This issue has a guest appearance by Mr. Myx… Mzp….Mzx… that magical short dude!
This issue starts with Supergirl becoming the new target of Mister Mxyzptlk’s pranks. He decides to turn random people into Bizarros and then creates giant wasps that do what you’d expect giant wasps to do. Supergirl tries to trick Mxy into saying his name backwards (see here for the reason) but Mxy is too smart to fall for her tricks.
Mxy suddenly decides that he’s in love with Supergirl! Hey, Mxy doesn’t have to make sense, he’s a fifth-dimensional imp! Mxy tries to prove his love for Supergirl by materializing her long-dead parents (non-zombie-like). Zor-El and Alura quickly become overbearing parents who unilaterally decide that: a) they are better parents than Kara’s human foster parents and b) Kara should marry Mxy. Don’t worry guys, methinks Zor-El might have something up his sleeve. Could Zor-El have been a bit less of a jerk and informed Kara of his secret plan? Maybe, but how much fun would that have been?
Zor-El spikes the wedding punch (cheap bastards, you serve champagne at a wedding) with Kryptonian truth serum. He asks Mxy to say his name backwards which Mxy is forced to do (thank Rao that Kryptonian truth serum works on fifth-dimensional imps because if not Kara would have ended up marrying the little thug). Both Mxy and Kara’s parents disappear which was a big sacrifice on their part. With Mxy back in the fifth dimension, and with him gone everyone’s memories of his time on Earth erased, everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow.
On my patented Supergirl Wink © scale this issue gets:
4 Winks