Supergirl v1, #7: The Sinister Snowman!

[mastermahan]

This is one of those covers that I've seen several times floating around the internet, and for good reason - it's Supergirl and Zatanna fighting over a yeti. It's one of those bizarre Bronze Age covers that does its job of making you wonder what the hell is going on. Did someone hit Supergirl and Zatanna with a love spell? Does the yeti himself have love powers? Do Kara and Zatanna both have a very specific fetish (no judgment)?

The answer, a more legible cover, and 7 pages of a 21 page story after the cut:

The answer is that the cover is a lie. There's a snowman in this, and some romantic rivalry, but that's the extent. Supergirl and Zatanna don't battle so much as vaguely bicker, and it's over a Tony Stark-lookalike, not a yeti. You can see why they felt the need to punch it up a bit, though, as the actual story is pretty tepid, in addition to being kinda sexist and kinda racist.





So yeah, Tony vanished in the Himalayas. If only she had some sort of superpowers that might be able to help here.




Tony breaks up with Zee to go join the Peace Corp, and in the present, Supergirl and Zatanna simultaneously decide to fly to the Himalayas to find him, months after he probably froze and/or starved to death.

Upon arrival, Supergirl encounters a village of, well...



It seems odd that a guy who used to date Zatanna wouldn't believe in demons, but it's even weirder that Supergirl wouldn't.



Yes, they're arguing over who gets to save Tony.



Kara and Zee team up to beat the snowman, and then Orgox shows up.



Sad trombone noise, the end.

This story could have worked, personally. Suppose, say, Tony had been an implanted memory designed to lure Kara and Zatanna into a sinister trap? That would explain why they go gaga over him and why they both decide to mount a rescue at the same time. You could even have the villain be a yeti wizard. Instead, Tony is boring, Orgox is a cypher, and that village was almost certainly destroyed.

Comments

[crinos]

The cover makes this seem like its gonna be a very different story than the one we expect.

[doomedpatroller]

I had this issue. Super -Karate Kid!

Sigh. I'm old.

[silicondream]

Yeah, Val Armorr would like to explain to you exactly why this ain't no super-Karate, but then he sees two superheroines who aren't Projectra fighting over a guy and he quietly leaves the way he came.

[bradygirl_12]

This story could have worked, personally. Suppose, say, Tony had been an implanted memory designed to lure Kara and Zatanna into a sinister trap? That would explain why they go gaga over him and why they both decide to mount a rescue at the same time.

Actually, I was waiting for something like that to be the root cause of all this swooning, because the whole thing seemed fishy to me. Women like Linda and Zatanna falling for a shallow pie plate like Tony? Holy mackerel, Batman!