SuperHeroBooks - Superman Family (Starring Supergirl, Vol. 29 No. 216 March 1982)
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Manufacturer: DC Comics Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
Label: DC Comics Inc.
Manufacturer: DC Comics Inc.
Publication Date: 1982
Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Studio: DC Comics Inc.
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Summary: Superman Family starring Supergirl is super-weird
Comment: I've never been much of a fan of Superman and his ilk, as Superman is more of a cliché than a superhero in my eyes. The Superman Family comic, though, is sort of interesting - largely because it's so dadgummed complicated. This is especially the case in terms of Supergirl. I had to read the first couple of pages of this issue's Supergirl story just to get my bearings. You start off with Supergirl, Superman's cousin from Krypton - not the original Supergirl, mind you, but the one who takes the secret identity of soap opera star Linda Danvers - only the Supergirl we meet here isn't really Supergirl. Our Supergirl is currently 5,000 centuries in the future, and the Supergirl of the future is filling in for her here on this world. A couple of brilliant madmen across the thousands of centuries have escaped into each others' worlds, and that's why the two Supergirls have switched places. Earth is very different 5,000 centuries in the future, so each Supergirl finds her powers quite different - some are stronger, some are weaker. Once you get everybody straight, it's an OK story, but should a comic really be this complicated?
After Supergirl's latest adventure, we leave our Earth to head for the alternate world of Earth-Two, where Clark Kent is the editor of the Daily Star, to join Mr. and Mrs. Superman as they celebrate their anniversary - a party in which Superman, Clark Kent, and Batman all appear simultaneously (who's the impostor?). Then we visit Superman as a child in The Misadventures of Superbaby and watch him help his adopted father cement the belief in Santa Claus among the kids at a local orphanage. Completing the quintet of stories in this issue are adventures with Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.
This issue, number 216, comes toward the end of the Superman Family series in 1982. It is larger than your typical comic, costing a whole dollar even back then, which probably helps explain why the series ended when it did. The real draw was Supergirl, as the other stories are pretty much just fluff, but you'd need to be a major Superman/Supergirl fan to truly enjoy this unusual publication.
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