YMMV / The Supergirl From Krypton (1959)

• More Popular Replacement: Kara Zor-El's introduction completely eclipsed the former Supergirls (Lucy of Borgonia and Super-Girl), who were completely forgotten by comic fans.
• Signature Scene: The cover featuring Supergirl flying out of her rocket ship in front of an amazed Superman is, alongside Action Comics #1's cover, considered to be one of the most iconic comic-book covers ever made.
• Vindicated by History: Supergirl's origin story was panned for decades as confusing, campy and in need of several tweaks to be workable. When she was killed off and replaced, though, her substitutes' backstories -involving parallel pocket dimensions, artificial lifeforms, Satanists who turn out to be "Earthborn" angels, genetically engineered Brainiac's unwitting pawns who believe to be Superman's daughter...- made Kara Zor-El's origin look positively simple and ridiculously easy to understand. When Kara was brought back, her modern origin storylines tried to do away with the most convoluted elements, but they became quickly dated and subjected to several retcons. Eventually, her first appearance was retconned back into canon (with the addition of some modern tweaks such like Kara being older than Superman) because it was decided it was her simplest and best origin.

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