Power Girl (real name Kara Zor-L, also known as Karen Starr) is a <a title="DC Comics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics">DC Comics</a> <a title="Superheroine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheroine">superheroine</a>, making her <a title="First appearance" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_appearance">first appearance</a> in <a title="All Star Comics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Star_Comics">All Star Comics</a> #58 (January/February 1976).^{<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Girl#cite_note-0">[1]</a>}

Power Girl is the <a title="Earth-Two" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-Two">Earth-Two</a> counterpart of <a title="Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(Kara_Zor-El)">Supergirl</a> and the first cousin of <a title="Superman (Earth-Two)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(Earth-Two)">Kal-L</a>, <a title="Superman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman">Superman</a> of the <a title="Crisis on Infinite Earths" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths">pre-Crisis</a> <a title="Earth-Two" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-Two">Earth-Two</a>. The infant Power Girl's parents enabled her to escape the destruction of <a title="Krypton (comics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypton_(comics)">Krypton</a>. Although she left the planet at the same time that Superman did, her ship took much longer to reach <a title="Earth-Two" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth-Two">Earth-Two</a>.

Possessing superhuman strength and the ability to fly, she is a member of the <a title="Justice Society of America" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Society_of_America">Justice Society of America</a> and the team's first <a title="Chairman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman">chairwoman</a>. Power Girl sports a <a title="Bob cut" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_cut">bob</a> of blond hair; wears a distinctive white, red, and blue costume; and has an aggressive fighting style. Throughout her early appearances in <a title="All Star Comics" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Star_Comics">All Star Comics</a>, Power Girl was frequently at odds with <a title="Wildcat (comics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_(comics)">Wildcat</a>, who had a penchant for talking to her as if she were an ordinary human female rather than a superpowered Kryptonian, which she found annoying.

Power Girl's original <a title="Wally Wood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Wood">Wally Wood</a> artwork (1976) showed her as relatively busty but otherwise her <a title="BWH" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWH">figure and build</a> conformed in appearance to other contemporary comic book women. However, in <a title="Wonder Woman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman">Wonder Woman</a> # 34 (2009), written by <a title="Gail Simone" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Simone">Gail Simone</a>, Dinah Lance, the <a title="Black Canary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canary">Black Canary</a>, mentions Power Girl as having the top bosom of <a title="DC Universe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Universe">DCU</a>, comparing her assets with a "national treasure".^{<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Girl#cite_note-71">[72]</a>} Her classic suit is one of a skin tight spandex white leotard with very high cut leg holes and an opening in the chest.^{<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Girl#cite_note-72">[73]</a>}