Supergirl (comic book)

Supergirl
Cover of Supergirl #1 (November 1972), featuring the Kara Zor-El version. Art by Bob Oksner.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	List (vol 1) Bi-monthly (The Daring New Adventures of.../vol. 2, vol 3–7) Monthly
Format	List (vol 1, The Daring New Adventures of.../vol. 2, vol 4–7) Ongoing series (vol 3) Limited series
Genre	Superhero
Publication date	List (vol. 1) November 1972 - September/October 1974 (The Daring New Adventures of.../vol. 2) November 1982 – September 1984 (vol. 3) February – May 1994 (vol. 4) September 1996 – May 2003 (vol. 5) October 2005 – October 2011 (vol. 6) November 2011 – May 2015 (vol. 7) November 2016 – present
Number of issues	List (vol. 1): 10 (The Daring New Adventures of.../vol. 2): 23 (vol. 3): 4 (vol. 4): 81 (#1-80 plus issue numbered 1,000,000) and 2 Annuals (vol. 5): 68 (#1-67 plus issue numbered 0) and 2 Annuals (vol. 6): 41 (#1-40 plus issue numbered 0) and a Supergirl: Futures End one-shot (vol. 7): 1 and a Supergirl: Rebirth one-shot (as of November 2016 cover date)
Main character(s)	List Supergirl Specifically: (vol 1, The Daring New Adventures of..., vol 2, 5-7) Kara Zor-El (vol 3) Matrix (vol 4) Matrix, Linda Danvers
Creative team
Writer(s)	List (vol. 1) Cary Bates (vol. 2) Paul Kupperberg (vol. 3) Roger Stern (vol. 4) Peter David (vol. 5) Jeph Loeb Greg Rucka Joe Kelly Tony Bedard Kelley Puckett Sterling Gates James Peaty Kelly Sue DeConnick (vol. 6) Michael Green Michael Alan Nelson Mike Johnson Tony Bedard (vol. 7) Steve Orlando
Penciller(s)	List (vol. 1) Art Saaf (vol. 2) Carmine Infantino (vol. 3) June Brigman (vol. 4) Gary Frank Greg Land Leonard Kirk Ed Benes (vol. 5) Ian Churchill Jamal Igle (vol. 6) Mahmud Asrar Diogenes Neves Yildiray Cinar Emanuela Lupacchino (vol. 7) Brian Ching
Inker(s)	List (vol. 1) Vince Colletta (vol. 2) Bob Oksner (vol. 3) Jackson Guice (vol. 4) Cam Smith Robin Riggs (vol. 5) Norm Rapmund (vol. 6) Dan Green Ray McCarthy

Supergirl is the name of seven comic book series published by DC Comics, featuring various characters of the same name. The majority of the titles feature Superman's cousin Kara Zor-El.

The first series featured the original Supergirl, Superman's cousin Kara Zor-El. It began publication in 1972 following a 44-issue run of Supergirl stories in Adventure Comics, ending with issue #424 (October 1972). The series lasted for 10 issues until 1974, after which the character began appearing regularly in The Superman Family commencing with issue #165. The release of the last issue of Supergirl was delayed for several months due to a nationwide paper shortage.

During its first year of publication, the second Kara Zor-El series was titled The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl. With issue #13, the name was shortened to Supergirl, and the title continued monthly publication for a total of 23 issues.

In 1994, DC Comics published a four-issue limited series featuring a new Supergirl who was introduced early in the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths era. Sometimes referred to as Matrix, this new character was a protoplasmic duplicate of an alternate universe Lana Lang, granted superpowers by an alternate Lex Luthor. Having been brought to the mainstream DC Universe by Superman, she became romantically involved with the mainstream Luthor, who was posing as his own fictitious son Lex Luthor II. This limited series resolved many of the threads remaining from that plotline.

The fourth series featured a third Supergirl. This character was a fusion of the Matrix Supergirl and Linda Danvers (a Post-Crisis version of Linda Lee Danvers, Kara Zor-El's Pre-Crisis secret identity). The series ran for 81 issues, ending with the main character journeyed to an alternate universe, following the re-emergence of the original version of Kara Zor-El.