At this point, we’re still four years out from Kara Zor-El’s debut (in Action Comics #252), and three years away from the “Super-Girl” Jimmy Olsen creates with a magic totem in what would seem to have been a dry run for the character (in Superman #123). Kara’s outfit featured a blue skirt while her precursor had a red one. (In Action Comics #156, temporary Superwoman Lois Lane had it both ways; red on the cover, blue inside the book).
Actually Kara had it both ways, too. In her first appearance, a preview at the end of the Superman story in Action #251, she had on the red skirt:
And although it was blue in her full-fledged debut in the next issue, they often goofed for the next year or two, as in this cover from Action #262:
Personally I thought the red skirt was better. And I'm sure if anybody wrote to Mort Weisinger about this "boo-boo", his response was probably that like all women, Supergirl had more than one outfit.
Update: Another example of the red skirt:
2 comments:
" I'm sure if anybody wrote to Mort Weisinger about this 'boo-boo', his response was probably that like all women, Supergirl had more than one outfit."
Asked and answered, indeed, Pat.
In the Metropolis Mailbag of Action Comics # 264 (May, 1960), the following letter, from Carol Westlund, of Antioch, Illinois, appeared:
In the story, "Supergirl's Super Pet," you show SUPERGIRL in a red skirt. In other issues she is seen in a blue skirt. Did you goof?
Mort replied:
Not intentionally. We merely forgot to explain that SUPERGIRL's skirt is reversible---blue on one side, red on the other. Since SUPERGIRL is really a teen-ager at heart whose existence must be kept a secret, don't blame the lass for dressing according to her whim of the moment.
So you weren't too far off the mark.
Hah! We didn't goof intentionally?
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