When Did Marvel Girl Study Superman’s Secret Identification?

“Present Some Solutions,” is a characteristic spotlighting when lengthy unresolved plot factors are ultimately resolved. At the moment, we have a look at how Marvel Girl was retroactively revealed to have found Superman’s secret id.

Lately, I did an article in regards to the time (in 1971’s World’s Best Comics #204, by Denny O’Neil, Dick Dillin, and Joe Giella) that Clark Kent and Diana Prince had been paired collectively by a pc relationship service (because it turned out, it was truly a pc from the distant future who had the power to entry assist from the previous to attempt to avert the horrible tragedy that will result in the pc’s “current day”), and once they met up with one another, it positive appeared apparent that they knew one another, proper?

And the attention-grabbing factor to me, as I famous then, was that whereas it was fairly clear when Superman found what Marvel Girl’s secret id was, I did not recall any comedian guide earlier than this one which established that the reverse was true, and because it turned out, that was as a result of this was the primary time that it WAS established that Marvel Girl knew Superman’s secret id!

In fact, now that it was revealed that she DID know, there have been a couple of comedian guide writers who determined that they wanted to clarify when and HOW she knew, which is the purpose of this particular article.

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When did Superman uncover Marvel Girl’s secret id?

Superman’s discovery of Marvel Girl’s secret id was not that lengthy earlier than the relationship difficulty occurred, as she revealed her id to her Justice League teammates in Justice League of America #69 (by O’Neil, Dillin and Sid Greene), the place Diana Prince, whereas headed to see the Justice League, discovers that somebody has been murdered in such a way as to make it appear to be Inexperienced Arrow dedicated the crime…

Diana makes a beeline to the Justice League’s headquarters to fill her teammates in on this information, whereas additionally revealing some main information of her personal.

She tells the group that she has to resign from the League as a result of she has misplaced her powers…

The entire scene is weird, particularly Batman performing prefer it makes good sense for Marvel Girl to retire now, as she now not has superpowers, which, after all, NEITHER DOES HE. Additionally, she walks in clearly wanting like Marvel Girl, and but they cannot acknowledge her with out her costume on. Too, too foolish.

In any occasion, this was the primary time that Diana Prince’s teammates realized her secret id. Observe, although, that the others weren’t dashing to inform her THEIR secret identities! So it was a bit unusual that, quickly after this difficulty, that O’Neil believed that Marvel Girl DID know Superman’s secret id.

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When did Marvel Girl retroactively study Superman’s secret id?

My pal, Commander Benson, wrote me to take the problem I left of “When did Marvel Girl study Superman‘s secret id?,” and he additionally had a useful dandy listing of when the assorted Justice League members realized one another’s secret identities in the course of the Silver Age:

• The Atom‘s secret ID was recognized to Hawkman (Hawkman # 9 [Aug.-Sep., 1965]) and revealed to the Batman, the Flash, Inexperienced Arrow, Inexperienced Lantern, and Superman, in JLA # 60.
• The Batman‘s secret ID was recognized to Hawkman (JLA # 41 [Dec., 1965]) and Superman (Superman # 76 [May-Jun., 1952]).
• The Flash‘s secret ID was recognized to Inexperienced Lantern (Inexperienced Lantern # 13 [Jun., 1962]), Hawkman (op. cit.), and Superman (Superman # 220 [Oct., 1969]).
• Inexperienced Arrow‘s secret ID was revealed to all the JLA in JLA # 61.
• Inexperienced Lantern‘s secret ID was recognized to the Flash (op.cit.) and revealed to the Atom, Batman, J’onn J’onzz, and Marvel Girl in JLA # 54.
• Hawkman‘s secret ID was recognized to the Atom (op. cit.), Batman (The Courageous and theDaring # 70 [Feb.-Mar., 1967]), and revealed to the Flash and Superman in JLA # 53 (Could, 1967).
• J’onn J’onzz‘s secret ID was recognized to Inexperienced Arrow (The Courageous and the Daring # 50 [Nov., 1963]) and Hawkman (op. cit.).
• Superman‘s secret ID was recognized to Batman (op. cit.), the Flash (op. cit.), and Hawkman (op. cit.).
• Marvel Girl‘s secret ID was recognized to Hawkman (op. cit.), then after she misplaced her powers, to the Atom, Batman, the Flash, Inexperienced Arrow, and Superman in JLA # 69 (Feb., 1969).

Superior work, Commander!

He additionally famous that in Justice League of America #122 (by Martin Pasko, Dick Dillin, and Frank McLaughlin), Physician Mild found the League’s secret identities, after which first erased these reminiscences from their minds, after which swapped their identities of their respective minds (so Batman thought he was Oliver Queen, Inexperienced Arrow thought he was Ray Palmer, and so forth.)…

Fortunately, Aquaman found out the scheme, and crammed everybody in on what their precise identities had been…

On the finish of the problem, after first erasing Physician Mild’s reminiscence, the remainder of the League decides that every one League members will share their secret identities with one another (as Commander Benson notes, that wasn’t actually essential, as this group actually just about knew one another’s identities ANYways).

This story was set across the time of Justice League of America #75, and because the League would not settle for Marvel Girl’s resignation in Justice League of America #69, it stands to cause that she was thought-about a member for the aim of studying all of her teammates’ secret identities, resulting in her realizing Superman’s id on their pc date.

Nice logic, Commander!

If anybody has a suggestion for a comic book guide plot that bought resolved after a couple of years (I have a tendency to make use of two years because the minimal, as in any other case, you are most likely simply in the course of the precise preliminary reveal of the storyline, ya know? However I am going to enable exceptions the place a brand new author takes over a storyline and has to resolve the earlier author’s unresolved plots), drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!