What if Supergirl was dead and able to be amongst other dead people like Joan of Arc and Abraham Lincoln? from DC Comics Adventure Comics #383

We are traveling to Earth-383, a so-called Negative Earth first featured in Adventure Comics #383 (1969), where Supergirl seemingly perishes in an explosion and attends her own funeral—joined by the spirits of Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and other ghostly figures! This Bronze Age tale was recently revisited in Back Issue #159 as part of a 40th anniversary retrospective on Crisis on Infinite Earths.

Episode #163: What if Supergirl was dead and able to be amongst other dead people like Joan of Arc and Abraham Lincoln?
from DC Comics Adventure Comics #383

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We’re diving into the ethereal and existential! We begin with Supergirl’s strange funeral in the Silver Age story Please Stop My Funeral! before rewinding to the surprising proto-Supergirl tales from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Then we haunt the haunted halls of Kara Zor-El’s multiversal history and her celestial cinematic debut in the 1984 Supergirl movie. Along the way, we explore ghost stories, alternate deaths, and historical cameos in the DC Universe—then wrap with a look at how these odd tales ponder Supergirl's mythic potential.

Reading / Watch List:

• Action Comics #252 (DC Comics, 1959) – Debut of Supergirl by Otto Binder & Al Plastino
• Adventure Comics #383 (DC Comics, 1969) – “Please Stop My Funeral!” by Robert Kanigher & Win Mortimer
• Supergirl: The Official Movie Adaptation (DC Comics, 1985) – Based on the 1984 film
• Supergirl (film) (Tri-Star Pictures, 1984) – Directed by Jeannot Szwarc, starring Helen Slater

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