- "I'm lost. Among the stars. They stare back. Telling me I don't belong here. I don't belong anywhere. It's not the last time I'll hear it."
- ―Power Girl
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| JSA Classified | |
| Title: | "Power Trip" |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Cover price: | $2.50 |
| Cover date: | September, 2005 |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Credits | |
| Ex. Ed: | Dan DiDio |
| Writers: | Geoff Johns |
| Pencilers: | Amanda Conner |
| Inkers: | Jimmy Palmiotti |
| Cover artists: | Adam Hughes; Amanda Conner |
| Cover inker: | Adam Hughes; Jimmy Palmiotti |
| Cover colorist: | Adam Hughes; Paul Mounts |
| Colorists: | Paul Mounts |
| Letterers: | Rob Leigh |
| Assistants: | Harvey Richards |
| Editors: | Stephen Wacker |
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| Next: | JSA Classified #2 |
"Power Trip" is the title to the first issue of the JSA Classified ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics. The story was written by Geoff Johns with artwork by Amanda Conner and inks by Jimmy Palmiotti. It was colored by Paul Mounts with lettering by Rob Leigh. The cover art illustration was rendered by Adam Hughes. The story was edited by Stephen Wacker with Harvey Richards as assistant editor. This issue shipped with a September, 2005 cover date and carries a cover price of $2.50 per copy (US).
"Power Trip"[]
Doctor Mid-Nite has Power Girl at the labs of JSA Headquarters where he runs her through a gauntlet of tests. Recently, Power Girl has displayed feats of power that are exclusively Kryptonian traits, such as heat vision. Power Girl fantasizes about the time when she believed that she was the cousin of Superman, late of the planet Krypton. However, she has since discovered that she is in fact the grand-daughter of Arion, the sorcerer of pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis. Now, even that origin is being called in to question.
Power Girl leaves the HQ and discovers Garn Daanuth, the Atlantean nemesis of Arion tearing up the streets of Manhattan. Power Girl launches herself at him and begins beating him mercilessly into the ground. Several members of the JSA show up to try and calm her down. Apparently, she has only been fighting an illusion.
Meanwhile, a shadowy menace operates from behind the scenes in an effort to torment Power Girl even further. He has the three founding members of the Legion of Super-Heroes at his disposal to aid him.
Appearances[]
Featured characters
Supporting characters
- Doctor Mid-Nite, Pieter Cross
- Hawkgirl, Kendra Saunders
- Sand, Sanderson Hawkins
- Stargirl, Courtney Whitmore
- Wildcat, Ted Grant
Villains
- Garn Daanuth (As an illusion only)
- Alexander Luthor (Behind the scenes only)
- Psycho-Pirate, Roger Hayden (Behind the scenes only)
Minor characters
- Charlie the Owl
- Cosmic Boy, Rokk Krinn (False version)
- Lightning Lad, Garth Ranzz (False version)
- Power Girl's cat
- Saturn Girl, Imra Ardeen (False version)
Flashback characters
- Aquaman, Orin
- Atom, Ray Palmer
- Batman, Bruce Wayne
- Flash, Barry Allen
- Green Arrow, Oliver Queen
- Green Lantern, Hal Jordan
- Hawkman, Carter Hall
- Hawkwoman, Shayera Hol
- Jonathan Kent
- Martha Kent
- Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz
- Superman, Kal-El
Organizations
- Justice Society of America
- Justice League of America (In flashback only)
- Legion of Super-Heroes (False version)
Races
- Humans
- Altered humans
- Atlanteans (In flashback only)
- Kryptonians
- Martians (In flashback only)
- Thanagarians (In flashback only)
Locations
Items
Vehicles
Powers
Notes & Trivia[]
Variant cover by Amanda Conner.
- The Justice Society of America was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Everett E. Hibbard. They first appeared together as a group in All-Star Comics #3 in November, 1940.
- This issue shipped with a variant cover illustrate by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Paul Mounts.
- This issue shipped with a second printing sketch variant of the Adam Hughes cover (1:1 distribution ratio).
- This issue shipped with a third printing variant of the Amanda Conner cover.
- This issue is reprinted in the Power Girl: Power Trip trade paperback, published in February, 2014.
- This issue shipped to retailers on July 20th, 2005.
- This issue is UPC barcode 761941249209 00111.
- This issue builds upon sub-plots that have been developing over the past year in respective issues of JSA.
- Events from the "Power Trip" storyline tangentially lead into the upcoming "Infinite Crisis" event.
- Power Girl made her first canonical appearance in All-Star Comics #58. She was originally intended to be the Earth-Two counterpart to Supergirl. As such, she shared Supergirl's origin and powers, but carried a different name.
- Power Girl appeared last in JSA #67.
- Includes a flashback of the earliest chronological appearance of the modernized Power Girl.
- The members of the Legion of Super-Heroes that appear in this issue, are not the real Legionnaires. They will be revealed as doppelgangers in issue #2.
- This storyline seeks to revamp Power Girl's Post-Crisis origin as originally supplied in Secret Origins, Volume 2 #11. In Post-Crisis continuity, Power Girl was the grand-daughter of Arion the Immortal, a sorcerer of pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis. Arion placed Power Girl in suspended animation so that she might not fall victim to his evil brother, Garn Daanuth. Arion placed a spell upon her, wherein when she awakened in the 20th century, she would have a set of false memories, and believe herself to be the cousin of Superman.
- After the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, Power Girl's continuity was absorbed into the modern Earth. As such, it was required to alter her origin so as to maintain the idea that Kal-El was the only person to survive Krypton's destruction.
- This issue establishes that Power Girl spent nine years in outer space.
- Mister Terrific, Green Lantern and The Flash appear on the Amanda Conner variant cover to this issue, but do not actually appear inside the main story.