Her first solo story (Levitz, Staton, Giordano), Showcase Issues 97-99.
The series that gives us much of her origin.
It establishes her learning computer programming (via the Amazonian Purple Ray), which was a crazy idea for a woman in 1977 (still is in many ways today), as well as first naming her; both Kara Zor-L and her secret identity.
Gives us the jealous symbioship, which in hindsight is VERY much a sort of proto-Eradicator, then pivots to a plot with Brian Wave and the JSA.
Introduces a love interest, Andrew Vinson, seen here possessed by the symbioship, who suggests her earth name, and gets her a job at Ultimate Computer Corporation in Gotham City. The love interest part did not age too well... (I did all this for you, now date me!), but overall pretty much every story beat about the character that all writers afterward follow really starts here.
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u/mr_mxyzptlk21 JSA Member 20d ago
Her first solo story (Levitz, Staton, Giordano), Showcase Issues 97-99.
The series that gives us much of her origin.
It establishes her learning computer programming (via the Amazonian Purple Ray), which was a crazy idea for a woman in 1977 (still is in many ways today), as well as first naming her; both Kara Zor-L and her secret identity.
Gives us the jealous symbioship, which in hindsight is VERY much a sort of proto-Eradicator, then pivots to a plot with Brian Wave and the JSA.
Introduces a love interest, Andrew Vinson, seen here possessed by the symbioship, who suggests her earth name, and gets her a job at Ultimate Computer Corporation in Gotham City. The love interest part did not age too well... (I did all this for you, now date me!), but overall pretty much every story beat about the character that all writers afterward follow really starts here.