Hellfire and Holocaust
All-Star Comics #61
Cover Dated : July / August 1976
Released : 15th April 1976
The issue starts with Christopher Pike as the villain Vulcan, yes really, fighting Green Lantern and Doctor Fate. Doctor fate is injured and Vulcan gets away.
But we don’t have time for that as we set up not one but two sub plots, the most important for us is Power Girl end up fighting a rather squat alien. Weirdly at this point the comic feels the need to point out that Kara talks about her calling Earth home, as a rather klunky mention that she’s a Kryptonian. Along with pointing out that she’s not quite as tough as Earth-1’s Supergirl. During the battle there’s a series of lovely Kirby like panels as she gains knowledge connecting this to the main story.
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Seems the alien made Vulcan with on fatal flaw, a vulnerability to sunlight, despite the whole thing happening as NASA astronaught was orbiting the Sun, you know that source of sunlight for the entire planet! This doesn’t go good for the alien, with a name that needs more vowels, who Vulcan instant incinerates instantly.
Finally Star Spangled get to do something useful and destroys Vulcan with his sunpowered rod, and yeah I’m still not a fan obviously. Doctor Fate is mortally injured and ony a miracle will save him…
Power Girl isn’t the main focus, but her part is important part of the story and truth be told I kind of enjoyed the whole things. Hopefully the story can only get better, and that pesky second sunplot will come to fruition…