Supergirl by Dean Trippe

This is one of several sketches I've had done, this one from Megacon 2005.  http://tencentticker.com/deantrippe/

Woman in Supergirl shirt has Power Girl breasts

Supercool Supergirl shirt

Actually found this awesome shirt for sale at Wal-Mart, which is the cover to Action Comics 373.

The issue contains reprints of five Supergirl stories;


Action Comics (1938) #258
Action Comics (1938) #276
Action Comics (1938) #277
Action Comics (1938) #287
Action Comics (1938) #291


I've read the first three, in my treasured DC Archives: Supergirl collection (the much cheaper b&w Showcase Presents: Supergirl should also have them). Silver Age Supergirl was very well done and I've talked about it before, but I was really giddy that AC 258 made it into the reprint, and then onto this shirt; its the oldest comic I own, and the one I paid the most for at over $100.

Here it is:

And next to the shirt:

Wal-Mart has recently had a surprising number of classic comic shirts, including a mens thats features the cover of Detective Comics 33 (which drove me crazy trying to remember why it was important - it's Batman's origin!), but still there's no good Supergirl shirts for someone like me, who's not really built to wear ladies clothes. Husky straight men like Kara Zor-el too, DC! Hell you should know that, you had her re-debut in 2004 naked.

Supergirl in Young Love

'Solo' ran for 12 issues started in 2004 that was an anthology series centered around one specific creator. The first issue belonged to Tim Sale, probably best known for Batman: Long Halloween. Here he's joined by writer Diana Schutz for a tale of the Silver Age's Supergirl.

Kara Zor-El was known as Linda Lee, and spent her first years on earth at an orphanage in Smallville trying to avoid getting adopted. I'm a huge fan or her original stories from the 50's, so it meant a lot to me personally to see this tale. It's a out of continuity tale as far as I know (sort of like the imaginary tales' Earth 2 loved so much) about Linda reuniting with Dick Wilson, another former orphan. Here they meet up again after a few years and Dick's adoption (now he's Richard Malverne) and date, drift apart and meet up once again where Richard kisses her and says he's going to call sometime after he makes an appointment he's in town for. He never does, but soon Supergirl is called to his hospital bedside, where he admits he's known her identity for years. He's dying from cancer and they share a few moments together.

As a stand alone new readers may not care, but loving the Silver Age character's like I do I really enjoyed it. Stories like this are becoming my favourite as I'm less involved with comics; the continuity is still important, but the minutia isn't. I also thing 'Solo' had some of Sale's best work to date. The guy was always great with sexuality, and could draw gorgeous women, but I never thought he was capable of breaking my heart. If you've ever seen Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca you know what I mean. But in this comic I think he got it, and that first panel of the second row is one of my favourite things he's drawn, and ranks up there with some of Jim Mooney's work as the greatest Supergirl art ever printed.