i am wondering how old she is suppost to be? if that she is suppost to be older then Superman?

A wise man once said "old enough."

She looks under 18 to me.

@WW-Fan: 
Well if Kara was sixteen years old when Kal-El was born and Kal-El is currently thirty-two, Kara would be... 48. 
 
To be honest, I think that is the closest and best answer you're gonna get, unless they actually say it in the comic :P

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@WW-Fan: 
Well if Kara was sixteen years old when Kal-El was born and Kal-El is currently thirty-two, Kara would be... 38. 
 
To be honest, I think that is the closest and best answer you're gonna get, unless they actually say it in the comic :P

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@WW-Fan: 
Well if Kara was sixteen years old when Kal-El was born and Kal-El is currently thirty-two, Kara would be... 38. 
 
To be honest, I think that is the closest and best answer you're gonna get, unless they actually say it in the comic :P

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" @Nova`Prime`: Yeah... um... my... um... finger... um... slipped... um... "

I think in an issue of Brave and the Bold with Hal Jordan, it was stated that she was 17.

I think she's about 16. Technically, she's supposed to be older than Superman, but while her ship was heading towards Earth her body went into suspended animation keeping herself as young as she was when she left Krypton.

I think she is as old as superman just that they seem to reinvent her every so often....just think in the 1940s she was a teen now she is just young again.  Come on, she ever will be really old.

Kara is 17 
 

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she arrived. Her partnership with grayson also seems to confuse me since her equivalent in the Bat-Family should be Stephanie Brown or Tim Drake (more stephanie since Tim has Connor) but I put that aside considering they are both in the JLA  

 
 
Rant on off  
 
If someone could help me understand this I would appreciate it. :S
Sorry if this was painful to read

" The page Sha posted was from her most recent comic, #59 that hit the stands in December, and they're saying she's 17.  In which issue of her comic did she go to Metropolis University?  I don't remember that.   But then, any records of her schooling that she'd need to get her into a college would have to be faked for her by one of the Bats anyway, so her real age doesn't matter.  If you're going to include the time she spent in suspended animation in her age then she's a lot older than that since she was around 12 or 13 when Kal-El was a newborn.  That would make her closer to 40.   "

True. You have a point. But if that's true then Supergirl is trying to get involved with an adult (Dick Grayson) while she's a minor. :O  /jk But ok, I guess it makes sense. "

Lonely? debatable especially since she's been seen hanging with Steph Brown and Daimen in and out of the costume and she and Cassie are on good terms again;  Not to mention she and Jessie are good friends.
  
She's Linda Lang so there's her identity.

Supergirl is officially 18 physically. Chronologically  I can't say for certain but she would be in her late late 40's to early 50's (approx.49-51.) I am basing this on the assumption that superman is in his mid 30's  
 
she was "16" when she arrived on earth 
then there was the OYL event making her "17" 
then she was inducted into the New Krypton Science Guild on her "18"th birthday which occured on New Krypton (world of new Krypton arc)

@Sha:    

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but it was in the superman world of new Kryton arc where she was deciding which guild she was going to choose when she turned 18...and she chose the science guild. 
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" @Nova`Prime`: Yeah... um... my... um... finger... um... slipped... um... "

True. You have a point. But if that's true then Supergirl is trying to get involved with an adult (Dick Grayson) while she's a minor. :O  /jk But ok, I guess it makes sense. "

Yep, that could be a big problem for Dick.  She's 17, lonely, with nothing in her life but a career. Really no family, few friends, no secret identity so she can *have* an identity, or really anyone to talk to (she needs to hang around Stephanie more), and some serious daddy issues. Superman treats her with paternal condescension, and Batman treats her with dark mistrust and the heavy hand of... well, Batman. Now a good looking, buff male, someone respected and trusted as a peer by the authority figures in her life (Superman and Batman) is treating her with respect and friendship, not just personally but also for the work she's doing.When you don't have any other ties in your life, emotional support, or much experience with interpersonal relationships that don't include a punch to the jaw, I would imagine it would be really easy to confuse the inner glow of friendship for something more. She really has no experience with either.  Dick needs to watch his step really closely while the strains of Sting singing "Don't Stand So Close To Me" play in the background.I had a female friend say to me after reading her interaction with Hal Jordan, "Oh God, her brain disconnected and she turned into a babbling idiot when she started crushing on him.  She's *such* a teenager!  I'm embarrassed for her, that was me." " 

 
 
Completley agree with you.
@ChadwickDavis said:

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Supergirl is officially 18 physically. Chronologically  I can't say for certain but she would be in her late late 40's to early 50's (approx.49-51.) I am basing this on the assumption that superman is in his mid 30's  
 
she was "16" when she arrived on earth 
then there was the OYL event making her "17" 
then she was inducted into the New Krypton Science Guild on her "18"th birthday which occured on New Krypton (world of new Krypton arc)

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" Lonely? debatable especially since she's been seen hanging with Steph Brown and Daimen in and out of the costume and she and Cassie are on good terms again;  Not to mention she and Jessie are good friends.  She's Linda Lang so there's her identity. "

There are various versions of Supergirl. Let's start with the original version which first appeared in Action Comics 252 published in May 1959 but reprinted lots of times in various compilations. I think the first time Supergirl's age is ever mentioned is in Action Comics 270, November 1960. In that issue Superman throws a surprise SIXTEENTH birthday party for Supergirl. If we assume that the 18 month gap in between these two editions being published is real time then when Supergirl arrived on Earth she was about 14 years 6 months old. Based on this when Supergirl was killed in the 1985 story "Crisis On Infinite Earths" she should have been 40 or 41 years old depending on which issue she died in but I'm not sure which issue that was at the moment. Despite all the new versions of Supergirl created since then the original character would now be 74 years old turning 75 in November 2020.

As for Supergirl in the current TV series that's a different version, but we're told the following facts. She started her journey to Earth when she was 13 years old but landed in the Phantom Zone where she didn't age although she was stuck there for 24 years making her 37 when she escaped from there. When she arrived on Earth she was still 13 (37) then in the early episodes her age was given as 24 meaning it was 11 years later, so she was actually 48 years old. The Supergirl TV series is now in its fifth season, so based on this it seems she's 53.

Of course, in the comics, apart from when she had her sixteenth birthday party Supergirl doesn't really age that much at all.

I've been reading her early eighties volume; she says multiple times she arrived on Earth at fifteen. This is when she was born in Argo City years after Krypton's destruction. You have to accept the sliding timeline for her to be starting college again after attending Stanhope nearly two decades earlier. I'd estimate her at twenty or slightly older when she was killed off.

Your age is determined by the year you were born, suspended animation or not.