SUPERGALL

SUPERGIRL (1984)
dir: Jeannot Szwarc

MAD #253, March 1985
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Jack Davis

In Argo City, a city that survived Krypton's explosion, Zaltar (Peter O'Toole) has “borrowed” the Omegahedron, a powerful item that can do things like create trees and animals and happens to power Argo City. He shows it to Kara (Helen Slater), a resident there and also a cousin of Superman.

They say Earth has 230 million people but I think they mean the United States.

Zaltar accidentally drops the Omegahedron and it breaks through the shield that was protecting Argo City. Kara goes through to rescue it which transforms her into Supergirl, bringing her to Earth. On the planet, Selena (Faye Dunaway) and Nigel (Peter Cook), a witch and a warlock, are having a picnic. The Omegahedron lands there and she realizes that now she has it, she doesn't need him anymore. Somehow, Selena knows what the Omegahedraon does.

Selena goes back to her home, an abandoned amusement park she shares with her sister Bianca (Brenda Vaccaro) and realizes she can now rule the world. Supergirl has landed on Earth and is hit on by truckers who she defeats with her superpowers. That day, she sees an all-girls' private school and enrolls herself in it as Linda Lee by falsifying records.

Linda is put in a dorm room and her roommate is Lucy Lane (Maureen Teefy), sister of Lois, who invites Linda into town for the weekend with Jimmy Olsen (Marc McClure). Selena decides to invite a gardener she saw earlier that day, Ethan (Hart Bochner), give him a potion that will knock him out and make him fall in love with the first person he sees when he wakes up, which would be her. Ethan wakes up while she's not there and walks out and into the street, and in his delirium is chased by a runaway bulldozer.

Ethan is swallowed up by the loader and the bulldozer causes a series of accidents in town and starts a fire, which Supergirl must put out. She rescues Ethan, and becomes the first woman he sees and so fall sin love with her. Selena oversees this through a portal and becomes angry, calling Nigel to come and help her.

There's a scene where Linda has no idea what a bra is for, the reason she has one on her head in the first panel there.

Selena has made a mountain in the middle of the town which she has made into her fortress (I think the movie was heavily edited, because there's no explanation of how she did it or why everyone accepts that it's there.) She has made Ethan her Prince and banished Supergirl to the Phantom Zone, where she discovers Zaltar who has also been banished there. She breaks free and is able to get the Omegahedron back and return to Argo City.

This was the cover to the British edition.

STUPORGIRL
Maniac #1, c. 1984
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano