Kara Zor-L
Few characters can claim a debut as landmark as Kara Zor-L's — she burst onto the scene in All-Star Comics #58 in 1976, a Bronze Age arrival conjured by Gerry Conway and Ric Estrada that would ripple through DC history for the next five decades. With 209 catalog appearances and eight collector-recognized key issues to her name, she's no footnote — she's a figure whose staying power speaks for itself. Her adventures have unfolded across marquee titles like Justice League of America, Justice League Europe, and The Brave and the Bold, putting her in the company of DC's absolute finest: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash have all shared the page with her. Half a century in print and still going strong through 2026, Kara Zor-L is exactly the kind of character a serious DC reader needs on their radar.
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Trivia
- DC repeatedly reworked Kara Zor-L's origin following the mid-1980s continuity reboot, with one major version boldly anchoring her backstory to the erased pre-Crisis Earth-Two rather than settling for the easy 'female Superman' clone treatment.dc.fandom.com
- That deliberate surname distinction — Zor-L versus Supergirl's Zor-El — was no typo; DC deployed the alternate spelling as an explicit continuity device to keep Kara Zor-L's identity intact and separate from Kara Zor-El through the publisher's sweeping continuity changes.dc.fandom.com
- Keith Giffen has written more of Kara Zor-L's comics than any other writer in our catalog — 25 issues.
Covers through the years — 2014–2026
2014 ![Absolute Infinite Crisis #[nn]](https://comicbooks-covers-449901518064-us-east-2.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/covers/isbndb/9781401265359.jpg)
2017 
2026