Tag: Supergirl in the Multiverse

Earth-57 marks an interesting point in this series because it is the first time we’ve actively skipped a number. Season 1 of Supergirl in the Multiverse covered Earths 0-51 without any skips and January this year featured Earths 52-55. While I did skip around in February and March, those were for specific theming reasons, now that we’re back to going in order (sort of) we come to find that there is not currently a universe in the DC Multiverse with a designation of 56, but we do get an Earth-57. In short, it’s the universe where Superman marries Lois and Lana and Jimmy Olsen marries Supergirl, but it does get a tad more complicated than that.

The universe exists as told in both Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #57 (1961) and Superman’s Girlfriends #57 (1965). The Lois Lane story is the later entry but I want to cover it first for reasons we’ll get into later. Lois Lane #57 takes place on Earth-1 (Pre-Crisis Earth-1), and Lois and Lana are babysitting a Super-Tot who they think is their Superman that has been de-aged. They both hypnotize him (as a toddler) in hopes that he’ll marry them once he reverts to his old self. This does happen, but not the way they expected, the Super-tot they were sitting was actually the de-aged Superman of Earth-57 (it wasn’t named as such at the time, but is the canon designation) and through a viewer in the Fortress Lois and Lana witness Superman of Earth-57 marrying both Lois and Lana and Superman of Earth-1 mentioning that on that universe, bigamy (having 2 wives) is legal.

Jimmy Olsen #57 has a slightly less convoluted plot but there are still some hoops to jump through. Jimmy visits Midvale orphanage to write a story (Linda is there although she has been adopted by the Danvers but this isn’t really relevant). Jimmy unknowingly exposes Linda to red-k which makes her forget that she has superpowers (which k still trying to figure out why she never realized she was wearing a wig) and then the pair fall madly in love and get married. Linda eventually remembers that she has super powers and comes up with a plan to slowly reveal to Jimmy her existence as Supergirl (this story takes place just before her existence is revealed to the world) and then also Linda, as Supergirl, would also confess her love to Jimmy. This puts Jimmy in a pickle and also points to the fact that these 2 Earth-57s cannot exist together at once. Jimmy is conflicted because he is stuck between his wife Linda, and Supergirl who is also confessing her love to him. The conflict being that Jimmy can’t be married to both Supergirl and Linda (which wouldn’t be the case if this universe had legalized bigamy. Of course there is a happy ending with Linda revealing to Jimmy that she’s Supergirl and they continue on with their happy married life.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Supergirl is shown bridal carrying Jimmy Olsen with a wedding finger on her hand. Jimmy is holding a camera and the pair are floating in the air. The background shows a skyline including the Daily Planet and the midground has a suburban home with a mailbox that reads “THE OLSENS”. The top right corner has a motif of Supergirl’s symbol with a 57 on top of it.

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, and the second of which is Mary Marvel Girl. Mary Marvel Girl is simultaneously the most in canon Supergirl in the Amalgam Universe while also being the least justified. First off, to allow Mary Marvel Girl to count, you first have to allow Mary Marvel counting as a Supergirl, which we did back with Earth-5. In addition to this, Mary Marvel Girl is also just one of many forms that Dial HUSK takes in her two appearances (X-Patrol and Exciting X-Patrol) and Dial HUSK is obviously meant to be an amalgamation of Dial H for Hero and the mutant Husk. Once we get past agreeing that this is technically a Supergirl, we are met with the only Supergirl who appears in an issue of the Amalgam line of books but even still she only shows up for 4 panels at the end of X-Patrol. In these panels we are met with a character who is of course an amalgamation of Mary Marvel and Marvel Girl. Her personality seems mostly derived from the cheerful kiddish nature of Mary Marvel, while also possessing “the wisdom of Minerva” as well as probably the rest of Mary Marvel’s pantheon of goddesses. Her powers mostly present as telekinetic and are visualized as pink lightning. Otherwise we never see this character again and don’t learn more about her.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Mary Marvel Girl stands in the center of the panel with her right arm outstretched towards the viewer and her left hand against her head. There are traces of pink energy exploding out from either hand. The background is an ambiguous green space and the top right corner has a motif of Mary Marvel Girl’s symbol with a 496 on top of it.

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 is the last of my original Amalgam Supergirls, with Spidergirl! Young Spidergirl, Mayday Ross, hailing from the near future, comes to meet Spider-Man (well he was still Spider-Boy back then) who she claims is her father and Mary Jane “Insect Queen” Watson is her mother. The young bachelor, Pete Ross of course wants nothing to do with this supposed daughter and tries to brush her off but Spidergirl still jumps into the scene and becomes a hero in her own right.

It would later be revealed, after one crisis or reboot or possibly when heroes got reborn, that Spidergirl wasn’t actually the daughter of Spider-Boy but is the long lost cousin of Mig-El Gand the Spider-Boy 2099. Cir-El Gand was taken from her family as a baby and locked in stasis until she was found by the Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099 and now meeting her cousin as the new Spider-Boy, she too undergoes the Super-Spider transformation allowing her to become Spidergirl and join the Legion herself. Unfortunately for her, on a mission back to the early 21st century she gets captured by the Futuresmiths and they brainwash her into believing she was the daughter of Spider-Boy. Now that she’s got her memory back to sorts, she returns to using the name Cir-El, but adopts the surname of Parker to honor the fallen scientist who fell in the creation of the Super-Spider. Cir-El Parker would return to the future and continue on in the fight against evil along with the rest of the Legion of Galactic Guardians.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Spidergirl is crouching while sticking to the side of a building. There is a city scape behind her including the Daily Bugle building. The entire scene is skewed making Spidergirl look upside-down. There is a motif of Spidergirl’s S with a 496 in the top right corner.

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 week’s entry is not a canonical Amalgam character, but it is a fairly obvious amalgamation of Carol “Captain Marvel” Danvers and Kara “Supergirl” Danvers.

As we all know, Krypton was destroyed decades ago and a rocket with what was meant to be a survivor was sent to earth. This survivor didn’t survive the journey, but his DNA was used in the Super-Soldier program that brought us heroes like Super-Soldier and American Girl. What you may not know however, is that another survivor made it off the planet. This rocket didn’t go to earth and instead traveled in stasis for many years before landing on the planet Kree which was in the midst of the infamous Kree-Thanagar war. The young child grew up and was raised as a Kree and was given the name Kar-El. She would enlist and fight in the Kree-Thanagar war and would help lead her planet to victory moving her way up the ranks to captian. Now with the war over, Kar-El would look into her past and learn more about Krypton and hope to find her family. Unfortunately she instead finds the desolation of her home-planet and thinks all is lost when she picks up the trace of the other rocket that was sent to Earth. She follows after it but she instead finds the Super-Soldier that informs her of her predecessor’s fate. Instead of returning home she would work alongside the heroes of earth, maintaining her title of Captain. Captain Kar-El of Krypton would continue on as a quite Marvelous hero honoring her Kryptonian heritage.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Captain Kar-El is walking towards the viewer with her eyes burning with heat vision. Behind her we see her space ship landed on a rooftop helipad and a cityscape in the background. The top right has a motif of the Captain’s symbol with a 496 on top of it.

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.