The Secret of Atlantis

     Post Crisis with Krypton radically changed and the Earth-2 Superman
having never existed Power Girl found herself an anomaly.  Now it wasn't just
her Symbio Ship memories that were false, her entire Pre-Crisis personal
history had never happened.  Yet the ship was still around too and in Secret
Origins 11 (February '87) we found out why.  In this story by Paul Kupperberg
it turned out she was actually the granddaughter of the star of the writer's
mid eighties fantasy series Arion, Lord of Atlantis.  To make a convoluted
story short she was really a temporally displaced ancient Atlantean and her
powers were magically derived rather than from Kryptonian genetics.
     At least that was the story.  Sometime after this her powers increased
significantly but that didn't prevent her from suffering massive internal
injuries at the hands of the Grey Man in Justice League Europe 8 (Nov. '89).
With her nigh invulnerable skin they needed Superman's heat vision in order
to be able to operate in the following issue.  Pity the artist didn't include
a few straps to hold her in place or this would make a first rate cover for
taking out of context.




     Kara survived the operation though as the surgeon spotted a lot of alien
organs during the surgery I suspect she's no longer Atlantean and has become
something else.  Regardless as a side effect of the surgery she was cut back
to her original Earth-2 Kryptonian powerlevel rather than being an Earth-1
Kryptonian equivalent.  If that's still true I don't know.  The last time I
saw her was during the Body Doubles miniseries.  The title characters were
hunting down heroines to feed to the extraterrestrial overlord Mystress in
exchange for not destroying Earth and letting them live.  They took on Kara in
the third issue (Dec. 1999) which completely blew the chance offered by a
Power Girl cover on a heroine hunters comic.  Sigh.  Anyway here's what we
had to settle for on the inside.
     Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning, writers Joe Phillips & Jasen Rodiguez, artists








     Needless to say everything turned out okay in the fourth and final issue
and Kara got back to whatever it is she does these days.  She did have her own
software company but if that's still up and running in today's economy is
questionable.  Regardless that's all I have for now.  If I come across
anything else it'll be added at a later date.
     Before you goes here's a bonus picture supplied by Bill Kropfhauser from
All Star 65.  Wally Wood supplies the art as Vandal Savage abducted Kara and
her cousin to his artificial "World with the Kryptonite Suns" as part of his
scheme to use Superman's life to restore his lost immortality.




Fortunately the Star Spangled Kid managed to save both Kryptonians in these
days before his own untimely demise in Infinity Inc.  This group was
supposed to be the JSA's successor but they're long gone and the JSA is back
and more popular than ever.  What goes around ...


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