Jasma was a mystery woman left adrift in space, suffering amnesia after being exposed to Kryptonite. Taken back to the world known as Makkor by their champion Salkor who found her, he nurtured her back to health during which they fell in love. Eventually, the pair married, although their union was sadly shortlived as Jasma recovered her memories of her previous life on Earth-One. No longer recalling her life on Makkor, she left Salkor behind.
Jinal Ne' Comarr was an adventurous woman arriving from space, finding all her crew mates dead from exposure to a barren Earth-Two. On this ravaged world, now under a red sun, Jasma eventually was forced into marrying Zhengla Koraz, the ruler of his alien people. Eventually, the union between he and Jinal was severed after they succeeded in conquering all other inhabitants of this world, including the ancient ones was genetically engineered them. As Zhengla lay dying, he proclaimed Jinal the new conqueror of this barren earth.
While Janal’s 27 chronicled adventures occurred over a period of 3 years, the woman who would become Jasma herself had 27 known tales… between the time when she first appeared using this alias… until the time she recovered memories of her brief life as Jasma. While Jinal’s ancestor envisioned her life thousands of years before her descendant was born, Jasma’s descendant would be drawn into meeting her ancestor thousands of years in the past. Confused?
Indeed. who really were these two women? Jasma discovered that she was actually Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl, and would only remember Salkor years after she left Makkor... just prior to her dying in the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Her husband would meet Kara's cousin Kal-El aka Superman, and the two would mourn her loss.
Jinal was said to have lived thousands of years in the future, with certain aspects of her story harmonizing with that of another blonde bombshell known as Kara Zor-L. This Kara, Power Girl, had been mentally assimilated into the Symbioship that brought her to Earth-Two... attempting to ensnare her within its virtual reality world. During a two year simulated period, Kara rejected life under the red sun planet, feeling she was alone on that doomed world. She was seemingly dreaming such a life foreshadowing Jinal's own in a future era. This mirrored Kara Zor-El’s dreams inspired by her foes Lesla-Lar and Universo, and her later amensiac life as Jasma***.
Interestingly, the tales of Jinal and Jasma were told at approximately the same time on parallel planets, with Jinal and Power Girl looking identical to one another. And Jinal of the far future of Earth-Two mirrors the descendant of Supergirl on Earth-One in 500000 C.E.
This future Maid of Might Louise-L traveled back to the 20th century to track down her foe Tal Belok’s confederate in that era, known as Toxus, whom he supplied weaponry from his future. Together with Superman, she and he defeated both these threats, although the villains later returned.
The next time, Louise-L and Kara Zor-El swapped time periods, as the two Supergirls disguised themselves as each other and captured Belok and Toxus. In that far future, the woman who would adopt the alias of Jasma first assumed the identity of her descendant Louise-L. And in turn, Louise-L adopted the alter ego of Linda Danvers during her brief stay in Kara’s native era.
Jasma and Jinal, each were blonde women from the stars, tied to worlds orbiting red suns, marrying alien supermen during moments of weakness, finding their fortitude to endure, persevere and become legends.
Interestingly, Kara Zor-L had spent a week in an Amazonian Memory Chair on the Earth-Two Paradise Island, in order to acclimated training as a software engineer. This may well have also played a part in her future insights into Jasma’s life, envisioning those experiences implanted by the Symbioship as those of her own!
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