This "Supergirl as Monster" moment, as drawn by Art Saaf, is from the 1972 series Supergirl #8. Not only does she have hair like a real medusa in the issue, but she has the petrifying gaze too!
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Man 2 of my all time fave characters featured here! (What with the first being our Supergirl of course and the second being my all time fave monster the classical Greek snaky haired/stone glance inducing Gorgon Medusa!!! :D)
Blogger Mauricio said... I think Byrne creating ?matrix' and calling IT 'Supergirl' was much more frighting..
Ahhh Art Saaf, now there was an ARTIST....never were Supergirl's legs longer and more shapely.th' man had talent. Alas though, in terms of writing, the 1972 solo book was a catastrophe, Robert Kanigher's stilted dialogue, Cary Bates rushed "I-wrote-this-before-sunday-dinner" underdeveloped pacing....and the editor (who I think was Dorothy Woolfol) apparently decided that Supergirl was a romance book with a cape....hence the new undying cookie-cutter BF in every issue. The decline in the quality of the writing from the solo feature in Adventure Comics is instantly apparent even to the casual reader. I date the character's long heartbreaking decline to this book. But again let me stress, Art Saaf Bob Oksner...preemo artists they at least gave their all for Kousin Kara.
Ahhh Art Saaf, now there was an ARTIST....never were Supergirl's legs longer and more shapely.th' man had talent. Alas though, in terms of writing, the 1972 solo book was a catastrophe,
Thanks for the post.
I will have to review his legs, but I always felt that Saaf drew one of the cuter Supergirls.
I think Byrne creating ?matrix' and calling IT 'Supergirl' was much more frighting..
ReplyDeleteNever mess with Supergirl's hair....
ReplyDeleteJust saying.
It never ends well ever.
:D
John Feer
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ReplyDeleteMan 2 of my all time fave characters featured here! (What with the first being our Supergirl of course and the second being my all time fave monster the classical Greek snaky haired/stone glance inducing Gorgon Medusa!!! :D)
Blogger Mauricio said...
I think Byrne creating ?matrix' and calling IT 'Supergirl' was much more frighting..
ROFLMAO!!! Heh good one! :P
Creature commandos?
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the post.
No, it isn't the Creature Commandos.
It is Supergirl who gets possessed by Medusa and at one point petrifies a couple of JLA members.
I thought of doing a full review. Maybe I should have.
Thanks for posting the work done by my dad.
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Thanks for posting the work done by my dad.
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Thanks for the post.
My pleasure. He is a Supergirl legend!
Ahhh Art Saaf, now there was an ARTIST....never were Supergirl's legs longer and more shapely.th' man had talent.
ReplyDeleteAlas though, in terms of writing, the 1972 solo book was a catastrophe, Robert Kanigher's stilted dialogue, Cary Bates rushed "I-wrote-this-before-sunday-dinner" underdeveloped pacing....and the editor (who I think was Dorothy Woolfol) apparently decided that Supergirl was a romance book with a cape....hence the new undying cookie-cutter BF in every issue.
The decline in the quality of the writing from the solo feature in Adventure Comics is instantly apparent even to the casual reader.
I date the character's long heartbreaking decline to this book.
But again let me stress, Art Saaf Bob Oksner...preemo artists they at least gave their all for Kousin Kara.
John Feer
Ahhh Art Saaf, now there was an ARTIST....never were Supergirl's legs longer and more shapely.th' man had talent.
ReplyDeleteAlas though, in terms of writing, the 1972 solo book was a catastrophe,
Thanks for the post.
I will have to review his legs, but I always felt that Saaf drew one of the cuter Supergirls.