{{DC Database:Comic Template | Title = Supergirl | Image = Supergirl v.5 38.jpg | Volume = 5 | Issue = 38 | Month = 4 | Year = 2009 | Event = Origins and Omens
| Executive Editor = Dan DiDio | CoverArtist1 = Joshua Middleton
| Editor1_1 = Wil Moss | Editor1_2 = Matt Idelson | Editor2_1 = Wil Moss | Editor2_2 = Matt Idelson | Writer1_1 = Sterling Gates | Writer2_1 = Sterling Gates | Penciler1_1 = Jamal Igle | Penciler2_1 = Matthew Clark | Inker1_1 = Keith Champagne | Inker2_1 = Matthew Clark | Colourist1_1 = Nei Ruffino | Colourist2_1 = Nei Ruffino | Letterer1_1 = Jared K. Fletcher | Letterer2_1 = Jared K. Fletcher
| Quotation = My mother sent me on a mission to Earth to find my father's killer. The man with the Kryptonite touch, Reactron. I'm supposed to be in Metropolis right now, tracking him down. Instead, a woman I barely know is doing her best to stop me and send me home. I'm Supergirl. This is my life. | Speaker = Supergirl
| StoryTitle1 = Who Is Superwoman? (Part II of VI) - Clashes | StoryTitle2 = Origins and Omens
| Synopsis1 = Superwoman and Supergirl fight one another in the skies above the Earth. Superwoman wants Kara to return to New Krypton and repeatedly tells her that she's not safe on Earth. Kara fights back, but Superwoman surprises her by projecting a wall of frozen ice – a power that is not traditionally associated with Kryptonians. The frozen Supergirl drops into the sea, but before Superwoman can act further, she receives a communiqué from General Sam Lane instructing her to retrieve a "stray dog".
In Metropolis, Inspector Mike Henderson is present at the Metropolis City Hospital, where a surgical team is attempting to remove the armor from the deceased Agent Liberty. Before they can make any headway, the process is interrupted by the sudden appearance of Lucy Lane. Lane is authorized by Secret Service to retrieve Agent Liberty's body before the medical team can go any further. Henderson and she exchange words, but Lucy is undeterred.
At the Daily Planet, Cat Grant receives a surprise package in the mail. Addressed from her "tiniest fan", the contents of the package include an ugly, ratty Supergirl doll.
Sometime later, an exhausted Supergirl arrives at Lana Lang's farmhouse and collapses in her arms.
Meanwhile, Superwoman finds Reactron just as he is preparing to murder a woman named Lori in her home. As the two fight, Reactron blasts Superwoman with gold Kryptonite radiation, but it appears to have no effect. Reactron cannot understand why the Kryptonite doesn't faze her. Superwoman grabs Reactron by the throat, smiles and says "Why Reactron – whoever said I was Kryptonian?"
| Synopsis2 = Scar reviews the Book of the Black and analyses what the future portends for Supergirl. She sees Supergirl embroiled in a conflict involving her mother Alura, as well as the recently pardoned Phantom Zone criminals, General Zod, Ursaand Non.
Back on Earth, Supergirl spends time with Lana Lang at her Smallville farmhouse. Lana begins coughing up blood into a napkin, but hides the seriousness of this spell from Supergirl. She passes it off as a simple cough.
| Appearing1 =
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Reactron
- Sam Lane (Cameo)
- Superwoman
Other Characters:
- Agent Liberty (Deceased)
- Jimmy Olsen (Cameo)
- Martha Kent (Behind the scenes)
- Perry White (Behind the scenes)
- Steve Lombard (Cameo)
- Lori Murphy
Locations:
- Smallville
- Lang Farm
- New Troy
- 3815 Mooney Drive
- Daily Planet
- Hammersmith Tower
- Police Precinct #55 (First appearance)
- Project 7734 (Behind the scenes)
Items:
Vehicles:
| Appearing2 = Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
Other Characters:
- Alura In-Ze (Flashback only)
- General Zod (Flashback only)
- Kryptonians/Kandorians (In dream sequence only)
- Mike Henderson (Flashback only)
- Non (Flashback only)
- Silver Banshee (Flashback only)
- Superwoman (Flashback only)
- Ursa (Flashback only)
Locations:
- Kandor (Flashback only)
- Kansas
- Smallville
- Lang Farm
- Metropolis (In dream sequence only)
Items:
Vehicles:
- Kryptonian Rocket (In dream sequence only)
| Notes =
- This issue shipped on February 18th, 2009.
- This issue is triangle number 14/2009.
- Issue includes an "Origins and Omens" back-up feature.
- The law exiling all Kryptonians (except for Superman) from the planet Earth was put into effect in Action Comics #874.
- Supergirl suspects that Superwoman might by Thara Ak-Var, a childhood friend who now lives on New Krypton.
- There is nothing to indicate that Kara was in fact the one who sent the Supergirl doll to Cat Grant.
| Trivia =
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- 2009
- Supergirl
- Supergirl storylines
- Supergirl image gallery
- Supergirl image category
- Supergirl appearances list
- Supergirl quotes page
- Supergirl: Who Is Superwoman?
- Supergirl: Who Is Superwoman? image gallery
- Supergirl: Who Is Superwoman? image category
- Origins and Omens
| Recommended =
- Supergirl Recommended Reading
- Action Comics (Volume 1)
- Adventure Comics (Volume 1)
- All-Star Comics (Volume 1)
- Supergirl (Volume 1)
- Superman Family (Volume 1)
- Supergirl (Volume 2)
- Infinity Inc. (Volume 1)
- Power Girl (Volume 1)
- Supergirl (Volume 3)
- Supergirl (Volume 4)
- Supergirl (Volume 5)
- Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Volume 1)
- Power Girl (Volume 2)
- Supergirl (Volume 6)
- Worlds' Finest (Volume 1)
- Supergirl (Volume 7)
- Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (Volume 1)
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- ↑ Green Lantern Corps #33 establishes that Scar and the Book of the Black reside deep "within the bowels of Oa".