Supergirl Annual (Volume 4) #1 is an issue of the series Supergirl Annual (Volume 4) with a cover date of June, 1996.
Synopsis for "The Surrogate"
At the space station Minecore, a scientist sedated a woman named Cryssia and put her into a machine before she dreamed of her father telling her a story about Supergirl. She found herself in a new body on the surface of Praxis IX and was tasked with cutting platinum from the surface with the other tooljerks and loading it onto transfer platforms.
Her flesh body died and the scientist theorized that she transferred her consciousness into her tooljerk. She changed the shape of her body into the form of Supergirl and fought other tooljerks before using the matter canon used for transporting platinum to launch herself at Minecore and destroyed the station by reaching the power core.
Appearing in "The Surrogate"
Featured Characters:
- Cryssia (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Doctor (Dies)
- Skyye (Dies)
- Tooljerks
Other Characters:
- Cryssia's father (Flashback only)
- Supergirl (In a vision)
- Cryssia's mother (Mentioned only)
- Lynnea Rhogers (Mentioned only)
- Lynnea Rhogers' daddy (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Minecore
- Praxis IX
- Earth
- Lunaland (Mentioned only)
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Synopsis for "The Legend Lives On"
In the future, far from pursuing lawmen, Leedra, a Tamaranean named S'age, Yola, Zip, and a Durlan named Flexi raided the Mauck Trade Platform before Leedra, S'age, Zip, and Flexi found Yola dead next to the symbol of the House of El carved onto the floor and a red substance spilled from barrels. They suspected that there was someone else aboard the ship and S'age suggested that Supergirl could have been onboard and that one of them could actually be her. Zip claimed that Supergirl was a myth while S'age claimed that she was a legend based in fact.
S'age claimed that Supergirl and Superman were given powers by exposure to Kryptonite radiation, that she was the last to leave Krypton after failing to save it, that she married Superman and had a son named Superboy with him, and that she shapeshifted into her secret identity of Lo Slane. Then, Leedra accused Flexi of being Supergirl due to her shapeshifting abilities and Flexi argued that Supergirl was long dead, S'age claimed that Supergirl was an ageless, self-regenerating, protoplasmic lifeform who was active for centuries from the First Heroic Age to the time of the Legion of Titanic Heroes. Flexi challenged Leedra to a fight and was about to shapeshift before being shot dead.
Next, Leedra accused S'age next, although S'age claimed that she couldn't be Supergirl and that Supergirl lived by a code of honor that prevented her from killing. So, Leedra shot Zip dead next due to the latter having a commitment of non-violence. S'age pointed her gun at Leedra and told her about a legend of Supergirl nearly destroying the world called the Crisis before accusing her of being Supergirl. Leedra shot S'age while the Tamaranean shot at the barrels with the red substance before they fell on top of her former comrade who read on a label that they were psychotropic chemicals that could cause extreme aggression, delusions, and paranoia.
Appearing in "The Legend Lives On"
Featured Characters:
- Leedra
- Zip (Dies)
- Flexi (Dies)
- S'age (Dies)
Supporting Characters:
- Supergirl (In a vision)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Yola (Appears only as a corpse)
- Superman (In a vision)
- Legion of Titanic Heroes (In a vision)
Locations:
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Synopsis for "Shootout at Ice Flats"
In Ice Flats, on Bonechill IV, 22,000 light years west of nowhere, after the newly-elected sheriff Eileen P. Garrett hit the herf Jake for refusing to behave himself, he told her to meet him and his sister Curly at noon the next day. Between their encounters, Eileen took a staple-o-matic as a weapon and her mother gave her a star pendant with the House of El's symbol in the middle, claiming that it was an "S' that stood for "Sardine Girl" and that the pendant would give her powers to those who believed.
Upon confronting Curly, her staple-o-matic was ineffective, so she turned to her pendant and shot many staples at Curly, who fled with her brother. Afterwards, Eileen dropped the pendant before her sister picked it up.
Appearing in "Shootout at Ice Flats"
Featured Characters:
- Sheriff Eileen P. Garrett
Supporting Characters:
- Roy
- Jess
- Sis
Antagonists:
- Curly
- Jake
Other Characters:
- Billy Fred Bob
- Ma
- Pa
Locations:
- Bonechill IV
- Ice Flats
Items:
Vehicles:
Notes
This was part of the Legends of the Dead Earth theme which ran through all of the 1996 DC annuals.
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