Credits | Characters | Plot Summary | Comments | Reprinted In Supergirl Chronology | Legion Chronology Editor: Mort Weisinger Writer: Jerry Siegel Artist: Jim Mooney Feature Character: Supergirl Supporting Characters: Edna Danvers, Fred Danvers, Superman, Villain: Mr. Mxyzptlk Other Characters: Dick Malverne, two teens at Midvale Park's skating rink, citizens of Midvale, Von Holtz (a famous movie director), Conway Tremaine (a horror film writer), a friend of the Malvernes, Jennie (the Malverne's maid), a doctor at the Midvale Hospital, Mrs. Malverne, Mr. Malverne, a nurse at the Midvale Hospital "The Six Red 'K' Perils of Supergirl" (13 pages)
This story continues from the last issue.
When she expands in size due to red kryptonite exposure, Linda comments that, since her dress is expanding too, it must have been affected by the red kryptonite aura engulfing her. The horror movie Dick and Linda go to see is the revival of an old movie called "The Monster of the Ballet;" in one scene, called "one of the most famous scenes ever written in a shock-film," the ballet performers learn the dancer in the leopard "costume" is a real Leopard Man. Linda comments that the garments of her and her robot are chemically treated so that they won't burn up from friction with the air when they fly at super-speed. This story is continued in the next issue. Action Comics No. 360 (G-45) (Mar.-Apr. 1968) Supergirl Archives Vol. 2 |
In the 5th dimension, Mr.
Mxyzptlk laughs at the joke he thinks he's played on
Superman, by giving an Earth-girl powers even greater
than the Man of Steel's. However, the joke is on him, as
he really just caused Linda Lee to regain the powers that
were stolen her by the evil Lesla-Lar from Kandor. Linda
is daydreaming about what it would be like if she told
her parents that she had super-powers when she receives a
phone call from Dick Malverne asking her to go skating.
When she returns, she finds out that her parents have to
leave for Europe at once regarding an inheritance. The
next day, after school, Supergirl visits Superman to find
that he is just leaving to visit the Legion of
Super-Heroes in the future. Since she is now invulnerable
to kryptonite, Supergirl decides to fly into space and
seek some out to destroy, so it can't ever harm Superman.
She fuses together a swarm of six red kryptonite meteors,
then strikes it with such tremendous force that its
atomic structure completely disintegrates. However, as
she returns to Earth to attend the Midvale Fair with
Dick, she discovers she is still vulnerable to red
kryptonite when she becomes larger and obese looking.
Mxyzptlk had only mentally included green kryptonite in
his magical command to give her powers. Linda ties a rope
around herself and flies upward to masquerade as a parade
balloon. Suddenly she spots Dick Malverne about to look
up at her through the wrong end of his binoculars, which
she thinks will cause her to appear small and therefore
allow him to recognize her and grow suspicious about her
having super-powers. She uses her super-breath to blow
herself away, but once out of sight she dwindles back
down to her ordinary height and size. Since she
encountered six red kryptonite meteors before, Linda
knows she will be affected five more times. That evening,
Dick invites Linda to a revival of a horror movie, where
she pretends to be frightened. One of the other attendees
is the writer of the film, Conway Tremaine, but a
producer says he will not hire him since he has lost his
touch. Suddenly, Linda starts to turn into a wolf-girl.
She excuses herself and gets her robot to substitute for
her on her date. Outside of the theater, as she tries to
hide, Linda spots Mr. Tremaine about to drown himself in
despair. She rushes to the scene and gives him a shock
with her monstrous looks, hoping it will give him a new
idea for a movie, and indeed, the idea of a wolf-girl
instead of a wolf-man gets the producer to hire him. When
the red-k effects wear off, Linda trades places with her
robot and Dick walks her home. After he leaves, she
decides to check in on him at home with her super-vision,
and learns that his father has contracted a rare disease
and is in the hospital, where they hope to try out a new
"miracle" serum called spracolicin. Supergirl
wishes she could help when, suddenly, she begins to
shrink, and gets an idea. She flies to the hospital, and
in her miniscule size is able to enter Mr. Malverne's
body via the blood-transfusion flask into his main
artery. Inside, she battles millions of bacterial
monsters that are overwhelming his white blood cells. She
defeats them all just before she begins to enlarge once
more, so she hurries out of his body and reaches home
just in time. She once again observes Mr. Malverne with
her super-vision to see he has recovered, although the
doctor thinks it was because of the sparacolicin he gave
him, which was the only amount in existence and the
formula had just been destroyed in a fire. Supergirl
wonders how the other three red kryptonite meteors will
affect her...
Superman travels into the
future to visit the teen-aged Legion of Super-Heroes in
this story, and returns in the following issue. Since,
immediately afterward, he tells Supergirl he will
announce her presence to the world, it is possible that
he asked their advice on this matter.