Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Meets Nasty!"

Just as Kara's CW incarnation deals with Lex Luthor's half-sister Lena as a "frenemy"...

...the Silver-Age Kara had Lex Luthor's sister Lena Thorul (who didn't know she was related to Lex) as a close friend, and his niece, Nasthalthia, as an enemy!

After this introduction in the never-reprinted DC's Adventure Comics #397 (1970), "Nasty" became an ongoing character in the strip for several years, following Linda/Kara/Supergirl from Stanhope College to her first job in San Francisco as a TV cameraperson!

Writer/artist/editor Mike Sekowsky explained in the letters page of DC's Adventure Comics #401that Nastalthia is the daughter of Lex's never-previously (or since) mentioned older sister who eloped to Europe as a teenager!

Her fate is unknown.

Next Week:

A Battle Royale as one of Supergirl's few recurring enemies returns...and brings some lethal friends with her!

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Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Now...Comes Zond" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Discovering a coven of mystics on Stanhope's campus, Supergirl attempts to shut them down, but the leader, Zond, utilizes magic to defeat her...

Though writer/artist/editor Mike Sekowsky eschewed the use of footnotes, we'll point out that Morgana the Witch had appeared a few months earlier, in DC's Wonder Woman #186 (1970).

Supergirl again uses her previously-unknown telepathic powers, this time to probe the mind of Henry to learn the spell to summon Morgana!

TOMORROW
A Special Presentation of Never-Reprinted Pages Showing Fan-Created Designs for Supergirl's Costume 
(some of which were eventually used)!

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Adventure Comics SUPERGIRL "Now...Comes Zond!" Part 1

In 1970, writer/artist/editor Mike Sekowsky...

..., who had already made the most radical changes in Wonder Woman history by de-powering Diana Prince, took over the Supergirl strip in Adventure Comics. and immediately shook up the status quo...

Wow, Kara Zor-El just had her butt handed to her, eh?

How does the Girl of Steel make a comeback?

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When did Supergirl previously-demonstrate telepathic abilities?

She didn't before or after Sekowsky's run, but did a couple more times during it!

We always knew Kryptonians were vulnerable to magic, but such "mysticism" was shown to be a rather sanitized version of the concept, more like Arthur C Clarke's "Any sufficiently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" than traditional sorcery.

Suddenly, the wizarding world in DC Comics had gone gothic with covens of hooded figures and other trappings of Satanic worship!

Much of this was due to modifications to the Comics Code Authority's rules, loosening restrictions about monsters, mysticism, and horror in general.

Comics creatives leaped at the opportunity to create new horror-oriented strips like Swamp Thing, Tomb of Dracula, and Monster of Frankenstein, or injecting spooky elements into existing series, with DC being the most radical with their revamping of Challengers of the Unknown from scientific adventurers into a version of GhostBusters!

Sekowsky had already done so in Wonder Woman, and, as part of his "updating" of Supergirl, introduced some of those aspects (which would be expanded on) here!

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