Power Girl
Power Girl is a fictional character in the possession of the U.S. entertainment company Time Warner. The character is the main character of a series of comic publications in the Time Warner- owned DC Comics publishing program and has further marketing in a series of merchandising products like action figures, posters and trading cards found.
Publication history
After Power Girl had occurred since 1976 as a recurring figure in the stories about the superhero team the Justice Society of America in the series All Star Comics, the character was created in 1988 for the first time at the center of its own its name supporting publication: From June to September 1988 DC Comics published the four-part mini-series Power Girl. Author of this series, Paul Kupperberg, the drawings were by Rick Hoberg and does the ink drawings by Arne Starr. The title pages of the series were designed by the artist Kerry Gammill Inker Dick Giordano along with.
Since May 2009 DC published an ongoing series entitled Power Girl, which has reached 2011 27 editions until October. As the author of the first editions acted Jimmy Palmiotti, the drawings were from Armanda Conner. Currently, Matt Sturges and Hendry Praesetya the author of the signatory.
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Fictional character biography
Originally, the character Power Girl in the comic book All Star Comics # 58 was introduced in January / February 1976 as a so-called superhero character. Within the developed DC Comics concept of the so-called multiverse their adventures were initially settled on the planet Earth -2, one is located ligands in a parallel universe slightly varied counterpart to Earth -0 (New Earth) on the adventures of the famous DC heroes like Superman and Batman play in their standard versions.
During Superman on Earth -0 (New Earth) in the comics of the 1970s and 1980s, a man in his early thirties was, which was occasionally assisted by his young cousin Supergirl, Superman on Earth -2 is an old man in his sixties, as the earth -2 counterpart to Supergirl Power Girl stands to the side as a cousin and superhero sidekick.
How Supergirl Power Girl has about super strength and the ability to fly under its own power. Unlike Supergirl wearing a variation of the famous Superman costume, Power Girl dresses up in most of their adventures in a white costume with red cape, blue boots and gloves.
How Supergirl Power Girl came in this " classic " version of Superman's home planet Krypton. Before the destruction of the planet it was set by her father as a small child in a rocket and sent to Earth. On Earth, she takes off her Kryptonian name Kara Zor -L and assumes the identity of Karen Starr. At the same time it begins under the code name Power Girl a career as a superhero. Oversees she is doing, because the rocket that brought him to Earth, the planet reached much earlier by her cousin Superman, who is very much older in this version as it as theirs.
As part of the overhaul of the DC Universe in the Maxi series Crisis on Infinite Earths by 1985/1986, the backstory of Power Girl was overhauled. Instead of looking at Earth -2, which had been abolished until further notice, found their adventures from now on instead of on Earth. Instead of aliens from the planet Krypton Power Girl was now a grand-daughter of the sorcerer Arion from the fabled Atlantis.
2006 but this was revised again with the re-introduction of the DC multiverse, so the character in the comic books published since then again a survivor of the planet Krypton is the universe of Earth -2, the pre- crisis period.
As such, it has roughly the same super powers and weaknesses as Superman, however, is immune to the kryptonite of this universe.
Over time, the figure of a member of various superhero teams such as Birds of Prey, Justice League Europe or the Justice Society of America, which has even led by her was.
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- Entry to Power Girl in the DCPedia