JSA Classified Vol 1 1

First Appearances: First appearance of the three false Legionaires (Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl and Garn Daanuth; see notes).
Final Appearances: No final appearances

Synopsis: Dr. Mid-Nite has Power Girl at the labs of JSA Headquarters where he runs her through a gauntlet of tests. Recently, Power Girl has displayed feats of power that are exclusively Kryptonian traits, such as heat vision. Power Girl fantasizes about the time when she believed that she was the cousin of Superman, late of the planet Krytpon. However, she has since discovered that she is in fact the grand-daughter of Arion, the sorcerer of pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis. Now, even that origin is being called in to question.

Power Girl leaves the HQ and discovers Garn Daanuth, the Atlantean nemesis of Arion tearing up the streets of Manhattan. Power Girl launches herself at him and begins beating him mercilessly into the ground. Several members of the JSA show up to try and calm her down. Apparently, she has only been fighting an illusion.

Meanwhile, a shadowy menace operates from behind the scenes in an effort to torment Power Girl even further. He has the three founding members of the Legion of Super-Heroes at his disposal to aid him.

Notes

This issue was published with an alternate cover (1:1 ratio), illustrated by Adam Hughes.

Earliest chronological appearance of the modernized Power Girl.

This issue builds upon sub-plots that have been developing over the past year in respective issues of JSA.

Events from the Power Trip storyline tangently lead into the upcoming Infinite Crisis event.

The members of the Legion of Super-Heroes that appear in this issue, are not the real Legionaires. They will be revealed as doppelgangers in issue #2.

Psycho-Pirate appears as a silhouetted, behind-the-scenes villain only in this issue.

Behind the scenes appearance by Alexander Luthor.

Trivia

This storyline seeks to revamp Power Girl's Post-Crisis origin as originally supplied in Secret Origins (Volume 2) #11. In Post-Crisis continuity, Power Girl was the grand-daughter of Arion the Immortal, a sorcerer of pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis. Arion placed Power Girl in suspended animation so that she might not fall victim to his evil brother, Garn Daanuth. Arion placed a spell upon her, wherein when she awakened in the 20th century, she would have a set of false memories, and believe herself to be the cousin of Superman.

Power Girl made her first canonical appearance in All-Star Comics #58. She was originally intended to be the Earth-Two counterpart to Supergirl. As such, she shared Supergirl's origin and powers, but carried a different name.

After the Crisis On Infinite Earths limited series, Power Girl's continuity was absorbed into the modern Earth. As such, it was required to alter her origin so as to maintain the idea that Kal-El was the only person to survive Krypton's destruction.

This issue establishes that Power Girl spent nine years in outer space.

Mister Terrific, Green Lantern and The Flash appear on the Amanda Conner variant cover to this issue, but do not actually appear inside the main story.

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JSA Classified cover gallery
Doctor Mid-Nite appearances list
Hawkgirl appearances list
Power Girl appearancs list
Psycho Pirate appearances list
Sand appearances list
Stargirl appearances list
Wildcat appearances list

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