Supergirl in the Multiverse: Earth-496 American Girl

The Amalgam Universe was born from the cross dimensional being known as Access during the pages of Marvel vs. DC back in 1996. This birthed a total of 24 one-shot comics spread across 2 waves that showed stories of characters that were amalgamations of characters from the DC and Marvel universes. The Amalgam universe has several numeric designations such as 1996, 962, 9602, and 496 as well as just being referred to as the Amalgamverse. My coverage of this universe will feature 5 entries for Supergirl in the Multiverse and my initial plan was to use some of these alternative number designations for each. However, to make categorizing them easier I will just be using what seems to be the most likely DC designation of 496.

As mentioned above, the Amalgam universe would take a character from the DC universe and one from the Marvel (sometimes more than 2 characters would merge). There are 2 canonical Amalgam characters that fit the Supergirl role, but I am also going to be putting together 3 of my own amalgamated Supergirls. This time out is one of the canonical ones, American Girl. American Girl is an amalgamation of Supergirl, specifically the Pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El version, and Bucky Barnes. This character only shows up as part of the Amalgam Universe trading cards, specifically the Classic Power Blast series in a card titled Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour #7. This card, like all cards in this series, is an homage and for Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour #7, it is an homage to Crisis on Infinite Earths #7. Super Soldier stands in for Superman and the now deceased American Girl stands in for Supergirl. The back of the card mentions that “although American Girl was patterned after his old partner, the two characters had never met before this issue.” This is cleared up a bit more in the Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour Canvas Cards set, specifically #9, which mentions American Girl was Super Soldier’s successor, as well as naming her Carol Barnes. While I couldn’t find any specific “old partner” in either Super Soldier or Super Soldier: Man of War, this seems to be referencing a Bucky Barnes type. American Girl being Super Soldier’s successor points to the possibility that after Super Soldier’s icy fate after his face off with Ultra-Metallo, perhaps the Super Soldier formula was used on another person, Carol Barnes, granting her similar super-abilities.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. American Girl is taking up the center foreground, running towards the viewer. She is running down a path with fields on either side of it. The top right corner has a motif of American Girl’s symbol with a 496 on top of it.