Created as a female counterpart to Superman, Kara Zor-El shares his super powers and vulnerability to Kryptonite. Supergirl plays a supporting role in various DC Comics publications, including "Action Comics", "Superman", and several comic book series unrelated to Superman. In 1969, Supergirl's adventures became the lead feature in "Adventure Comics," and she later starred in an eponymous comic book series which debuted in 1972 and ran until 1974, followed by a second monthly comic book series, "The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl", which ran from 1982 to 1984. Supergirl was originally introduced in "Action Comics" #252 as the cousin of the publisher's flagship superhero, Superman in the story "The Supergirl from Krypton". In most depictions, she is an alien from the planet Krypton, possessing a multitude of superhuman abilities derived from the rays of a yellow sun. Other mainstream characters have taken the name Supergirl over the years, with decidedly non-extraterrestrial origins, such as that of a superhuman artificial life-form. The 2016 miniseries "Supergirl: Being Super" written by Mariko Tamaki and pencilled by Joelle Jones is a coming-of-age take on Supergirl's origins. It depicts Kara as a seemingly ordinary teenager living in the rural Midvale with the Danvers, since the couple found her inside a pod in the middle of a field. Kara grows up aware of the pod and her unknown origins (which are glimpsed in dreams) and struggles to live a normal life as she discovers her astonishing super-human abiltites, which she keeps a secret even from her closest friends.