T HE DC C OMICS E NCYCLOPEDIA TOY S ’ Matrix girl meets roubled T UTHOR L Matrix is comforted by Lex comfortedby Super Luthor, unwittingly in becoming a tool his megalomaniac schemes. 1994): Y A 1994): girl, under the sway of Y .–M (2003): EB #8–13 Kara arrives EBRUAR man, suspected ETURNS YLINES IGHT ) (F ATMAN R ) #1–4 (F /B 2004): M SERIES APPY D SERIES H ed by Super KEY STOR RD UPERMAN CTOBER ANY S (3 #1 (3 –O • : M AY th, ador (M ns about life and love as Super UPERGIRL UPERGIRL S S UPERGIRL her pre-Crisis self and realizes she must sacrifice everything to maintain the cosmic balance. charismatic personality. Lex Luthor’s lear teenager Linda Danvers is rescued by Matrix and becomes an Earth Angel. • S • on Ear by Batman, trained by the Amazons, and coveted by Darkseid, tyrannical ruler of Apokolips.• AID OF M .Three HE T ), hoping it EROES ANA -H ,L parallel universes, some UPER ANG S ying. Linda The asteroid could help.The Man of Steel RG om fra ), scientist, a noble a created w urg hoping to lead a EGION OF ypton. ival of an asteroid that of an asteroid ival EX complete with oes, without. some such In one r e limited superpowers to e limited superpowers , ,L ely ne UPERMAN ic of time fr EXIST COUNTLESS ket arrives on Earth survivor from Krypton from survivor ATRIX abr reed that Kara would stay that Kara would reed UTHOR M L A roc yptonian criminals well, as managed to survive second as ag HERE HE eated an entir see Kr to Earth.and found their way No one powerful Lex left to stop them.Thatenough was world’s T with super her with super universe,pocket Superman not the sole was Superboy, of Krypton.Thatsurvivor world’s however, the 30th century died in while saving L that universe’s eep the f T it w This shape-changing being was dispatched to a parallel This shape-changing being was could help defeat the deadly trio. could help defeat the as the imminent ar , world, hoping S man has a costume ARRIVAL supplied by Lana Lang (see L Lana Lang supplied by answered the call to arms and was forced to kill the three to arms the call forced and was answered irl took on his peace-keeping role. irl took on his peace-keeping m and used her mor Kryptonians to save the world,Kryptonians to save the not before but lifeform protomatter, from genetic material using This cr America, watchful under Superman’s EW s. lifeform, as Matrix, known to an amorphous reduced was der to k scientists traced back to Kr a but atmosphere apart Earth’s as it entered broke in the ocean. spacecraft managed to splash down teenager, a young the damaged craft was Within homeworld. Superman’s from of the News arrival of a S-shield, for his cousin. waiting spread and a scramble began to gain and a scramble spread the girl,influence over Kara Zor-El. Finally in gaze.When she is deemed ready, Super and a suspicious Batman doubts its claims of Kryptonian birth. occupant’s N One w Luthor ( Superg , mass. Superman it Matrix and there brought to his world esults. She was gradually SupermanShe was accepted by until the Blonde ). st time recuperated on the Kent family farm. on the Kent recuperated for its savior, Out of respect s with the demon Buzz and other supernatural entities, she e up her angelic abilities and left Leesb OIS v AIR L H , Some time thereafter,altered the enigmatic Futuresmiths time.As a result, teen named Cir-El arrived in a young “normal” life. In time, the violent and haunted Linda/Supergirl/Matrix discovered ANE also ga Blue ength and endurance. needed to die in or Superman’s cousin from Krypton, cousin from Superman’s who innocent heroine a more Supergirl from yet another parallel timeline.ThisSupergirl yet Supergirl from was three on Earth.Afterthree adventures, weird several Linda met up with a L discovered she was a reborn being known as an Earth-Angel, a reborn being known she was discovered one of encounter ix took on a feminine for life Linda had led and sought to redeem her existence.life Linda had led and sought to redeem During her str shape-changing, psychokinetic skills, increased and being with different abilities,being with different limited such as more #252 (May 1959) life essence with Linda’ Danvers in the town of Leesburg,V.A.,by merging in the town her Danvers YES -El She naïvely fell under Lex Luthor’s thrall for a while, fell under Lex Luthor’s She naïvely him for until she saw E see Futuresmith’s plans were undone to preserve the timeline and Cir-El undone to preserve were plans Futuresmith’s vanished.The of the constant changes to the timestream repercussions had unexpected r Metropolis, and Lois Lane claiming to be the daughter of Clark Kent ( become Supergirl.When Superman exiled himself to space to atone for having killed for the fir Matr the manipulative despot that he was. despot that he the manipulative the life of Linda She then saved Metropolis ASE Kara Zor B 135 lbs Under the Sun’s solar radiation, Supergirl’ s solar radiation, Under the Sun’s AME Supergirl UPERGIRL N EIGHT ACTION COMICS ers confront y used . W EAL ABILITIES ONE R / Adventurer UPERMAN o S S 5ft 5in Her PPEARANCE A BECOME yptonian physique absorbs energy and can fly, has superstrength, fly, absorbs energy and can yptonian physique CCUPATION EIGHT ITHOUT TATUS PECIAL POWERS IRST F S O H S kr range of vision acute hearing, and a superspeed, invulnerability, heat. including emitting X-rays and WO W Supergirl selflessl her powers to protect one and all. and Linda Danv cosmic forces to restore balance to reality T as gestated Kon-El w Created with Super inside a laboratory! LONED DNA, C TEEL S , who had learned that . Superboy, however, EEN OF O T EGION ER L H Y OOMSDAY HE UPER EWSBO . was Superboy T S eated by the Cadmus Project, Cadmus the eated by the world’s y an evil cr ;Tana Moon broke up with him Moon broke ;Tana USTICE J TING A OUT OUNG ed with Superboy and REA The teenage duplicate was rescued from his confines at from rescued was The teenage duplicate UPERMAN NOCK After joining the ana Moon, C gene code by stabilized Superboy’s scientists The Cadmus on to a human DNA alien DNA grafting Superman’s strand.The then transformed a rapid- was clone through aging process, in weeks. boy a 16-year-old becoming the N by Cadmus Superboy’s “creator,” the unscrupulous Doctor Paul Superboy’s for power Westfield, clone’s to use the young had planned ends.Alteringhis own his costume, Superboy the headstrong T S ), in and enrolled 1993): 2003): eplaced for months b HE 2000): UNE PJ as r ,T UGUST ARCH . y was then adopted by y was y of the Man of Steel.y of the Man In fact, such of many one was Superboy #500 (J ENTS CLONE OF een Titans, Superboy discovers that he een Titans, and w K OBIN . He then learned that his et he has only shar ) #1 (A s, A the only clone to survive. was clones engineered by Cadmus for the purpose for the Cadmus clones engineered of replacing by Superman, the Kryptonian from using DNA samples taken with D champion after his battle most advanced genetic research facility, genetic research most advanced is a custom-made Superboy cop ) #74 (M see way. Superbo UPERMAN s dissolution, joined the Superboy ITANS S SERIES as killed by the Agenda’s leader Amanda leader Agenda’s the as killed by RD SERIES ed a T Spence, Paul Westfield’s cyborg daughter. Spence,Westfield’s Paul ve the young clone the Kryptonian name “Kon-El”. clone the Kryptonian name young the ve Soon after, v w RD (3 Superman’s parents,Superman’s and Martha Jonathan escaped the Agenda,escaped the Moon not before,Tana but Kent ( Kent duplicate named Match. eventually Superboy Smallville High School as Conner Kent, Superboy returned to Metropolis as Project Cadmus’ as Project returned to Metropolis Superboy special (3 of cloner ifying secr nation of the T then kidnapped by the Agenda, the then kidnapped by a clandestine organization Clark Kent’s young cousin.After Young cousin.After young Clark Kent’s ustice’ r EEN agent and also helped found Y J ITANS T T human strand of DNA is Lex Luthor’s, man ga and mo DVENTURES OF UPERBOY a hor EEN S T Superboy had a briefSuperboy affair with K Titans teammate R Black KEY STORYLINES • A Superboy’s girlfriend, dies at the hands of the villainous Superboy’s Agenda! • three others begin the Reign of the Supermen after Doomsday nearly killed the Man of Steel! • latest incar DNA! shares Lex Luthor’s then revealed himself to the world.then revealed ally of Superman, soon became a close Superboy to moved but Hawaii, might better help him attain an identity separate from Metropolis hoping the distance from Moon, after Tana to Hawaii a journalist he began dating who moved “father.”There his genetic Kid.”After his body “Metropolis as the W.G.B.S. station a splash at television make helping Superboy “frozen”started to deteriorate a clone plague, from DNA became old age. at his 16-year Superboy’s Super #500 (June 1993) AIR H Smallville; San Francisco Smallville; San Blue ASE YES B E y Kon-El; Conner Kent Kon-El; Conner . 150 lbs Superboy has “tactile telekinesis” which Superboy has UPERBOY ies Superboy emerges from emerges Superboy EIGHT ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN ADVENTURES EAL NAMES W ABILITIES n to conceal. ength and flight and other Kryptonianength and flight abilities; can R Superboy lived in Honolulu lived Superboy S Robin helped / Student, adventurer Student, adventurer o 5ft 7in Her TUBE HERO SECRET - EST CCUPATION EIGHT TATUS PECIAL POWERS IRST APPEARANCE onder is swor his cloning Cadmus, tube at Project the spitting image of Superman at 16! T OY OF STEEL mimics superstr them. disassemble objects by touching F S O H S UPER B for some time, finding enemies in the Scavenger, King Shark (above), and Black Zero, and both friend and foe in Knockout, one of the Female Fur S Superboy deduce the secret from the Superboy past—the source of his clone’s young human DNA—a secret the Bo W

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