"Supergirl" Comics Index
2012
Supergirl #3Cover date: January 2012
"Memento"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Bill Reinhold
Kara listens as Kal tells her what happened to Krypton. She refuses to believe him and rushes off to find her space pod. She finds the crater where she landed, but not her pod. A hologram of Simon Tycho appears before her and reveals he has her pod. She follows the hologram camera to a satellite in space. On board Tycho tests Supergirl's strength and abilities through a series of attacks. She locates her pod but faints due to a green glowing substance from the pod.
Supergirl #4
Cover date: February 2012
"Escape"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
Simon Tycho experiments on the armor cloth that is Supergirl's costume. He has Supergirl trapped, weakened by Kryptonite. As they leave Jacobs, one of the men who first confronted Kara when her pod crashed, forces his way into her containment cell and frees her. Tycho blocks their escape and has Jacobs shot and killed. Kara smashes through the men, retrieves her costume, and confronts Tycho. While she doesn't understand him, she recognizes the red sunstone crystal in his hand. She burns a hole in the floor at his feet, destroying the central core of the space station they're on. As the station breaks up around them, she grabs the damaged sunstone from Tycho and flies out into space. Tycho is blown apart, losing his arms, an eye and most of his body from the chest down, but he is kept alive by advanced science. Even in such a state he spot a bit of Kara's blood on the uniform of one of his men, and begins to laugh...
Supergirl #5
Cover date: March 2012
"Home Coming"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
With the sunstone in hand, Kara flies off into deep space, the sunstone guiding her, pulling her through a space gate, and into space where Krypton once existed. She doesn't realize she's being followed. She located Rao, Krypton's sun, but it's no longer red. Floating in orbit around the now blue sun is a fragment of Krypton. It's Argo City, her home. She is able to fire up a control matrix at her father's lab in her old home and view the message Zor-El left in the sunstone for her. He was able to put up a force field bubble around Argo City to protect it during the destruction of Krypton. He'd hoped to find a new world for the surviving people to relocate to, but he wasn't willing to risk Kara's life, so had put her in a protective pod. The message ends with someone breaking into Zor-El's lab, and shooting him dead. In anger and shock Kara flies off, only to be confronted by a female alien who calls herself Reign. Kara attacks Reign, who reveals herself to be a worldkiller, a living weapon outlawed on Krypton. Reign beats down Kara, disappointed that she won't join her, and leaves her to die on Argo City (as its orbit takes it closer to the sun), before flying off to go conquer Earth.
Supergirl #6
Cover date: April 2012
"The End of the Beginning"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
Back when she was on Krypton, Kara's battle training is interrupted by her father who feels her time is better spent studying science. Now, as she hangs from a wall by Reign's sword, Kara is too weak to do anything about it. A visitation by her parent's memory enables her to find the strength within her, and she escapes from the doomed remains of her home, and heads for Earth. On Earth Reign is taking on the best the military can throw at her. When Kara arrives to take her down Reign creates an impenetrable dome around New York city so that nobody, not even Superman, can come to Kara's aid. As the two battle it out, Reign calls on assistance from three more Worldkillers in different forms.
Supergirl #7
Cover date: May 2012
"Graduation Day"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
Reign explains how she and her Worldkiller companions were taken as embryos from their planets and engineered as weapons on Krypton. Supergirl is barely listening though, as she's fighting for her life. The battle rages on and finally Supergirl realizes that only a Worldkiller can harm another Worldkiller, and she grabs one of the aliens and rams its venomous spikes into another. Reign calls a halt to the fight as she refuses to lose any of her companions. As a parting warning she tells Supergirl they'll be back one day, and reveals that even though there are four of them, a fifth Worldkiller escaped Krypton before them.
[Trade Paperback collection: Supergirl Vol. 1: Last Daughter of Krypton (New 52) reprints Supergirl #1-7]
Supergirl #8
Cover date: June 2012
"Girl in the World"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: George Pérez
Inker: Bob Wiacek
With the Worldkillers gone, Supergirl finds herself confronted by the military, with no way of explaining to them that she means no harm. A young Irish girl jumps in front of Supergirl, telling the army not to shoot. She's able to speak to Kara in Kryptonian. Supergirl flies off with the girl and lands on a nearby rooftop to get some explanations. The young woman's name is Siobhan Smythe, she has the ability to learn any languange (human, alien or animal) just by hearing a few words. Army helicopters track them down, and Siobhan convinces Supergirl they're better off running away and getting her into some street clothes to disguise her identity. They head to Siobhan's messy apartment, change clothes, and then head out for the night to a club where Siobhan is performing as a singer. Her act is interrupted by her father... the Black Banshee, who has everyone in the club under his control. Kara tries to fight him, but her new friend Siobhan has turned in to the Silver Banshee to confront her father once and for all.
Supergirl #9
Cover date: July 2012
"Like Daughter"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
We learn about Siobhan's family history, and how her brother sacrificed himself to allow Siobhan to be free of her father's clutches. But now, all the years later, he's found her as the Black Banshee. As the Silver Banshee herself, Siobhan tries to fight off her father. Kara decides to step in as Supergirl, but the Black Banshee is powered by magic, which Supergirl is powerless against. In fact the Black Banshee is making Supergirl's powers unpredictable, harming innocent people around her. The Black Banshee unlocks Supergirl's untapped powers, causing her entire body to heat up from within. Supergirl decides to sacrifice herself and is absorbed by the Black Banshee who, with Supergirl's added power, grabs the Silver Banshee by the throat.
Supergirl #10
Cover date: August 2012
"Rescuer"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
Kara experiences memories from her time with her mother on Krypton, but they're not playing out the way she remembers them. She comes across Siobhan's brother Tom, who explains that it's Black Banshee's way of defeating her spirit, but she uses what little of her power he hasn't yet taken from her to create a sword and battle armor for herself in this dream state to battle the Flame Dragon Black Banshee has become. She beheads the dragon and finds herself and Tom back in the real world, as Silver Banshee absorbs Black Banshee and his power into herself. She reverts to Siobhan when she sees her brother, and the siblings are flown away by Supergirl when the military turns up once again. An armored being with shape shifting abilities awaits in the shadows to commence with Mission Codename: Supergirl.
Supergirl #11
Cover date: September 2012
"Outsider"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
Kara ponders the wonders and the horrors of the world on which she has found herself as she flies back to the Smythes' apartment to find Tom coming out of the shower. Siobhan then teases her brother as Tom returns to the bathroom to dress. As Kara and Tom go out for some personal time, she takes a piece of pizza from a waitress' tray, her powers go into overload, and a policemen attacks her. He transforms into an armored individual with nanotech morphing capabilities. Supergirl is unable to defeat him. Kara's abilities overload again, but this time she uses that to her advantage to focus her X-ray and heat visions into a point within the her nemesis' skull. A spherical device inside is the power source for the armor. With the foe defeated Kara flies off with Tom. She tells Siohan and Tom that she must leave to seek answers. Otherwise, her friends will be in grave danger if she stays. Tom and Siobhan agree to let Kara do what she must. They will wait for her to return to them when she finds what she's looking for.
Supergirl #12
Cover date: October 2012
"Inheritance"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
In the Fortress of Solitude Kara and Kal-El discuss her arrival on Earth, and how she orbitted the planet for quite awhile, absorbing pure sunlight, before coming to the surface. Part of her pod crashed into the ocean, and Superman wants to help her find it, but Kara wants to do it alone. Superman isn't sure about how safe she's proven to be (both to herself and to others near her), but let's her go it alone, to prove him wrong. As she nears the coordinates over the ocean, a mechanical Kryptonian voice calls out to her. She goes under water, but is attacked by enhanced sea creatures, who overwhelm her. Kara awakens inside a Kryptonian structure. Inside she's confronted by the humanoid form of Simon Tycho...
Supergirl #0
Cover date: November 2012
"The End of the Beginning"
Writer: Michael Green and Mike Johnson
Penciller: Mahmud Asrar
Inker: Mahmud Asrar
On Krypton Zor-El conducts some final tests on his daughter Kara in a secret remote lab. Later, in a meeting with the Kandor Council, Zor-El's congratulated on the power generators he built circling the city, but the council don't know what the machines are really for. Kara visits with her Uncle Jor-El and her baby cousin Kal-El. Jor and Zor haven't spoken in a while, but hearing of Zor-El's secret labs, Jor-El thinks it's time he spoke with his brother. Alura visits her husband as another tremor rocks Krypton, and is worried about Zor's experiments which she knows very little about. Zor-El brings Kara to his lab, and shows her a pod he's built. Within is her costume with the family crest which she's not supposed to wear until after her trials. But Zor-El allows her to try it on. Alura is mysteriously visited by Superboy from the future. He tells her it's not too late to say goodbye to Kara. With her costume on, Kara starts to feel faint and Zor-El tells her Krypton is dying. As she passes out he puts her in the escape pod. Alura storms in a shoots Zor-El, screaming for her daughter, but he manages to set the escape pod off into space and seal Kandor within a protective bubble as Krypton's final quake destroys the planet.
[Trade Paperback collection Supergirl - Vol. 2: Girl in the World reprints Supergirl #0 and #8-12]
Supergirl #13
Cover date: December 2012
"Sanctuary"
Writer: Mike Johnson
Penciller: Sami Basri
Inker: Sami Basri
Simon Tycho's new form has allowed him to absorb information from the Kryptonian data in the underwater structure created by the remains of the pod that brought Supergirl to Earth. Tycho now speaks Kryptonian and has all sorts of knowledge of her and her home planet. Tycho plays an audio recording, and Kara hears the truth of her father's experimenting on her and Alura's killing Zor-El. However, the Sanctuary is the final gift Supergirl's dad has given to her. Its computer responds only to her voice. Tycho wants Kara to tell it to give him control of the structure. She refuses. As they fight she commands Sanctuary to encase him in crystal. Supergirl finally has a chance to relax as she learns of the Sanctuary and its surroundings. She takes this time to contact Siobhan Smythe to let her know of her whereabouts. Suddenly, a warning rings out. Kal-El is battling an unknown Kryptonian presence, and it's about to bring about H'el on Earth!
“Supergirl” Comics Index
Introduction
Here is a listing of the Supergirl monthly title since its Post-Flashpoint relaunch in September 2011. The Writer, Penciller and Inker for each issue are listed within the Comic Index pages, directly below each title's name and number.Note: Remember, the month dates listed are from the issue covers, not the actual date when the comic was on sale.
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