Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-36

Rounding up our little trilogy of homage universes we come to Earth-36. Earth-36 is a bit more fleshed out in the proper DC multiverse unlike the previous Earths-34 and 35, but it’s still fairly bare bones. Thankfully, the universe is analogous to Big Bang Comics. Big Bang Comics was a series that was published by Caliber Comics and later Image and the series tried to recapture Golden and Silver age concepts and vibes in their comics. Each issue would be an anthology with a rotating cast of characters like Ultiman, The Knight Watchman, Thunder Girl, and many others. While generally when looking into these characters, their first appearances are often listed as Big Bang #1 but nearly all of these characters have their roots in earlier books. Heck, Dr. Weird dates all the way back to the 60s!

Ultiman (Chris Kelly) is of course the Superman analog for this universe and his daughter, Christine (Ultragirl) Kelly is the Supergirl analogue. Both these characters, along with Youngblood surprisingly, first show up in the very short lived Megaton Comics. Ultragirl gets her origin in issue 1 where we see that she is the daughter of a well known superhero “Ultraman” (this would change to Ultiman in the shift over to Big Bang). Ultraman had been an astronaut exposed to some radiation and, in classic superhero fashion, got super powers instead of dying. Unfortunately for young Christine, her father became addicted to the super-heroics and would have to preform more and more dangerous experiments to recharge his irradiated cells. It was during one of these experiments that Christine came into the room and was flooded with radiation that gave her the same powers as her father and seemingly killed Ultraman. Christine would go on to be a hero as Ultragirl, team up with Megaton, and once making her way over to Big Bang Comics she would be part of a future team called the Pantheon of Heroes.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. This drawing is an homage to Superman #1 and shows Ultragirl flying above a city with her right arm angled down. The top right shows a motif of Ultragirl’s U symbol with a 36 on top of it.