Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-42

The events of Superman/Batman #51-51 feature a collection of small heroes with large heads called “Little Leaguers”. This concept would be revisited for the Multiverse in the New 52 as Earth-42. The universe features characters that are small in stature with exagerated features and large heads and in a word are very cute. These heroes have an almost cartoon quality to them and even mention as such when they’re stuck on Earth-0, although they also have some similarities to the imps from the 5th dimension. Along with the cute look of the Little Leaguers, they also have alternate backstories to those of the heroes we know and love. Batman for instance, took up the cape and cowl in order to bring justice to Gotham after witnessing his parents get pushed over and Superman has been rocketed to Earth to save him from the rain that has covered Krypton. It can be assumed that all the heroes of this universe have similarly altered origin stories that remove any sort of major tragedy.

Supergirl does show up in the aforementioned Little Leaguers story, however her origin isn’t revealed. From Superman’s origin, we do know that Krypton suffered a terrible catastrophe of never ending rain. It is safe to say that similar to his brother, Zor-El may have also wanted to save those close to him. Perhaps he would’ve encased the entire city of Argo under a protective bubble that saves them from the ongoing rainstorms around them. And while Zor-El and his wife Alura settle into their new dome life they have a daughter named Kara. The family lives together for many years until suddenly the rain threatens the city. Zor-El gets to work on getting the city into the Survival Zone, but doesn’t want to risk his daughter and uses the same rocket design his brother used many years before to rocket Kara to earth to become Supergirl.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. This drawing depicts the Fortress of Solitude from Earth-43 with the Supergirl of this universe joyusly flying through it. In the background we can see common trophies from the Fortress including the bottle city of Kandor, the Titanic, a piece of Kryptonite, and Superman’s Rocket. The top right features a motif with Supergirl-42’s S symbol with a 42 on top of it.