Countdown to Halloween 2020 ADVENTURE COMICS: SUPERGIRL "All Men are But Slaves!" Part 1

As I mentioned before, until the early-1970s, DC tended to treat "magic" as merely unexplained science...

...which, considering this story, which came after the gothic Supergirl tales we presented HERE and HERE, almost like a "throwback" to an earlier era!

To Be Concluded...

TOMORROW!

Written by Steve Skeates and illustrated by Bob Oksner, this never-reprinted feature from DC's Adventure Comics #417 (1972) is almost a perfect counterpoint to another never-reprinted Supergirl story we presented HERE!

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Countdown to Halloween 2020 ADVENTURE COMICS: SUPERGIRL "I Am a Witch!"

We Have Already Seen...

...this Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson cover featuring a scene from yesterday's tale, which makes sense because it's the cover from the previous issue!
(This second part from DC's Adventure Comics #396 [1970] wasn't cover-featured!)
Now, let's allow writer Robert Kanigher and artist Kurt Schaffenberger explain what happened...and note one very important plot point from the previous chapter that they leave out!

One of the major plot points at the end of the previous story...

...was the fact Amos Ameswell knew Supergirl's secret identity!

Yet he seems to have forgotten it between issues!

Now she's hauling him off to prison...where he could've used it as a bargaining chip for safety from other inmates...

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Countdown to Halloween 2020 ADVENTURE COMICS: SUPERGIRL "Heroine in the Haunted House!"

 Last week, you saw a classic Gothic tale involving a beautiful woman in a haunted mansion...
...now see how DC did it only a couple of years earlier, during the Silver Age!

To be concluded...

TOMORROW

During the Silver Age, DC considered "magic" to basically be as-yet unexplained (or, in this case, deliberately-masked) science or technology!

As Arthur C Clarke said: "Any sufficently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic!
Writer Robert Kahniger and illustrator Kurt Schaffenberger followed the concept to the letter in this never-reprinted tale from DC's Adventure Comics #395 (1970)!

Oddly, Schaffenberger began his career drawing Fawcett's magic-based Captain Marvel and Family!
(He would later return to them when DC acquired the rights from Fawcett Publishing!)

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Countdown to Halloween 2020 ADVENTURE COMICS: SUPERGIRL "Face in the Window" Conclusion

 When Last We Left the CW's Favorite Heroine...

...she had seen a figure in the window of an allegedly-haunted house, yet her fellow tv-crew co-workers (and their cameras) didn't!

Followed by "Nasty", Lex Luthor's niece and busybody attempting to prove Linda Danvers is also the Girl of Steel so her uncle will have reason to kill her, Kara Zor-El investigates...

Written, penciled, and edited by Mike Sekowsky, with inking by Henry Scarpelli, this never-reprinted story from DC's Adventure Comics #408 (1971) is a classic gothic tale.

Countdown to Halloween 2020 ADVENTURE COMICS: SUPERGIRL "Face in the Window" Part 1

In the early 1970s, gothic romance became a major literary genre...

...so female-oriented comics like romance and super-heroine titles found ways to implement the concept!

See the Chilling Conclusion...

TOMORROW!

Writer/artist/editor Mike Sekowsky had already done a couple of gothic/horror storylines in his other superheroine title (Wonder Woman), so it's not surprising he'd do the same thing here!
Inked by Henry Scarpelli, this never-reprinted tale is not unlike Sekowsky's own gothic romance book-length tale HERE!

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