Alright, as stated on the previous page, the format for this 9 Feats of Strength collation is:
Description.
Story Title.
Source.
Writer.
Artist(s).
Where originally found in this thread, often under what tag.
Supplemental Wikia link, currently showing reference information, what cover of original comic book looks/looked like, and (in most cases) a synopsis of the story itself.
1. Plane Toss
Story Title: "Call me -- Kraken!"
Source: Daring New Adventures (Supergirl #18, Vol.2)
Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Artists: Carmine Infantino and Bob Oksner
(complete version found on page 5.
tag: "Catch and release. O'Hare Style"😉
2. Snow Rail Flight
Story Title: "Supergirl's Lost Costume!"
Source: Adventure Comics #392
Writer: Leo Dorfman
Penciller: Win Mortimer
Inker: Jack Abel
(complete version found on page 4.
tag: "Carrying a snow load. By rail."😉
3. Metal Gate Tear
Story Title: "The Other Side of Doomsday"
Source: Super-Team Family #11
Writer: Gerry Conway
Penciller: Alan Weiss
Inker: Joe Rubinstein
(complete version found on page 4.
tag: "Off-world, Kara tears open an EXTREMELY thick metal gate..."😉
4. Supermanium Vault Tear
http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/07/31/03/01/4650580_1166x654.jpg
Story Title: "Crisis in Kandor"/"Kandor vs. Supergirl"
Source: Superman Family #188
Writer: Jack C. Harris
Penciller: Jack Abel
Inker: Joe Giella
(complete version found on page 8.
tag: "Supermanium Vault Tearing"😉
5. Taj Mahal Catch
Story Title: "The Landmark Looters"
Source: Action Comics #363
Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller/Inker: Kurt Schaffenberger
(complete version found on page 6.
tag: "Taj Mahal Catch"😉
6. Car Orbit Toss
Story Title: "The Visitors from the Void"
Source: Superman Family #184
Writer: Jack C. Harris
Penciller: Jose Delbo
Inker: Vince Colletta
Letterer: Morris Waldinger
Colorist: Carl Gafford
(complete version found on page 4.
tag: "Orbital Toss"😉
8. Mountain Lift (Bizarroworld Ep.)
Story Title: "The Forbidden Fortress of Solitude"
Source: Action Comics #336
Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller/Inker: Jim Mooney
(complete version found on page 8.
tag: "Image 3 of 6"😉
9. Earthquake Stomp
Story Title: "The Girl with the See-Through Mind"
Source: Superman Family #168
Writer: Elliot S. Maggin
Penciller: John Rosenberger
Inker: Vince Colletta
(complete version found on page 6.
tag: "Level 800. Image 3 of 5."😉
Feel I should comment on the above.
They're intended to be in ascending order of magnitude.
For instance, a Boeing jet, though it soars through the air, actually weighs several dozen tons. It would take a lot of force to stop it from falling, then steady it, then send it once more on a passenger-survivable flight path. But it is ultimately a plane, and therefore aerodynamic.
A line of fully loaded box cars, however, weighs more than a Boeing once you get beyond a certain number of cars, let alone when loaded with something as dense as water, even in snow form, and is not designed for ANY sort of aerial maneuvering.
The first vault (metal gate) rending feat speaks for itself. The second one becomes impressive when one reads exactly what Supermanium was. Even Kara's cousin, whose name eludes mention now, needed help from Mon-el to re-shape it after it's formation. But Kara, under stress, does it here almost as an after thought. So this feat outranks the first, even though the material she has to bend in the 2nd looks only about 10 inches thick, as opposed to perhaps 24 or so.
The Taj Mahal is a grand structure of a weight I do not remember.
I have no idea how much force it would take to lift it in comparison to launching an object at great velocity into space.
I give the car orbit launch the nod on the supposition that the car is launched very far very quickly and is only stopped from going further by its explosion. Plus, I really like seeing Kara do stuff as Linda Lee.
Actually that probably outweighs all else.
Earlier I reversed the relative ranking of these 2 feats.
But I honestly don't know how one should go about comparing things once they get THAT fantastic.
Even so, rounding off the last 3...
Islands are undersea mountains; often bigger than their terrestrial cousins. I give the mountain Kara set on Bizarroworld the nod because the writer has Kara emphasize how gigantic it is. Also she moves it with greater speed and ease than she shows in the Luthor episode.
As for the stomp, mountain movements are big, tectonic plate movements (i.e. the source of earthquakes) are bigger.
But, admittedly, again ... I'm partial to Linda Lee.
A final submission for the day (which ends here in Michigan in about 5 minutes)...
It was featured earlier as a Level 500 feat.
I used KMC as image host then, however, I want to feature it once more, this time as a picamatic link, because I think it highlights the advantage of greater size renditions.
KMC is limited to 250 KB.
Seems smallish when I try to post by those parameters for the following.
Some things just need space for bigger display to be appreciated.
I think this is one of those. Compare it to it's earlier version on page 4 and see if you agree...
http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/07/31/07/04/4652077_1200x565.jpg
PR, if you happen to click on the picamatic link in the post before this one, you will see another reason I've gone with the KMC format.
Image Host providers periodically, randomly shut down.
Sometimes temporarily.
Sometimes permanently.
Picamatic shut down on me once before temporarily.
Seems now to be doing so again.
Hopefully it IS another temporary shutdown and not a permanent one like that which befell ImageHoop.com.
Again, since Picamatic was working when I posted the last image, but not in the past 2 days, I'm going to post with a different Image Host provider.
This one is called "Tiny Pic".
Fortunately, despite the name, it allows relatively large sized pictures to be posted online...
(1-Handed Raise of Viking Ship)
http://i27.tinypic.com/2v1mczd.jpg
Source: Action Comics #355
There was something special about Kara's era.
Not a whole lot of violence depicted, but quite a bit of the fantastic and magical.
Hmm...
Reminds me that I intended to post Supergirl's fight with a
villain/heroine/anti-heroine/whatever-alignment-suits-story-needs
sorceress called Enchantra.
In the meantime, I'll let fans of the 60s enjoy this shot of another Silver Age "Supergirl"...
Hmm. Now that I come to it again, let me correct a mistake I've been making. June Moone's alter ego is called Enchantress.
Not Enchantra.
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Random, mostly unrelated thought,
I should include a post or several that have distinctive phrases, natural for searchers to type in when they want to see images of our favorite heroine that will link them to this thread. It's maddening trying to find them otherwise. I remember how long it was after someone told me:
"Supergirl once moved Bizarroworld" before I stumbled upon that scene in Galan's P.C.K. thread. The guy that told me it existed did not remember specifics, nor the name of the story, what else it involved, or even the title of the magazine it appeared in (i.e. Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Superman Comics, Brave and the Bold, etcetera).
Hopefully, through the power of Google and the inclusion of logical "tags", my work here will begin to correct that sad situation...
