Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-39

Earth-39 is home to the Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R., DC’s legally distinct version of the Wally Wood creation; T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents. This team of agents works for the Higher United Nations tasked with handling the extra-normal and any other threats too strange for anyone else to handle. The main thing that sets this team apart from others is their powers not only come from their gear, but this gear is also unfortunately has a flaw that causes the users to die after prolonged usage. Similar to some of the last few universes we’ve covered (34, 35, and 36) the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents have bounced around between a handful of publishers with DC getting volumes 3 and 4 of the series. Tower and JC Comics had the first couple runs and IDW picked it up after DC. Neither the title nor the characters have shown up in about a decade (I think) so I’m unsure who currently has the rights but the concept of heroes that can die using their powers and then new heroes being able to take up the gear and carry on the legacy is a fascinating concept that I could see having interesting potential.

This universe doesn’t have a clearly defined Supergirl, which we’ve seen a few times so far, but it does seem that Dynamo is the prominent hero and the Superman analogue. NoMan could also potentially be the Superman figure with his similarities to Doctor Manhattan (although it should be stated that NoMan came first) but I read both those figures much more like The Martian Manhunter. With the legacy aspect of these characters and how their powers are passed, it would be very interesting to see a female Dynamo and that would be a clear Supergirl analogue. We did see a similar thing happen when a female Raven took over in the 4th volume of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, but as of yet we haven’t gotten a girl Dynamo. What we do get however is Colleen Franklin who is a field leader for the current team (think Rick Flagg on the Suicide Squad). This alone doesn’t get her into the ranks of Supergirls, but her parentage is revealed throughout her story and we find out her father was Leonard Brown, the original Dynamo who settled down with a reformed Iron Maiden who he fought against with the rest of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Colleen Franklin is standing in the foreground in a standard T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agent uniform holding a gun. Behind her are her parents Dynamo and Iron Maiden. The top right corner has a motif of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents thunderbolt with a 39 on top of it.