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Igel

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2. That's the backstory I remember.

Reply to hurple (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 3, 2019, 04:13 PM

Nov 2019

She was a girl. When she was introduced, she was in high school. She may have still been in high school when I was a kid; fiction-time doesn't go in lockstep with publication time.

Once she had the name "supergirl" her change in age didn't cause the comic to change name.

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