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All-Star Comics 58 |
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All-Star Comics 58 Modern |
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CGC |
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0058412018
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Owner Comments
I became a fan of Power Girl thanks to Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti. Her run with Palmiotti was so fun and entertaining. This issue is her first appearance.
Kara Zor-L was born on the Earth-Two version of the doomed planet of Krypton just before it was destroyed, and her origin story mirrors those of her famous Kryptonian relatives, Superman and Supergirl. When Kara's father, Zor-L, realized that Krypton was about to explode, he placed his infant daughter on a spaceship and shot it towards Earth. This occurred at the same time that the infant Kal-L (Kara's cousin and the Superman of Earth-Two) had also been launched on a ship towards Earth. However, Kara’s ship traveled far more slowly then Kal-L’s ship, and resulted in Kara arriving on Earth decades later than her cousin. Kara’s ship was called the Symbioship and it was designed to keep her in a stasis mode during her flight to Earth. To ensure that her mental development would keep pace with her physical growth, the ship also provided her with a virtual reality that gave her life experiences and education as if she had grown up on Krypton rather than in stasis. During her long journey through space, she was able to interact with virtual copies of her parents and friends in her home city of Kandor.
When Kara's ship finally arrived on Earth, she was in her early twenties (though in her Modern Age retconned origin, she arrived on Earth at eighteen years of age). She then met her cousin Kal-L, who had grown up on Earth-Two as the heroic Superman. Kal-L, who in this reality had married his longtime sweetheart Lois Lane, adopted Kara so she could have a family and a period of adjustment to life on Earth. Shortly afterward, Kara set forth on Earth-Two to become the heroine known as Power Girl.
Power Girl is the bread and butter for the 'cheesecake art' fan. She has big knockers...I had to say that!
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All-Star Comics 69 |
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All-Star Comics 69 Modern |
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CGC |
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0608301021
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Owner Comments
Picked this up on ebay for $100. I may have overpaid but I felt that a 9.6 for the first app. of the Huntress was a good deal. Although this issue shares the Huntress' first appearance with DC Super Stars 17. Thanks to hitman 1099 for working with me to pick up this issue!
The Huntress first appeared in DC Super Stars #17 (December 1977) and was introduced to the JSA in All-Star Comics #69 (December 1977). Helena Wayne was born in 1957. Due to her parents wealth, Helena was very well educated and became a keen athlete not surprising considering her parents were Batman and Catwoman. She decided to study law and went to work with Cranston and Grayson, Law Firm of her adopted brother, Dick Grayson (Robin). In 1976 Catwoman was blackmailed into becoming a criminal again and later died as a result. Helena created the identity of the Huntress in an effort to catch the man responsible for her mother's death.
Helena became a very successful heroine. She joined the Justice Society of America and later joined Infinity, Inc. Helena struck up a bond with fellow superhero Power Girl (cousin of the Earth 2 Superman) and also the vigilante Blackwing of Earth 2 who protected Gotham in her absence. Earth 1 and 2 had many crossovers and Helena developed a niece-uncle relationship with the Batman of Earth 1. The Batman of Earth 1 helped her cope with the death of her father at the hands of a magically enhanced Bill Jensen in 1979. Helena also had a brief flirtation with Dick Grayson but her main love was Harry Sims a Gotham city district attorney. The romance turned unsuccessful after he found out about her career as the Huntress.
The Huntress also had wide array of peculiar villains such as the original Huntress, Mob boss Stenville, Thinker, Joker, Boa, assassin Karnage, Lionmane and even the Earth 1 version of her mother Catwoman. The Huntress' career was cut tragically short in Crisis on Infinite Earths. She was killed along with her adopted brother Robin while trying to rescue some children. She was then wiped out of existence by the Crisis.
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