#the daring new adventures of supergirl

[balu8]

The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1: A Very Strange and Special Girl

by Paul Kupperberg; Carmine Infantino; Bob Oksner; Tom Ziuko and Ben Oda

DC

[helenaheissner]

Top 15 DC comics runs:

15. Icon by Dwayne McDuffie

14. Animal Man by Grant Morrison

13. Justice League Dark by James Tynion

12. Dr. Fate by Paul Levitz

11. Justice League by Scott Snyder

10. Batgirl by Kelly Puckett

9. Green Lantern by Ron Marz

8. Supergirl by Paul Kuppenberg

7. Batgirls by Becky Cloonan & Michael Conrad

6. Shazam by Jerry Ordway

5. Blue Beetle by John Rogers

4. Supergirl by Steve Orlando

3. Batman by Grant Morrison

2. JSA by Geoff Johns

1. Flash by Mark Waid

[bisupergirl]

tamaki's action comics arc is finally fucking over

[mercurysfalling]

“Superman… I can’t believe it. They’re cheering me!” (Action Comics #285)

[righthandedleftturn]

The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl

[comickergirl]

✨ 💫🪐

✨ : What was the first superfam-related media you consumed?

Answered!

💫 : Do you own any superfam comics in physical format?

This is like. A tiiiiny fraction of the books/issues I own. XD But this shelf works best because it's all Supergirl predominantly SuperFam related.

🪐 : Favourite costume

Answered! But honorable mentions include the Daring New Adventures Supergirl costume and the 90s Superboy costume!

[theredcapeofk]

I'm watching Lois and Clark the new adventures of Superman (re runs on tv). It's the episode where Superman's powers get transfered to Lois. I like this episode.

That said I feel SO robbed that we didn't get the same plot in Supergirl. Imagine S6 (without the ridiculous plot with Nixly and the totems), Lena knows the secret and she and Kara have never been closer. But villain of the week comes in and uses an invention that backfires and Lena gets the powers. She has to learn how to control them and she has to become a superhero to help the world while Supergirl can't. So obviously she has to create a secret identity. Brainy is practically jumping up an down when she asks that he makes her a supersuit. Since Lena wasn't wearing glasses her alter ego has to wear a mask.

Lena gets a green and blue suit and she obviously looks fantastic. She gets a lot of attention and a fanclub in the span of a few days. And she uses her newly learned X-ray vision to check Kara out. Friends are allowed to do that, right?

Meanwhile Kara is frustrated that she can't do anything against villain of the week and she puts herself in harm's way. She gets kidnapped. It hurts her pride but she has to call Lena for help. Lena tears the place down because she's so worried about Kara and Kara can't help but feel a bit turned on. The feeling lingers when Lena bridal carries her to the Tower. Lena can't stop rambling because she's still so worried about what happened and who dared to capture Kara. Kara tries to calm her down but to no avail. Finally she has an idea. She takes Lena's mask off and kisses her (just so she can kiss Lena and not her alter ego). Lena has never been silenced more effectively.

They manage to stop villain of the week together and Kara gets back her powers. They celebrate with a kiss as both are in their supersuits and Kara slowly flies off as they kiss

[rogueartistjyn]

Daring New Adventures of Supergirl (1st 2 images) & Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (Last 2 images)

[x5red]

How old was Supergirl when she died in Crisis on Infinite Earths?

It has previously been established that Kara Zor-El was 15 when she crash landed on Earth at 12:17pm on 18th May 1959. But... how old was she when she died in Crisis on Infinite Earths..?

If she was 15 in 1959, then surely she would have been in her early 40s 26 years later in 1985? But a middle-aged Supergirl just doesn't seem right!

In her alter ego as Linda Danvers, Kara had grown up, graduated college, then been employed variously as a camera operator for a news channel, a college counsellor, and a daytime soap actress. She certainly wasn't a 15 year old girl any more, and she didn't look or act like she was approaching middle age, so how old was she..?

Aside from that one issue of Action Comics in 1960 when Kara celebrated a birthday, her exact age had been kept rather ambiguous. Time passes at an odd rate in the DC Universe. While some adult characters seem to never grow a day older, the junior characters are often allowed to slowly age from childhood into early adulthood. By her mid-1970s run in Superman Family, Kara was assumed by most fans to be in her mid 20s. Even though DC Comics had been careful to never verify her exact age, it was a plausible answer given how the character was depicted in her stories.

But that was to suddenly change! Supergirl was re-launched into her own title in 1982, and with it came a substantial change of policy.

The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1 soft-rebooted Supergirl's origin, skipping over her various jobs as Linda Danvers (as if they never happened) and the rediscovery of her Kryptonian parents in the Survival Zone, resetting the character back to being a college student once more. In lieu of a letters page, the first issue featured a two page editorial introducing the new title and its creative team. In sympathy with the soft-reboot, the article's opening paragraphs definitively set Kara's age as just 19 years old!

So, after years of ambiguity, DC was now giving a specific answer -- but it was an answer that seemed to be an odd fit with Supergirl's recent adventures.

Naturally, fans took notice..!

By issues 4 and 5 of DNAOS, letters responding to the new comic were starting to be published. And Kara's sudden re-aging was obviously going to be a topic of discussion. Issue 4 contained a long answer that sought to justify the decision. The driving force behind the move was, it was explained, to ensure Supergirl didn't become too much like her cousin Superman. Having Supergirl be in her mid 20s, and Linda Danvers be a career professional, was just too close to Superman and Clark Kent -- at least that's what DC feared.

Whether fans agreed with the de-aging or not, as of DNAOS #1 Supergirl's official age was 19 according to DC Comics.

So, to return to the original question, how old was Supergirl when when she died in Crisis on Infinite Earths #7..?

There's obviously a near three year gap between November 1982 when the editorial in DNAOS #1 was published, and October 1985 when CoIE #7 was published, but it is very clear that when DC soft-rebooted Kara Zor-El as a 19 year old college student they intended that she shouldn't start to drift once again towards her mid-20s. The plan seemed to be that -- just like her cousin Superman -- Supergirl's age was to be permanently fixed (at least until some later creative team might come along and decided to unfix it.)

With that in mind, we can reasonably conclude that Kara was still 19 years old when she died in Crisis on Infinite Earths #7. As such her whole career as Supergirl, from seeing the destruction of her Argo City home, to crash landing on Earth and becoming Supergirl, to sacrificing herself to save multiple universes, took place in just a four year span..!

That's quite an incredible journey. That's quite an incredible hero..!

[skylarstark4826]

J’onn is an early riser. Fifteen years at the DEO and not late a single day, he has a routine. With the inclusion of Alex, then Kara, the rest of the superfamily, and now M’gann in his life, that routine is regularly interrupted. But for the most part the mornings remain the same, and he likes it that way. (Well. More often than not these days he finds his weekend mornings spent with M’gann, or at brunch with Alex and Kara, instead of tucked away in a DEO training room…but no one needs to know about that.)

He likes watching the sun rise, striking golden rays streaking over the horizon, chasing away the night. He likes how quiet it is in the early morning, before most humans are awake. The constant hum of their thoughts is still there, of course, but it’s far softer than later in the day. He likes taking the time to just be still. Life at the DEO is fast-paced and intense – all thrumming adrenaline and split second, life or death decisions resting squarely, at times heavily, on his shoulders. In the mornings, in (usually, these days) M’gann’s quiet, dawn-tinged apartment, in his own space, he likes to sit and watch the world go by; and, just for a little while, not be responsible for it.

And lately…lately he likes to watch M’gann.

She’s not exactly a peaceful sleeper, and he’s not sure why he expected her to be. Even in sleep she’s restless, hardly ever still, and her face is stiff, brow furrowed and a little frown curving her mouth down. He thinks she looks troubled, though he knows she’s not. But he likes the opportunity to just watch her: the way the bright early morning sun halos her sleeping form, casting dramatic shadows over her features; the way it makes her skin gleam, how her eyelashes flutter and her fingers twitch, and the measured rise and fall of her chest.

Mostly, he likes paying attention to her dreams. Sometimes it’s a nightmare, and on those mornings he wakes her slowly, gently, his hands over her arms, her face, as he coaxes her away from whatever terror is haunting her this time. It’s a traumatic experience for the both of them – his nightmares, too; neither of them are without their scars – and she shakes when she wakes but holds him extra tight all the same.

Most days, though, she dreams whimsical, nonsensical adventures: light-hearted imaginings starring him and their friends and many of the colourful characters she meets at the bar. She dreams frequently, to his surprise and amusement, of dogs. Almost every morning there’s a new furry friend accompanying them, and J’onn never would have guessed, never would have even imagined. But her dreams give him an insight into her thoughts, utterly unguarded, and he’s learning – slowly but surely – of all the things about her person that she dares not share with anyone else.

*

M’gann is not a morning person. Not. At. All. The alien bar is far from the first pub M’gann’s worked in, and she’s long since adapted to a schedule of late nights and subsequent late mornings. And unlike J’onn, M’gann is not a fan of the quiet. With other people’s thoughts buzzing through her mind, it’s far easier to keep her own troubled reflections at bay – her guilt, her regret. For M’gann, nights are easier. Besides, she’s actually quite a sound sleeper, and being forced to wake up with an alarm is pure fucking hell.

With J’onn, it’s not so bad. She usually wakes at some point while he’s getting ready in the morning, still unused to someone else sharing her space. But it’s nice to doze, drifting in and out of sleep, as he moves about her apartment. She’ll wake at the first sound of the shower running, but fall asleep to the repetitive drumming of the water. Then come to again when the kettle whistles because J’onn forgot to take it off the stove in time, or when he stumbles against the side of the couch while getting dressed. J’onn’s thoughts are almost always quiet in the morning; calm and methodical, focused only on his morning routine (or, sweetly, her), and listening to him often soothes her back to sleep.

Sometimes she sleeps through, and it’s only when J’onn drags her blinds open, letting sunlight fill the apartment and hit her face, that she finally wakes. She wants to be mad about it, she does, but it’s hard to hold onto that anger, when she groggily blinks her eyes open and the first thing she sees is one of two things: J’onn watching her, his expression unreadable and his thoughts overwhelming; or, J’onn sitting on her couch, looking serenely out the window, his whole being relaxed in a way he never is at other times of the day. It affords her the opportunity to just watch him, his defences down, utterly at ease in her space, with her.

She rarely actually gets up to join him, snuggly and warm under the blankets as she is. But he meets her gaze and smiles at her, soft, soft, before going back to whatever he was doing. She likes watching him move about her apartment as he prepares for the day; she likes sharing this little part of her existence with him, before the real world – their responsibilities and their realities – comes knocking.

*

M’gann is grumpy as hell when she first wakes up. J’onn finds it both hilarious and incredibly endearing. Her thoughts are usually something along the lines of ‘No. No no no no no. Fuck no.’ and ‘Why, J’onn, why.’ Her words are similarly monosyllabic. She pouts at him, and whines about being awake, and calls him all sorts of creative names for being crazy enough to voluntarily get up so early. And J’onn loves it; endures her moaning with a smile and gentle kiss to her forehead, as he tries not to laugh at her dramatics. Because most of the time M’gann is so reserved, so controlled and subdued, but in this not-yet-awake state, in the privacy of her own space, she lets that tight control relax a little, lets herself just be.

She looks up at him with wide, sleepy, adorable eyes, and she’s extra clingy like this, still half asleep, and it tugs at him. When he’s leaving, and leaning over the bed to say goodbye, she often pulls at his hand instead, wrapping her arms around him in a tight hug. Or, even with her eyes still closed, she’ll angle her head towards him, searching – and how can J’onn resist, how can he resist; taking the time to press feather light kisses over her face; her forehead, her nose, her lips and chin, until her eyes are open and she’s smiling and holding his face and, finally, letting him go.

*

J’onn eats Cocoa Puffs for breakfast. M’gann thinks he is utterly ridiculous. With what she’d known about him, she had expected he’d start his day with something hearty and healthy – muesli, or oatmeal. That first morning at his place, when he’d nonchalantly pulled out the box of sugary children’s cereal, she’d laughed until her sides hurt. But now her kitchen cupboards are lined with all of J’onn’s snacks, and there’s something that twists and tightens in her chest every time she catches sight of that absurd bird on the front of the cereal box.

M’gann isn’t someone who eats breakfast – most of the time she’s not up early enough for it to be worth it. J’onn, however, believes breakfast is essential, even if it is sugar instead of fibre. He is genuinely really affronted that M’gann always skips it, and endeavours to rid her of the habit.

On days when she’s awake enough to sit up by the time he eats, he’ll bring her a bowl as well as his own and join her on the bed. She grumbles, still mostly half asleep, leaning most of her weight against him, swirling her spoon through the milk until she creates brown mush before she starts to eat. (‘Sacrilege,’ J’onn had thought once. Unluckily for him, M’gann had heard, and now she mostly just does it to frustrate him, because she thinks it’s funny watching him try not to get worked up over something as trivial as cereal etiquette…and because she’s a brat in the mornings.)

The days when she’s just a M’gann-shaped lump in bed, blankets pulled up over her head to block out the light, he fills a bowl and leaves it on the kitchen counter, often even accompanied by a sweet little note, for her when she eventually gets up. M’gann would just leave it, because she’s just a little bit petty sometimes, but she finds the gesture so incredibly, overwhelmingly sweet that she always ends up doing what he wants anyway.

*

Some weekend mornings, when J’onn makes to get up and get ready for work far too early for her liking, M’gann grabs at his shirt, or his shoulder, or his arm. Barely awake, with her eyes still closed, she tells him, ‘Stay,’ and pulls him back down to bed. It’s only on days when she knows it’s been a tough week, or a long night; on days she knows he’s not actually needed at the DEO; on days when she knows that what he really needs is a break, some rest. On those days, she’ll roll over on top of him, pinning him down and forcing him to stay – ‘Checkmate, J’onn.’ – as she swiftly falls back to sleep with her face tucked into his neck and her legs tangled with his.

J’onn rarely sleeps again, but he’s more than content to lie there with M’gann’s warm weight against him, relishing the intimate physical contact, the likes of which he hasn’t had in so many hundreds of years. He soothes his fingers up and down her sleep-warmed spine and listens to her heavy breathing, her quiet heartbeat.

When he grows restless for his regular morning routine, he wriggles out from under M’gann to put both the kettle and the coffee pot on. J’onn is a tea drinker, can’t stand the taste of coffee, but M’gann is addicted. Breakfast may not be important to her, but coffee sure as hell is. J’onn has figured out that the best way to rouse M’gann in the morning is a steaming cup of coffee. (Though even that only works once the sun is ‘officially up’ as she calls it, and he has to try very hard not to laugh at the serious expression on her face.)

So J’onn makes his tea and her coffee, and takes his usual spot on the couch by the window. Relaxing into pillows that smell of M’gann, he watches the traffic moving below him, sips his tea, and listens to M’gann’s grumbling thoughts. Eventually the smell of coffee lures her out from under the blankets and to J’onn’s side. With her mug cradled in her palms, she curls into him, her shoulder against his chest, her legs hanging over the side of his lap and her forehead against his collarbone.

It always takes her awhile to wake fully. M’gann, half asleep and not yet completely cognisant, is so much freer, so much more at ease, than usual. There’s a moment, and if J’onn pays enough attention to her thoughts he can pinpoint the exact second, when she wakes enough to remember– to remember Mars, and the war, and all the dead bodies she’s seen, and the guilt she still carries for her part in it. Holding her, he feels the change go through her physically, a subtle stiffening in her muscles and the way she sighs. Mentally, it’s almost like a cloak settling over her, like night coming far too early. Suddenly, her existence is heavier. J’onn has known sadness intimately, known grief and guilt and regret. But the way M’gann feels it…it’s something else. It’s been better, he knows, since his forgiveness, his friendship, but this is a burden he’s sure she will carry with her forever, no matter how he wishes she wouldn’t.

As it is there isn’t anything he can do, isn’t anything he can say. But when she sighs and starts to pull away, what he can do is hold her tighter, press a kiss to her temple and then his forehead to hers. He can’t fix it, but he can soothe the sharpness of her reality just a little bit, just a little bit. And she grips his shirt in her fists and breathes into his chest, and her body softens slightly against his, and it doesn’t solve everything, it doesn’t suddenly absolve her guilt, but god is it so much more than she ever thought she deserved.

The morning’s sun slowly fills the apartment, spilling over their skin. For years J’onn has gone about his routines alone, and he’s been okay with that. But now there is M’gann, solid and so very warm against him, sleepy but smiling anyway as she links their free hands together… Now there is M’gann, sharing it all with him.

[wonderbutch]

Hello, I have a question. How can you read Supergirl's comics and is it free or do I have to pay for it??

FANTASTIC QUESTION IM GLAD YOU ASKED so the website i use is readomicsonline.com! super easy to use!

id start like this, PRE CRISIS supergirl: silver age omnibus supergirl silver age omnibus v2 daring new adventures of supergirl v1 daring new adventures of supergirl v2

POST CRISIS (new earth) batman/superman: supergirl Supergirl v5 (2005) (after issue 5, read infinite crisis) after infinite crisis, read supergirl and the legion of superheroes! and after that, you can just keep reading through the book via readcomicsonline! NEW 52 + REBIRTH supergirl v6 supergirl v7 supergirl: woman of tomorrow action comics 1050 onwards! hope this helps!!!

[balu8]

The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #2: Lois Lane-The Bogie-Man Will Getcha

by Tamsyn O'Flynn; Bob Oksner; Tom Ziuko and Phil Felix

DC

[helenaheissner]

I need this to become a meme.

[walkingatombomb]

Comic Stuff #3

July 6, 2024

Dud Edition, Part One

Protectors #2 (1992, Malibu Comics)

I know I wrote that I would never read another Malibu comic book but here I am. This issue introduces the uninteresting characters that will form the team. The art isn’t terrible but it’s not good, either. The writing is pretty bad.

My Rating: 3 (for being lousy but not dreadful)

The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl Vol. 2, #9 (1983, DC)

The Maid of Steel battles Reactron, a villain that emits deadly radiation. Supergirl is immune to most of his attacks but it takes the Doom Patrol to help corral him. The art by Carmine Infantino is not to my liking but it’s serviceable. The back-up tale starring Lois Lane is terrible and I just couldn’t stomach finishing reading it.

My Rating: 2 (but should be “incomplete” since I didn’t finish reading it)

MERC Broken World #2 (2010, Zenescope)

Merc is sent to pick up a courier but the mission goes awry and the cops go after them both. The chase takes them deep underground. Art and story are bad, even for Zenoscope standards.

My Rating: 3 (at least I finished reading it.)

What have you read lately?

[nikrei]

February Comics Round-Up

Once again for my own edification: what I read this month re:DC.

Flash 306-350 (1982-1985)

Still love this but I will say it again: the ending felt mean-spirited towards Barry, just heaping on the problems and bullshit till they chased him out of his own time. It felt like someone in the editorial just didn't like Barry.

JLA 187-223 (1980-1984)

Still going strong but still a big ensemble which makes it a slower read for me. They're still doing the wierd 'Diana and Barry don't get along' thing. My faves are still 100% red tornado and elongated man.

Daring New Adventures of Supergirl 1-23 (1982-1984)

A lot of fun!! Ended rather abruptly (did it get canceled? Yeh just checked it got canceled) which is a shame, I wanted to know what Kara's conductor boyfriend was up to (guy was getting very sus towards the end). It really benefitted compared to the 70s supergirl for having the same author throughout. Deffo recommend this one even if u know fuck all about the superfam like me.

(Not nearly so much as January but I discovered that sadly u cannot draw and read comics at the same time, which seems like something they should fix in the next patch idk)

[nikrei]

My girl Kara has got it!!

(Daring New Adventures of Supergirl 18)

(DNA of Supergirl 22)

(DNA of Supergirl 23)

Why do they deserve to win?

Supergirl

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