How can there be two Supergirls on Earth? Is it the result of red Kryptonite or maybe a robot? Oh, I got it! How about a red Kryptonite-powered robot?
This issue, once again, starts with Kara using her super-powers to help out her fellow orphans have a nice day. Her heart is in the right place but it’s not worth jeopardizing her secret so that the kids can play outside. We then learn that the older orphans get summer jobs and coincidentally enough (yeah, right) Linda ends up working at the Daily Planet. Her first assignment is to write a puff piece about how great Superman is.
The Daily Planet starts receiving reports of a super-powered girl that resembles Supergirl performing super-feats around the world. But wait, how can there be two Supergirls? Kara checks to make sure her Linda Lee robot isn’t malfunctioning and pretending to be Supergirl but the robot isn’t at fault. She then locks herself in a vault to see if red Kryptonite is causing temporary amnesia or some other wacky red K effect but ‘Supergirl’ saves a person while Kara is still locked up. Opportunity rears its head when Kara learns that ‘Supergirl’ will be giving her first interview to the Daily Planet reporters. Kara will have a perfect opportunity to figure out who the pretend Supergirl is.
Linda tests ‘Supergirl’ by exposing her to fake Kryptonite. ‘Supergirl’ feigns pain which proves that she is a phony. It turns out that ‘Supergirl’ was actually a group of actresses using rocket packs to fly and other miscellaneous tricks to make it look like they had super-powers. The whole thing was part of a publicity campaign (that’s quite the publicity budget) for an upcoming ‘Supergirl from Krypton’ movie. Everybody gets a happy ending including Superman, who is pleasantly surprised with how Kara performed under pressure.
On my patented Supergirl Wink © scale this issue gets:
3 Winks
