Al Plastino, the definitive Silver Age Supergirl artist (that close-up from this post is his work—all rights with current holder) passed away this week. So I’m going to indulge my comics love and talk Supergirl.
DC had done a couple of stories with one-shot Supergirls before the definitive version debuted in 1959’s Action 252. Superman arrives at the sight of a spaceship crash and discovers his sunny cousin flying out of the ship. She explains that her home on Krypton, Argo City, was hurled away from Krypton intact, surviving under a protective dome created by Superman’s uncle, Kara’s father, Zor-El. Kara Zor-El grew up to a teen there, but then the ground turned into kryptonite so her father, having observed Superman on Earth through a telescope, built a rocket to send her to safety before the kryptonite poisoning became lethal.

(Cover art by Curt Swan, rights with current holder)
Superman…