Supergirl (Volume 2) #4 is an issue of the series Supergirl (Volume 2) with a cover date of February, 1983.
Synopsis for "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here"
Supergirl encounters The Gang, a group of four super-powered costumed mercenaries, while the latter are robbing the Aerospace Technologies Show of a satellite. Ms. Mesmer, one of
the Gang members, hypnotizes Supergirl into immobility long enough for them to make a getaway. She also plants a post-hypnotic suggestion in Supergirl's mind that will trigger something she fears when she sees her reflection, if she and the Gang meet again. Supergirl's house-neighbor John Ostrander is unwittingly the messenger who is to deliver payment for the robbery to the Gang, who have given the satellite to Lester Adams, but Ostrander has passed on the messenger gig in order to audition for a play. When the Gang confront Ostrander, Supergirl is on hand to battle them. Then she sees her reflection in a window, but as the face of Linda Danvers. Thinking she may have revealed her secret identity, she flies away.
Appearing in "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here"
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Antagonists:
- The Gang
- Brains (First appearance)
- Bulldozer (First appearance)
- Ms. Mesmer (First appearance)
- Kong (First appearance)
- Lester Adams
Other Characters:
- Hymie Berkowitz (In a photograph only)
- Rachel Berkowitz (First appearance) (In a photograph only)
- Chicago Police Department
- Charlie
- Rao (Mentioned only)
- James Cagney (In picture only)
Locations:
- Chicago
- Rogers Park
- 1537 West Fargo Avenue
- McCormick Place Exhibition Center
- Lake Shore University
- Drury Lane Theatre (Mentioned only)
- Rogers Park
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Synopsis for "Missy Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
Two crooks paralyze Missy's mother from the waist down with a gunshot, but she is reunited with her long-lost husband and the crooks are captured. Then Lois and Perry White discover that, somehow, Jimmy Olsen is responsible for the prophetic stories.
Appearing in "Missy Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
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Trivia
- The letters page for this issue includes a response by the editor addressing readers' reaction to the letters page for Supergirl (Volume 2) #1 stating that Supergirl was being written as if she were 19 years old. Several reasons for the change are given:
- Writer Paul Kupperberg believed Supergirl became too similar to Superman when placed in a work environment and instead should be in a college environment
- Kupperberg finding the name "Supergirl" to be silly for a 24-25 year old woman
- To maintain an ~10 year age gap between Supergirl and Superman, who DC treated as being no older than 29 years old in the present.
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