A load of Ends!

 I'm sure last week's Who's Who post was a surprise. It definitely was for me, as I've been postponing it, waiting for inspiration on what to say!

So let's end the year with a series of, appropriately enough, endings. We're going to look at the last appearance of that era's Power Girl.

Now I know what you're going to say, apart from Pee Gee from New 52*, is the same character, one of the last surviving characters from the Pre-Crisis universe! But truthfully, there are four distinct eras of the character: Pre-Crisis, Post-Crisis, New 52 and Rebirth. So we'll look for the last appearance, so far, of the various eras of this character. We'll start with the latest for reasons that'll become clear when we get to Pre-Crisis.

Rebirth Era (2016 to present)
This one is easy, Justice League Red #5, published 24th December 2025!

New 52 (2011-2016)
Now we get to the interesting stuff! With Earth-2** still being a thing, this version of Power Girl can turn up at any time. And indeed she has!

The last appearance was DC Power 2024, published 30th January 2024. It's a few panels of the Val-Zod story, which explains the very white Kara appearing in a special for Black History Month. Actually, she appears a lot in such publications, including Milestone 30th (both Power Girls this time) and two issues of The Other History of the DC Universe (original flavour this time around)!

Actually, even if you go to her last full appearance, Earth 2: Society #22 with a publication date of 8th March 2017 is about a year after the rest of the New 52 was dead and buried! 

And then it gets difficult!

Post Crisis (1986-2011)
At first, I thought the last post-crisis Power Girl was also the final appearance of Tanya, but that was six months into DC Rebirth. It's definitely not the New 52 Kara, her comic had, as mentioned above, just finished. So it's the old Pee Gee, but far enough into Rebirth it's kind of too far into the new to be the old one. Actually, Rebirth itself might be the last appearance, or Convergence, which seems an easy answer, really!

Going back to pre 52, then we have Pee Gee butting right up against the changeover, as has been documented, which was a little rushed. The mast published was a JLI retro comic, which just beat out a random crowd scene in Titans #38. They just beat out her own comic, Power Girl #27, which is probably thematically the closest to an actual end.

Pre-Crisis (1975-1986)

Now this is where it gets difficult! Well actually no, it's Justice Society of America #1, a reference to her very first appearance. And as it happens, as it's post Dark Crisis means that it pre-actively breaks the New History of the DC Universe!

But to go back to the Pre-Crisis, as there wasn't a clear break, unless you're Supes or Wonder Woman, it's hard to pin down exactly when things changed over! 

You could go right to the changeover and say Crisis #12, with the sad walk into the Fortress of Solitude. Latest is the Secret Origins #11, where she gets her new (ugh) Atlantian origins. Considering the comic just before was Infinity, Inc #30, which dealt with the loss of the JSA, this isn't a terrible place to end one era and transition to the next.

Final option is Infinity Inc #27, where Fury is made to forget that her mom is Wonder Woman of Earth-2, because only Roy could fix up the Crisis fallout three months after the event had ended!

So there you go, three options of the changeover point, I'm not crazy enough to try and pin it down any further!

Hope everyone is doing well and after all these endings let's start 2026 with a beginning...

*And all Tangent, Bombshells and other elseworlds versions of the character. 
** Earth 2 became Earth-2 with the end of Earth 2 Society