Secret Origins Vol 1 2

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"Great Guns! I seem to see a youngster flying, dressed in a super-costume! It...uh...must be an illusion!"

--Superman

Contents 1 Summary 2 Credits 3 Supergirl 3.1 Credits 3.2 Synopsis 4 Green Lantern 4.1 Credits 4.2 Synopsis 5 Atom 5.1 Credits 5.2 Synopsis 6 Notes 7 Trivia 8 Recommended Readings 9 Related Articles 10 External Links 11 References

Summary

Volume: 1
Issue: 2
Month: May
Year: 1973

Credits

Cover Artists: Nick Cardy
Editors: E Nelson Bridwell

Supergirl

The Supergirl From Krypton!

This story was originally printed in Action Comcis #252.

Credits

Head Writer: Otto Binder
Pencilers: Al Plastino
Inkers: Al Plastino
Editors: Mort Weisinger

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

• Supergirl
• Allura In-Ze (in flashback)
• Miss Hart
• Mister Dixon
• Superman
• Zor-El (in flashback)

Locations:

• Argo City (in flashback)
• Metropolis

• Daily Planet

• Midvale

• Midvale Orphanage

Items:

• Kryptonite (in flashback)
• Space Telescope

First Appearances: Allura In-Ze (Supergirl's mother); Miss Hart (headmistress at orphanage); Mister Dixon (headmaster at the orphanage); Supergirl (Kara Zor-El); Zor-El (Supergirl's father)
Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: Clark Kent is working alone in his office one afternoon when he catches something out of the corner of his eye. Using his x-ray vision, he witnesses a purple colored rocket ship crash landing several miles away. Switching into his Superman costume, he flies off to investigate. When he arrives, he is shocked to discover that the rocket’s sole occupant is another Kryptonian – a young blonde-haired girl named Kara.

Kara tells Superman that her home town, Argo City was blasted free of Krypton's destruction in a bubble of compressed air. The island soared through space as free-floating planetoid. Her father was a scientist named Zor-El who created a force field bubble around the city to contain the atmosphere and also coated the ground with sheets of lead to prevent traces of Kryptonite in the ground from poisoning the populace. Years later, when Kara was a teenager, a meteor shower in space penetrated the air bubble and tore through the lead shielding. In order to save his daughter from Kryptonite poisoning, Zor-El designed a space ship to rocket her away from the city. His wife learned of the existence of Earth, and its Kryptonian hero, Superman. They chose to send Kara to Earth so that she can be with one of her own.

Superman realizes that Kara's father, Zor-El, was the brother of his own father, making the two of them cousins. He is elated to find another Kryptonian but remorseful for the fact that like he, Kara is now an orphan.

Superman cannot take charge of Kara because he needs to protect his own secret identity. However, he flies her to the nearby town of Midvale and registers her at the Midvale Orphanage. He provides her with a brown pig-tailed wig, and Kara chooses the name Linda Lee as her new Earth name. Superman promises to train Kara in her new super-powers, stating that this Supergirl will become his new secret weapon against fighting crime.

After Superman leaves, Kara settles in at the orphanage. She begins testing her new powers by cleaning her room with super-breath and fixing a bent iron bed leg with super-strength. She cannot wait for her first official adventure as Supergirl.

Green Lantern

S.O.S. Green Lantern

This story was originally printed in Showcase (Volume 1) #22.

Credits

Head Writer: John Broome
Pencilers: Gil Kane

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

• Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
• Abin Sur

Locations

• Coast City

First Appearances: Green Lantern; Abin Sur
Final Appearances: Abin Sur (dies in this story)
Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Atom

Birth of the Atom

This story was originally printed in Showcase (Volume 1) #34.

Credits

Head Writer: Gardner Fox
Pencilers: Gil Kane

Synopsis

Cast of Characters:

• Atom (Ray Palmer)

Locations

• Ivy Town

Items

• White dwarf star

First Appearances: Atom
Final Appearances: No final appearances
Synopsis: Synopsis unknown

Notes

• The Supergirl story from this issue has likewise been reprinted in Supergirl Archives, Volume 1.

• The Green Lantern story from this issue has likewise been reprinted in DC Blue-Ribbon Digest #22 and DC Silver Age Classics 5E.

• The Atom story from this issue has likewise been reprinted in DC Blue-Ribbon Digest #9 and 80-Page Giant #8,

Trivia

• Kara Zor-El is actually the second character to assume the name of Supergirl. The first Super Girl was a mystically created construct, who briefly acquired powers similar to that of Superman.

• Although Abin Sur has only made one canonical appearance, he has made subsequent appearances in numerous flashback tales.

• The Silver Age Atom has nothing in common with the original Golden Age Atom, Al Pratt.

Recommended Readings

• Atom (Volume 1)
• Green Lantern (Volume 2)
• Secret Origins (Volume 2) #29
• Secret Origins (Volume 2) #36
• Supergirl (Volume 1)

Related Articles

• Allura
• Argo City
• Green Lantern Corps
• Guardians of the Universe
• Jean Loring
• Midvale
• Krypton
• Zor-El

External Links

• Secret Origins #2 entry at the Grand Comics Database

References

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