With Supergirl’s big day just around the corner, this week I decided to return to my Superman Shelves. Last month, I showed off some of the Lego-related Superman Stuff in my collection, some of which I keep at home, some of which I use to adorn my classroom when school is in session. This week we’re going to continue the tour with some of the stuff on my shelves that features the Girl of Steel in her various forms.

As is probably not a huge surprise, a large percentage of my collection comes from our friends at the Funko company. This first tier of figures are all relatively basic Supergirl Funko Pops. To the left you’ll see the first Supergirl Pop in my collection, a basic figure of the character from the early days of the series before Funko started getting more…let’s call it “experimental.” Next to her at the top right is the newest Kara on my shelves, one of the Funko Pops from the new movie that hits theaters this Friday, along with a mini puppy Krypto figure. There are two Supergirl Pops in this line, the other one wearing her trenchcoat, which (if we’re being totally honest here) I’ll probably get at some point. And on the bottom is Supergirl #3, this one in a Santa Claus hat and holding a present, released as part of a holiday-themed line of DC Superheroine Holiday figures that came out a few years ago. (I’ve got several of the other girls from that line as well, all of which come out to decorate the day after Thanksgiving, but Kara is the only Superman-related figure in that line.)

Tier 2 are more Supergirl figures…of a sort, at least. Let’s call this “The Supergirls of Many Worlds.” On the left we have Supergirl from the popular DC Bombshells Line – it started as a series of variant covers with pinups of the DC characters in the style of World War II fighter jet nose art. The variants were popular and spun off an actual comic book series, which in turn spun off some Funko Pops. Next to her is her Sister from another Level of the Multiverse, Power Girl. If you’re not toooo deep into the DC Multiverse (then what are you doing here?) Power Girl is Kara Zor-L, Supergirl’s variant from the world of Earth-2, where the original Golden Age DC heroes lived. Through assorted multiversal fun, Peeg (as her friends call her) now lives on the main DC Earth and is considered part of the Superman family, although she and Supergirl are technically the same person.

Comics are wild, right?

At the end of the row is the Supergirl from the 2023 movie The Flash. I have to say, I think that movie was unfairly maligned. There was fun to be had in it, it was a BLAST seeing Michael Keaton as Batman again, and Sasha Calle turned in a good performance as Supergirl. But between Ezra Miller’s shenanigans turning off the potential audience and the fact that James Gunn was already poised to reboot the DCU at that point, it never really had much of a chance, did it?

Next we have two fun little oddities. After Funko made Pop figures of the six main characters from Friends, they had to start looking for variants to keep turning out money, including this figure of Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe Buffay when she dressed up as Supergirl for Halloween. (There’s also a Joey in a Superman costume we’ll get to one of these days.) Then, last year Kinder Joy did a DC Funko line of figures, which included this miniature Supergirl phone stand. It’s kind of hard to tell it’s a phone stand without a phone in it, I concede, but how was I supposed to take a picture of it if I put my phone there?

Before we leave Funko, just a quick observation: I was startled to find that, to the best of my knowledge, the only Pop that was ever made of the Melissa Benoist version of Supergirl from her TV show was a 2018 NYCC exclusive, which is currently being sold for several hundred American dollars on websites such as eBay. I was less startled, but not less disheartened, to discover that there’s never been a version of Helen Slater’s Supergirl. I consider both of these lapses to be terrible moral failures that Funko should rectify immediately.

We’ll wrap up this tour with a few odds and ends. In this last row we’ve got the Supergirl from a series of DC Superheros figures Burger King released two years ago. Next to her, from earlier this year’s DC Rides line from Wendy’s, is Supergirl with her flyer. Why did Supergirl need a jet? Because that was the premise of the line, that’s why. I make it a point to try to get my hands on these fast food-related Superman toys whenever any of them are released, and I’ve got several on my wish list, including the Bizarro and Bizarrogirl figures from the DC Rides line, the Mexico-only Burger King figures from last year’s Superman movie, and the new Supergirl figures that were just released at KFC this month to coincide with her movie. That’s what eBay is for, I guess.

And finally, closing out the Supergirl stuff, is a Hallmark “Itty Bittys” Supergirl plush. This was a cute line they had a few years ago encompassing characters from lots of different IPs. My son has a Bizarro plush that came with a book, and I’ve got Kara and Superman on my own shelves. I’m not sure if they still make this line or not – most of the Hallmark stores in my area closed down, which makes it harder on me when they release Superman-related Christmas ornaments. Harder, but not impossible.

I don’t have nearly as much Supergirl stuff as I do her cousin, I admit, but that really shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Superman is my bread and butter. But the rest of the family brings me joy too, and I cannot wait to take my son Eddie to see the new Supergirl movie this weekend. 

Blake M. Petit is a writer, teacher, and dad from Ama, Louisiana. His most recent writing project is the superhero adventure series Other People’s Heroes: Little Stars, volume one of which is now available on Amazon. Don’t forget, you can check out earlier blogs in the Year of Superman/Superman Stuff Archive! Got a request for a future “Superman Stuff”? Drop it in the comments!