The (Power) Girl and her (Wild) Cat, part 2

 The (Power) Girl and her (Wild) Cat, part 2

Previously on JSApril, Power Girl was a jerk to everyone but especially Wild Cat...

Yesterday Begins Today, All-Star Comics #64 (Februray 1977)

So the new thing that's changed is Power Girls costume, though her symbol it seems is still pending as she rejects it with all the tact we've seen before. Issue #64 was when DC editors finally notice that the Boob window has been getting bigger from issue to issue (but not as commonly mentioned the boobs themselves).

Thankfully the very next panel Superman calls her out, telling her that she doesn't have to fight so hard. If it's sunk in we don't find out as we learn that history might be changed if they don't go back in time. And in some malicious compliance,e everyone changes out of costume, including something very risque for medieval times for Power Girl.

But apart from some Wild Cat isn't in this issue, and only appears in the next issue to set up a future plot point, so let's skip ahead and just say we see more of Power Girl and Superman get to work together for an entire issue.

Wild Cat get to play the damsel in #66, with Star Spangled Kid being Pee Gee's punching bag.

The Attack of the Underlord!, All-Star Comics #67 (August 1977)

This issue is all Power Girl's fault! Not only insisting on exploring a strange hole that appears near where they resued Wild Cat, but going as far as knocking Pemberton out for daring to going away from the hole!

Wild Cat is quite subdued as the king of the underworld gets to be the creep for the issue, managing to outclass Pee Gee in the initial struggles. She also gets called out for starting all this when the others come to try and rescue them. But Jay of all people, which tells you how bad things are! Ironically it's Wild Cat who goes to help when Pee Gee tries to sort things out on her own! 

And we actually get to see that she cares when she thinks that Star-Spangled Kid had died, to the point of shedding a tear...

United We Fall!, All-Star Comics #69 (December 1977)

After the lows of #67, Power Girl is very much a team player, defending the team to the point of being lasered when she sasses the Commissioner, one Bruce Wayne. All this so she can come back with a new costume, one she'll wear until they started to mess around with her look in the 90s!

We also get the introduction of her life partner Helena Wayne, and the use of her Kryptonian name, Kara like her Earth-1 counterpart. The beef between Wild Cat and herself has almost evaporated.

With Helena coming along chills Kara out, that and the All-Star coming to an end

And after that Power Girl kind of drifts away from the JSA, first to Infinity Inc. and then to the JLU after Crisis tucked the JSA in Ragnarok. And yes I'm skipping a lot but that is because I want to cover what might be the best couple of issues with Power Girl and Wild Cat, but to do that we need to skip ahead a little, to the far future of the two-thousands...





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