Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Now...Comes Zond!" Part 1

In 1970, writer/artist/editor Mike Sekowsky...

..., who had already made the most radical changes in Wonder Woman history by de-powering Diana Prince, took over the Supergirl strip in Adventure Comics. and immediately shook up the status quo...

Wow, Kara Zor-El just had her butt handed to her, eh?

How does the Girl of Steel make a comeback?

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When did Supergirl previously-demonstrate telepathic abilities?

She didn't before or after Sekowsky's run, but did a couple more times during it!

We always knew Kryptonians were vulnerable to magic, but such "mysticism" was shown to be a rather sanitized version of the concept, more like Arthur C Clarke's "Any sufficiently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" than traditional sorcery.

Suddenly, the wizarding world in DC Comics had gone gothic with covens of hooded figures and other trappings of Satanic worship!

Much of this was due to modifications to the Comics Code Authority's rules, loosening restrictions about monsters, mysticism, and horror in general.

Comics creatives leaped at the opportunity to create new horror-oriented strips like Swamp Thing, Tomb of Dracula, and Monster of Frankenstein, or injecting spooky elements into existing series, with DC being the most radical with their revamping of Challengers of the Unknown from scientific adventurers into a version of GhostBusters!

Sekowsky had already done so in Wonder Woman, and, as part of his "updating" of Supergirl, introduced some of those aspects (which would be expanded on) here!

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Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Heartbreak Prison!" Conclusion

When Last We Left Our Imprisoned Kryptonian...

An unknown, unseen, alien contacts Supergirl across interstellar space, requesting she stop despotic madman Tyrox from unleashing his "Zenith Weapon" which could destroy the universe!
Though she could easily defeat Tyrox's guards. Kara allows herself to be arrested and imprisoned so the lunatic won't activate his weapon as a last resort against her...

Several points...

1) Green Kryptonite can poison and kill Kryptonians under a red sun.

Most of the population of Kara's home, Argo City, died when the lead shielding under the city was ruptured by meteors, exposing the citizens to the ground below the spacegoing domed city...which had become green kryptonite when Krypton exploded!

(Some, including her parents, escaped to the Phantom Zone, and later moved to the bottled city of Kandor!)

2) Tyrox's technology is remarkably-primitive for a culture that created a device capable of destroying the whole universe!

3) We never heard from the "mysterious, unknown intelligence" again.

He/she/it's identity remains unknown.

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Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Heartbreak Prison!" Part 1

When you think of the CW's favorite super-heroine...,,, do you think "women's prison"?

You will, after reading this never-reprinted tale from DC's Adventure Comics #394 (1970)!

This tale of unjust jailing concludes...
THURSDAY!
Truth to tell, these women sound like a bunch of second-raters, except for the one who blew up a rocket (which probably was manned)!

So, it's not exactly Caged Heat or Big Doll House!

Considering the limitations imposed by the Comics Code of America at the time, it's actually not bad for a kid-friendly tale!

One obvious thing, though...who (or what) was the mysterious voice, and why did Kara trust it implicitly?

How did she know it wasn't evil, and simply wanted someone to do his/her's/it's dirty work?

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Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Please Stop My Funeral!"

Ever hear the phrase "She'd be late for her own funeral"?

In the following cover-featured (by Curt Swan and Neal Adams) tale from DC's Adventure Comics #383 (1969), the Girl of Steel is about to, ironically, live it!

Ok, it's a tad convoluted and contrived, but this never-reprinted tale by writer Robert Kanigher, penciler Win Mortimer, and inker Murphy Anderson is the very embodiment of DC's Silver Age output!

It's an impossible situation, yet she easily gets out of it!

Wotta gal!

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Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Supergirl's Greatest Failure!"

Since the idea of summer camp is pretty much kaput for this year...

...we thought it only fair to show you how it used to be...if you were a super-heroine!

Scripted by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger, this never-reprinted tale from DC's Adventure Comics #384 (1969) was typical DC Silver Age fluff.

In 1969, the Supergirl strip moved from the back of Action Comics to take over Adventure Comics (forcing the Legion of Super-Heroes from book-length tales in Adventure into short stories in the back of Action!)

The intention was to give the Girl of Steel book-length adventures, but after only two issues, the title adopted a two-tale per issue format.

Considering how many of those shorts were two-parters which could easily have been full-length stories, the decision seems a bit odd...

Despite the success of the CW TV series about the Maid of Might, DC has never reprinted almost any of this series from #381 to #424, so we're going to correct that with not one but two summer blogathons both here (where we'll present the weirdest stories) and True Love Comics Tales, where we'll show you some of her (rather kinky) romances!

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