Power girl
Power Girl is a superhero character from Time Warner- owned DC Comics . The character is the main character in a number of comic book publications and has also found marketing in a number of merchandising products including action figures, posters, and trading cards.
Publication history
After Power Girl had appeared as a recurring character in the stories about the superhero team of the Justice Society of America in the series All Star Comics since 1976 , the character was first placed at the center of a separate publication bearing her name in 1988: From June to On September 1988, DC Comics published the four-part miniseries Power Girl . The author of this series was Paul Kupperberg , the drawings were done by Rick Hoberg and the ink drawings by Arne Starr. The title pages of the series were designed by the draftsman Kerry Gammill together with the inker Dick Giordano .
As of May 2009, DC released an ongoing series under the title Power Girl , which by October 2011 reached 27 issues. Jimmy Palmiotti was the author of the first editions , the drawings were by Armanda Conner . Currently Mattes Sturges is the author and Hendry Praesetya is the draftsman.
Fictional character biography
The character Power Girl was originally introduced as a superhero character in the comic book All Star Comics # 58 from January / February 1976. Within the concept of the so-called multiverse developed by DC Comics, their adventures were initially set on Earth-2 , a slightly varied counterpart to Earth-1 in a parallel universe on which the adventures of most of the well-known DC heroes such as Superman and Batman in play their standard versions.
While the Superman on Earth-1 ( Kal-El ) in the comics of the 1970s and 1980s was a man in his early thirties who was occasionally supported by his teenage cousin Supergirl , the Superman on Earth-2 ( Kal-L ) was an old man in his sixties who, as Earth-2 counterpart to Supergirl Power Girl, stood by as a cousin and superhero sidekick .
Like Supergirl, this "classic version" of Power Girl came from Superman's home planet Krypton . Before the planet was destroyed, she was put on a rocket by her father as a toddler and sent to Earth. On Earth, she dropped her Kryptonian name Kara Zor-L and assumed the identity of Karen Starr . At the same time she began a career as a superhero under the code name Power Girl . She was supervised by her cousin Superman, who in this version is much older than her, as the rocket that brought him to earth reached the planet much earlier than hers.
Like all Kryptonians, Power Girl has super strength and the ability to fly on her own. In contrast to Supergirl who wears a variation of the famous Superman costume, Power Girl dresses in a white costume with a red cape, blue boots and gloves for most of her adventures.
In the course of the general overhaul of the DC Universe in the twelve-part series Crisis on Infinite Earths from 1985/1986, the background story of Power Girl was also completely overhauled. Instead of Earth-2, which had been abolished for the time being, their adventures took place on the one remaining Earth. Instead of an alien from the planet Krypton, Power Girl was now a granddaughter of the wizard Arion from the legendary Atlantis .
In 2006, however, this was revised again with the reintroduction of the DC multiverse , so that the character in the comics that have appeared since then is once again a survivor of the planet Krypton of the universe of Earth-2 of the pre-crisis period.
As such, it has roughly the same superpowers and weaknesses as Superman, but is immune to the kryptonite of this universe.
Over time, the character became a member of various superhero teams such as Birds of Prey , Justice League Europe or Justice Society of America , which she even led.
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literature
- Beatty Scott et al. a .: The DC Comics Encyclopedia . 1st edition. Panini Verlags GmbH, Stuttgart 2005, p. 244 (Power Girl)