Comic Title: Secret Origins #11
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1987
On Sale Date: November 13, 1986 Newsstand Date November 13, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Newsstand Date November 13, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #103

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #103

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #111

Copyright Date October 21, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Ancient Histories"
Pages: 16

Feature(s):
Power Girl (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Artist: Mary Wilshire
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Power Girl TPB (2006)

Feature Character(s)

• Power Girl (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Secret Origins #11; next appearance in Warlord #116)

Guest Star(s)

• Arion (in flashback and as a hologram; first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Time Masters #8; next appearance in Arion the Immortal #1)

Villain(s)

• Garn Daanuth (in flashback; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Warlord #131)
• A gang of bank robbers (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Mara (in flashback; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Arion the Immortal #2)

Other Character(s)

• Khater (Arion's grandson; in flashback; next appearance in Power Girl #4)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Kara (as a child in ancient Atlantis; last appearance in Time Masters #8; next appearance in Secret Origins #11)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Wyynde and Lady Chian (in flashback)
• Superman, Zor-L, Jor-L, and Allura (in Power Girl's false memories)
• Anti-Monitor (in flashback)

Comments:
This is the first appearance of the post-Crisis Power Girl. This story reveals that she has false memories of Krypton and the Earth-2 Superman that were implanted by her grandfather Arion. The Krypton and Superman that she remembers never existed in the post-Crisis universe. Unlike her Earth-2 counterpart, who is considered to be an entirely independent character, the post-Crisis Power Girl has an Atlantean heritage, not Kryptonian.

Synopsis:
Troubled by her memories of a Krypton which no longer exists in the new universe created in the wake of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Power Girl returns to the Symbio-Ship which brought her to Earth. She is surprised when she discovers a message from Arion, the great Atlantean mage.

Arion explains that Kara is actually his granddaughter. He reveals that Garn Daanuth attempted to use Kara's body to escape his imprisonment in the Darkworld. With magic waning, Arion was forced to use a magic crystal to dispell Daanuth's control. As a result, Arion and Garn became locked in otherworldly combat, while Kara was sent into the future.

Arion then explains that Kara's memories of Krypton were illusionary in nature to conceal her true heritage. Her powers are the result of Arion's own genetic manipulations, Daanuth's possession, and a side-effect of the crystal.