YMMV / The Super-Steed of Steel

• Accidental Innuendo: Linda sounds more excited as wondering about having her own Cool Horse than what the writer intended:
  Linda Danvers: "I keep thinking about Firebrand! Oh, wouldn't it be exciting if I could have a wonder horse for my own? The fun we could have together! Gosh, just thinking about it gives me goose flesh! I hope I can fall asleep tonight!"
• Common Knowledge: The story arc's second half, wherein Comet develops a crush on Kara, started the "Silver Age Supergirl dated a horse" meme. Too bad that Kara never dated a horse. To start with, Comet was not a horse but a centaur, and he flirted with Kara while in human form. Kara never knew who that handsome rodeo rider was, and although she kissed him a couple of times, she never dated him, the whole thing being forgotten after two issues and never brought up by the characters again.
• First Installment Wins: There was a second Comet in the late 90's, devised by Peter David for his Supergirl series. As typical of nearly all Post-Crisis replacements of Silver Age Superman concepts, new Comet's backstory and nature were even weirder and more convoluted, becoming quickly and completely forgotten in favor of the original Silver Age Comet. Even more modern stories like "Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow" use Comet's original version instead of Post-Crisis Comet.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Kara's rocket was equipped with anti-collision systems. If Post-Crisis Zor-El had got the same foresight than his Pre-Crisis self, Kara would have not spent thirty-five years stuck to a giant Kryptonite meteorite.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Villain Vostar assumes Comet to be a Kryptonian animal because it is a flying creature who hangs out with the Super-Family. Twenty years later, comic fans assumed Comet to be Kryptonian for the same reasons, and they used him and Streaky (who was not Kryptonian either and had not even showed up in one decade) as an excuse to complain about the supposedly excessive number of Kryptonian survivors flooding the Superman books.
• Never Live It Down: In this 1962 storyline, Supergirl kisses rodeo star "Bronco" Bill once, completely unaware that man is her sidekick Comet (a centaur who had been turned into a horse by an evil wizard). Kara never discovered Bill's true identity, and Comet's unrequited crush on her was dropped after that story and never brought up again...except for comic fans, who still joke about Silver Age Supergirl "dating" a "horse" many decades after the fact.

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