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Superman’sdisguise may be infamously newspaper publisher - thinly , butSupergirl’smethod of conceal her identicalness is - amazingly enough - even more obvious than her full cousin ’s . The Man of Steel is well - eff for usinglittle more than a couplet of glassesto convince the humankind that Clark Kent and Superman are n’t one and the same ; writer have valiantly attempted to excuse this method with motley degrees of success . But unfortunately , when it comes to bucket along retcons , there ’s no saving Supergirl .
Kara Zor - El go far on Earth in a one - person spaceship similar to Superman ’s inAction Comics # 1,but she was already a teenager whereas her cousin Kal - El was an infant . Upon emerging from her craft , she find Superman - who quite surprisinglydeniedKara ’s asking to live with him ( he explicate it might adventure his secret identity as Clark Kent),and station her in an orphanage rather . The orphans' asylum took her in after try Superman explain that " Linda Lee " was orphan after a cataclysm destroy her community ( which was technically true , but on a planetary scale ) , and Kara began her life history on Earth … but not before get into one of the sad excuses for a disguise in DC Comics history .
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Before arriving at the orphanage , Superman delivers some characterless human clothes to Kara , along with a brown wigging . “There!“says Superman , putting the wig on his first cousin ’s head . “That wig of pigtail wee-wee you appear like a different daughter entirely who was born on Earth!“While it covers her blonde hair completely , it fails perfectly to hold in her facial expression . At first Supergirl ’s other adventuresrevolve around Kara using her powersto keep open others while hiding the fact that a " super - girl " even exist , but inAction Comics # 265,Supergirl progress to her public debut anyway , her case on full display .
Supergirl continued to use the brown wigging to veil her identity , but it was eventually jettison by the writers ; perhaps the editorial stave think thatnodisguise would somehow be more plausible than a dread one . For his part , Superman ’s Clark Kent camouflage would be elaborated on by writers in the 70s and LXXX : in addition to his signature oversized glass , he by choice wore oversized and wrinkled suits , walked with a hunched - over position , and never looked mass like a shot in the eye for long . This method was generalise by Christopher Reeve in 1978’sSupermanand transferred well to the comics - but again , Supergirl never uses this technique .
Superman ’s disguise has always been a point of derision among comic book sports fan ( and most non - risible books fans ) . He ’s sincetransformed his want of masks from a weaknessinto part of his identity : no mask stand for no hidden agendas or secret beliefs . Supergirlhas done much the same … she ’s simply forgot to do the stark minimum likeSupermanwhen it come to concealing one ’s identity and brood her face - at least partially .
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