Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

The Doppelganger Gambit Justice League of America #220  Cover Date:   November 1983 Released:   4th August 1983 This is a Black Canary story! No, really there are other scene's with the JLA and JSA but this 20th-anniversary team-up issue is to "fix" Black Canary going forward. I wonder if this was an attempt to move the JLA away from the JSA, what with their comic having been cancelled almost six years before. It would make sense what with they'll decide to do in just three more years! (the shadow of Crisis seems to be following us now!). We start strong with Power Girl rushing off to battle one group of the three teams of villains. before Red Tornado stop her to suggest they split into teams and have a plan of action. She properly miffed as well looking to bust some villains heads, she's also more or less definitely flying here, which makes sense with how long she's been doing this now. Then Sargon turns up and despite being a hero we get probably the most fo...

Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #18 I was never into Who's Who when I was a wee Symbol, though I do for some reason have a complete set of Gamer's Handbook of the Marvel Universe.  (As a quick aside being the weird-ass person I am almost all the Sci-fi and Superhero properties from that era I'm now into I discovered first through RPG's, no relevance but I thought worth mentioning.) But to tease a little I'll reveal why the Who's Who holds a special place for me with the next issue. Still as cute as the art is, and all the surprint images are from the Power Girl mini if you're interested, it's kind of a shame that a solid decade of character growth and change is reduced down to just a couple of paragraphs. Even worse most of the fluff is about her coming to Earth with only the last two paragraphs covering her times as a superhero.  

Crisis in the Thunderbolt Dimension! Justice League of America #219  Cover Date:   October 1983 Released:   7th July 1983 Sometimes the star aligns and things work out perfectly, such as the case here where the last two JLA/JSA team-up happen to fall at the end of 2021. When I picked things back up this year I didn't expect to have such a (near) perfect run of weekly blogs running so long, and even then I didn't know this was the last crossover of the two teams. The inevitable Crisis of Infinite Earths is starting to be a looming presence over the comics, something that I'm sure that people of the time wouldn't have known back in the 80s. Even then I've a good six months or more before we get there. For fairness, there is a much reduced JSA/JLA cross over in '84, with not Power Girl, before we start to transition into JSA Detriot! I also must admit here that it's only at the end of them that I've noticed that these crossovers happened every year for the ...

Death in a Dark Dimension! DC Comics Presents #56 Cover Date:   April 1983 Released:   6th January 1983 Well, this is a cover image that will take a very different meaning in a few years for a different Kara. As seems to be a pattern now Power Girl does it first before the rest of the Super Family! Talking of being a Presents we open with Superman dealing with a show of plasma over Metropolis, as it's his team-up book he gets the splash page in a slightly goofy-looking pose. Catching the plasma balls in his indestructible cloak he shoots up into space to dispose of the dangerous material, all the while being watched by evil-looking eyes... Meanwhile, Power Girl is dealing with a mysterious wormhole sucking energy generated from the Metropolis Power Plant. Showing some smarts she figures it all out and quickly stops the generator from providing the energy being sucked into the hole. Whilst being watched by those mysterious eyes again... We get a repeat of this with Supes fighti...

Let Old Acquaintances Be Forgot... Justice League of America #209 Cover Date:   December 1982 Released:   2nd September 1982 Normally I don't comment on the covers, but I've got to say I love the shock faces on all the floating heads on the cover, except Robotman (and you know maybe Dr Fate) who seems particularly chill about the whole situation. Anyway, for those that skipped All-Star, we get a summary of the events of that comic in about two pages, including a handle chalkboard of who we've got and who's still to be stopped. then we get a quick recap of the whole plan. That's about five pages before we get the story proper.  Then we cut to Geneva Switzerland where Commander Steel, Firestar and our Power Girl, the whole reason I'm here at least, are after the next bunch of missiles. After the local Burgomeister try to stop our heroes, and I'm proud to say I knew it would be a Burgomeister without the text before the baddies just open up on our heroes with a...