Tag: Supergirl in the Multiverse

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 starting with Super-She-Hulk. This is obviously an amalgamation of Jen “She-Hulk” Walters and Supergirl, but I did base this specifically on the protoplasmic shape changing Matrix Supergirl, partly because these 2 characters appear together in a panel in the DC vs. Marvel crossover extravaganza, but also because I had a good idea for the character herself.

Everyone knows Mae Walters, she is one of the most famous super heroes of the West Coast, Super-Girl, and is often see helping out wherever she can with a friendly face. That is as long as you don’t make her angry, you won’t like her when she’s angry. When angered, Mae looses control of her protoplasmic form and she changes shape into the hulking aggressive monster known only as Super-She-Hulk!

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Super-Girl is shown in the foreground and behind her is her much larger, much angrier, Super-She-Hulk form that is crumbling the ground beneath her. The background has a pink-purple sky. There is a large yellow question mark on the left side of the page with the text “Is she HERO or is she MONSTER”. The top right corner has the symbol of Super-She-Hulk with a 496 on top of it.

In 1993, after feeling that minority groups were underrepresented in mainstream comics, a group of black creators would set out to to give some much needed love to these minority groups. Milestone Comics, distributed under the wider DC Comics umbrella, would launch in 1993 with a handful of titles including Blood Syndicate, Icon, Hardware, and probably it’s most well know, Static. The imprint would run for a few years before most the comics ended or were canceled and Milestone would instead focus on the Static Shock animated series that had recently launched. The universe mostly focused on the city of Dakota after an event called the Big Bang. The Big Bang was a the result of a massive gang conflict on the Paris Island section of Dakota. The police would interfere with this conflict and would launch tear gas at the gangs. This tear gas was abnormal and laced with chemicals initially meant to be used to later track anyone exposed but would actually have much more drastic effects. Many of those exposed to the gas died, and those who didn’t gained a variety of super human powers. Most of the superpowered characters in Earth-93 got their powers from this quantum juice laced gas, but not all of them.

One of the title characters of the Milestone line was a clear Superman analogue called Icon. Icon too was an alien that escaped certain doom and crashed to earth, but instead of landing on a farm in Kansas, he landed in 1839 on a plantation. He would take the form of a black man and would live for the next century and a half seldom using his powers until meeting a young Raquel Ervin. Raquel, after seeing Augustus Freeman IV fly, came up with the idea that he needed to be a hero, an Icon for the community. She designed a costume for Icon as well as one for a girl sidekick named Rocket. Rocket was of course supposed to be Raquel, and after a few days of thinking it over, Icon and Rocket began their heroic journey. Icon, being an alien, had powers all his own but the 15 year-old Raquel needed a bit of extra gear. Icon gave her a belt that allowed her to store and release kinetic energy which she would use to great effect, mostly blocking attacks and shooting blasts of energy back. While she started only able to leap great distances with the belt, she would later find a way to use the belt to fly properly. Rocket could of course fit as an analogue to a few different characters, her gung ho attitude and figuring out Augustus Freeman’s powers and urging him to become a hero mirrors Tim Drake as Robin, and she seemed to be paired up with Superboy during Worlds Collide, but Icon being so clearly based on Superman does easily place her as the Supergirl of this world.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Rocket is floating high above Dakota with her kinetic belt. She is also her belt to deflect bullets coming in from the right. The Paris Island section of Dakota as well as the broken bridge leading into Paris Island. The top right corner has a motif of a blue circle with a 93 on top of it.

Earth-72 is the first of the universes that I’ve covered that is sort of a universe I’ve already explored. If you’ve been keeping up you may remember my Earth-47 entry. As I mentioned in that entry, that universe is also known as Earth-72 and Earth-Prez. Now that we’re taking a look at Earth-72 it gives me a chance to take a look at one of my scrapped ideas from season 1. Earth-72 is pretty strictly relegated to just Prez and his various appearances since his initial series from 1972, and Earth-47 is more of an updated look at the universe that also includes psychadelic and groovy versions of some of the Justice League. Heroes like Sunshine Superman, Speed Freak, and Magic Lantern who form a team called the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld. They all showed up for the first time in Animal Man #23 and while it was more than a cameo appearance, they didn’t do too much and mostly just served to be part of the ensemble to represent the sort of multiverse that existed when DC was trying to not have a multiverse called Hypertime.

Earth-72 being strictly the Prez universe probably means Prez Beth Ross should have been the representative for 72, while Sunshine Supergirl should instead represent the more expanded universe of 47 along with the Love Syndicate. That being said, I feel like if there wasn’t the restriction of a number under 51, Earth-47 would’ve been designated as Earth-72 from it’s inception. Part of me wants to believe 47 was picked because it was the last universe with a 7 in it left because it is clearly meant to be a universe with the aesthetics of the 1970s. Sunshine Supergirl is not a canonical character, but as I mentioned above, Sunshine Superman does exist. His full origin, or even his real name, isn’t known but he does seem to have similar powers and abilities to his Earth-0 counterpart so it’s likely his origin is similar and the universe itself is just a bit more funky. A Superman existing always gives the possibility of a Supergirl existing and I have presented just that. Due to the 1970s aesthetic of the universe I have also brought in the most used, and my personal favorite, Supergirl costume featured in comics in the 70s.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Sunshine Supergirl is striking a pose with her right arm behind her head and her left arm outstretched. Her cape is out to the left. The background is the text “SUPERGIRL” repeated several times, and one of these “SUPERGIRL”s is in front of the hero. The top right has a motif of Sunshine Supergirl’s S symbol with a 72 on top of it. The entire artwork has a distressed look to it to give the look of an old vinyl record sleeve.

This is not the first Supergirl I’ve covered from Earth-0 as part of Supergirl in the Multiverse, that was Kara Zor-El covered as the first entry in the series. Earth-0 is the “main” universe and has produced many such heroes that can fall under the role of Supergirl, or in this case Power Girl. I did consider labeling Power Girl II as Earth-2 due to her ties to Karen Starr, or potentially Earth-52 because of her introduction in a New 52 series, but at the end of the day, being a part of the mainstream universe (Earth-0) was the best fit.

First appearing in Huntress/Power Girl: World’s Finest #23, Tanya Spears is a fellow scientist working with Karen Starr (Power Girl) at Starr Industries. Tanya is young, but already a well renowned scientist in her own right with 2 PhDs by the age of 17. As such, Starr has taken her under her wing as a protege, and when Power Girl returned to her home of Earth-2 she had Spears take up after her in more than one way. Tanya soon finds out that she has gained some of Power Girl’s powers, namely strength and invulnerability. With her newfound powers, she seeks to make a name for herself as a superhero. Taking up the hero name her mentor left her, Power Girl would go on to join the Teen Titans, then later the Elite (where Manchester Black drugged her giving her the power to grow in size), and when last seen she was part of Deathstroke’s super hero team Defiance. Spears has not really had a great place to shine since her introduction and generally seems to make some poor choices in regards to super hero teams, but with further guidance from her mentor I feel like she could really make a name for herself.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Tanya Spears, Power Girl II, is towering over a city. Surrounded by skyscrapers, Power Girl II stands as a skyscraper herself and she is supporting a toppling skyscraper from falling. A motif in the top right has a gold oval with a 0 on top of it.

Earth-D is the first of the Multiverse that I’ve covered thus far with a letter designation as opposed to a number, although universes 5 (S), 10 (X), and 26 (C) all had Letter designations before the Crisis obliterated them. Earth-D was a universe envisioned by Marv Wolfman as an intended reboot of the DC Universe with a more racially diverse cast of heroes than what was currently in comics. My understanding is that this universe was Wolfman’s pitch as to what would come after Crisis on Infinite Earths and has been compared to the jump from the Golden Age (JSA and the like) to the Silver Age (JLA and others). However, this radical change to the mainstream continuity was not implemented and it would be another decade and a half before this universe came to be seen in a published comic. Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths from 1999. This one-shot special was an additional chapter in the Crisis on Infinite Earths event and told of Barry Allen Flash winding up on this earth and helping it face the coming Crisis sweeping the Multiverse. There are minor differences from the Earth-0 we know but its fairly recognizable and well explored in the 48 pages of the special, one change is the prominent super-team is neither the JSA nor the JLA, but the JAA or the Justice Alliance of America. Aside from this one-shot, the universe has yet to show up again, but a similar universe (also called Earth-D) in the Justice League Infinity miniseries. This appearance does have some fairly major differences from the Earth-D proper and with its adjacent nature to the Timmverse, I am choosing to dub this variation Earth-12-D that I may revisit in the future.

As mentioned above, this universe’s main defining trait is its racially diverse cast. This can be seen in Supergirl and Superman’s darker complexion giving them the appearance of African Americans, although they’re not from Africa or America but rather Krypton. Another major difference is in the relationships of major heroes, Hawkman and Hawkgirl aren’t reincarnated soul-mates but rather siblings and likewise Superman and Supergirl aren’t cousins but a married couple. Superman and Supergirl are from Krypton, but they lived very full lives before the planet’s destruction and were even heroes on the planet, leading them to be the chosen representatives to be saved from the planet’s destruction. Aside from their altered origin and relationship status, they seem very similar to their Earth-0 counterparts in personality, powers, and morality.

As with all my Supergirl in the Multiverse posts, this is my own artwork. Supergirl of Earth-D is standing in the lower left corner with her hands on her hips and looking up. Behind her is the meeting table of the JAA and in the top right corner is a motif of Supergirl’s S symbol with a D on top of it.