Pre-crisis, was Supergirl ever involved with another hero?

[Kid Kyoto]

These days Supergirl is dating Capt Boomerang, has a crush on Nightwing and is about to be involved with 'Power Boy'. But pre-crisis, was Supergirl ever involved with another hero?

I know about Braniac 5, but did she have any hero beaus in the 20th century?

[Ontir]

I seem to recall her having a brief thing with Prez, the teenage President of the United States.

[Jack Zodiac]

Just like Clark did at one time, she also had a merperson boyfriend. Can't remember his name, though. No serious relationships, though. Nothing noteworthy.

[Trademark]

Pre-Crisis, Supergirl stories were largely self-contained. Supergirl had lots of different boyfriends, but all of them were characters who were introduced in Supergirl stories and never made any appearances elsewhere. Back then, crossovers always had to revert to the status quo immediately at the end of the crossover so no crossover boyfriends. The exception is Brainiac 5 which is largely due to the fact that the Legion of Super-heroes originally started out as Superman supporting characters so it doesn't really count as a crossover.

[marshal99]

Well , Pre-crisis Supergirl did married to an alien just before Crisis when she had amnesia and her husband only found out about her death when he came looking for her after she skip out upon recovering her memories.

[Lorendiac]

Pre-Crisis, Supergirl stories were largely self-contained. Supergirl had lots of different boyfriends, but all of them were characters who were introduced in Supergirl stories and never made any appearances elsewhere. Back then, crossovers always had to revert to the status quo immediately at the end of the crossover so no crossover boyfriends. The exception is Brainiac 5 which is largely due to the fact that the Legion of Super-heroes originally started out as Superman supporting characters so it doesn't really count as a crossover.

And as far as I know, based on my reading of LSH material from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, which includes at least a couple of references to how Brainy felt about her, that never really went anywhere either! What I've seen supports the idea that Brainy had a hopeless crush on her, with the key word being "hopeless." She didn't seem to feel an overwhelming attraction to him, although she didn't actually hate him or anything.

However! As long as we're on the subject, there was a sneaky bit at the very end of "The Great Darkness Saga" (around 1982?). I reread it a while back. As I recall, it actually went something like this:

Supergirl was not really an "active duty" member of the Legion at this time, but for this special occasion she ended up traveling forward in time a thousand years to help fight Darkseid. On the very last page of the Saga, as the dust is settling after all the suspense and violence and stuff is over for the time being, Brainy solemnly assures Kara that he thinks he's finally gotten over the hopeless crush he had on her for so long. (The implication is that he won't be pestering her for attention, the way he presumably used to do. So she doesn't need to worry.)

As Kara starts to fly away, she says sweetly, "Really? And here I was starting to think you were kind of cute!"

Then she's gone and Brainy is left staring in shock up at the sky. He repeats helplessly, "Cute."

Then he lectures himself. "Querl Dox, you may have a twelfth-order intellect -- but you've got to work on your timing!"

I'm working from memory, so that is not a perfect quote of how their conversation went, but I think it's close enough for government work! Brainy just can't win, can he? ;)

I guess Levitz wanted to end on a light note after all the gloomy stuff in the Great Darkness Saga.

(Rereading it a while back, it reminded me of the nasty things that Charles Schulz used to do to Charlie Brown in Peanuts, over and over again. Making him think he was finally going to win a long-cherished prize . . . and then snatching it away from him. Remember the way Lucy was always trying to convince him that this time she wouldn't yank the football away at the last moment, for instance?)

[xnef1025]

She had a thing with her horse Comet.. or at least, his humanoid form that he turned into every time a Comet passed through the solar system he was in. Supergirl seemed to have a thing for machines and animals pre-Crisis. What a freak :p

[Kid Kyoto]

She had a thing with her horse Comet.. or at least, his humanoid form that he turned into every time a Comet passed through the solar system he was in. Supergirl seemed to have a thing for machines and animals pre-Crisis. What a freak :p

thank God she's healthy and well adjusted now.

And I remember that scene in the Great Darkness sage, it was awesome.

It wasn't till much leter though I found some context for it. Back in the 70s brainy apparently did 'get it on' with Kara, but opps, it was a robot, a robot he built, a robot he built UNCONCIOUSLY as part of his obsession with Kara.

Now that's creepy.

[PatrickG]

"I could go back to Colu. My people spend centuries studying theories. Maybe I should too. I couldn't hurt anyone that way... no chance of building a Computo, an Omega. I've brought so much destruction into this world, trying to do good. Perhaps the answer is not to go to Colu, but simply away. Explore the ultimate question: death. I couldn't hurt anyone then... and I might not suffer from the memory of Kara. Kara. My Supergirl. I could take the Time Bubble--try to change history and save her--if the resulting paradox didn't destroy us both. As it has everyone else who ever tried and didn't return. Or, I suppose, I could go back inside. Coward."
-- Brainiac 5, LSH v3 #16

Those were Brainy's words after Supergirl's death. We also learned that issue that he and Supergirl had kissed although I don't recall seeing it on panel.

If I recall correctly, it was Legion-writer Jim Shooter's stance that everyone in the Legion except Superboy was heavily sexually active. That might be a bit much for some fans but consider that he wrote the book when he was going through puberty.

I think Brainy stands out as pre-Crisis Kara's most beloved boyfriend option.

[Lord of Denial]

Which Supergirl married which Superman an had a kid?

Or was that a Powergirl?

[Trademark]

Which Supergirl married which Superman an had a kid?

Or was that a Powergirl?
That was post-Crisis Linda Danvers.

[Lord of Denial]

That was post-Crisis Linda Danvers.


Who was Supergirl at one point right?

[Kara Zor El]

Just like Clark did at one time, she also had a merperson boyfriend.
Clark had a merperson boyfriend???

[marshal99]

Clark had a merperson boyfriend???

Hence the look of your avatar. ;) :p

[Rik Levins]

Pre-C Supergirl's merman boyfriend was Jerro the Merboy. Can't remember whether or not he was related to Lori Lemaris.

As Linda Danvers, she also dated a perfectly ordinary human, Dick Malverne. He had been an orphan who knew her when they were both at Midvale Orphanage, and later looked her up after they'd both been adopted.
I believe there was a Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who died of cancer.

And, as noted, she had a thing for her horse, Comet, who I think was named Biron when he was in human form. (Going off decades-old memories here, so I could be mistaken).

[DoctorDoom]

Pre-C Supergirl's merman boyfriend was Jerro the Merboy. Can't remember whether or not he was related to Lori Lemaris.

As Linda Danvers, she also dated a perfectly ordinary human, Dick Malverne. He had been an orphan who knew her when they were both at Midvale Orphanage, and later looked her up after they'd both been adopted.
I believe there was a Post-Crisis Dick Malverne, who died of cancer.

And, as noted, she had a thing for her horse, Comet, who I think was named Biron when he was in human form. (Going off decades-old memories here, so I could be mistaken).
Jerro? The Merboy? Oh Pre Crisis Dc.... you make Marvel's Modern Age look sane.

[Jack Zodiac]

Who was Supergirl at one point right?

Yes. Although he marriage and child are all messed up and probably don't exist anymore. She replaced the Pre-Crisis Kara Zor-El in her rocket, landed on Earth, became Supergirl and married Clark, had a little girl, and then had to leave so the real Kara Zor-El would die in the Crisis, which was supposed to happen. So in the end, she wasn't married to anybody, and her daughter only lived on in some unusual circumstance where she showed up in DC 1,000,000, which actually happened before all of this.

Eh, to put it succinctly, no... no Supergirl has ever had a real marriage or child.

[Jack Zodiac]

Jerro? The Merboy? Oh Pre Crisis Dc.... you make Marvel's Modern Age look sane.

Supergirl x Sammy the Squidboy?

[DoctorDoom]

Supergirl x Sammy the Squidboy?
Hrmmm good point. But still... Dc was Infinitely wackier.

Ha! I said Infinite!

[Alex A Sanchez]

These days Supergirl is dating Capt Boomerang,

She never dated and is not dating Capt Boomerang. They're just friends.

[Jack Zodiac]

That's right, she's not dating him. Just dancing around in front of him in her underwear.

[Kid Kyoto]

She never dated and is not dating Capt Boomerang. They're just friends.

Trip to coffee house with boy, not a date?
dancing, not a date?
hanging out on the Empire State Building spitting peanuts at wifebeaters not a date? (granted not one I've been on but still...)
trip to Kyoto for Sushi not a date?
snuggling in their underwear not a date?

If she's not 'seeing' him then she really is evil.

[Kid Kyoto]

That's right, she's not dating him. Just dancing around in front of him in her underwear.

Not too far a strech since she's flying around in her underwear.

[Jack Zodiac]

Not too far a strech since she's flying around in her underwear.

Hey oh! Got me there. I don't think we'll ever see her wear as much clothes as she did when she was pretending to be Flamebird. :p

[Alex A Sanchez]

Trip to coffee house with boy, not a date?
dancing, not a date?
hanging out on the Empire State Building spitting peanuts at wifebeaters not a date? (granted not one I've been on but still...)
trip to Kyoto for Sushi not a date?
snuggling in their underwear not a date?

If she's not 'seeing' him then she really is evil.

No, they are not a couple. And yes, it appears that she is 'evil', because she even tells Boomerang that to her he's just "a big brother who has icky feelings about hislil' sis he doesn't know how to deal with".

Last of all, she is not in her underwear nor has she ever been shown in her underwear. Those shorts are the type of sleepwear that is common today.

[Kid Kyoto]

Hey oh! Got me there. I don't think we'll ever see her wear as much clothes as she did when she was pretending to be Flamebird. :p

Of course the costume is about on par with some of her older ones.

http://superman.ws/supergirl/costumes/

They could have gone with this one after all
http://superman.ws/supergirl/images/1971.jpg

[Shellhead]

I vaguely remember reading a solo adventure of Supergirl in the early 70's where she was dating a superhero on another planet who turned out to be a woman disguised as a man. That character wore a purple and white costume, and had brown hair. It might have been the first girl-girl kiss in comics. It was also the occasion when I learned the meaning of the word "lesbian." No, they didn't use the word in that comic, but an older kid in the neighborhood explained it to me. (I was about 7 or 8 years old at the time.)

[Indigo Al]

Well, what about her inappropriate ogling and flirting of the then-married Ray Palmer in the men's locker room during her disco costume years??? Innocent Silver Age lass my behind! (Can't recall the issues, I believe it was Superman Family in the late 70's very early 80's)

Or, is it OK because Jean Loring is a psycho murderess?

[PatrickG]

The comic which stands out in my memory is the one where she meets Brainiac 5. At the end, she's swooning over how she has three boyfriends now.

Years later, she would indicate to Brainiac 5 that she didn't want him to get over her after he announced that he had conquered his crush for her.

And this was while she was married to someone else, if we accept that retcon of her marriage.

The new Supergirl may be drawn flashier but thus far the worst we've seen is:

- She doesn't seem embarrassed by people photo shopping her clothes off on the internet. (From her SUPERMAN appearance.)
- She has a crush on Nightwing.
- She enjoys teasing Boomerang.

Poison Ivy kissed her. She was brainwashed into kissing Ultraman. She went on one date with Boomer and seemed interested in that kid from the high school issue but the only guy she's made any advances on is Nightwing.

I mean, since Power Boy is being billed as her new boyfriend, that may change. But thus far, she seems a bit MORE chaste than her Silver-Age incarnation, adjusting for cultural inflation.

I don't see a huge difference though.

In fact, the biggest difference I see is the whole "lethal force"/"tortured youth on Krypton" subplot.

Well, and her choice of guys.

I kinda prefer the Silver Age version's tendency to date aliens and mythological types and robots over the current version who seems to get associated with spandex-clad heroes who are all somehow inspired by her cousin, directly or indirectly.

[Kid Kyoto]

Well, what about her inappropriate ogling and flirting of the then-married Ray Palmer in the men's locker room during her disco costume years??? Innocent Silver Age lass my behind! (Can't recall the issues, I believe it was Superman Family in the late 70's very early 80's)

Or, is it OK because Jean Loring is a psycho murderess?

I think I remember that one, her opponent of the moment was a bondage freak called the Master Jailer. Geeze those bronze age writers were sickos.

And I think the marriage lasted about 12 seconds between the last issue of her comic and dying in crisis, anyway she had amnesia the whole time she was married so she probably could have gotten it annulled.

Remember kids, it's not cheating if you have amnesia!

Didn't Superhusband also have powers?