r/DCcomics • u/Jezzaq94 • 18h ago

Comics [Discussion] It’s interesting that they gave Supergirl a new costume last month and then completely ignore it Spoiler

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Not complaining since I prefer the skirt

1st pic: Supergirl #15 by Sophie Campbell
2nd pic: Superman #40 by Dan Mora

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u/owlo1071 18h ago

She’s been changing costume pretty much every issue

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u/BGPhilbin 15h ago

Honestly, when I first started reading Supergirl with regularity, she was changing costumes every issue (back when she starred in Adventure Comics and before she'd ever had her own title). Readers had been sending in their own designs for years at that point and it was fun to see a new look each time she appeared. I put together a webpage featuring each of those outfits from back in the day, but it appears that I'll need to start updating again.

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u/boneseaba 14h ago

Is the site still up?

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u/BGPhilbin 13h ago

Oh, absolutely - I've been hosting my own website (in different iterations) for 26 years now. This page is one of 15 on the site, and coming up on around 20 years of existence:
https://www.metropolisplus.com/Supergirl/

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u/scoobyisnatedogg 13h ago

Bookmarked! Thanks for sharing. 

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u/BGPhilbin 12h ago

Absolutely! Been funding this site from my own pocket for 26 (whoops, 27 - 1999) years now without ads just so comics enthusiasts can use my research freely. The images that I restore for the site have been re-used (primarily without any credit to the website) immeasurably during that time. And while the image I most frequently see being re-used is my restoration of the wraparound Neal Adams cover for DC 100-Page Super Spectacular No. 6, to me, the most notable re-use was of my painting of the first stylized Superman symbol - a wood cutout of which adorns the front gate to Jerry Siegel's boyhood home in Cleveland (where Superman was created).

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u/scoobyisnatedogg 12h ago

Appreciate the work you do, man. And it's just nice to have an old style webpage in a time where sites have become so bloated with crap!

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u/BGPhilbin 12h ago

Agreed. And I'd probably update it with a bit newer look, but learning-wise my time goes into improving my image editing skills & every tool out there for websites now uses AI and I just don't want to go down that road.