Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

The Master Plan of Vandal Savage All-Star Comics #65 Cover Dated:  March / April 1977  Released:  30th December 1976 It all starts so well Kara and her cousin explore what looks like future Earth. They work as a team and begin to figure out whats is going on as they try to track down Vandal Savage in this futuristic city. She even suspects the weird bald man, because Supes doesn't deal with enough of those, of being suspect before they're trapped by Kryptonian draining device #52. Luckily Savage is intelligence but not experience so like any good superhero our two heroes just crash through the wall. Though the spheres are of Anti-matter from another dimension, something that won't be relevant until another ten years or so... More or less straight after that Kara is zapped by the giant floating head of Vandal Savage and strapped to life draining machines part of his plan to regain his immortality. And that's more or less it for Power Girl in this issue so that all everyo...

Yesterday Begins Today! All-Star Comics #64 Cover Dated:  January / February 1977 Released:  21st October 1976 So now is the time we talk about the boob story! As the story goes the artist Wally Wood increased the size of Power Girls breasts seeing how long it was before DC told him to stop it. A good basic summary can be found  here  and here , and its a good Youtube channel in general. And as they spend a good page pointing out she's closed off her boob window its probably a sign that something was said about them about her costume. It's also probably the first time it's bought up about her not having a symbol, in that classic grumpy Kara way. It's also Star Spangled Kid so I can claim a synergy with the new Star Girl series, maybe we'll eventually get Power Girl in the series! (yeah I know but I can dream) Its also a point were it seems that even Kara figures she's gone to far when after dissing Starey Supers of all people just says proved herself and just le...

The Death of Doctor Fate All-Star Comics #63 Cover Dated:  November / December 1976 Released:  24th August 1976 A lot happening here in our little All Star Soap, and very little of it is about Power Girl, but lets try and give a little summary. Fiddler has Wildcat beat up Hawkman, its looks like Ted was an early adopter of MMA as he thinks he's in the ring and I'm pretty sure a choke hold isn't allowed in boxing. When the fight over he regains some of senses he has to fight Grundy who's in full Grundy smash mode. Until in a Deus ex Kryptonian we get the first appearance of Kara, and Clark, who literally pick up Grundy and throw him into a handy nearby volcano. Guess the sun was to far to throw him today! Meanwhile Dr Fate apparently breathes his last whist the rest of the team try to find a way to help him. Until the big bad does a things, that causes something to happen and he wakes up - because Magic! Then this unbeatable big bad goes back into storage, becaus...

To prove my point I like to explore many different forms of media and on a whim, I checked out DC Super Hero Girls which happens to be on ours (UK) version of Netflix. First it's both very short, episodes are around 11 minutes, and secondly its very funny. It's also packed with references to the comic and other classic DC show, as well as various places named after artist and writers it also had call back including the famous Batman '66 movie line "Somedays you just can't get rid of a bomb." So you are saying why mention this on a Power Girl blog, apart from it's good and you should watch it obviously. Well whilst the Kara in the show is Supergirl, and dressed much like 90's Superboy, she's got a brusk personality very much like Power Girl. And this was my thought from the very first episode, and I did wander if it was deliberate or just a need to fill out the six (wo)man band. And wouldn't you know it the series actually addresses it...

When Fall the Mighty All-Star Comics #62 Cover Dated:  September / October 1976 Released:  24th June 1976 Bickering, oh so much bickering! This is one of those middle stories with all the various plots being juggled and the ball all still being in the air. Doctor Fate is lying dying, whilst Zanadu has awoken from amber and is holding Shiera whilst draining all of Tokyo of life. Oh and an 11th-hour appearance, possibly, of an Injustice Society Wildcat. Power Girl spends most of the issue bickering with people, either Wildcat or Superman, oh yeah Superman is in this one, basically the same old tune about being underappreciated. Look I'm obviously a big Kara fan but even I at this point have to admit it's getting a bit too much. With all this is a general malaise among the older heroes, Hourman turning up just for reason, about how it's just not the same being a superhero as it was back in the (Goldern) old days. And with the general soupiness of the whole thing ...

So with the Arrowverse Crisis between episodes it seems to be a good time to talk about one of the weirdest fact about Power Girl and Crisis, she might be the one character that’s survived from them all to the almost present day. Let me explain. Power Girl original started on Earth-2 but around 1985 DC decided that they wanted to simplify a multiverse and so we’ve got Crisis on Infinite Earths., as I’m sure everyone reading is aware. The upshot was that we were Kara short and Power Girl was part of the New Earth. Everyone was rebooted, except Batman because he’s Batman, and because as for some reason you couldn’t have both a Last Son and Daughter of Krypton Kara became an Atlantean. And as stupid as that was that would have been that, but DC wasn’t done having Crisises. Infinite Crisis not only sensibly gave her back her Earth-2 origin it also killed off the last remaining pre-Crisis heroes meaning that she was the last hero from the original universe. And before anyon...

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...