Earth-31, formerly known as Earth-494, first showed up in Detective Comics Annual #7 from 1994. The DC Comics annuals from that year were all Elseworlds stories and this story is no different. The story tells a tale of a different sort of Batman, a Captain Leatherwing pirate captain of the Flying Fox. Neither the classic, nor current iterations of this universe have very many appearances but the theme is pretty easy to follow. This is of course the pirate universe.
Mary El is the rebellious niece of Admiral Gar-El who has escaped her cozy rich lifestyle to live the thrills of the pirate life as captain of the ship, Comet. Captain Steel-Skin, so called for her invincible skin, leads her crew of pirates pillaging the 7 seas. While Admiral Gar-El has shown up a couple times since showing up in The Multiversity Guidebook, mostly it is as a cameo. As such, Captain Steel-Skin unfortunately doesn’t actually exist in canon but I feel the idea of a pirate universe consisting of pirate versions of all our favorite DC characters has room to tell lots of stories.
As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Captain Steel-Skin is shown flying above cresting waves pulling her ship Comet behind her. The ship has its sails aloft and a flag at the top showing the crest of the house of El. Captain Steel-Skin has her sword drawn pointing forward as she leads her ship. The top right features a motive of the El Crest with a number 31 on top of it.
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