The Girl Cried Murder by Dorothy Woolfolk

Even Linda’s university professors look like they spend as much time in the gym as the research lab.

The female Vandyre students (including Kara) are depicted as pretty, without being overtly sexy, while the males are all athletically built, with square jaws. The art team too, with pencils by Art Saaf and inks by Vince Colletta throughout most of the series, knew how to deliver what was the necessary. In the new series, however, romance was going to become a much bigger deal, and both Woolfolk and Kanigher were very practised at delivering just what was needed.

Linda (and Supergirl) had had boyfriends since moving to San Francisco, but full-on romance had not been a central part of her adventures. Kanigher’s lengthy stint on Wonder Woman (nine years) would remould the heroine as a romance character, in more sense than one, mixing tales of Diana Prince swooning over Steve Trevor with the junior adventures of Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot on Paradise Island as they fought improbable fairytale-like monsters. 1 #6: Linda helps a reformed gang member.Īlthough a respected DC writer with a solid list of credits, some accounts claim that Kanigher could be difficult to work with, not least because of his apparent hot temper. Once rebooted, Supergirl would be handed over to editor Robert Kanigher, who also came with quite a reputation among his DC peers. Just one issue, to be specific, to launch the Maid of Might into her own self-titled comicbook - but it would be an issue that would leave in its wake a very different Kara Zor-El to the one Dorothy had inherited from Kara’s Adventure Comics run. But as it turned out, the superwoman of DC and the Supergirl of Argo City were to have but a fleeting relationship. Dorothy moved around during the 1940s, performing stints at Timely Comics (aka Marvel) and EC Comics, but she is best remembered for her work on DC titles, including Lois Lane, Young Romance, Wonder Woman - keen eyed readers may (just possibly!) have spotted a trend in the types of work she was assigned… Dorothy Woolfolk and (a young) Robert Kanigher editors of Supergirl Volume 1.Īfter time out to raise a family, Dorothy returned to DC in the early 70s - it was only a matter of time before they paired her up with Supergirl. Her early work for All-American Publications (the original home of Wonder Woman) would bring her into the orbit of DC Comics when said company merged with National Comics, to eventually become the company all comic lovers know today. She had been a female editor in the male-dominated comicbook business since the early 1940s. Dorothy Woolfolk (née Roubicek) was, by many accounts, a real character.

The Girl Cried Murder by Dorothy Woolfolk