Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

                                                                                    JANUARY 1990 28th NOVEMBER 1989 STARMAN, Volume 1 #18 YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW Only a few issues in and we're in the second part of a two-part story! Doctor Polaris, who may or may not be a Magneto expy, has captured our two heroes. But enough of that let's have some family drama! Yes, we're in the late 80s so we're in full A-plot, B-plot territory with full-on soap opera goodness! For now, let's get the family drama out of the way first. Momma Starman, Marie (Payton), is still recovering from the death of her no-good husband who she's only just buried. It even affects her forklift certification at the warehouse where she works so much! All the while she's worried that her son (Will) has gone missin...

  ... It's 22nd November 1940 and All-Star Comics #3 introduced the Justice Society of America... ...It's 9th October 1975 and All-Star Comics #58 introduces us to Power Girl... ...It's also the 25th March 2019 and little old me is doubting that I'll reach the six years necessary to reach this landmark! Last year wasn't the best for postage and I needed to take a step back to think about what I wanted to do with this blog. I love what I do, and the small audience that kindly follows along, but the danger is that it starts to feel like work and you forget the reason you started this in the first place. (Not to put myself on the same level but I always think of the White Stripes song Little Room .)  So for that reason I scaling back the production of this blog, I doubt anyone needs to know when and who produced the images we literally have the internet for that! Hopefully, this will allow me to do more with less and produce something that I hope is as entertaining for...

 A quick post about how many times Power Girl has appeared since her first appearance back in 1975! She has appeared every year since her introduction and, if my maths is right, (discounting reprints) she has appeared just over one thousand times as of this post. Her least number of appearances was two, in the first years of her introduction (1975), with her only appearing three times in 1981 and 2019. Her most appearances in a single year is 2007 with 63 appearances. Likewise, her busiest decade was 2000-2009 with 307 appearances, her quietest was 1975-1979 with only 33. Her first full decade (1980-1989) was only 103 appearances. Okay here's the deep weed nerdy stuff: Pre-Crisis she appeared between 85 and 91 times depending on which you consider which in those fuzzy just-post-crisis days. (85 is if you count to just the Crisis issues, 91 if you count until her revamped background in Secret Origins #11). Post-Crisis she appeared 660 times (if you take the lowest pre-crisis figure)...

      JANUARY 1981 9th OCTOBER 1980 WONDER WOMAN, Volume 1 #275 THINKING MAN'S CRIME We're in The Huntress backup strip that ran in Wonder Woman, including a running subplot we'll get to later! We start with a magnificent splash page where we quickly explain Earth-Two, Huntress's origins, and Power Girl being there and just show them both in action. Apparently, Gotham is having a bit of a crime spree, a good excuse to show a few pages of Huntress and Power Girl in action, along with some light banter about the situation. Though not too long as this is a backup and we only have eight pages to work with! The final reminder is that the current District Attorney, like many in Gotham, is having a crackdown on Superheroes. To complicate matters the DA, Harry Sims, has a mutual thing for Helena Wayne, not knowing that she's Huntress! She is more inclined to protect his crackdown on heroes, whilst Power Girl is less keen on the idea. It's actually nice that they explain...

 JANUARY 1978 20th OCTOBER 1977 THE SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPERVILLAINS #12 THE PLUNDER PLAN Because All-Star was bi-monthly (e.g., every other month), only one comic came out in January in the 1970s with Power Girl in it, and it's a disappointing cameo! The Wizard having decided that the Injustice Society fails because they have a loser mindset (very grindset bro of him) jumped to Earth-1 to join the aforementioned Secret Society of Supervillains. He even gets a natty new uniform to boot!

WHAT ARE YOU MADE OF? Justice League America #94 Published:  18th October 1994 Cover Date:  December 1994 Penciler:  Chuck Wojtkiewicz Inker:  Bob Dvorak Colorist:  Gene D'Angelo Letterers:  Clem Robins Editors:  Brian Augustyn / Ruben Diaz Introduction Post Infinite Crisis everything that happens here, along with the whole baby fiasco. Arion at this point knows that Power Girl isn't Atlantian, has always she wasn't, but still acts as though she was for whatever the whole baby plot was about Plot Sypnosis Talking off, we start with Arion explaining about Atlantis, the high-magic past that seems to have been attacked by someone or something with high-tech power armour! Here he reinforces that she was sent to the present to protect humanity, a rare mention of her Atlantian origins, but it also tied into the baby! They carefully sidestep the ideas that the baby was put there by Arion, instead suggesting that it's some kind o...