she’s the girl of Steel
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origins of
Kara zor-el otherwise known as Supergirl
her name is Kara zor-el from Krypton
she’s my cousin
your cousin just torched $50,000 worth
of custom hardware send me the bill on a
reporter’s salary right
as with most comic book characters there
are often reimagining and different
versions to a character’s past we have
chosen to primarily follow the storyline
which unfolded in 1958 Superman number
123 which was then expanded upon in 1959
s Action Comics number 252 and 1985 s
crisis on Infinite Earths number 7 while
many fans will recognize the female
counterpart to Superman as his cousin
Kara zor-el she was not the first to
donned the costume this was in fact a
different unrelated and short-lived
Supergirl she appeared after Superman
was rewarded with a Native American
relic after saving an archaeologist
giving it to his pal Jimmy Olsen
Jimmy soon discovered that the totem had
granted him three wishes all of which
could be undone by rubbing the totem
stone ever grateful to Superman
he used his first wish to create a
female companion for Superman with all
of the very same superpowers
zapping into existence this new
Supergirl sought out the Man of Steel
and explained how she had been created
by Jimmy to be his lifelong partner soon
enough supergirls infatuation caused her
to uncover Superman’s secret identity as
Clark Kent which she inadvertently
revealed to Lois Lane angry and annoyed
Superman asked her to take some time out
from helping him unwilling to leave him
alone
Supergirl watched him and saved his life
by intercepting kryptonite used by
criminals weakened by her exposure to
the toxic substance she used her
remaining strength to crawl to Jimmy
Olsen’s home where she asked him to undo
his wish professing her final love for
Superman
she was blinked out of existence rather
than be allowed to die of Kryptonite
poisoning the next year the Supergirl
identity was completely rebooted this
time she was made to have been a fellow
Kryptonian survivor who like Superman
had arrived on earth in a spaceship
after the
was destroyed kara had survived the
plants destruction since the section of
Krypton where she lived had broken
cleanly away from the planets to breathe
while Kara and a number of her fellow
Kryptonians had survived the ground had
transformed into harmful kryptonite
forcing the inhabitants to cover it in
lead when Kara had finally reached her
teenage years a meteor strike caused the
shielding that protected her home to
fail this prompted her scientists father
to create a rocket in hopes of sending
her to another world before the
atmosphere became completely lethal
while looking for a suitable planet
through a telescope Tara’s mother
spotted Superman on earth and learned
that he was Kryptonian as well with a
matching costume Kara was sent off to
earth while the rest of her doomed
community perished after meeting
Superman on earth the to Kryptonians
discovered that they were in fact
cousins since their respective fathers
jor-el and zor-el had been brothers
jor-el and jor-el are brothers then that
makes us cousins jor-el never mentioned
your dad he and his brother never talked
rather than take her home with him
Superman dressed Kara in earth clothes
and a pigtail wig and took her to an
orphanage in the town of Midvale living
under the earth name Linda Lee she was
instructed to keep a low profile and to
learn to live as an ordinary earth girl
until she was ready for greater things
quickly tiring of keeping her powers
hidden she began going on secret patrols
at night acting as the town’s guardian
angel
eventually future issues did feature
Supergirl helping Superman on a regular
basis the character was also given a
badly received live-action film in which
she was shown to have travelled to earth
to retrieve the missing power source
from a which I am car of Argo City
daughter of Alura and zor-el and I don’t
scare easily following this the comics
quickly had her sacrifice herself to
save Superman during the crisis on
Infinite Earths series resulting in a
new continuity in which she didn’t exist
over time several new non Kryptonian
super girls have been created although
Kara zor-el did return to the franchise
in 2002 that reboot paved the way for
several animated appearances and a role
Smallville this naturally tweaked her
backstory again this time explaining
that she had been sent to earth to watch
over kal-el until you reach maturity but
had arrived late due to an error in
rocket trajectory and speed regardless
of which backstory or continuity you
follow Supergirl remains a comic-book
favorite and a prominent super heroine
are you a fan of the little blue
schoolgirl for more in-depth looks into
the origins of your favorite comic book
characters be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
will explore the comic book origins of
Kara zor-el otherwise known as Supergirl
her name is Kara zor-el from Krypton
she’s my cousin
your cousin just torched $50,000 worth
of custom hardware send me the bill on a
reporter’s salary right
as with most comic book characters there
are often reimagining and different
versions to a character’s past we have
chosen to primarily follow the storyline
which unfolded in 1958 Superman number
123 which was then expanded upon in 1959
s Action Comics number 252 and 1985 s
crisis on Infinite Earths number 7 while
many fans will recognize the female
counterpart to Superman as his cousin
Kara zor-el she was not the first to
donned the costume this was in fact a
different unrelated and short-lived
Supergirl she appeared after Superman
was rewarded with a Native American
relic after saving an archaeologist
giving it to his pal Jimmy Olsen
Jimmy soon discovered that the totem had
granted him three wishes all of which
could be undone by rubbing the totem
stone ever grateful to Superman
he used his first wish to create a
female companion for Superman with all
of the very same superpowers
zapping into existence this new
Supergirl sought out the Man of Steel
and explained how she had been created
by Jimmy to be his lifelong partner soon
enough supergirls infatuation caused her
to uncover Superman’s secret identity as
Clark Kent which she inadvertently
revealed to Lois Lane angry and annoyed
Superman asked her to take some time out
from helping him unwilling to leave him
alone
Supergirl watched him and saved his life
by intercepting kryptonite used by
criminals weakened by her exposure to
the toxic substance she used her
remaining strength to crawl to Jimmy
Olsen’s home where she asked him to undo
his wish professing her final love for
Superman
she was blinked out of existence rather
than be allowed to die of Kryptonite
poisoning the next year the Supergirl
identity was completely rebooted this
time she was made to have been a fellow
Kryptonian survivor who like Superman
had arrived on earth in a spaceship
after the
was destroyed kara had survived the
plants destruction since the section of
Krypton where she lived had broken
cleanly away from the planets to breathe
while Kara and a number of her fellow
Kryptonians had survived the ground had
transformed into harmful kryptonite
forcing the inhabitants to cover it in
lead when Kara had finally reached her
teenage years a meteor strike caused the
shielding that protected her home to
fail this prompted her scientists father
to create a rocket in hopes of sending
her to another world before the
atmosphere became completely lethal
while looking for a suitable planet
through a telescope Tara’s mother
spotted Superman on earth and learned
that he was Kryptonian as well with a
matching costume Kara was sent off to
earth while the rest of her doomed
community perished after meeting
Superman on earth the to Kryptonians
discovered that they were in fact
cousins since their respective fathers
jor-el and zor-el had been brothers
jor-el and jor-el are brothers then that
makes us cousins jor-el never mentioned
your dad he and his brother never talked
rather than take her home with him
Superman dressed Kara in earth clothes
and a pigtail wig and took her to an
orphanage in the town of Midvale living
under the earth name Linda Lee she was
instructed to keep a low profile and to
learn to live as an ordinary earth girl
until she was ready for greater things
quickly tiring of keeping her powers
hidden she began going on secret patrols
at night acting as the town’s guardian
angel
eventually future issues did feature
Supergirl helping Superman on a regular
basis the character was also given a
badly received live-action film in which
she was shown to have travelled to earth
to retrieve the missing power source
from a which I am car of Argo City
daughter of Alura and zor-el and I don’t
scare easily following this the comics
quickly had her sacrifice herself to
save Superman during the crisis on
Infinite Earths series resulting in a
new continuity in which she didn’t exist
over time several new non Kryptonian
super girls have been created although
Kara zor-el did return to the franchise
in 2002 that reboot paved the way for
several animated appearances and a role
Smallville this naturally tweaked her
backstory again this time explaining
that she had been sent to earth to watch
over kal-el until you reach maturity but
had arrived late due to an error in
rocket trajectory and speed regardless
of which backstory or continuity you
follow Supergirl remains a comic-book
favorite and a prominent super heroine
are you a fan of the little blue
schoolgirl for more in-depth looks into
the origins of your favorite comic book
characters be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
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