the situation, but Kyle Rayner and John Stewart want her to surrender. They are friends, but since a Guardian is involved, Kara doesn't believe she can trust the Lanterns.

Supergirl and Krypto make their escape, avoiding the squad of Green Lanterns chasing her. As boring her way out of the Archive, Kara is unexpectedly helped by Mogo, who saw her thoughts, and being a planet itself, feels her homeworld's loss. Mogo guides Kara back to her ship, fully repaired and fueled. Krypto is already waiting for her, and Mogo has programmed coordinates to help her quest. Kara wants to inquire further, but the Lanterns are hot on her heels, so she takes off.

As Supergirl makes her escape, C'Zal warns Hakmon Kara Zor-El is moving. Hakmon hurries up to inform Lord Gandelo that the Kryptonian has escaped the Lanterns, but he made sure no Rogol-related files were breached, and a kinsman hid a tracking device aboard of her ship. Gandelo replies he will not allow her to destroy the Circle's progress, and he'll have a spy destroy her.

Supergirl and Krypto have arrived at a dive bar at the edge of the galaxy, looking for the next clue to discover why Krypton got blown up. The bartender notices her Kryptonian crest, and starts whispering with the bar owner Ambush Bug. Ambush Bugh recalls Rogol Zaar dropped by not long ago and wonders if she is here about him. Kara, of course, can hear every word, and loudly demands information regarding Rogol Zaar.

Meanwhile, an agent of the Circle has spotted Supergirl's vehicle parked outside. He informs Lord Gandelo, who tells him to do nothing but observe and report. Lord Gandelo doesn't trust his agent to follow his orders, but he has hired another mercenary just in case.

Inside the bar, Kara focuses on her super-hearing and spots an alien who is suspiciously nervous while trying to hide the Circle's brand on his hand. Kara is going to interrogate him when another alien steps in the way and starts gloating about Rogol ridding the universe of the Kryptonian plague. Kara realizes everybody in the bar are looking to pick a fight with her, and she is happy to oblige.

Supergirl battles the crowd, backed up by Krypto. Although there are no yellow stars nearby and her sunlight-collector suit is low on energy, Kara uses her Klurkor and Torquasm Rao's martial skills combined with Rogol's axe to fight them off. She finally corners the suspicious patron, but the bartender blasts him to ashes rather than let him speak. The bartender demands to know what Kara did to Rogol, but she is disabled by a Coluan who got involved in the brawl.

Kara finds another data crystal among the ashes of her suspect. The Coluan introduces himself as Z'ndr Kol, but Kara walks away and out of the bar. Z'ndr follows him, though, and while she's recharging her suit, he tells his family also got killed when he was a kid and he is in search of a Coluan colony. Boasting about his engineering skills, Z'ndr talks Kara into grudgingly letting him tag along until her next destination.

Supergirl's ship takes off, guided towards its next destiny by the data stone. Kara checks they're heading towards the crime scene before she starts getting sick and bleeding. They've reached the remains of Krypton.

Supergirl, Krypto and Z'ndr Kol have reached the ruins of Krypton, and the Kryptonian pair are getting ill due to the high levels of Kryptonite radiation. After putting herself and Krypto on a filtering-radiation suit, Kara decides to go out of the rocket to figure out why the anti-radiation shields were damaged.

Suddenly she is attacked by an unknown alien who calls herself Splyce, the caretaker of Krypton. Kara tries to fight Splyce off, but her enemy is tough and she's low-powered. As if that were not enough, the K-radiation is overwhelming her suit's filtering systems, and she starts having Kryptonite-induced hallucinations. As battling, a hallucination has her father build a device capable of restarting a planet's core. Kara notices such a device is very similar to that Rogol Zaar attempted to destroy Earth with.

Supergirl fights on, and she's hit by Splyce's solar blasts. Kara realizes Splyce must be a genetically engineered weapon made of different alien genes, including Tamaranean DNA, and feeling fully charged, Kara comes up with a risky plan: she asks Kol to rerout her suit's full energy into her as she pounces on Splyce. Kara fights both her adversary and hallucinations where Zaar boasts that her father helped him out. Then Kara blasts her full energy and her suit's into Splyce, overloading her energy-absorbing Tamaranean genes.

All of sudden, Supergirl and Splyce are whisked away. Fortunately there's a tracking device in her suit. As Kol and Krypto start looking for her, Kara and Splyce are teleported to the Citadel at the end of the universe, where Splyce's creator, Harry Hokum notes satisfied that he has seized a Kryptonian to experiment with.

Flashback story

As exploring an uninhabited remot planet, Z'ndr Kol happens upon remains of an alien colony. Surprised because there were no records of that cluster being colonized, Kol finds evidence that place was a Kryptonian outpost, but someone attacked the colony and killed everyone.

Kol is then attacked by hostile aliens. He manages to escape, but he can't help but ponder about his attackers' identity and the outpost's fate. As he makes his way back to his ship, Kol finds some unknown Kryptonian artifact. Kol takes the relic with him, ignoring the same sign engraved on Rogol Zaar's axe is etched in both the monolith and the face of the planetoid he is leaving.

Flashback story

Supergirl returns home after helping Ice fight a giant robot Megazon and finds her adoptive parents donated some things she had outgrown to the Midvale Orphanage. Accidentally, Eliza gave away one box where Kara had hidden a plourott, a stuffed animal of sorts that her mother put in her ship before her departure.

Supergirl decides to sneak into the Orphanage and retrieve her memento quietly, but she is found by orphaned kids who think she has come for their Christmas party. Since a little girl named Rosa has already claimed her stuffed animal, Supergirl dismisses her previous plan. Since Rosa just lost her parents and yearns for snowy holidays, Supergirl gives Ice a call and both heroines give the kids a white Christmas.

Back to story

Supergirl comes around and finds herself strapped in a research laboratory and at Harry Hokum's mercy. Hokum has extracted her DNA and is wondering what can he use Kara for now, but instead of answering his questions Kara deliberately makes him mad. As she is being dragged back to a cell she mocks Splyce until the alien fires her solar blasts at Supergirl. Supergirl's energy levels are recharged but she pretends to be passed out as she is thrown in a transport ship.

Meanwhile, Krypto and Z'ndr Kol are approaching the Citadel, trying to come up with a way to rescue Kara, when they are intercepted by agents of The Circle, who demand the duo comes peacefully with them.

Back on the Citadel, Supergirl gets thrown in a cell. Kara stops playing dead, shatters her shackles and gets ready to break herself and all prisoners out. Unfortunately her latest power charge will only two hours.

Meanwhile, a third party break into the prison. And Harry Hokum is growing Supergirl's clones.

Supergirl is carrying out a jailbreak when she runs into the Omega Men who are storming the place. Primus wants her to come with them, but Kara doesn't want to leave the prisoners behind, so Primus telepathically shows visions of the Citadel exterminating their worlds. The Omega Men are planning to destroy Hokum's fleet's power source, which is hidden in that place. Supergirl decides to join them.

The group fights their way to the chamber where Hokum's power source is kept, but they find three Omega Men who had been killed in action but are somehow alive and imprisoned. Before the Omega Men can get over their shock, Supergirl warns they are about to be attacked.

Z'ndr Kol and Krypto have been brought to Lord Gandelo's presence. Gandelo is disappointed because her adoptive son is helping Supergirl rather than spying on the Girl of Steel how he was ordered to, and she demands an explanation.

On the Citadel, Supergirl and the Omega Men are fighting Harry Hokum's army. Supergirl again tries to bait Splyce into firing at her a solar blast, which would recharge her powers, but Splyce sees through her taunts and attacks Kara physically.

Supergirl tries both to fight off and reason with Splyce until a little girl is shot in front of Kara by a soldier, and Splyce gloats that Supergirl's compassion is a weakness. Enraged, Supergirl rips off the Splyce's tentacles holding her in place and decides to avenge the murdered little girl.

Back on Gandelo's ship, Z'ndr argues Kara is only looking for answers like he does. When Gandelo replies she's only another manipulative Kryptonian, Z'ndr replies Gandelo can't judge her by or blame her for what others have done. Gandelo goes on about Kryptonians being too dangerous and needing to be exterminated for the universe's sake. Their argument gets heated up until Krypto wakes up, blasts Gandelo away from Z'ndr, and both run away.

Meanwhile, on Hokum's ship, two engineers are examining Rogol Zaar's axe when all of sudden it flies off, summoned by Supergirl's will. As lifting the axe, Supergirl realizes that it's an empathetic weapon that feels and feeds on her rage. Supergirl feels tempted to kill Splyce but she doesn't go through with the execution.

Right then, Primus arrives and says it's time to leave. Supergirl and the freed slaves get on the Omega Men's ship, and it takes off. As Supergirl is pondering about the conflict she has gotten herself involved in, and the mission she isn't closer to fulfill, Harry Hokum is preparing to strike again.

On Omega Men's hideout, the team is examining their three undead friends, feeling something amiss and arguing the prison planet was some sort of setup. Supergirl notices a strange scar on the necks of the rescued Omega Men and leaves.

Kara is reminiscing in loneliness about a memory of her father designing the machine used by Rogol Zaar to kill Krypton. Suddenly she remembers the strange scars she noticed are from Kryptonian cloning tech and rushes back to the infirmary. At the same time that the cloned trio are attacking the Omega Men, Hokum has unleashed one dozen of Supergirl clones upon the base.

Supergirl and the Omega Men are battling an army of mindless Supergirl clones. Wielding Rogol Zaar's axe, Kara takes down as many clones as she can, as struggling against the axe's rage-amplifying influence.

Meanwhile, Krypto and Z'ndr Kol are looking for Kara when their ship detects' Kara's position.

Supergirl and Ryand'r keep fighting Supergirl's clones. Once her attempt to reach them out fails, Supergirl asks the Tamaranean to give her a solar boost as quickly as he can. Ryand'r transfers energy to Kara by kissing her, and Supergirl takes down her clones with a shockwave clap. Unfortunately, although her blast was intended to only stun, their cellular structure is so unstable they break apart.

Enraged, Supergirl bursts into Harry Hokum's ship, and after putting his men down, seizes Hokum and demands to know how he got Kryptonian cloning tech. Hokum confesses he knew what The Circle did to Krypton so they let him strip-mine the rests of the planet in exchange for his silence. Supergirl wants the perpetrators' names, but Hokum is teleported away. Nonetheless, he loses his ring as he disappears, and Kara collects its gem, noticing it is one of the database crystals she is looking for.

Primus then comes along and takes Supergirl to Hokum's ship's cloning facilities. Infuriated at the sight of her people's science being perverted in order to create abominations, Kara destroys the place.

Meanwhile, Hokum is teleported to Gandelo's presence. Despite Hokum protesting otherwise, Gandelo believes he has broken their deal, and executes him.

Supergirl is resting in the Omega Men's outpost, feeling physically and mentally worn-out, when Ryand'r approaches. After apologizing for kissing her earlier, swearing it was the quickest way, he offers another energy transfer, holding her hands this time. Ryand'r has just rechaged her fully when Z'ndr and Krypto finally happen upon them.

Meanwhile, Gandelo confers with two members of the Circle. Although Gandelo insists that Supergirl must be executed in order to keep their cover-up, their partners point out they have nothing to hide because Rogol Zaar acted against their wishes, and Gandelo is losing control. Angry, Gandelo sends out a message across the galaxy: he wants Supergirl dead.

At the same time, in planet R'Venna, a group of followers or Rogol Zaar are determined to finish what he began and kill Supergirl.

REVIEW

This is a slow story, but every now and then closes chapters. It is clear that is a very long saga, but knowing DC it will most likely cut short by crossovers.

At least it is a title where the characters are themselves, that is pretty valuable for the Superman corner of the DCU right now. Supergirl and Krypto are a joy to read.

Z’nder is a mix of Peter Quill and Vril Dox II. I like the character and it seems like we are going into some kind of love triangle with Ryand’r (although I don’t imagine Andreyko going that route).

I wonder if Hokum really died in this story, I never really liked the character, but it felt a bit unceremoniously. Perhaps a clone?

There are too many artists involved in these issues, all of them great, some of them among my favorites... but it would really help a lot to keep Maguire for the long run. I am saying this because it is a longer arc, this sort of space opera deserves a unified style. (Fill-in artists have similar approaches at least).

I give these issues a score of 8.

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what we do in the shadows

by lostariels

When two young immigrant girls find themselves orphaned, they become unlikely friends on a cross-country train trip to find new families, before they're torn apart at opposite coasts of the United States and left wondering about the fate of each other.

Kieran, a young Irish girl, finds herself in Metropolis, the replacement daughter for a wealthy family, taking on the name of their dead daughter. Her new mother's cold, her father's never home, and her new brother dotes on her. In her new life of high society, a far cry from the orphanage she spent four years at, she's expected to be a respectable lady.

Karina, a newly emigrated girl with little English, picked up off the streets of National City, finds herself in Midvale, living on a farm owned by a doctor and her husband. At odds with the new girl she has to call her sister, Karina turns to music and shuns her chores, mourning the fresh loss of her parents in Soviet Russia.

Never forgetting each other, they meet again in the most unlikely way, on the cusp of World War II breaking out. Determined to change the fate chosen for them all those years ago, they find themselves enlisting as spies, a journey which takes them down two very different paths.

Words: 6329, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Kara Danvers, Lena Luthor, Alex Danvers, Lillian Luthor, Lex Luthor, Lionel Luthor, Eliza Danvers, Samantha "Sam" Arias, Imra Ardeen, Gayle Marsh, Jack Spheer, Mon-El (Supergirl TV 2015), Kelly (Supergirl TV 2015), Cat Grant, Rhea (Supergirl TV 2015)

Relationships: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor

Additional Tags: World War II, Alternate Universe - Spies & Secret Agents, Alternate Universe - No Powers, War, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Heavy Angst, Prison, Injury, Character Death, Orphans, Torture, Imprisonment, Blood and Violence, Soviet Union

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fanfictionfaberrycentral · 5 years

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what we do in the shadows

by lostariels

summary:

#Aoo #Fiction #Supercorp #new

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jasposeyblog · 1 year

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My acquisition of Supergirl sketch cover by Axayacatl Ramos

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laityashesdleted42daryblog-blog · 6 years

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Someone write this AU SG Fanfiction:

On another earth, with no DEO and Alex’s family does not adopt Kara—Alex Danvers becomes Batgirl. Without the DEO she takes things into her own hands as a vigilante. And she is later taken under Batman’s wing and becomes Batgirl. Alex has an MD and large background in science research. The MD makes it so she can care for her own vigilante mishaps in the field, treat her own wounds.

As Batgirl she meets Supergirl, and they become the best of friends. They are platonic soul mates. In fact, Kara Zor-El is more angsty and dark because she didn’t grow up with Alex helping her through the loss of Krypton. She had to deal with that on her own while at the Midvale Orphanage. (Reference to when, in the 1960’s comics, Superman dropped Linda Lee (Kara) off at the same orphanage after she landed on earth. Adds some Superman vs Supergirl angst. Plus, makes Alex not Superman’s biggest fan.) Their bond helps both of them grow and be better people. Kara finds a family in Batgirl. She finally finds something on earth to call family.

(If no one writes it, I’ll get to it eventually.)

#kara danvers #supergirl #danvers sisters #supergirl fanfiction #plot ideas for SG fanfiction #need to make a tag where i just post my random SG story ideas

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Action Comics #252

Cover Date: May 6, 1959 | Written by Otto Binder | Art by Al Plastino

Read on DC Universe Infinite | NOTE: These commentaries are going to be very spoiler heavy

Figured I should start at the very beginning. Well, the beginning if you don’t count the appearance of Super-Girl in Superman a year earlier, but that was just a fake that was created by a wish by Jimmy Olsen, so I’m totally not counting that.

Anyway.

Something I didn’t realize until I started reading some of these older comics is just how common it was for there to be multiple stories in one book back then. Despite “The Supergirl of Krypton!” being on the cover, it was the last of three stories in this 28 page comic.

This book was also notable for the debut of Metallo, who would become a recurring villain over the years.

But we’re not talking about that story! “The Supergirl of Krypton!” begins with a (customary for the time) splash panel that is very similar to the cover.

Wow that’s wordy. Comics back then relied heavily on this kind of narration, it’s how they were able to tell a lot of story in a few pages. Feels campy now, but in a fun way.

Also, “Great guns!”? Really Supes?! XD

The next panel after this one backs up a few minutes. We see Clark Kent hearing a rocket hurdling towards Earth. He changes into Superman and races to the scene, although he’s too late. He notes that it reminds him of the rocket he landed in when he was a superbaby (yes, he actually says superbaby, it’s in bold no less!) He tears open the wreckage and out pops a blonde teenage girl.

Superman is very confused by this, which is honestly understandable. She assures him that she’s alive and okay and tells him that she’s also from Krypton. This greatly confuses him, and leads to this image which I honestly love:

Superman wants to know how this is possible, and why she’s wearing something that looks like his own outfit. This prompts Supergirl to explain her backstory, which is HILARIOUS

To cliffnotes this: A giant chuck of Krypton broke off intact when the planet exploded, taking along with it an air bubble of the planet’s atmosphere, allowing the surivors to breath. BUT, they soon find that the explosion had turned the rock of the colony into kryptonite, which will kill them all. UNLESS they pave the entire colony in lead! And it works. That is, until a meteor shower bombards the colony, smashing holes into the lead covering, exposing the kryptonite. Well the colony’s screwed, so Zor-El decides to build a rocket so that his daughter might be able to escape. Kara and her mother use the super-space telescope (that’s what it’s called!) to find a planet suitable. They find Earth, listen in with their space radio (damn I love comics) and find that there is a fellow Kryptonian on the planet. They stuff Kara into the rocket, and as the rocket is flying away Kara thinks “My father... Mother... All the people are dying! I’m an orphan of space now... ‘sob!’”

OH. MY. GOD.

Superman recounts his backstory, name dropping his father, Jor-El, which Kara recognizes and they realize they’re actually cousins.

Kara is estatic that she has found a family member and thinks that they’ll live together here on Earth.

Something she gets to be happy about for all of one panel.

Before killjoy Clark shoots down the idea, just because she may ruin his cover. For real though, why couldn’t Clark Kent just adopt a kid? Or literally just tell everyone that one of Clark’s relatives from out of state is coming to stay with him? There’s a lot of ways they could have gotten around this except I’m taking into account that golden-age/early silver-age Superman is kind of a smug jerk. (also there were probably a lot of political and social ramifications for depicting a family with a single partent t that time, but that’s a lot less fun to talk about.)

So they test out her flying abilities, which she has, and Kara’s ready to be a superhero right away, which Superman also forbids.

He takes Supergirl to an orphanage in Midvale, where he disguises her in a brown pigtail wig. She’s not that upset by all of this, most liketly because this is the 50s and goodness forbid a teenage girl ever question or push back against her male authority figure.

Kara gives herself the civilain name Linda Lee because Super comics are obsessed with female characters having the initials LL, which Superman actually comments on. Superman tells the orphanage that Linda was an orphaned survivor of a major disaster, and there are zero questions from the orphanage. Superman also tells Kara that she can’t reveal herself yet.

The headmistresss takes Kara to her room, which is a total dump.

Side note: Kara x-ray visions what she says is a cracked mirror back together, which is already iffy, but from all the previous panels, that mirror isn’t cracked, it’s missing its entire center.

From here Kara sneaks out at night and does a flyover of Midvale, marveling at its quaintness. She lands near a poster for a documentery about Superboy and his time in Smallville, which prompts Kara to hope that she can do for Midvale what Superboy did for Smallville. Then she returns to the orphanage.

That’s the end of the issue.

I just wanted to note that sure, there’s a lot of questionable dynamics and expectations of gender roles in these comics, and if I felt that getting mad at a 63 year old comic would do any good, I’d make more of a stink about it. But, it won’t do any good and I’m going to just enjoy these comics for what they were, and only point out the most egregious examples. And I’m looking forward to seeing how comics have grown over time.

All in all, “The Supergirl of Krypton!” is 8 pages of infodumping and set-up. Still, I’m sort of amazed of all they go through in 8 pages. It’s fascinating to see just how different the standards and expectations of comics have changed.

These old books were kitschy and campy in the best of ways, and I’m excited to read more!

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Sixty fun & fascinating facts about the classic Supergirl (3 / 4)

Welcome to the third part of this series presenting sixty fascinating facts to celebrate the sixty years since the debut of the classic Supergirl in DC Comics. Ahead are another fun-filled fifteen snippets of trivia about the original intrepid Argo City teen who leapt from that crumpled Midvale rocket ship. Covering her original Silver and Bronze Age incarnation, in comics and on screen, each factoid is calculated to intrigue and delight – hopefully even seasoned Kara fans will find a few morsels of trivia that had previously escaped their attention.

Enjoy...

31. You can actually visit, in real life, the building where she once lived.

While Superman has rarely strayed beyond his fictional base of Metropolis, Supergirl’s adventures have seen her relocate far-and-wide many times. Some of her homes have been fictional, like Midvale and Stanhope, while others have been real-life, like San Francisco and Chicago. But shockingly, not only has the Girl of Steel lived in real locations, but she has even inhabited real addresses.

A panel in Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #4 (Feb 1983) exposes Linda Danvers’ home address as 1537 West Fargo Ave, Chicago – surprisingly, this turns out to be a genuine address. A later issue, #7 (May 1983), reveals that Linda’s apartment number is 12A. The building that’s currently at that location doesn’t correspond with the one drawn by Carmine Infantino, but if you happen to be passing you might want to check if one of the occupants is listed a “Ms. L. Danvers”.

32. The first theatrically released Supergirl movie was in 1973, not 1984.

As outlined in factoid #2 there was an abundant supply of superheroine movies in non-English speaking markets before Helen Slater’s Supergirl. Indeed so incredibly popular are superpowered females in some corners of the globe that, amazingly, there was even an unofficial Girl or Steel movie over a decade before the authorised Salkind-produced one. The film in question starred Pinky Montilla in the main role and was entitled simply Supergirl. Released on 23rd September 1973 into the Filipino market, the movie featured the Maid of Might’s early 70s costume but changed her origin story. Pinky would also play Bat Girl in 1973′s Fight! Batman, Fight! – and we can assume that the producers probably didn’t ask DC for permission to use the Dominoed Daredoll either.

33. She hated her time in Midvale Orphanage.

The Silver Age always presented Kara’s adventures with a naive sense of wonder and amazement; rarely did it seriously address the pain she must have felt at leaving her parents behind to die in Argo City. But comics changed a lot in the two decades after Kara was introduced, and by the time Supergirl’s origin was retold in Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1(Nov 1982) a very different spin was put on things. As Kara travels to begin a new life in Chicago, she reflects back on her tragic beginnings as a superhero, including the painful loss of her parents and her feelings of starting over in Midvale: “I was a real stranger in a very strange land! With nowhere else to go, Superman had no choice but to place me in Midvale Orphanage under the name Linda Lee.”, she recalls, before concluding solemnly, “I hated it!”

34. She was a reluctant hero, often feeling out of place on Earth.

One theme that reoccurred during the Bronze Age adventures of Supergirl is how Kara felt at odds with her career as a superhero, and out-of-place on Earth. A story in Superman Family #168 (Dec 1974) demonstrates this more than most, as it brings together three troubled women with extraordinary powers. Supergirl joins her friend Lena Luthor (who has ESP) in an attempt to help Jan Thurston (who has telepathy) come to terms with her unusual powers.

After rescuing a suicidal Jan, Supergirl wins her trust by recounting her own sad journey from Argo City to Earth, explaining that at first she enjoyed the novelty of her superpowers, but quickly came to see them as a barrier. “I’m the mightiest girl on Earth -- and the loneliest!”, she laments, “There’s not a guy on the planet who can keep up with me... Not a single girl can get close enough to be my friend! Sometimes I think I’d much rather have stayed on Argo City!” But Kara goes on to outline how she overcame those feelings: “People like us aren’t different!”, she explains, “We’re just... special!”

35. She planned to start a family, until Kal-El intervened.

In the Bronze Age, DC writers clearly felt free to explore introspective ideas with Kara that likely weren’t possible with her famous cousin. One short story, tucked in the back of Superman Vol. 1 #282 (Dec 1974), demonstrated this more than any other. Kal-El travels to Florida, Kara’s then home, to confront her about suggestions that she may give up her superhero career. “This life of a super-heroine takes up too much of my time... Sets me apart from everyone else!”, she explains. “I want an ordinary life -- with a husband and children some day... Free to do what I choose!”

Naturally her straight-laced cousin isn’t too keen on this idea. He spins Kara a yarn from ancient Krypton folklore, the moral of the story being that she should be careful what she wishes for. “So you see, Kara”, he explains, “sometimes, when we get the things we think we want most... they turn out to be a curse rather than a blessing!” In light of this, Kara reconsiders her plans.

36. Wonder Woman designed one of her costumes.

As most fans know one of the few weaknesses the Man and Girl or Steel share is a vulnerability to magic; so when Adventure Comics #397 (Sep 1970) saw Kara go up against a powerful black magic cult, it was perhaps no surprised to find her badly beaten and her costume shredded. Luckily Wonder Woman was in her mod Emma Peel phase at the time, posing (in-between bouts of super heroics) as the owner of a fashion boutique. Reaching into the racks of clothes at her shop, Diana produces a completely redesigned Supergirl outfit befitting the fashions of the period, which Kara eagerly adopts. (Readers were left wondering whether Diana had redesigns of other hero costumes at the ready, or was Supergirl a special case?)

37. Her mom(s) designed two of her costumes.

Every Supergirl fan knows that Kara’s original costume was designed by her mother, Alura, so that the teenager would be recognised immediately by the Man of Steel when she arrived on Earth. But few may remember that her mid-80s costume, the headband affair she wore going into Crisis on Infinite Earths, was also designed by her mother -- her other mother. Kara’s 80s costume was design by Edna Danvers, her adopted mother on Earth, who (it seemed) was in the habit of whiling away the long dark evenings in Midvale by sketching possible costume designs for her superhero daughter.

38. She’s a fan of recycling her clothes.

The Maid of Might has had many costumes over the years -- or rather, she’s had one costume that she’s recycled over and over since the early 70s. In Adventure Comics #407 (June 1971) a new invulnerable costume was given to Kara by the folks in the Bottle City of Kandor after her original Argo City outfit had been destroyed some months before. A dedicated follower of fashion, over the coming months Kara went through a succession of wild and wacky outfits, some lasting only one issue, before finally settling on her famous hot pants attire for the majority of the 1970s. One might have assumed that somewhere in the Fortress of Solitude there was a wardrobe packed full of retired red and blue super-duds, but Supergirl Vol. 2 #13 (Nov 1983) revealed Kara’s secret -- when it comes time to upgrade her outfit, Kara unravels her old costume at super-speed and and re-weaves the resulting ball of thread into the new design.

39. Demi Moore was the director’s first choice to play Lucy Lane in the Supergirl movie.

The casting net for the title role in 1984′s Supergirl was spread far-and-wide. Director Jeannot Szwarc asked casting agent Lynn Stalmaster to search the whole globe for candidates who could not only act, but withstand the physically and mentally pressure of training for the demanding stunts and wire work. One candidate, apparently, was Demi Moore, who didn’t get the Girl of Steel role but was considered perfect for Kara’s best friend, Lucy Lane. Director Jeannot Szwarc recalled in a 1999 interview, “I met tons of girls. I remember one of the girls was Demi Moore. She was very young and had a great voice. I wanted to use her for the room mate.” But it seems fate had other plans for Ms Moore, as Szwarc explained, “She would have been [perfect], but she was going to Brazil to do a movie with Michael Caine.“ (Moore played Caine’s daughter in Stanley Donen’s rom-com, Blame It on Rio.)

40. One of her rarest appearances is from 1981, only a couple of pages long, but sells for $75+.

If there was a competition to find the rarest publication with an original Supergirl story, Danger on Parade / Le Danger Guette would surely be hot favourite for top place. This tiny comic, just eighteen panels long, was given away inside packets of breakfast cereals in Canada. It features an abbreviated adventure pitting Supergirl against Winslow Schott, aka the Toyman, in the pair’s only pre-Crisis encounter. Runner-up in the rarity stakes would likely go to the Super A and Super B booklet sets produced by Warner Books in 1977 for use in classrooms. The sets didn’t feature original stories however, but reprints with simplified speech balloons designed to teach reading skills.

41. She first met Kal-El years before she landed on Earth.

Gimmick story lines were the order of the day for Silver Age DC, and what better way to create an attention-grabbing dime-baiting cover than to arrange a bizarre crossover -- such was the case with Action Comics #358 (Jan 1968), which saw a very youthful Kara Zor-El in Argo City meet Superboy. The story is predictable fare: in deep space Superboy is scooped-up by one of Zor-El’s science probes, which brings him back to Argo City. Naturally Kara is the first one to discover the probe’s accidental passenger, and (naturally!) Kal-El has suffered memory loss that blots out his life on Earth. Kal and Kara become firm friends over the coming days, until (naturally!) the plot contrives to wipe her memory of him, and restore his memory of Earth.

42. Lena Luthor was the only friend who knew her secret identity.

In the 2015 Supergirl tv show, famously, everyone seems to know (or have known at some point) Supergirl’s secret identity... except Lena Luthor. Bronze Age DC Comics, however, were very very different: Lena first met Kara in Action Comics #295 (Dec 1962), using the name Lena Thorul to hide her connections to brother Lex. Instantly she became firm friends with both Supergirl and Linda Danvers, requiring Kara to work extra hard to stop Lena from realising they are one in the same. The deception finally ended in Superman Family #211 (Oct 1981) when Lena confessed to Kara that she’d worked out her dual identity. This made Lena the only ever friend of Linda Danvers who shared her secret. Sadly it didn’t last long, as by Superman Family #214 (Jan 1982) Lena had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which affected her memory.

43. She didn’t put the “Kara” into Karaoke.

Over the years Supergirl has exhibited some remarkable super skills, including super ventriloquism, incredible memory, and even the ability to read minds, but one skill that she seemingly lacks is any kind of musical aptitude. Despite the modern day tv Supergirl claiming to put the Kara into Karaoke, her comic strip counterpart didn’t ever appear to sing (not even in the shower!) What’s more, as she confesses in the pages of Adventure Comics #409 (Aug 1971), she doesn’t play any musical instruments either.

44. She’s was no stranger to tragedy even before she left Argo City.

Very few Silver or Bronze Age stories dealt with Kara’s life in Argo City, but one story that gave some idea of how she filled her time appeared in the pages of Action Comics #371 (Jan 1969), when a very young Kara is shown witnessing the cruel death of her best friend, Morina. The pair are innocently playing the game Zoomron, involving the throwing a Frisbee-like disc (the Zoomron) at a target. Chasing an erratic disc Morina tumbles into a crevice filled with Kryptonite, and a tearful Kara can only stand and watch as her friend succumbed to the deadly rays.

45. The Supergirl movie was almost entirely filmed in the UK.

Most fans know that Superman I and II owe a lot to Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, northwest of London, so it is no surprise that 1984′s Supergirl returned to use the same studio complex. But while Superman complimented its studio shots with exteriors filmed in New York (Metropolis) and Alberta, Canada (Smallville), Supergirl’s production stayed firmly within the UK. Locations included the banks of Loch Moidart on the west coast of highland Scotland, the Royal Masonic School for Girls in Hertfordshire, and Black Park Lake near the Pinewood soundstage in Buckinghamshire. Shockingly, even downtown Midvale was actually a huge sprawl of street facades constructed as a backlot set at Pinewood -- the 22 days it took to shoot the tractor rescue sequence was allegedly due to the notoriously fickle British weather.

That’s all for part three. The final part, with even more extra-juicy Kara Zor-El trivia, will be available soon.

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