Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

Hellfire and Holocaust All-Star Comics #61 Cover Dated : July / August 1976 Released : 15th April 1976 The issue starts with Christopher Pike as the villain Vulcan, yes really, fighting Green Lantern and Doctor Fate. Doctor fate is injured and Vulcan gets away. But we don't have time for that as we set up not one but two sub plots, the most important for us is Power Girl end up fighting a rather squat alien. Weirdly at this point the comic feels the need to point out that Kara talks about her calling Earth home, as a rather klunky mention that she's a Kryptonian. Along with pointing out that she's not quite as tough as Earth-1's Supergirl. During the battle there's a series of lovely Kirby like panels as she gains knowledge connecting this to the main story. Beep-beep Seems the alien made Vulcan with on fatal flaw, a vulnerability to sunlight, despite the whole thing happening as NASA astronaught was orbiting the Sun, you know that source of sunlig

Vulcan: Son of Fire All-Star Comics #60 Cover Dated : May / June 1976 Released : 17th Februrary1976 The issues starts with Power Girl and Flash have a race, with Kara pointing out that the Flash is the Fastest Man Alive in a rather cringy scene, even if Power Girl is winning right now. Apparently she's been going stir crazy, has have them all, and wants to be treated as a adult. Seems being kept as a secret by Superman has given her some issues.Wishing for some action has the normal effect as Vulcan, Son of Fire, turns up to fight the group. Meanwhile Green Lantern is having a moment of being part of his secret identity, before Doctor Fate turns up to drag him back to the action. Vulcan meanwhile fights the rest of the group, whilst doing that thing of calling Power Girl a "female", whilst she's kicking his ass for a little balance. He set the place on fire before bailing, though it's unsure why he turned up to just to fight them before bailing. Meanwhi