In the months of March and April of 1978, counterparts Supergirl and Power Girl faced similiar challenges, from their heritage to their realities from outside and from within.
Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl was raised on Earth-One, following the destruction of her hometown of Argo City, by her cousin Kal-El and adopted parents. In the interim, she discovered one surviving city from Krypton-One... Kandor... in shrunken form kept in Superman's Fortress of Solitude. There was also other survivors, like her parents within the Survival Zone until she freed them, and the Phantom Zone where Krypton's criminals were imprisoned for decades. Among these was Shyla Kor-Onn.
Shyla was an aspiring pilot whose application to Krypton's space program was rejected, Using a device of her creation to siphon of the strength of others in order to attain her goals, she accidentally killed an innocent individual. This led to her being exiled into the Phantom Zone for decades. Once finding the means to free herself, she sought out Supergirl in order to steal the Maid of Might's strength. When this scheme failed, Kara projected Shyla back into the Phantom Zone, although Shyla was released and then accused Supergirl in Kandor's court of illegally sending her there. The court sent Kara there until the case was resolved, proving Supergirl's innocence.
This was all an elaborate scheme was Lesla-Lar, a Kandorian for of Supergirl that was now an energy being after being betrayed by some of Shyla's fellow prisoners. Lesla and Kara later battled within Supergirl's mind for control of her body... which Kara soon won.
Simultaneous to this struggle, was a similar one which Kara Zor-L aka Power Girl was facing on Earth-Two. Having been raised there by her cousin Kal-L and his wife Lois, she was attempting to put behind her an artificially created existence within a virtual reality version of Kandor created by her father while aboard her spaceship. Still, within that vessel known as the Symbioship's databanks were virtual copies of both her parents and numerous other established Kryptonians.
During a moment of weakness, following her various confrontations with the mental madman known as Brain Wave, the Symbioship reasserted itself upon the psyche of Kara... pulling her into a dreamworld once more. Returning to its version of Kandor, Kara's artificial duplicate surplanted her and lived out various experiences within her body into this Kryptonian based society. Power Girl was now expected to now accept her new life back within the vessel. However, she would ultimately fight back, freeing herself from the Symbioship and seemingly irreparably destroying it. As for the other Kara crafted by the spaceship, she like Lesla ceased to exist, leaving Power Girl in peace.
However, while this was transpiring, Brain Wave was implementing a plan whereby he would teleport the cities of various members of the Justice Society... his old foes.. into the Limbo dimension between worlds. After sending the Flash's Keystone City into Limbo, Brain Wave forced Power Girl to herself be placed there. Within this realm, she fought and defeated Brain Wave and his henchmen, and returned the city and its heroes to their native dimension.
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