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Super-Spinoffs: Girl Power! Part IV: Supergirls of the Comic Book Crossover Universe!

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TVCU-2: This is the timeline for reboots and remakes. I make this the location for LOIS & CLARK, and conflate that with crossovers that involve a post-Crisis version of Superman. This could also be called the Comic Book Crossover Universe. 1937-- On Krypton, Jax-Ur destroys Kandor’s lunar colony. The alien Brainiac  takes notice, soon attacking and stealing the city of Kandor itself from the planet’s surface.   Action  #866-67 <8-9.08>,  Action Annual  #12 <2009> [the depictions do not match perfectly, especially as regards Ursa’s role]. In issue #867 Kara Zor-El describes this as having happened only “months” before she (and her cousin Kal-El) narrowly escaped Krypton’s destruction [in   1938 ]. Issue #866 captions it “35 years ago,” but that clearly cannot be accurate given other known history about Krypton (and about Clark Kent’s age). 1939-- [Spring]-- Brainiac finds Argo City floating in space and attacks, integra...