SUPERGIRL WEEK Meets MORRISON MONDAYS!
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Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock, is out this week, so we’ve gathered up the 13th Dimension crew to bring you our first-ever SUPERGIRL WEEK! Click here for more high-flying features!
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By BILL MORRISON
In 1970, DC Comics’ editors felt that Supergirl was badly in need of a costume update, so rather than rely on their middle-aged artists to come up with a hip new look, they invited their young readers to send in ideas for a modern super-suit for the Maid of Might.
The response was overwhelming, and editors decided on a hybrid costume based on sketches by two of their readers, Louise Ann Kelly and Jean Bray. This outfit, featuring a miniskirt, modern gold belt, and thigh-high red boots, made its debut in an Adventure Comics #398 back-up feature pencilled by Mike Sekowsky.
But other fan designs were just too good to leave languishing in a flat file, and subsequent issues saw Kara Zor-El’s wardrobe expand with a rotating array of groovy new threads. Why, there were easily enough far-out fashions to fill a book of paper dolls — say, now there’s an idea!
Here’s my pitch for a Supergirl paper dolls book, and if DC doesn’t bite, I’m taking the idea to Marvel for a book of Janet Van Dyne’s way-out Wasp costumes! (By the way, our pal Jim Beard ranks the TOP 13 SUPERGIRL OUTFITS over here!)
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Eisner winner BILL MORRISON has been working in comics and publishing since 1993 when he co-founded Bongo Entertainment with Matt Groening, Cindy Vance and Steve Vance. At Bongo, and later as Executive Editor of Mad Magazine, he parodied the comics images he loved as a kid every chance he got. Not much has changed.
Bill is on Instagram (@atomicbattery) and Facebook (Bill Morrison/Atomic Battery Studios), and regularly takes commissions and sells published art through 4C Comics.
