Symbol Pending - A Power Girl Blog

  Be It Ever So Deadly... All-Star Comics #73 Cover Dated:  July / August 1978 Released:  18th April 1978 We open the issue with the story that goes through the entire issue, the two Huntresses fighting each other. As is traditional the heroic Huntress starts out on the back foot, falling for some of the traps evil Huntress has laid down, but after tricking her by setting off a beartrap Helena manages to grapple her evil counterpart into submission. Only for the evil huntress to trick her and throw Helena into a glass cage. I've got to say for how silly the tiger-striped huntress costume is her fringe game is on point! Luckily for Helena Alan is signed up for Power Ring TV and decides to check up on her, right after that point and not a second before, and rushes off to help her out. Garrick and Power Girl apparently bored of waiting for Wildcat to get better rush off, somewhere, to do something that they'll figure out soon enough! We then get more setup for later with Dr ...

A Thorn by Any Other Name All-Star Comics #72 Cover Dated:  May/June 1978 Released:  21st February 1978 No messing around as we get right into the action as the splash page show the JSA at a murder scene filled with exposition. And whilst it might be my imagination but Power Girl seems a lot calmer than we've seen her before, just working alongside everyone peacefully like. It's a little weird as Garrick treats her with kid gloves like she still the old feistier Power Girl when he was there at the event that mellowed her out a little. Doubly weird when they take the time to cover the, obvious, fact that Huntress is now officially part of the team.  It seems that Throne is building a criminal empire in Keystone City and the JSA have been called in to bust it all up, starting with an assault on the Courthouse, a journey that lasts just long enough for us to see the new Hawkman costume before the shadow subplot rumbles along.  The fight with Thorne does not go well what...

 The Deadliest Game in Town All-Star Comics #71 Cover Dated:  March / April 1978 Released:  27th December 1977 This whole story involves one scene of Power Girl, in her symbiotship having another Kryptonian life in Showcase #98. If you somehow missed it you can read it here . This isn't really an issue about the JSA it's a way to introduce Helena Wayne, aka Huntress of Earth-2. It would be easy to skip this one and see how long the new Karen Star lasts, but Huntress is important to Power Girl and they become besties that lasted to the early 21st century. (Not always the other Huntress, but things will get complicated before she shows up.) So it's worth looking at this introduction, and we get some Wildcat as well so a bonus! So we get the three, oh yeah Star-Spangled Kid is here as well, trapped in a baseball stadium surrounded by the bad guy's, Strike Force. They're in a standoff when bold as you like Huntress pulls out her mini crossbow and starts fighting the vil...

The Crater That Was Keystone City Showcase #99 Cover Dated:  March / April 1978 Released: 17th January 1978 We start with a splash page with probably the best image of Power Girl of the three, and that's a static image on a screen! It seems Brain Wave can't find any trace of her, his apparently biggest foe. This is because Power Girl has been busy creating a new identity, Kara is now Karen Star applying for a job at Ultimate Computer Corporation. She's now a software expert, this is computers of the 70's remember, thanks to some time in Wonder Woman's training machine. Personally, this feels like a missed opportunity to have had her picked it up in the VR of the last issue, it seemed that she was already going for a job in the equivalent of the Kryptonian STEM fields. But Karen confirms that the training the ship provided was more or less useless, which really shows an oversight on her father part. Apparently, the owner of the company is willing to take her on no qu...

So I probably should have done this at the start but here are my rules as to what I'm going to cover. Kara has been in a lot of stuff and some of it is basically no more than a cameo, and I might be diligent but I have to y'know do all that pesky RL stuff now and again. So the rules of how I'll cover things is as follows: If it's a book she's in for a good portion then I'll cover it as its own post. If she's in a small portion of the book, but important, I'll combine issues into a single issue. This goes for Crisises, of which she is in many, which I'll cover in broad strokes with a focus on PG If it's a single panel, or just a few, I'll cover it in a post collecting several of these postings when I have enough to share. These are more guidelines than rules. So after Showcase I'll finish the next All-Star Comics, even though Power Girl is just one panel, as my understanding is that Helena and Kara are a major friendship going forwards. Af...

When the Symbioship Strikes Showcase #98 Cover Dated:  March 1978 Released:  15th December 1977 We start with another splash page of ugly Power Girl, one so bad she has a look of dull surprise at the attack by the reporters in the red Power Armour. It takes another few pages before we get the reveal that the armour is actually Power Girls Symbioship, something that I apparently missed any mention before this moments. The fight goes badly before Kara realises that she, and the cops that keep getting in trouble, can't beat the armour directing and instead uses a piece of metal to weigh down the armour to get the reporter out and shut the armour down. At this moment she actually says she learned it from Wildcat and thank him for such things, which is amazing seeing how often the two have ended up fighting in the past. She then leaves the Gotham taking the ship with her, and the reporter who grabs hold of her to get the whole story. It's also strange that in Showcase it shows...

Showcase #97 Cover Date: February 1978  Release Date: 15th November 1977 I don't generally comment on art in general, having no talent for it myself but the opening splash page for this image is terrible its meant to be dynamic and action pack but Power Girls position and face do not make for the best of images. Whilst it's been going back and forwards since All-Star #69 this is where I personally began to notice her scallop top with choker version of the costume. After Wally Wood departure the boob window went straight away, but the collar would fluctuate from the top to the bottom of her neck from panel to panel, which I guess is the reason for the new design. Whilst the boob window is the most iconic version of her costume, this costume is probably the one she wears for the longest, right the way to her new golden number in Justice League Europe #15 in 1990! The art somewhat settles down as Power Girl stops some goons who are stealing micro-transformers for their mysterious ...