{"id":4660,"date":"2025-01-06T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:57:04","slug":"836-supergirl-goes-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/836-supergirl-goes-public\/","title":{"rendered":"836 – Supergirl Goes Public!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Supergirl<\/a>
Supergirl reveals her identity to her adoptive parents in Action Comics #285, Dec 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

DC finally bites the bullet and makes a big, story-altering change to Supergirl by having Superman reveal her to the world in Action Comics #285 (Dec 1961). First, she reveals her identity to the Danvers, and then Superman reveals her hero persona to the world using a special television broadcast. She gets a big warm congrats from the City of Kandor, Atlantis, and from various planets. She even gets to meet President JFK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"President<\/a>
President Kennedy welcomes Supergirl in Action Comics #285, Dec 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Almost immediately, Superman needs to go to another galaxy on a space mission and leaves Supergirl in charge, where she faces her first public challenge. A rip in the sky reveals giant indestructible red scaly legs – it’s an invasion from another dimension. After failing to defeat the creature, Supergirl contacts the Legion of Super-Heroes and Brainiac 5 send her plans to create a shrinking ray. It looks suspiciously like a bazooka, but she looks good carrying it, at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Supergirl<\/a>
Supergirl defeats her enemy in Action Comics #285, Dec 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s not often we get a big permanent change like this to a character. Supergirl was introduced more than two and a half years ago<\/a> at this point and I have to believe she was incredibly popular given that she was the follow-up feature to Superman in Action Comics, and her back-story was heavily fleshed out in that time. It was a good decision to make her a “public” super-hero and to give the entire issue of Action Comics to her, and I’m excited to see where her stories take the character next..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DC finally bites the bullet and makes a big, story-altering change to Supergirl by having Superman reveal her to the world in Action Comics #285 (Dec 1961). First, she reveals her identity to the Danvers, and then Superman reveals her hero persona to the world using a special television broadcast. She gets a big warm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,271,14,506,457,43],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-continuity","tag-dc","tag-milestone","tag-supergirl","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}