Supergirl

Early Supergirl chronology:
Note: An issue and panel citation without other information is a retelling of the event described  directly above it.

SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #26: First chronological appearance of Zor-El and Allura In-Ze, Supergirl's future parents, on an outing with Jor-El, Lara, and Kal-El.

SUPERMAN #146: Jor-El confers with Zor-El about Krypton's impending destruction.

ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 6, panels 4-5: Zor-El shows Jor-El the protective bubble he has built around Argo City.

ACTION COMICS #252:
 Argo City is flung into space under a protective bubble as Krypton explodes (pg. 3, panels 1-2)
 ACTION COMICS #253, pg. 2, panel 4
 ACTION COMICS #262, pg. 3, panel 6
 SUPERBOY #80 (3), pg. 3, panel 1
 ACTION COMICS #280, pg. 6, panel 4
 SUPERMAN #150 (1), pg. 5, panel 3
 ACTION COMICS #285, pg. 4, panel 1
 ACTION COMICS #288, pg. 7, panel 6
 ACTION COMICS #291, pg. 4, panel 5
 ACTION COMICS #305, pg. 7, panel 6
 ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 7, panel 1
 ADVENTURE COMICS #393 (2), pg. 2, panel 4
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #184, pg. 5, panels 2-3
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #203, pg. 5, panel 6
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #208, pg. 1
 DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 6, panel 1
 Zor-El's nutrition machines keep Argo citizens supplied with food and water (ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 7, panel 2).
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #184, pg. 5, panel 4
 The soil beneath Argo City becomes Anti-Kryptonite, but Zor-El has it covered with protective lead sheeting (pg. 3, panels 3-4)
 ACTION COMICS #262, pg. 4, panels 1-2
 SUPERBOY #80 (3), pg. 3, panel 2
 ACTION COMICS #280, pg. 6, panels 5-6
 ACTION COMICS #288, pg. 8, panel 1
 ACTION COMICS #291, pg. 4, panel 6
 ACTION COMICS #305, pg. 8, panel 1
 ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 7, panel 3
 ADVENTURE COMICS #393 (2), pg. 2, panel 5
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #184, pg. 5, panels 5-6
 DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 6, panel 2
 Kara Zor-El is born to Zor-El and Allura (pg. 3, panel 5)
 ACTION COMICS #262, pg. 4, panel 3
 ACTION COMICS #280, pg. 7, panel 2
 ACTION COMICS #285, pg. 5, panel 1
 ACTION COMICS #291, pg. 9, panel 1
 ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 7, panel 4
 DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 6, panel 3
 A priest of Rao christens her Kara, after the ancient Kryptonian goddess of beauty (ACTION COMICS #314, pg. 3, panel 1)
 During Kara's early life, she catches Virus Alpha and recovers, gets a six-legged lumir as her first pet, and hears stories of Krypton from her mother (ACTION COMICS #314, pg. 3, panels 2-5)
 Zor-El designs and creates a jet-drive which can rocket Argo City to another planet (ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 7, panels 5-6)
 Under the influence of a yellow sun, the Argonians gain super-powers, but the mad prophet Jer-Em believes this is against Rao's will, and turns them back towards a red sun.  He is sent to the Phantom Zone, but the jets have no more power to drive Argo City (ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 8, panel 1-pg. 9, panel 6)
 Kara is given a "living doll" android designed by Magus, a Kryptonian dollmaker (ACTION COMICS #326, pg. 10, panels 4-6)
 Kara is shown playing ball with a friend, possibly Morina (DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 6, panel 4)
 Kara sees her best friend, Morina, die of Kryptonite poisoning (ACTION COMICS #371, pg. 6, panels 4-5)
 Kara meets Superboy when the latter, in an amnesiac state, is captured by one of Zor-El's space probes.  Superboy later saves Argo City from an alien, but his memory is cleansed from their brains as a result, and he does not recall his adventure when he regains his own memory (ACTION COMICS #358)
 A meteor shower pierces Argo City's protective bubble and the leaden sheeting, releasing deadly Anti-Kryptonite radiation (pg. 3, panel 6)
 ACTION COMICS #262, pg. 4, panel 5
 ACTION COMICS #280, pg. 7, panel 3
 ACTION COMICS #285, pg. 5, panel 2
 ACTION COMICS #288, pg. 8, panel 2
 ACTION COMICS #291, pg. 9, panel 2
 ACTION COMICS #305, pg. 8, panel 2
 ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 10, panel 1
 ADVENTURE COMICS #393 (2), pg. 3, panel 1
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #184, pg. 6, panel 1
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #207, pg. 5, panel 4
 DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 6, panel 5
 ACTION COMICS #548, pg. 14, panel 3
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #168, pg. 11, panels 1-2 (this account reveals that it happened at the time of a festival in Argo City, and that Kara was dating a boy named Jer-Vann)
 Zor-El has Magus design an android and sends it into the Survival Zone as a test (ACTION COMICS #326, pg. 11, panels 1-2)
 Zor-El attempts to send himself and Allura into the Survival Zone, on a different wavelength than the Phantom Zone, but the zone projector fails to send them there immediately (ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 10, panels 2-4)
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #184, pg. 6, panels 3-4
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #207, pg. 5, panel 5
 With a month before all in Argo City will perish, Zor-El creates a spaceship to send Kara to another world (ACTION COMICS #305, pg. 8, panel 3)
 Zor-El, Kara, and Allura, looking for a world to which they can send Kara in a rocket, discover Earth and Superman, and learn that he is a fellow Kryptonian (pg. 4, panels 1-4)
 ACTION COMICS #262, pg. 4, panel 6-pg. 5, panel 1
 ACTION COMICS #305, pg. 8, panels 4-5
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #203, pg. 5, panel 6
 Zor-El designs a density intensifier which he intends to send to Earth with Kara (SUPERMAN FAMILY #207, pg. 6, panels 5-6)
 Zor-El and Allura show Kara the rocket which will send her to Earth (DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 7, panel 1)
 Allura makes a Supergirl outfit for Kara (pg. 4, panel 5)
 SUPERBOY #80 (3), pg. 3, panel 3
 ACTION COMICS #280, pg. 7, panel 4
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #184, pg. 6, panels 4-6
 Kara boards Zor-El's rocket as her parents bid her farewell (DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 7, panel 2)
 ACTION COMICS #548, pg. 19, panel 5-pg. 15, panel 1
 Kara is rocketed towards Earth (pg. 4, panel 6)
 ACTION COMICS #253, pg. 3, panels 5-6
 ACTION COMICS #262, pg. 5, panel 2
 SUPERBOY #80 (3), pg. 3, panel 4
 ACTION COMICS #280, pg. 7, panel 5
 SUPERMAN #150 (1), pg. 5, panel 5
 ACTION COMICS #288, pg. 5, panel 3
 ACTION COMICS #288, pg. 8, panels 3-4
 ACTION COMICS #305, pg. 8, panel 6
 ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 10, panel 5
 ACTION COMICS #314, pg. 3, panel 6
 ADVENTURE COMICS #393, pg. 3, panel 2
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #168, pg. 11, panel 3
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #184, pg. 6, panel 7
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #185, pg. 2, panel 5
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #203, pg. 5, panel 6
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #208, pg. 1
 ACTION COMICS #548, pg. 15, panel 2
 Kara has a last look at Argo City through the window of her rocket (DARING NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERGIRL #1, pg. 7, panel 3)
 Ranar the Hakawee briefly lands on Argo City and tries to take Kara for a mate, but is told by Zor-El and Allura that she is gone, and he departs (SUPERMAN FAMILY #177, pg. 9, panel 3-pg. 10, panel 4)
 Zor-El and Allura are yanked ahead in time and taken through space by Mr. Mxyzptlk to meet Kara as Supergirl, but are sent back to Argo City in the past when Zor-El tricks Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards (ACTION COMICS #291)
 Another meteor shower further punctures the lead sheeting on Argo City, and its citizens die.  But Zor-El and Allura are sent into the Survival Zone by the delayed reaction of Zor-El's ray (ACTION COMICS #309, pg. 11, panel 1-pg. 12, panel 1)
 ACTION COMICS #314, pg. 4, panel 1
 SUPERMAN FAMILY #185, pg. 3, panels 1-2
 In the Survival Zone, Zor-El and Allura watch the citizens of Argo City die (SUPERMAN FAMILY #185, pg. 3, panel 3)
 Supergirl has to manually land the rocket, due to automatic control failure (ACTION COMICS #305, pg. 9, panels 1-2)

Action Comics No. 252, May 1959
Cover:  Superman meeting Supergirl  //Curt Swan / Al Plastino
Story:  "The Supergirl From Krypton"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Al Plastino
Intro:  Supergirl (Kara Zor-El, alias Linda Lee; last chronological appearance in flashback in )
Origin:  Supergirl
GS:  Superman (last appearance in first story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #101)
Intro:  Zor-El, Allura Zor-El (Supergirl's parents; in flashback; next appearance in issue #291)
Intro:  The people of Argo City (in flashback; all die in this story)
Intro:  Miss Hart, Mr. Dixon (named in next issue), children of Midvale Orphanage
Cameo:  Superboy
Comment:  This is the first Supergirl story
 According to the story in issue #305, this story takes place on May 18, 1959.
 Supergirl is 15 at the time of this story.  Her birthday is September 22, which probably means Kara Zor-El was born in 1943.
Synopsis:  Argo City, a domed city on Krypton, was flung free of the planet when Krypton exploded, many years ago.  Jor-El's brother (and Superman's uncle) Zor-El and his wife Alura were in Argo City and survived Krypton's destruction, along with the other Kryptonians therein.  But, when exposure to Kryptonite threatened to destroy all the Argo City people, Zor-El and Alura sent their young daughter Kara to Earth in a costume fashioned after that of Superman, whom they had learned about by viewing Earth on telescopes.  Superman meets Kara when she emerges from her crashed rocket, sees that she has super-powers similar to his own, and both of them learn that they are related.  He arranges for her to take on the secret identity of Linda Lee, complete with a brunette wig, and enrolls her in Midvale Orphanage.  However, he cautions her to keep her existence as Supergirl a complete secret while she learns to use her powers properly, and says that he will reveal her existence to the world when the proper time comes.  Later, Supergirl decides to become the "guardian angel" of Midvale, and do good deeds while remaining
unknown.

Action Comics No. 253, June 1959
Story:  "The Secret of the Super-Orphan"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (origin retold in flashback; next appears in SUPERMAN #130)
GA: Superman (between first story in this issue and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #102)
Supporting Characters: Miss Hart, Mr. Dixon, and the children of Midvale Orphanage (Harry, Dora, and Kathy named in this story)
Cameo: Zor-El, Allura (in flashback)
Intro: Mr. and Mrs. Trent, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Timmy Tate (only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story, Supergirl briefly appears in SUPERMAN #130.
Synopsis: Supergirl secretly helps her fellow orphan Timmy Tate get adopted.

Action Comics No. 254, July 1959
Story:  "Supergirl's Foster Parents"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #130)
Supporting Characters: Miss Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage
Villains: Mr. and Mrs. Dale, Todd (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: Linda Lee is adopted by the Dales to serve as a shill in their crooked medicine show for a phony "power tonic".  Supergirl secretly puts the skids to their plans, and Linda ends up back in Midvale Orphanage.

Action Comics No. 255
August 1959
Story:  "Supergirl Visits the 21st Century"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Tommy Tomorrow (first chronological appearance; next chronological appearance in SHOWCASE #41)
Intro:  Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Tomorrow (Tommy's adoptive parents; first and only appearance of both; the New Earth Horatio Tomorrow first appears in CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #12)
Intro: Jik (a Martian boy) and the head of an orphanage in the future
Synopsis: Superman drops Supergirl a note instructing her to test her time-travel abilities by going into the future.  Accordingly, Supergirl goes to the 21st Century, where she encounters a young
Tommy Tomorrow, also an orphan, and secretly helps him get adopted.

Action Comics No. 256
September 1959
Story:  "The Great Supergirl Mirage"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #40)
Intro:  Dick Wilson (renamed Dick Malverne in issue #282, his next appearance), a Supergirl robot
Supporting Characters: Mr. Dixon, children of Midvale Orphanage
Synopsis:  When orphan Dick Wilson snaps a picture of Supergirl in action, and suspects Linda Lee of being the Girl of Steel, Superman gets his cousin off the hook by creating a robot Supergirl, having it entertain the children of Midvale Orphanage, and then expose its mechanical self.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 40
October 1959
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl's Pal"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder?
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen
GS: Superman, Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #256 / 257; origin retold in flashback)
Cameo: Zor-El, Allura (flashback)
Villains: "Big Con" Colby, Thora (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  When Jimmy Olsen threatens to expose phony acts at Colonel Colby's sideshow, he accidentally blinds himself with tear gas from his trophy case.  Colby dumps Olsen in the desert,
and Jimmy activates his signal watch.  Since Superman is at the center of the Earth on a mission , Supergirl (whose existence is a secret) answers the summons.  But, try as she may, Supergirl
cannot convince the skeptical Olsen that she has super-powers. Olsen believes her to be Colby's strong-girl Thora.  Finally, Supergirl sees Superman returning to Earth's surface, reactivates Jimmy's signal-watch to summon him, and flies away.  Superman exposes Colby and takes him to jail.  Jimmy, telling Superman how Colby tried to make him believe there was a Supergirl, breaks
down laughing.

Action Comics No. 257
October 1959
Story:  "The Three Magic Wishes"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #40)
Supporting Characters:  Children of Midvale Orphanage (Peggy and Johnny named in this story)
Intro: Tom Baxter, Peggy's mother (as a photograph; only appearance for both)
Cameo:  Cinderella and her Fairy Godmother (as an illustration in a book)
Synopsis:  When cynical orphan Tom Baxter scoffs at the fairy stories Linda Lee reads to the younger children at the Orphanage, Linda, as Supergirl, impersonates a "fairy godmother", grants
three wishes to Tom, makes his nose seem to grow Pinnochio-style with a yeast prosthesis, and convinces him to mend his ways.

Action Comics No. 258
November 1959
Cover:  Superman hurling Supergirl into space //Curt Swan / StanKaye
Story:  "Supergirl's Farewell to Earth"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney

Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Mr. Dixon, children of Midvale Orphanage
GS:  Superman (last appearance in first story in this issue; next appears in Green Arrow story in ADVENTURE COMICS #266), Krypto (between SUPERMAN #130 / 134)
Comment: In this story, Supergirl learns Superman's secret identity.
Synopsis:  When Supergirl reveals her existence to Krypto, Superman penalizes her by exiling her to an asteroid for a year.  She later gets a note from him instructing her to temporarily return to Earth, since Kryptonite dust is supposedly about to envelop the asteroid where she now lives.  On Earth, Supergirl becomes Linda Lee again, explains away her abscence to the headmaster of her orphanage, and, later, deduces that Clark Kent is really Superman.  Superman then reveals that he only intended to keep her away for a week, to see if she could cover her abscence successfully, which she did.  He also intended to reveal his secret identity to her...but got scooped!

Action Comics No. 259
December 1959
Story:  "The Cave-Girl of Steel"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #134)
Supporting Characters: Miss Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage
GA:  Superman (last appearance in first story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #106)
Intro:  A tribe of cavepeople (only appearance)
Synopsis:  Supergirl takes a trip to the past and aids a tribe of cavepeople with her super-powers.  When she returns to the present, she sees in a museum an image of herself chiseled in stone by an artisan of the tribe.  The museum guide, however, thinks the "flying girl" is just an imaginary goddess.

Superman No.134
January 1960
Cover: Superman vs. Kull-Ex //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Super-Outlaw From Krypton"
 Part 1: "The Super-Menace of Metropolis" (9 pages)
 Part II:  "The Revenge Against Jor-El" (9 pages)
 Part III:  "The Duel of the Supermen"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Wayne Boring
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #106; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #14)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #259; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #14), Krypto (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #258; next appears in ?)
Supporting Character:  Jor-El (in flashback)
Villain:  Kull-Ex (intro; only appearance)
Intro:  Zell-Ex (in flashback; Kull-Ex's father; dies in this story)
Synopsis:  Kull-Ex, a Kandorian scientist, believes that his father, Zell-Ex, was cheated out of patent rights to an invention by Jor-El, Superman's late father.  In revenge, he enlarges himself, shrinks Superman, and switches places with him in the outside world with an exchange-ray.  Then he runs amok on Earth, causing destruction while impersonating Superman in order to blacken the Man of Steel's name.  Superman enlists Supergirl's and Krypto's aid, shows Kull-Ex that Jor-El did not really steal Zell-Ex's patent rights, and causes him to make a public confession of his masquerade and plot.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No.14
January 1960
Story:  "Lois Lane's Secret Romance"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character:  Lois Lane
GS:  Superman, Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #134; next appears in ACTION COMICS #260)
Origin:  Supergirl (retold in flashback)
Synopsis:  When Linda Lee sees Lois Lane crying because of her failure to marry Superman, she realizes that a married Superman and Lois could adopt her.  Motivated by that and by a desire to
stop Lois's sorrows, Supergirl begins a covert campaign to make Superman fall in love with Lois and pop the question.  But every ploy Supergirl tries somehow goes wrong.  Superman finally
deduces what is going on when he sees Supergirl's fingerprints on a forged note from "Batman" to Lois.  After being set straight by Superman, Supergirl tells herself she will never interfere with
Superman's romantic life again.  Well, not for a while, at least...

Action Comics No. 260
January 1960
Cover:  Superman, Supergirl as "Mighty Maid", Perry White, and Lois Lane; Supergirl vignette   //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "Mighty Maid"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist:  Al Plastino
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #42; next appears in Supergirl story in this issue)
GS:  Supergirl (disguised as Mighty Maid in part of this story; last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #14; next appears in Supergirl story in this issue)
GS:  Lois Lane, Perry White (last appearance of both in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #42)
Villains:  A group of aliens (first and only appearance)
Comment:  In this story, it is revealed that Supergirl is 15 years old.
Synopsis:  When an armada of alien invaders heads towards Earth to attack Superman in vengeance for some of their spacecraft having been shot down decades past by Kryptonians, Superman stages an elaborate ruse, disguising Supergirl as "Mighty Maid", a superheroine, faking a romance with her, and pretending to elope with her to the Fourth Dimension.  After putting the aliens in suspended animation in space, Superman returns to Earth and tells Lois that his romance with Mighty Maid went on the rocks.

Story:  "The Girl Superbaby"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder?
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in the Superman story in this issue)
GA:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN #135)
Intro:  Julu the Elder and his tribe
Villains:  Mojax and Dude (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  When Supergirl is turned into a superbaby for a time by the magic powers of a Fountain of Youth, she accidentally (and secretly) helps drive two jewel thieves into the hands of the law.

Action Comics No. 261
February 1960
Story:  "Supergirl's Super Pet"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
Intro:  Streaky the Supercat (next appears in issue #266)
Origin:  Streaky the Supercat
Supporting Characters:  Miss Hart and the children of Midvale Orphanage
Cameo:  Superman (as a doll)
Synopsis:  After Linda Lee rescues an orange cat with white zig-zag streaks down its sides, it opts to become her pet, and she names it Streaky.  Later, Supergirl unsuccessfully experiments on a piece of Kryptonite in an attempt to develop an antidote, but it is chemically changed into "X-Kryptonite", which gives Streaky temporary super-powers.  Streaky uses his newfound abilities to protect downtrodden animals and to frolic with Supergirl in space, until the X-Kryptonite's effect wears off and he becomes a normal cat again.

Action Comics No. 262
March 1960
Cover:  Supergirl lifting tree, Superman menaced by Kryptonite meteor  //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "Supergirl's Greatest Victory"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weieinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character:  Supergirl (origin retold in detail)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in first story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #108; also appears in flashback to issue #252)
Supporting Characters: Zor-El, Allura (in flashback; chronologically between flashbacks in issue #252 and 309), Miss Hart, Mr. Dixon, children of Midvale Orphanage
Cameo: People of Argo City (in flashback)
Synopsis:  Supergirl attempts to immunize herself to Kryptonite, and only thinks she is succeeding because a metal-eater beast, escaped from the Fortress of Solitude, is secretly eating through the Kryptonite and reducing its mass and power.  Thus, Supergirl unwittingly lures herself and Superman into a deathtrap, which they barely escape.  Later, they learn the truth and restore the
metal-eater to the Fortress.

Superboy No. 80
April 1960
Cover:  Superboy and Supergirl playing darts //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "Superboy Meets Supergirl"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superboy (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #270)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #262; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #44; origin retold in this story)
GA:  Superman (between WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #108 / SUPERMAN #136)
Supporting Character: Martha Kent
Intro:  Mermen of an aqua-world, Tommy Dale (only appearance for all)
Cameo appearances: Zor-El, Allura Zor-El (in flashback)
Villains: Robot invaders (destroyed in this story)
Comment:  This story takes place as far back as 1938, according to the date revealed on page 2, panel 2.
 As shown in many later stories, particularly with the Legion of Super-Heroes, the affect of the Albo flowers on Superboy's memory is reinforced by a post-hypnotic suggestion Supergirl has
given him (not depicted), which causes him to forget anything he learns about his future life when he returns to his own time.
Synopsis:  After hearing Superman muse on how unhappy he was as a boy to never have a playmate with the same super-powers as his own, Supergirl goes back in time to meet Superboy.  After she explains her existence and plans to him, Supergirl romps with Superboy in a fun-tour across the universe.  Later on, though, Supergirl realizes that Superboy may one day accidentally reveal her existence.  Thus, she has Superboy sniff the aroma of a flower on the planet Albo which removes from him the memory of what has taken place in the last week.  Supergirl has returned to
1960 by that time, and contemplates crossing the time-barrier again to see him another time.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No.44
April 1960
Story:  "The Wolf-Man of Metropolis" (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Stan Kaye
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #16)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #16)
GA:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERBOY #80; next appears in ACTION COMICS #263)
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Perry White (last appearance for all in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #16)
Intro:  A casting director and actors in a monster movie, guests at a costume party (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Batman, Robin, Green Arrow, Speedy, Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Mummy (as costumes)
Synopsis:  Superman gives Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane some old bottles of potions that once belonged to Merlin the wizard of Camelot, thinking that they'll make a good story for the Daily Planet.  To prove that Merlin's magic was superstitious nonsense, Jimmy drinks the only remaining potion, which, according to the label, will turn the imbiber into a wolfman by night.  The spell, says the label, can only be broken by the kiss of a beautiful maiden.  Jimmy, predictably, gains a wolf's hairy visage and hairy paws at night.  He tries to cover up his condition through
ruses and also tries to get a beautiful woman--including Lucy Lane--to kiss him and remove the curse, but nothing works.  Finally, Superman takes Jimmy into a darkened room where an unseen Supergirl kisses him, as "Miss X", and removes his curse.  Superman takes Supergirl back to Midvale Orphanage, and Jimmy, ignorant of his benefactor's identity, wonders if he'll see "Miss X" again.

Action Comics No. 263
April 1960
Story:  "Supergirl's Darkest Day"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Miss Hart, Mr. Dixon, children of Midvale Orphanage (Vera named in this story)
Intro:  Mr. and Mrs. Trent,  Mr. and Mrs. Peabody, Prince Valzorr of Korvia (aka "Johnny"),  the King and Queen of Korvia (his parents; only appearance for all)
Villain:  Prime Minster Zoxxo (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  When Zoxxo, prime minister of the world of Korvia, apparently (and secretly) kills the king and queen of his world in order to gain power, Prince Valzorr escapes to Earth and assumes the idea of "Johnny", an Earth boy, winding up in Midvale Orphanage.  There he discovers Supergirl's secret identity and existence, and gets her to clear his name on Korvia, rescues the
King and Queen, and has Zoxxo brought to justice.

Action Comics No. 264
May 1960
Story:  "Supergirl Gets Adopted"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel (plot possibly by Otto Binder)
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in Superman story in next issue)
Supporting Characters: Miss Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage (next appear in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #46)
Intro:  Captain and Mrs. Wilkins, Jim (Capt. Wilkins's partner), the "Candy Kid" (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Nick Crane, his gang, and other gangsters (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Linda Lee is adopted, despite her efforts to avoid it, by police captain Wilkins and his wife, to take the place of their late daughter.  Supergirl secretly helps save Capt. Wilkins's life several times during his racket-busting activities.  Finally, the Wilkinses tell Linda that their daughter was killed by vengeful criminals, and, telling her that they cannot risk her life in similar circumstances, they take her back to the orphanage.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 45
June 1960
Cover: Jimmy Olsen watching Power Lad and Superman save train //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story: "Tom Baker, Power Lad" (9 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen
GS: Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #109), Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #264 / 265)
GA: Linda Lee robot
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Perry White, Lucy Lane
Intro: Power Lad (Dik-Rey, alias Tom Baker; only appearance)
Comment: The bottle of Kandor is portrayed inaccurately in this story.
Synopsis: Jimmy Olsen meets a youth called Tom Baker, who appears to gain super-powers from a scientific accident and becomes the partner of Superman.

Action Comics No. 265
June 1960
Cover:  Superman watching Supergirl catching falling Superboy statue  //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story: "The ‘Superman' From Outer Space" (13 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Stan Kaye
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #45; next appears in Supergirl story in this issue)
GS: Supergirl (between Supergirl stories in last issue and this issue), a Clark Kent robot (destroyed in this story)
Supporting Character: Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #45)
Intro: Hyper-Man (Chester King; origin revealed; dies in this story), a Hyper-Man robot (destroyed in this story), Lydia Long King, Professor Heath, a Professor Heath robot (only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story Superman aids Supergirl in the second story of this issue, then helps the Justice League of America battle Amazo and Professor Ivo in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #30.
Synopsis: Superman is visited by Hyper-Man, a super-powered double of himself and the hero of the parallel world of Oceania.  When the Man of Steel learns that Hyper-Man will die within a year from Blue Zoronite poisoning, he arranges for Hyper-Man to lose his powers and have a year of happy married life with his long-time love interest Lydia Long before he perishes.

Story:  "The Day Supergirl Revealed Herself"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #46)
GS: Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #30), Linda Lee robot
Intro: Mary Jane, Prof. Ralph Evans, Ellen Evans (only appearance for all)
Cameo: Superboy
Villains: Max, Duke, and their gang (first and only appearance), a robot warrior (first appearance; destroyed in this story)
Synopsis: When a Red Kryptonite meteor causes Supergirl to forget her Linda Lee identity and her promise to stay incognito, she goes to Smallville, becomes the foster daughter of Prof. Ralph Evans, and operates openly as Supergirl.  Later, Superman discovers the situation, and uses an amnesia gas to make everyone in Smallville forget her presence.  When the Red K effect wears off, Supergirl returns to Midvale Orphanage, not remembering anything of her stay in Smallville.

Jimmy Olsen No. 46
July 1960
Cover:  Supergirl, Jimmy Olsen, and Midvale Orphanage children watching Superman on TV  //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen, Orphan"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #18)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #18), Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #265 / 266), Linda Lee robot (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #265)
Supporting Characters: Perry White (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #18), Mr. Dixon, Miss Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage (between ACTION COMICS #264 / 266)
Synopsis:  When Jimmy Olsen is out covering a flood for the Daily Planet, he strikes his head on a log while rescuing a kitten.  Jimmy develops amnesia and, with no identification on him, he is
given the name "Tom Davis" and sent to live at Midvale Orphanage.  Linda Lee, secretly Supergirl, fears that restoring Jimmy's memory might expose her identity, and decides to wait until
Superman returns from a space mission and can handle it himself.  In the meantime, Jimmy, as "Tom", lives with Linda and the other orphans, and she manages to keep her identity a secret from him.  Jimmy's memory returns to him while at the orphanage, but he tells Linda that he is going to stay to do a feature story on what it's like to live at an orphanage.  Linda contrives a trick that trips Jimmy's signal watch, and Superman comes to take Jimmy back to the Daily Planet.

Action Comics No. 266
July 1960
Cover:  Superman, Supergirl, Krypto, and Streaky //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The World's Mightiest Cat"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #139)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in first story of this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #139), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #44; next appears in SUPERMAN #139), Streaky (origin retold; between issues #261 / 271)
Supporting Characters: Mr. Dixon, children of Midvale Orphanage (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #46)
Intro:  Paul Dexter, Tom, Bob, and Jack (four children of Midvale Orphanage; only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  After Superman and Krypto put on a show for the Midvale Orphans, Superman passes out small replicas of his cape for souvenirs.  Paul Dexter, an orphan, ties one of the capes to Streaky's neck and thinks he can make him fly by wishing hard.  It doesn't appear to work, but later Streaky sniffs X-Kryptonite and regains his temporary super-powers.  Paul witnesses Streaky
doing super-deeds and tries to convince his fellow orphans that Streaky is a super-cat, but no one believes him.  Streaky's powers wear off, and, to save Paul's reputation, Supergirl arranges for Krypto to be seen by the orphans while he pulls off a super-stunt.  The children assume that Krypto was behind the super-deeds Paul attributed to Streaky, and conclude that he is not a liar.

Superman No. 139
August 1960
Story:  "The Untold Story of Red Kryptonite"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #19)
GA:  Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #266 / 267), Krypto (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #266), a Superman robot (destroyed in this story)
Supporting Characters: Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane
Cameo:  Kozz, evil Clark Kent, Superboy, Superboy robots, Jonathan and Martha Kent (in flashback)
Synopsis:  When a Red Kryptonite meteor smashes through the side of a submarine, Superman rescues the sub and its crew even though the Red K exposure will affect him.  The effect produced this time is to make Superman's hair, beard, and nails grow to great length, and even the heat of his own X-ray vision cannot cut his hair or nails.  However, when both Supergirl and Krypto focus their X-ray vision on his beard, hair, and nails in unison, their double-power is able to shear the excess from his head and hands.

Action Comics No. 267
August 1960
Story:  "The Three Super-Heroes"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel (plot possibly by Otto Binder)
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #139; next appears in Superman story in next issue)
GS:  Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl (chronologically between flashbacks in SECRETS OF THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1 / ADVENTURE COMICS #282)
Intro:  Chameleon Boy (Reep Daggle of Durla; chronologically between flashbacks in  ADVENTURE COMICS #323 / 282), Colossal Boy (Gim Allon; chronologically between flashbacks in ADVENTURE COMICS #323 / LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (2nd series) #306), Invisible Kid (Lyle Norg; chronologically between flashback in ADVENTURE COMICS #323 / SUPERMAN #156; with the above five heroes, composes the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #18; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #111), Linda Lee robot
Supporting Characters: Children of Midvale Orphanage
Comment:  The comments on page 8 that the three Legionnaires in this story are the children of the original Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy are incorrect.  These are the original
Legionnaires, and the dialogue is corrected in the reprint of this story in issue #334.
 Shortly after this story Linda Lee makes a brief appearance during Superman's battle with Hercules in the next issue.
Synopsis:  The three original members of the Legion of Super-Heroes come to 1960 and offer Supergirl the chance to return to the 30th Century with them and try out for Legion membership.
Supergirl passes the tests with flying colors, but exposure to a Red Kryptonite meteor causes her to physically age into maturity.  Since her physical age is over the Legion's under-18 limit, Supergirl cannot be inducted into the Legion, but they offer her the chance to try again next year.  Supergirl returns to 1960, where she becomes a teen-ager again after the Red K effect wears off.

Action Comics No. 268
Sept. 1960
Story:  "The Mystery Supergirl"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #140)
GA: Superman (as Clark Kent, but appears as Superman in photos; last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #112)
Supporting Characters:  Perry White (last appearance in Superman story in last issue; next appears in ?), Miss Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage (Billy Watkins and Bob Carter named in this story)
Intro:  Five phony "Supergirls" and the publicity chief of Ace Studios (only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Linda Lee becomes an intern at the Daily Planet for a summer job and, while there, learns that a redheaded, costumed Supergirl is performing amazing feats around the world.  Linda
exposes the ruse as a publicity stunt for a new movie, The Supergirl From Krypton, using five costumed stunt women who performed "super-feats" with mechanical aids.  Though the real
Supergirl's existence remains a secret, the fictional Supergirl posited by the movie makers is a reasonable approximation.

Superman No. 140
October 1960
Cover: Bizarro-Jr. No. 1, Bizarro-Lois Lane No. 1, Bizarro No. 1, and Superman //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Son of Bizarro"  (Part 1; 10 pages)
 Part II:  "The Orphan Bizarro"  (8 pages)
 Part III:  "The Bizarro Supergirl"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Wayne Boring
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #112; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #20)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #268; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #48), Bizarro No. 1, Bizarro-Lois No. 1, other Bizarroes and Bizarro-Loises (origin retold; last appearance for all in ACTION COMICS #264; all next appear in issue #143)
GA:  Krypto (next appears in ACTION COMICS #270), Linda Lee robot
Supporting Characters: Children of Midvale Orphanage (between ACTION COMICS #268 / SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #48)
Intro:  Bizarro-Supergirl (dies in this story)  Bizarro-Junior No. 1 (next appears in issue #143), athletic instructor at Midvale Orphanage
Cameo:  Lex Luthor, Vekko (in flashback), Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen (as statues)
Synopsis:  Bizarro-Lois #1 gives birth to a baby son, who, to her and Bizarro #1's chagrin, looks like a human--horrible to their sight.  To save their son from a mob of Bizarroes, Bizarro #1 puts him in a spacecraft which, unknown to him, is headed back to Earth.  The baby is found and put in Midvale Orphanage, where Supergirl discovers his powers and tells Superman of the "super-baby" she has found.  Bizarro Jr. #1 is taken for safekeeping to the Fortress of Solitude, and accidentally creates Bizarro-Supergirl when the real Supergirl flies through the ray of the imperfect duplicating machine.
 A chemical explosion triggers a reaction that makes Bizarro-Jr. #1's face like a normal Bizarro's.  Bizarro #1, seeing this with telescopic vision, thinks that Superman has hatched a plot
to take away his baby, and raises an army of Bizarroes to make war on Earth.  Meanwhile, Bizarro-Supergirl's maternal instincts are aroused and she tries to keep Bizarro-Jr. #1 for herself.
Eventually Bizarro-Jr. #1 is restored to his parents, Bizarro-Supergirl dies of Blue Kryptonite exposure, and it is discovered that all Bizarro babies undergo a brief time of appearing human
before they transform into their normal, Bizarro selves.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 48
October 1960
Cover:  Jimmy Olsen tied up by the Superman Emergency Squad //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Mystery of the Tiny Supermen"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen
GS: Superman (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1), Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #140; next appears in ACTION COMICS #269), Kandorians (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #261; next appear in ?)
Supporting Characters:  The Jimmy Olsen Fan Club (last appearance in issue #46; next appear in ?), Lois Lane, Perry White (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #20)
Intro: The Superman Emergency Squad (including Nos. 22, 33, 44, and 66; next appear in ?)
Synopsis:  Jimmy Olsen, at various meetings of his fan club, shows the members several alien artifacts which were given to him by Superman.  At the same time, a group of tiny Supermen (actually the Superman Emergency Squad from Kandor, of which Jimmy is ignorant) appear to him and aid him in his daily tasks, but only when nobody else is around.  When he tries to convince Perry White that the little Supermen really exist, Perry thinks Jimmy's gone nuts.  What the Emergency Squad is really after is an alien ray-gun in Jimmy's collection with Supergirl's
fingerprints on it.  They fear the prints could somehow expose her existence, but they also mistake a fake Green Kryptonite meteor in Jimmy's collection for the real thing, and have to trick him into bringing the ray-gun to work with him before they can take it away from him.  Superman, at this time, is in the past on a scientific mission and could not be contacted by the Kandorians.  They take the ray-gun to Supergirl, who erases her prints with heat-vision.  Then the tiny Supermen return the weapon to Jimmy and fly back to Kandor before anyone else can see them.  Later, Jimmy wonders if it hasn't all been a dream.

Action Comics No.269
Oct. 1960
Story:  "Supergirl's First Romance"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #48)
Supporting Characters:  Miss Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage  (Freddy named in this story),  Lori Lemaris, Ronal (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN #139), Jerro (first appearance)
GS: Atlanteans
Intro:  Nar Lemaris (in flashback; Lori's ancestor), the Atlantean Protective Squad (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Napoleon, George Washington, Superman, and Julius Caesar (as statues)
Synopsis:  Lori Lemaris telepathically summons Supergirl to Atlantis, where she helps dispose of a cache of outlawed super-weapons.  In the process, she meets Jerro, a merman, and has a
romance with him.  Realizing that all the telepathic Atlanteans now know of her crush on Jerro, Supergirl embarrassedly leaves and returns to Midvale Orphanage.  Since Atlanteans normally only marry their own kind, Supergirl believes a relationship between her and Jerro is impossible, but can't get him out of her mind.

Action Comics No. 270
November 1960
Cover: Superwoman and aged Superman, Lois Lane, and Krypto //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story: "The Old Man of Metropolis" (10 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #21; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #113)
GS: Linda Lee (Supergirl; appears as Superwoman only in Clark Kent's dream; between Supergirl stories in last issue and this issue)
Supporting Characters: Perry White, Lois Lane (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #21), Mr. Dixon
Cameo appearances: Jimmy Olsen, Lucy Lane, Krypto, Bizarro No. 1 (as characters in Superman's dream)
Synopsis: After Clark Kent reads a story Linda Lee has written about her possible career as Superwoman, he falls asleep and dreams of being an old Superman without powers in a future Metropolis.

Story:  "Supergirl's Busiest Day"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #278)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #113), Batman, Robin (both between DETECTIVE COMICS #284 / 285),  Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN #140)
GA: Linda Lee robot, Atlanteans, Atlantean Protective Squad, Kandorians (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #21; next appear in SUPERMAN #144)
Supporting Characters: Lori Lemaris (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #52), Ronal (next appears in SUPERMAN #146), Jerro, children of Midvale Orphanage
Intro:  Frank Cullen, Vince Gordon (only appearance for both)
Cameo:  The Joker (in a picture)
Comments:  Supergirl celebrates her 16th birthday in this story.  Therefore, this story takes place on September 22, 1960.
 Supergirl apparenly meets Batman and Robin for the first time in this story, though Superman has apparently already told her their secret identities and has evidently told Batman and Robin of her existence.
Synopsis:  Supergirl has her day full of unexpected emergencies, including saving Krypto from a trap in space, helping Atlanteans capture a criminal, and saving Batman and Robin from an apparent cave-in in the Batcave.  Later, Superman summons her to his Fortress of Solitude, where he, Batman, Robin, Lori Lemaris, Jerro, Ronal, and Krypto have gathered to give her a surprise
16th birthday party.  Superman confesses that they were all in on the gag, that the menaces were faked up by himself, and that she performed splendidly in each instance.

Adventure Comics No. 278
November 1960
Cover: Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent, Supergirl, and Superboy //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story: "Supergirl In Smallville" (12 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Al Plastino
Feature Character: Superboy (next appears in SUPERBOY #85)
Supporting Characters: Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent, Lana Lang
GS: Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #270 / 271), Superboy robots, Clark Kent robot, Krypto
Intro: Jane Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Jones (only appearance for all)
Comment: In this story, Jonathan and Martha Kent learn of Supergirl's future existence, and apparently keep it secret from Clark Kent for the rest of their lives.
Synopsis: Feeling blue because Superman has not judged her ready for adoption, Linda Lee hits on the idea of going back to Superboy's time, revealing her existence secretly to Jonathan and Martha Kent, spending some time with them and Clark, and seeing if she can keep her Supergirl identity a secret during that time.  She almost succeeds, but botches it when she flies through a window in what would have been plain sight of others.  Supergirl returns to her own time and to Midvale Orphanage.

Action Comics No. 271, December 1960
Story:  "Supergirl's Fortress of Solitude"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #278)
GS:  Streaky (between issues #266 / 277)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #114), Linda Lee robot
Supporting Characters: Mrs. Hart, Mr. Hart (Mrs. Hart's husband; first appearance), children of Midvale Orphanage
Intro:  Two unnamed archaeologists, a gas-creature from Garko, people of Gaz, warriors of Genghis Khan, and a band of Arabian bandits
Cameo: Jerro, Ronal, Lori Lemaris (as statues)
Villains: Prof. and Mrs. Damon Brant, people of Gaz, warriors of Genghis Khan, Arabian bandits (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  In this story, Mrs. Hart is revealed as a married woman and her husband is shown; thus, her marriage must have taken place since last issue, wherein she is referred to as "Miss Hart".
Synopsis:  Just as Streaky regains his super-powers by another exposure to the X-Kryptonite, Supergirl constructs a Fortress of Solitude of her own in the desert.  Three archaeologists in the
area stumble upon it and learn of Supergirl's existence.  Prof. Damon Brant hypnotizes the other two men into forgetting what they have learned, but retains the knowledge himself.  He and his
wife in America adopt Linda Lee and force Supergirl to bring them riches or have her existence exposed.  However, Streaky appears, accidentally burns out parts of their brains' memory cells with his X-ray vision, and renders the Brants ignorant of Supergirl's existence again.  The Brants, now cured of avarice, return Linda Lee to the orphanage.  Supergirl destroys her Fortress with her own X-ray vision.

Superman No. 142
January 1961
Cover: Superman
Story: "Lois Lane's Secret Helper" (8 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #114)
GS: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #271), Krypto (between ACTION COMICS #270 / 272)
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Lucy Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #49), Perry White
Intro: Maria, Hans, Gretta, Mr. Baldwin, Beauty (a dog; first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: Krypto, on patrol with Supergirl, sees Lois in tears over Superman's refusal to marry her and decides to lend a paw to the Man of Steel's romance with her.

Story:  "Flame-Dragon From Krypton"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Wayne Boring
Feature Character: Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #22)
GS:  Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #272), Batman (between WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #114 / DETECTIVE COMICS #287)
GA: Superman robots (destroyed in this story)
Supporting Characters:  Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane (all next appear in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #22)
Intro:  A flame-dragon from Krypton (next appears in issue #151)
Synopsis:  A flame-dragon from Krypton, which has survived that planet's destruction, comes to Earth, burns off Clark Kent's outer clothes in sight of Lois Lane, and reveals him to be Superman.  The Man of Steel eventually puts the flame-dragon in suspended animation and exiles him to space.  Then, to get around Lois's suspicions, he has Batman and Supergirl pose as a doctor and
nurse and, changing to Clark Kent, swathes himself in bandages, pretending to Lois that he has suffered severe burns.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 50
January 1961
Cover: Superman being rescued from quicksand by Super-Jimmy Olsen //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Lord of Olsen Castle"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Sheldon Moldoff
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #22)
GS: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #22),  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #143), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN #142; next appears in ACTION COMICS #272), Bizarro No. 1 (between SUPERMAN #140 / 143)
Supporting Character: Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #22)
Cameo appearance: Lord Olsen (Jimmy's ancestor; in a painting; first and only appearance)
Intro: Mayor Lund (only appearance)
Synopsis: In order to inherit an ancestral castle in Sweden, Jimmy Olsen must first perform three superhuman tasks, at which Supergirl, Krypto, and Bizarro No. 1 lend him a secret hand.

Story: "The Super Life of Jimmy Olsen" (9 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: Al Plastino
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in issue #54 (3); next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #23)
GS: Superman (last appearance in issue #54 (3); next appears in ACTION COMICS #272)
GA: Linda Lee (Supergirl; voice only; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #23)
Supporting Characters: Lucy Lane, Lois Lane, Perry White (last appearance for both in issue #54 (3); all next appear in ACTION COMICS #272), Professor Potter (last appearance in issue #47)
Villains: Two crooks (first and only appearance)
Comment: This story takes place on Jimmy Olsen's birthday.  Since he has a 21st birthday in issue #61, this is probably Jimmy's 20th birthday.
Synopsis: For a birthday gift, Professor Potter siphons off Superman's powers with an invention of Lex Luthor's and gives them to Jimmy.  But a mishap occurs and the machine burns out, with the result being that Jimmy may now have Superman's powers permanently.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 23
February 1961
Story:  "The Ten Feats of Elastic Lass"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer: Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character:  Lois Lane (becomes Elastic Lass for this story; last appearance in SUPERMAN #143)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN #123), Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #143; next appears in ACTION COMICS #272)
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #50), children at Midvale Orphanage, Lana Lang (next appears in SUPERMAN #144)
Villains: The Wrecker (Raphael Byron), "Fingers" Floyd (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  Lois Lane suspects that sculptor Raphael Byron is really the Wrecker, a terrorist who is blowing up statues in the City Park.  To investigate, she gets Jimmy Olsen to lend her some
of Professor Potter's serum which makes him into Elastic Lad.  However, he only gives her enough for ten feats, feeling that any more would be dangerous.  As the costumed Elastic Lass, Lois does indeed expose Byron as the Wrecker, who is dynamiting the statues in the egotistical belief that his own creations should be featured in the park.  But before she can do that, she performs nine other charitable feats, including entertaining the orphans at Midvale Orphanage--and getting a secret hand from Supergirl.

Action Comics No. 272
January 1961
Story:  "The Second Supergirl"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #23)
GS: Superman (last appearance in Superman story in next issue)
Intro:  Marvel Maid (Lea Lindy; origin told in flashback), Marvel Man (Ken Clark; origin told in flashback), Perry White of Terra (only appearance), Jaal-Kor and his wife (both die in flashback), Mr. and Mrs. Lindy (in flashback; only appearance), Cynthia and her mother (only appearance for both)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl gets Superman to agree to a new test of her abilities.  If she can perform super-feats on the parallel world of Terra, a near-duplicate of Earth, and not make any mistakes, she will be allowed to make her public debut on Earth.  When she arrives on Terra, Supergirl discovers and befriends Marvel Maid, a superheroine who is her double and who operates in public on Terra.  Her cousin Marvel Man is a latecomer whose existence is still in secret while he is in training.  Marvel Maid allows Supergirl to stand in for her on Terra while she herself goes to
save the inhabitants of an endangered world.  Unfortunately, Supergirl is uninformed about some aspects of Terran existence, and makes several severe blunders.

Action Comics No. 273
February 1961
Story:  "The Supergirl of Two Worlds"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #51)
GS:  Marvel Maid, Marvel Man (last appearance for both), Superman (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #115)
Comment:  Story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  After completing her space mission, Marvel Maid goes to Earth, where Superman sees her performing an unseen rescue.  He initially mistakes her for Supergirl and tells her that he will reveal her existence to the world.  But she finally gets to explain to Superman that she is not his cousin.  Marvel Maid praises Supergirl to Superman, excusing her mistakes to him. Unfortunately, Superman uses a video monitor to observe Supergirl on Terra, making yet another mistake.  When she returns to Earth (and Marvel Maid returns to Terra), Superman shows Supergirl that
she could have learned of Terra's unique nature by browsing through one of its libraries at super-speed, which, he says, is something he does every time he goes to an unfamilar world.
Marvel Man is revealed to the people of Terra, but Superman decides that Supergirl is not yet ready to be unveiled to the inhabitants of Earth.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 51
March 1961
Cover:  Superman and Lucy Lane watching as Supergirl (as Ka-Ra) carries off Jimmy Olsen //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Girl With Green Hair"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen
GS:  Supergirl (as "Ka-Ra"; between ACTION COMICS #273 / 274)
GA: Linda Lee robot
Supporting Characters:  Lucy Lane, Lois Lane, Professor Potter
Intro:  Ricky Avalon (only appearance), Ka-Ra robot (destroyed in this story)
Synopsis:  When Supergirl uses her super-vision and discovers how badly Lucy Lane has been treating Jimmy Olsen of late, particularly by dating teen rock singer Ricky Avalon to make him
jealous, she takes matters in hand by dying her hair green, constructing a fake flying saucer and a purple-and-yellow costume for herself, and masquerading as Ka-Ra, a super-powered alien woman who has a crush on Jimmy.  By monopolizing Jimmy for days on end, and always in Lucy's view, Supergirl as "Ka-Ra" (an alias based on her Kryptonian name) succeeds in making Lucy jealous.  On one occasion, she does a good deed for Professor Potter, who gives Jimmy a robot duplicate of Ka-Ra as a tribute.  (The robot breaks down shortly afterward.)  Ka-Ra gets out of marrying Jimmy by a ruse, then leaves and reassumes her Linda Lee identity.  Lucy is devoted to Jimmy for a very short time, until she sees the wreck of the Ka-Ra robot in Jimmy's closet.  She jumps to the wrong conclusion that this has been a trick of Jimmy's and Professor Potter's, whacks Jimmy over the head with one of the robot's arms, and stomps out.  Supergirl, observing things with her super-vision, realizes she's blown it.

Action Comics No. 274
March 1961
Story:  "Supergirl's Three Time Trips"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #51)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #116), George Washington
Supporting Characters: Children of Midvale Orphanage
Intro: Pocahontas, Annie Oakley, Betsy Ross, Buffalo Bill (William Cody), Captain John Smith, Chief Powhatan (all of Earth-One), Frank, Becky Daggart, John Stark, Eddie Moran (only appearance for last four)
Villain:  Chief Crazy Antelope (first and only appearance)
Comment: Since research on the "real" historical figures on Earth-One is not yet complete, we cannot track them in this story.
Synopsis: Given a school assignment to write a paper on what historical figure she'd most like to be, Supergirl opts to take time-trips to the past to learn if she'd prefer to be Annie Oakley, Pocahontas, or Betsy Ross.  In 1885, Supergirl covertly substitutes for Annie Oakley in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show when Annie is stricken by fever.  In 1776, she secretly recreates Betsy Ross's original American flag when the flag is accidentally burned, and sees it delivered to General George Washington.  And in 1607, Supergirl frees Pocahontas from a rival tribe of Indians.  In each era, however, Supergirl is astonished that she encounters Kryptonite.  After she returs to 1961, Supergirl learns from Superman that fragments of a green Kryptonite meteor were sent into the past by an H-bomb explosion.  Later, with three of her classmates choosing the women she encountered in the past as subjects for their reports, she opts for Joan of Arc.

Superman No. 144
April 1961
Cover:  Superman, Supergirl, and Krypto in space, watching Earth explode  //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Orphans of Space"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Al Plastino
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #24)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #274; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #52), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #51)
GA:  Kandorians (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #271)
Intro:  The Interstellar Council of United Planets (including Zog; no real existence; characters in Superman's, Supergirl's, and Krypto's dream)
Synopsis:  When Red Kryptonite settles on red flags used by Superman to decoy aircraft away from the Fortress of Solitude, its effect is to make Superman, Supergirl, and Krypto dream in
unison that the Earth has been destroyed by a machine Superman rashly dismantled.  In their dream, their powers are stripped from them by an interplanetary council.  They are then sent to
live on a primitive world, on which Supergirl and Krypto are killed.  At that point, all three wake up, see that Earth has not exploded, and realize they were sharing a dream.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 52
April 1961
Cover:  Superman, Jimmy Olsen as wolf-man, Lucy Lane, Lois Lane, and Lana Lang  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen, Wolf-Man"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen (next appears in SUPERMAN #145)
GS:  Superman (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4)
GA:  Supergirl (next appears in Superman story in ACTION COMICS #275)
Supporting Characters: Lucy Lane, Lois Lane (next appears in ACTION COMICS #275), Lori Lemaris (between ACTION COMICS #270 / 276), Lana Lang (last appearance in SUPERMAN #144)
Intro: Miss Gzptlsnz (first appearance; next appears in ?)
Villains:  Mr. Mxyzptlk (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #273; next appears in SUPERMAN #148), Al Teller, Emil Kobrak (first and only appearance for both)
Comment: Shortly after this story Superman helps the Justice League initiate Green Arrow and deal with Carthan in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4.
Synopsis:  Mr. Mxyzptlk arrives on Earth, fleeing from his girlfriend, Miss Gzptlsnz, on her birthday.  He sees Jimmy Olsen with Lucy Lane, and falls head-over-heels for Lucy. Unfortunately, Lucy won't throw Jimmy over for Mxyzptlk, which is a complete change of character for her.  Thus, to get revenge, Mxyzptlk causes Jimmy to drink Merlin's wolf-man potion again.  However, he first changes the potion to water, and causes Jimmy to gain the wolf-man face and hair by his magic alone.  Not even a kiss from "Miss X" (Supergirl in a darkened room) can rid him of the curse this time.  Lucy, Lois Lane, Lori Lemaris, and Lana Lang all try their kisses, but none do any good.  Finally, Miss Gzptlsnz appears on Earth, having seen what happened, and steals away Jimmy's curse with her kiss.  When Mxyzptlk appears, she tricks him into saying his name backwards, and then follows him, promising Jimmy she will nag Mxyzptlk unmercifully for 90 days.  Later, Jimmy tries to get another kiss from Lucy, who refuses, saying he's gotten enough kisses lately to last him for months.

Action Comics No. 275
April 1961
Cover: Brainiac bathing Superman in Red and Green Kryptonite rays //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Menace of Red-Green Kryptonite"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Coleman
Artist:  Wayne Boring
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4; next appears in Supergirl story in this issue)
GA:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #51; next appears in Supergirl story in this issue)
Supporting Character:  Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #51)
Intro:  The King and Queen of Ruritania (only appearance for both)
Villains:  Brainiac (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #17; next appears in issue #280), Buzz Windrow (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  When Brainiac exposes Superman to a combination of red and green Kryptonite, it causes him to grow a third eye in the back of his head.  To conceal this, Superman pretends that the kryptonite exposure compels him to don different kinds of hats and to use his powers in the manner suggested by the use of the hat (for instance, wearing a turban and using a giant crystal ball in a super-deed).  Later, Superman uses the heat vision from all three of his eyes to break through Brainiac's force-field, knocks him out, and sends him back through space and time to a
remote planet.

Story:  "Ma and Pa Kent Adopt Supergirl"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (appears between Superman stories in this issue and next issue)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #145)
Cameo:  Jonathan and Martha Kent, Lara and Jor-El, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor (in a dream), Superboy (as a statue)
Intro:  Bob Benson, Squawky the Super-Parrot (as characters in Supergirl's dream; no other appearances)
Synopsis:  After seeing statues of Jonathan and Martha Kent on a visit to Superman's Fortress of Solitude, Supergirl returns to Midvale Orphanage and dreams that she was the daughter of Jor-El
and Lara, was rocketed to Earth by them, and was adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent.

Action Comics No. 276
May 1961
Cover:  Supergirl vs. the Superman Emergency Squad  //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The War Between Supergirl and the Superman Emergency Squad"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Robert Bernstein
Artist:  Wayne Boring
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #25; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #117)
GS: Supergirl (between Supergirl stories in last issue and this issue), Superman Emergency Squad (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #48; next appear in ?)
GA: Kandorians, Linda Lee robot
Supporting Character: Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #25)
Villains:  John Kiley (first and only appearance), Anti-Superman Gang (last appearance in ?; next appear in ?)
Synopsis:  John Kiley, a wealthy philanthropist who is really a member of the Anti-Superman Gang, fakes his own death and induces Clark Kent to reveal that he is Superman to fulfill Kiley's
"dying wish".  Kiley and the gang lure Clark Kent into a Kryptonite deathtrap.  Using super-ventriloquism, Kent summons Supergirl and the Superman Emergency Squad to save him.  With an elaborate ruse, the heroes convince Kiley and the Anti-Superman Gangsters that they have been having an hallucination and that Kent and Superman are not one and the same.

Story:  "The Three Super-Girl Friends"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in the Supergirl story in this issue)
GS:  Saturn Girl (between flashbacks in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (2nd series) #306 / ADVENTURE COMICS #301), Cosmic Boy (between flashbacks in ADVENTURE COMICS #282 / 301), Lightning Lad (between flashbacks in ADVENTURE COMICS #301 / 290; all three appear in flashback in SECRETS OF THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #2 within this story)
Intro:  Phantom Girl (Tinya Wazzo; chronologically between flashbacks in SECRETS OF THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1 / ADVENTURE COMICS #290), Triplicate Girl  (Luornu Durgo; chronologically between flashbacks in ADVENTURE COMICS #282 / 383), Brainiac 5 (Querl Dox; chronologically between flashbacks in SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #256 / ADVENTURE COMICS #290), Bouncing Boy (Chuck Taine; appears between flashbacks in ADVENTURE COMICS #301),  Sun Boy (Dirk Morgna; between flashback in ADVENTURE COMICS #348 / 290), Shrinking Violet (Salu Digby; next appears in SUPERMAN #156; with the above characters comprises the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GA: Superman (in flash-forward to SUPERMAN #338), Linda Lee robot, Krypto
Supporting Characters: Jerro (next appears in issue #278), Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #52), children of Midvale Orphanage (Janice and Elaine named in this story)
Intro: Frankie Hudson (only appearance)
Villains:  Brainiac, Koko (both in flash-forward to SUPERMAN #338)
Comment:  Supergirl joins the Legion of Super-Heroes in this story.
Synopsis:  Supergirl is summoned by Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, and Triplicate Girl to the 30th Century to try out a second time for membership in the Legion of Super-Heroes.  She passes the
test and is inducted, and in the process meets Brainiac 5, descendant of a youth once adopted by the 20th Century space villain.  Brainiac 5 becomes romantically interested in Supergirl and gives her a force-field belt to protect her from Kryptonite.  However, her trip back to 1961 shortens the "life" of the belt and soon renders the force-field null and void.

Action Comics No. 277
June 1961
Cover:  Supergirl and Superman watching Streaky's and Krypto's tug-of-war  //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Battle of the Super-Pets"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #292), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN #144), Streaky (between issues #271 / 279)
GA:  Linda Lee robot, Beppo the Super-Monkey (last appearance in SUPERBOY #142; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #293)
Supporting Characters: Children of Midvale Orphanage
Intro:  Mr. Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, and the Mayor of Metropolis
Intro:  Two members of the Interplanetary Multi-Dimensional Practical Jokers' Club (in photos)
Cameo:  Mr. Mxyzptlk (in a photo)
Synopsis:  Streaky regains his super-powers due to X-Kryptonite exposure and engages in a feud with Krypto, supervised by both Superman and Supergirl at first, then by Supergirl alone. Supergirl directs both super-animals in a series of contests on a distant planetoid to try and settle the rivalry, but both she and Krypto fall prey to a Kryptonite meteor, and Streaky's powers wear off.  However, since both they and the Kryptonite are in a "magic wishing well" used by Mr. Mxyzptlk and other members of the Interplanetary Multi-Dimensional Practical Jokers' Club, all
Supergirl has to do is wish the Green K could not harm her, and wish it into being false Kryptonite, to nullify it, which she does.  The rivalry of Krypto and Streaky is interrupted by the
appearance of Super-Monkey.  Supergirl takes the powerless Streaky back to Earth, and Krypto and Super-Monkey fly away.

Action Comics No. 278
July 1961
Cover:  Superman vs. super-powered Perry White  //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story:  "The Super-Powers of Perry White"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Coleman
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #54)
GS:  Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #150)
Supporting characters: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #54), Lois Lane, Perry White (gains super-powers and becomes "Masterman" in this story only)
Villains:  Xasnu (first appearance; dies in this story), Y'trom, and another Zelmite (first and only appearance for both)
Comments:  This story bears a strong resemblance to the novel and movie, Invaison of the Body Snatchers.
 The alien Y'trom is named for Mort Weisinger (Morty spelled backwards).
Synopsis:  Perry White eats the fruit of an alien plant-being invader, Xasnu, which has taken root in his garden.  Xasnu takes gradual control of White's mind and gives him super-powers, so that White takes on the secret identity of Masterman.  Superman learns of the alien's plan to invade Earth by taking over human bodies, but is almost defeated by Masterman in battle.  At the
last moment, Supergirl rushes in and kills Xasnu in White's body with a chunk of White Kryptonite, and Perry White is freed.

Story:  "The Unknown Supergirl"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last chronological appearance in Superman story in issue #284)
GS:  Superman (last chronological appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #9), Krypto (last chronological appearance in Superman story in issue #284; next appears in issue #281)
GA: Linda Lee robot
Supporting Characters:  Jerro (last appearance in issue #276), Lori Lemaris (last chronological appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #31; both next appear in issue #284)
Villains:  Tough Tommy and his gang, a gang of smugglers, and a group of escaped convicts (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This is Part One of a nine-part serial.
Synopsis:  Superman finally declares to Supergirl that he will announce her existence to the world within the week, and shows her a videotape he has prepared for the project.  However, he and
Krypto undertake a mission in another dimension beforehand, and in their abscense, a ring of Kryptonite dust surrounds the Earth.  Supergirl is forced to go to Atlantis to be safe, but fulfills
her crime-fighting obligations from long-range, with the police and criminals assuming that Superman is on the job.  Later, the Kryptonite drifts away from Earth and Superman and Krypto return to the 3rd Dimension.  But Supergirl proves, unexpectedly, to have lost her powers.  Superman investigates and learns the power-loss was not due to Kryptonite exposure.  Though he cannot reveal Supergirl's existence if Kara has no powers, he pledges to try and find a way to restore them.  Later, at the orphanage, Linda resolves to find a way to live on as a normal person.

Action Comics No. 279
August 1961
Story:  "Supergirl's Secret Enemy"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Kandorians (last chronological appearance in SUPERMAN #150)
GA:  Superman, Linda Lee robot, Streaky (last appearance in issue #277; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #293)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers (first appearance for both; adopt Supergirl in this story), Mrs. Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage
Cameo:  Lori Lemaris, Jerro (in flashback), Jor-El, Brainiac, Koko (as paintings of statues)
Intro:  An unnamed Kandorian scientist and the warden of Metropolis Prison
Villains:  Lesla-Lar (first appearance), a Kandorian scientist (first and only appearance),  Lex Luthor (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #28)
Comment:  In this story, Supergirl is adopted by Fred and Edna Danvers and changes her civilian name to Linda Lee Danvers.
 This is Part Two of a nine-part serial.
Synopsis:  Supergirl's powers have been robbed by a ray created by Lesla-Lar, a female Kandorian scientist who is Supergirl's double, but who hates her and has a criminal bent.  In the meantime, Linda Lee is adopted by Fred and Edna Danvers.  Lesla uses a teleport ray to shrink and teleport Linda to Kandor, where she uses a brainwashing machine to convince her that she is really Lesla-Lar.  In the meantime, Lesla teleports herself to the outside world and enlarges herself, taking both the places of Linda Lee Danvers and Supergirl.  As a phony "Supergirl", Lesla breaks Lex Luthor out of jail and helps him perform a colossal heist.  Kara, who believes herself Lesla-Lar, observes the act on a Kandorian monitor and attempts to alert the authorities to the existence of a criminal "Supergirl".  But Lesla sees Kara's actions, trades places with her again, and resumes her Lesla-Lar identity in Kandor.  Linda, in the Danvers' home again, has no memory of her Kandorian adventure and thinks she has awoken from a dream.  Lesla-Lar, observing her on a monitor, intends to continue her evil plans.

Action Comics No. 280
Sept. 1961
Story:  "Trapped In Kandor"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (origin retold)
GS:  Superman, Kandorians
GA:  Linda Lee robot
Supporting Characters: Perry White (last chronological appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #31; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #59), Edna Danvers
Cameo:  Zor-El, Allura, and the people of Argo City (in a movie)
Villains:  Lesla-Lar, Lex Luthor
Comment:  This is Part Three of a nine-part serial.
Synopsis:  Lesla-Lar changes places with Linda Lee Danvers again, becomes "Supergirl" and visits Luthor in prison, and, via a ruse, convinces Superman that her powers have been "restored".
Superman gladly proclaims that he will soon announce her existence to the world.  Lesla, for her part, intends to have Luthor kill Superman with a Kryptonite ray.  Then she will kill Luthor and "conquer or destroy Earth, as I please!"

Action Comics No. 281, Oct. 1961
Story:  "The Secret of the Time-Barrier"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Superman, Krypto (last appearance in issue #278; next appears in issue #286), Kandorians
GA:  Linda Lee robot
Intro:  A Kandorian movie producer (only appearance)
Villain:  Lesla-Lar
Comment:  This is Part Four of a nine-part serial.
Synopsis:  Krypto deduces that the new "Supergirl" is not really his old friend Kara, and uses the exchange ray to send Lesla-Lar back to Kandor and return Kara to Earth.  Since Supergirl has no
memory of her Kandorian adventure, she and Superman have no idea why her powers have vanished again.  But Superman takes her on a time-voyage to 1691, and they discover that her super-powers function in the past era.  Supergirl helps the people of a nearby village before she returns to 1961, and for that becomes known as "the Golden Witch."  Supergirl has no powers in the present, though, and Lesla-Lar intends to take her place once again.

Action Comics No. 282, Nov. 1961
Story:  "The Supergirl of Tomorrow"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
GS:  Superman
GA:  Kandorians
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne (formerly Dick Wilson; last appearance in issue #256)
Intro:  Gizmak-Ral and The Unconquerables
Cameo:  Brainiac 5 and Jerro
Villains: Martians (in flashback), All-Seeing Eye, Clan of Censors (first and only appearance for both), Lesla-Lar (next appears in issue #297), Lex Luthor, Mr. Mxyzptlk (last appearance in SUPERMAN #150)
Comment:  This is Part Five of a nine-part serial.
Synopsis:  Superman gives Supergirl a time-bubble which she uses to go to the far future, where her powers are also in effect.  There she helps the Unconquerables, an underground rebel group,
defeat the All-Seeing Eye and the Clan of Censors, who seek to destroy all books and knowledge of freedom.  Back in 1961, Supergirl tells Superman that, even without powers, she intends to stay in the present with Superman and her foster parents.  (Later, on the beach, she meets Dick Malverne, formerly Dick Wilson of the orphanage, who has also been adopted.)  However, Mr. Mxyzptlk gives Kara Superman's powers magically, plus invulnerability to Kryptonite, to "make a mere slip of a girl mightier than he!"  Thus, Supergirl is not only able to perform super-feats, but she can save Superman from a Kryptonite deathtrap and Lesla-Lar's power-sapping machine no longer works on her.  Lesla herself is arrested by Kandorian police and her equipment is destroyed.

Action Comics No. 283
Dec. 1961
Story:  "The Six Red K Perils of Supergirl"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
GA:  Superman, Linda Danvers robot (formerly Linda Lee robot)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne, Mr. and Mrs. Malverne (Dick's foster parents; first appearance for both)
Intro:  Rolf Von Holtz, Conway Tremaine, Jennie (only appearance for all)
Villain:  Mr. Mxyzptlk (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #123)
Comment:  This is Part Six of a nine-part serial.
Synopsis:  When Mr. Mxyzptlk made Supergirl invulnerable to Kryptonite, he neglected to extend the spell to cover Red Kryptonite as well.  As a result, exposure to six Red K meteors turns Supergirl into a fat woman (she mimics being a hot-air balloon), a wolf-girl (she inspires a horror-movie writer to another triumph), and a microbe-sized girl (she fights off disease germs in Dick's foster father's bloodstream and saves his life).  Later, Supergirl wonders how the other Red Kryptonite exposures will affect her.

Superman No. 150
January 1962
Cover: Superman balancing on wire with one finger //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The One Minute of Doom" (9 pages)
Editor:   Mort Weisinger
Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Al Plastino
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #122; origin retold in flashback)
GS: Supergirl (between Superman stories in ACTION COMICS #278 / 284; origin retold in flashback), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #29; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #58; origin retold in flashback), Bizarro No. 1, Bizarro-Lois Lane No. 1 (both between ADVENTURE COMICS #291 / 292), Kandorians (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #282)
Intro: Krypton II (an artificial duplicate of Krypton built by Superman, Supergirl, and Krypto), Jor-El, Lara, Zor-El, and Allura robots (first appearance for all)
Cameo appearances: Jor-El, Lara, Zor-El, Allura, Brainiac (in flashbacks)
Villains:  Phantom Zone villains (last chronological appearance in SUPERBOY #121)
Comments: Krypto creates his Doghouse of Solitude in this story.
 Dr. Xadu is incorrectly depicted as being in the Phantom Zone in this story.  In reality, he and his wife Erndine Xe-Da are exiled to an alien world at this time, as shown in SUPERBOY #100.
Synopsis: Superman, Supergirl, Krypto, the Kandorians, and even the prisoners of the Phantom Zone observe a minute of silence in memory of Krypton's destruction at that time.  Afterwards, the Man, Girl, and Dog of Steel terraform an unihabited world of Krypton's size into a duplicate of Krypton and populate it with androids in the forms of Kryptonians, including duplicates of Superman's and Supergirl's parents.

Action Comics No. 284
January 1962
Cover:  Superbaby smashing desk of police lieutenant  //Curt Swan / John Forte
Story:  "The Babe of Steel"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Robert Bernstein
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Sheldon Moldoff?
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #58; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #9)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #150; next chronological appearance in Supergirl story in issue #278), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN #150; next chronological appearand in Supergirl story in issue #278), Mon-El (last chronological appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #293; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #33)
Supporting Character:  Perry White (next chronological appearance in Supergirl story in issue #280)
Intro:  A professor and his son
Villains: Dr. Xadu (in flashback), Jax-Ur (last chronological appearance in NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY #9; next appears in Supergirl story in issue #288), Professor Vakox (last chronological appearance in SUPERBOY #162; next appears in Supergirl story in issue #288), Phantom Zone villains (last chronological appearance in SUPERBOY #121; next appear in SUPERMAN #153), Madame Olga and her assistant, carnival crooks, two bank robbers (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  When Mon-El signals Clark Kent at a seance that the Aurora Borealis is causing a rift in the Phantom Zone just big enough for him to poke his hand through, Superman turns himself
into a Superbaby by Red Kryptonite exposure.  After ascertaining the truth of Mon-El's statement by entering and leaving the Zone itself through the hole, he, Supergirl, and Krypto burn up the
Aurora Borealis with their heat vision, and the rift closes.  Later, Superman returns to his normal size and age.

Story:  "The Strange Bodies of Supergirl"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA: Superman
Supporting Characters:  Jerro (last appearance in issue #278), Lori Lemaris (last appearance in issue #278; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #33), Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Lenora Lemaris (Lori's sister), the "Valley of Hands" (only appearance)
Cameo:  Krypto (in a dream)
Comment:  This is Part Seven of a nine-part serial.
Comment:  The extra head that Supergirl grows may be the first manifestation of the double-Supergirl that becomes Satan Girl in ADVENTURE COMICS #313.
Synopsis:  Supergirl experiences the last three Red K effects by temporarily growing an extra head (which usually disagrees with her), having an hallucination that she possesses deadly "fatal
vision", and gaining the finned, scaly lower body of a mermaid (she visits Atlantis and saves Lenora Lemaris, who also loves Jerro, from the hands of giants trapped in a bog).  When the final Red K effect wears off, Supergirl joins Superman and finds that her vulnerability to Kryptonite has returned.  Superman informs Supergirl that he learned of Mxyzptlk's involvement and that her normal powers have now returned, since his magic has worn off.  He also says that he has decided, at long last, to reveal her existence to the world.

Action Comics No. 285, Feb. 1962
Cover:  Superman presenting Supergirl to the world  //Curt Swan / George Klein  (signed)
Story:  "The World's Greatest Heroine":  Part 1  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Characters:  Superman, Supergirl (origin retold in flashback)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne
GA:  President John F. Kennedy of Earth-One, Kandorians, Atlanteans
Intro:  Nyorpians, flame-people of Mringa
Villains:  Lex Luthor (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #293), Nikita Khruschev
Comment:  This is Part Eight of a nine-part serial.
 According to SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #41 (3), pg. 1, panel 2, this story takes place on February 20, 1962.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers has to save her foster parents when their car crashes through a bridge, and Superman arrives to confirm to the Danverses that their adopted daughter is really a Supergirl from Krypton.  They pledge to keep her double identity a secret.  Superman then breaks into all television broadcasts around the world to present Supergirl to the world.  He also takes her on a whirlwind world tour, introduces her to President Kennedy, and presents her to the representatives of the United Nations.  Supergirl also receives accolades from the Kandorians, from the Atlanteans, and from natives of alien worlds.  Then, leaving her on duty in his place, Superman goes to the 50th Century on a special mission.

Story:  "The Infinite Monster":  Part 2  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Brainiac 5 (between ADVENTURE COMICS #290 / SUPERMAN #152), Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl (all between ADVENTURE COMICS #290 / 293; all four appear as the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GA:  President John F. Kennedy, Superman (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #123)
Supporting Characters:  Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne, Mrs. Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage
Intro:  Prof. Hartz, Karl (only appearance for both), Jaqueline Kennedy (of Earth-One; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #69), Lyndon Baines Johnson (of Earth-One)
Villain: The Infinite Monster
Comments:  This is Part Nine of a nine-part serial.
 Shortly after this story, Superman helps Batman and Robin deal with Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #123.
Synopsis:  Prof. Hartz's attempt to communicate with other worlds creates a dimensional rift through which steps a monster so huge that only part of its body can be seen at any time.  The Infinite Monster also has a force-field similiar to Brainiac's, so that Supergirl's powers are of no use against it.  But Supergirl dispatches a note to the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th Century, and receives from Brainiac 5 a shrinking ray originally designed by Brainiac.  She uses a copy of the device to shrink the Infinite Monster to doll-size and puts it in a bottle in the Fortress of Solitude.  President Kennedy and the people of the United States express their gratitude to Supergirl, and Superman, who creates a special Fortress wing just for her, tells the world that henceforth Supergirl will be his crime-fighting partner.

Action Comics No. 286
March 1962
Cover: Superman in Kryptonite cuffs, before jury composed of Saturn Queen, Cosmic King, Brainiac, Lightning Lord, Electro, and Lex Luthor //Curt Swan / Stan Kaye
Story: "The Jury of Super-Enemies" (14 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #60)
GS: Krypto (last appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #281)
GA: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #50; next appears in Supergirl story in issue #267)
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #60), Jimmy Olsen Fan Club (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #48)
Cameo: Streaky, Titano, Brainiac, Lex Luthor, Cosmic King, Saturn Queen, Lightning Lord, Electro, Professor Ross, Lana Lang's descendant, Ray Tyson (first and only appearance of last four; no real appearance; all as characters in Krypto's or Superman's dreams)
Villains: Rava, Scout Number 627 (first appearance for both), Superman Revenge Squad (formerly the Superboy Revenge Squad; last chronological appearance in NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY #54)
Comment: This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis: The Superman Revenge Squad doses Superman with Red Kryptonite which causes him to have violent nightmares.

Story:  "The Death of Luthor"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #152)
Supporting Characters:   Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers (both next appear in SUPERMAN #152), Dick Malverne,  Lori Lemaris, Jerro
Intro:  Garr Rindaz (an Atlantean hero; dies in flashback)
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #293; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #126; dies and is restored to life in this story), his gang, and the group of gang bosses (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Lex Luthor breaks jail again and reunites with his gang.  His objective:  prove that Supergirl is a hoax, and / or destroy her.  He succeeds in endangering her with Kryptonite, but, when she escapes that hazard and pursues him, Luthor accidentally kills himself with a ray-gun of his own creation.  Though the police on hand believe Luthor has finally gotten his just deserts, Supergirl thinks that he should not escape his life sentence this way.  She scours Atlantis and several alien worlds to find material for a cocoon which, applied just in time, restores Luthor to life.  Luthor proves to be less than grateful, especially when they haul him off to jail again.

Superman No. 152
April 1962
Cover: Superman examining interiors of Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, and Perry White robots //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Robot Master" (9 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Jerry Siegel
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Letterer: Milton Snapinn
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #122)
GS: Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #293 / 301), Sun Boy (between ADVENTURE COMICS #290 / 301), Chameleon Boy (between SUPERBOY #93 / ADVENTURE COMICS #301), Brainiac 5 (between Supergirl stories in ACTION COMICS #285 / 287; all appear as the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GA: Supergirl (last appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #286; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #60)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers (between Supergirl stories in ACTION COMICS #286 / 287)
Intro: Lois Lane, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen robots (only appearance for all)
Cameo: Jor-El, Lara, Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen (as statues)
Synopsis: Superman discovers his best friends have been replaced by robots, who claim to have been created by "the Robot Master", but it turns out to be a friendly hoax perpetrated by the Legion of Super-Heroes to commemorate the anniversary of Supergirl's arrival on Earth.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No.60
April 1962
Cover:  Jimmy Olsen, Xarian army, Superman //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Fantastic Army of General Olsen"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen
GA:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #152; next appears in Superman story in ACTION COMICS #286), Superman (next appears in ACTION COMICS #286)
Supporting Characters:  Lois Lane, Perry White
Intro:  Zxl, Yllu and other Xarians, Mary Minton (only appearance for all)
Villain:  The Mechanical Computer Brain (first and only appearance)
Comment: The first story in this issue mentions an undepicted trip of Supergirl's to the 25th Century in search of a method of enlarging the Kandorians.
Synopsis:  Jimmy Olsen is contacted by the Xarians, a group of green-skinned aliens, who wish him to contact Superman for help.  A device of their creation, the Mechanical Computer Brain, has run amok, teleported to Earth, and is constructing war machines outside of Metropolis with which to conquer the planet.  Superman and Supergirl are in space, and Jimmy can convince neither Perry White nor the U.S. military of the threat.  So he dresses up in an old military uniform and leads the Xarians who have landed on Earth (and who are pacifists) in several desperate-but-doomed operations against the Brain and its machines.  Jimmy tries to rally his troops for a suicide charge.  Superman and Supergirl return in time for a rescue, and the Brain and its machines are halted.  The Xarians return the devices and themselves to their homeworld

Action Comics No. 287
April 1962
Story:  "Supergirl's Greatest Challenge"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in last issue; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #33)
GS:  Bouncing Boy (between ADVENTURE COMICS #301 flashback / 301), Brainiac 5 (between SUPERMAN #152 / 156), Chameleon Boy (between flashbacks in ADVENTURE COMICS #301 / SUPERBOY #100), Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl, Sun Boy (all four between ADVENTURE COMICS #301 flashback / 300; with Supergirl, appear as the Legion of Super-Heroes), Streaky (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #60; next appears in SUPERMAN #154)
Supporting Characters:  Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #153), Fred and Edna Danvers
Intro:  Whizzy (the 30th Century Supercat), Lon Durval, tree-men from Arbro (only appearance for all)
Villains: Positive Man, Negative Creature (first appearance for both; both destroyed in this story), the Chameleon Men (Durlans), several 30th Century crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  The Legion of Super-Heroes summons Supergirl to the 30th Century to help them destroy the menacing Positive Man and Negative Creature, which she does.  However, the Legionnaires are kidnapped, put in suspended animation, and impersonated by Chameleon Men who put Supergirl and her newfound friend Whizzy the Supercat, the 30th Century descendant of Streaky, into the Phantom Zone with a stolen projector.  Supergirl uses Whizzy's telepathic powers to have an android manufacturer make a phony Chameleon Man who infiltrates the villains' hideout and releases her from the Phantom Zone.  Supergirl then defeats the Chameleon
Men and releases the Legion from captivity.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 33
May 1962
Cover: Superman, Lana Lang, and ghostly Lois Lane //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Phantom Lois Lane" (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character: Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN #153)
GS: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN #153)
GA: Linda Lee Danvers (Supergirl; between ACTION COMICS #287 / 288), Mon-El (between ACTION COMICS #284 / 288)
Supporting Characters:  Lori Lemaris (last appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #284; next appears in SUPERMAN #154), Lana Lang
Villains: Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox (both between ACTION COMICS #284 / 288), Phantom Zone villains (between SUPERMAN #153 / 167)
Synopsis: Under the influence of a strange space metal, Lana Lang projects Lois Lane and Lori Lemaris into the Phantom Zone and gets Superman to agree to marry her.

Action Comics No. 288
May 1962
Story:  "The Man Who Made Supergirl Cry"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (origin retold in a dream; last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #33)
GS:  Mon-El (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #33; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62)
Supporting Characters::  Fred Danvers (mistakenly called Robert Danvers in this story), Edna Danvers (first name revealed in this story)
Cameo:  Zor-El and Allura  (in a dream)
Villains:  Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox (last appearance for both SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #33; both next appear in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62), Dr. Xadu (last appearance in SUPERMAN #150; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62), Joe Hall, Rocky and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  Fred Danvers's profession (engineer) is revealed in this story.
Synopsis:  Fred Danvers, who possesses unexpected extra-sensory powers, is telepathically influenced by inmates of the Phantom Zone to perform cruel actions that make Supergirl cry, and then to save her tears.  The Zoners then induce Danvers to mix the super-tears with other chemicals to form a substance that opens a rift between the Phantom Zone and the Earth's dimension.  Only one can emerge at a time, however, and Mon-El is forced out first, followed by Jax-Ur, who hits Fred Danvers to force more tears from Supergirl.  Mon-El returns, however, with a green Kryptonite meteor which he uses to force Jax-Ur back into the Zone.  He leaps into the Zone himself just before the rift closes up.  Later, Fred Danvers discovers that Jax-Ur's blow destroyed his psychic abilities.

Action Comics No. 289
June 1962
Cover:  Luma Lynai, Superman, and Supergirl  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Superman's Super-Courtship"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #154)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #126), Cosmic Man, Lightning Man (both between SUPERMAN #147 / 155), Saturn Woman (between SUPERMAN #147 / 165), Phantom Woman, Duo Damsel (first appearance for both (as adults); next appear in ADVENTURE COMICS #354), Chameleon Man (first appearance; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #354),  Sun Man (first appearance; next appears in ?; with Superman, all comprise the adult Legion of Super-Heroes), Helen of Troy
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Luma Lynai (only appearance)
Cameo:  Jor-El, Lara, Zor-El, Allura, Cleopatra, Cupid
Villains:  Rhondous, Patronius, the Minotaur, and the Unicorn (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  Saturn Girl's and Lightning Lad's future marriage is revealed in this story.
Synopsis:  After watching a tear-jerker movie in which a bachelor loses his true love, Supergirl resolves that such will not happen to her cousin Superman.  First, she lures him back to ancient
Greece, where she hopes something will happen between Superman and Helen of Troy.  They end up in a fight with the Minotaur and Unicorn, but no romancing.  Later, Supergirl takes him to the
30th Century in the time of the adult Legion of Super-Heroes and tries to fix him up with Saturn Woman.  The only problem is, Saturn Woman is already married to Lightning Man.  Back in the
present, Superman tells Supergirl he could only marry a lovable superwoman like her, though Kryptonian law forbids marriage between cousins.  Accordingly, Supergirl uses a computer to find a superheroine on the planet Staryl, Luma Lynai, a sexy white-and-green-costumed woman who is an adult double for Supergirl.  Superman and Luma do fall for each other, but they soon discover that Earth's yellow solar rays are deadly to Luma, and they make a tearful parting.  Supergirl finally decides to let Superman take care of his own love life.

Superman No. 154
July 1962
Story:  "Krypton's First Superman"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #34)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearnace in ACTION COMICS #289; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #34)
Supporting Characters: Jor-El, Lara (in flashback; see Comment under MORE FUN COMICS #101 for chronology), Perry White, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen (all next appear in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #34), Lori Lemaris
Intro:  Ilena (an Atlantean goddess; as an idol)
Intro:  Lon-Es (a Kandorian scientist)
Villains: Lex Luthor (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #126), Mag-En, Ral-En (in flashback; first appearance for both; both die before this story opens), a gang of crooks (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  When Superman begins committing destructive acts, after which he immediately repents and repairs the damages, Supergirl is teleported into Kandor and told by the Kryptonian
scientist Lon-Es the reason for Superman's behavior change.  Years ago, on the planet Krypton, Ral-En, son of psychologist Mag-En, seemingly developed super-powers after being bathed in a
chemical explosion.  He used these powers to establish a dictatorship, which was short-lived.  Jor-El deduced that Mag-En had been using mass hypnosis to convince everyone that his son
was really super-powered, though he was in reality just a normal Kryptonian.  Ral-En was sentenced to the Phantom Zone.  In retaliation, Mag-En secretly hypnotized baby Kal-El to do ten destructive things whenever he again saw the blue comet that happened to be streaking by overhead.  Lon-Es developed partial amnesia after accidentally striking his head soon afterward, and forgot the incident until seeing Superman running amok triggered the memory.  Supergirl is transported back to the outer world.  Superman is about to crash headlong into Earth and devastate it, but Supergirl employs a meteor-eating space monster to gobble up the head of the blue comet.  No longer seeing the comet, Superman returns to normal.  Shortly afterward, he tells
Supergirl he is going to leave Earth, but she tells him the story of Mag-En and convinces him to stay.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 34
July 1962
Cover: Superman looking in on Lois Lane Luthor, Lex Luthor, and Larry Luthor //Kurt Schaffenberger
Story: "Lois Lane, Millionairess" (9 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN #154; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62)
GS: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN #154; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62), Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #154; next appears in ACTION COMICS #290)
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olsen, Perry White (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN #154; both next appear in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62)
Villains: Eddie and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: Lois Lane is duped by a disguised gang of criminals into thinking she must pose as a wealthy lady's long-lost daughter to save the "lady's" sanity, not knowing she is being used to lure Superman into a deathtrap.

Action Comics No. 290
July 1962
Story:  "Supergirl's Super Boy-Friends"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #34)
Supporting Characters:  Dick Malverne, Jerro, Edna Danvers
GA: Phantom Girl (last chronological appearance in flashback in SUPERBOY #204; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #301), Kandorians (last appearance in ?), Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN #154)
Intro:  The Supergirl Emergency Squad (next appear in issue #299)
Cameo:  Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl (as statuettes)
Synopsis:  Phantom Girl carves a statuette of Supergirl and travels briefly to 1962 to give it to Kara, not knowing that she has carved it out of Red Kryptonite.  The Red K causes Supergirl to impart her powers to whomever she kisses, for the 48-hour active period.  Thus, Jerro and Dick Malverne gain super-powers, and perform super-deeds.  But when their abilities run out with both of them over a live volcano, a group of Kandorian girls don Supergirl costumes and masks as the Supergirl Emergency Squad, and save the boys' lives.  Later, Linda sprays the statuette with lead.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 35
August 1962
Story:  "The Fantastic Wigs of Mr. Dupre'"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
GS:  Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #290 / 291)
Supporting Character:  Perry White
Villains:  The Masquerader (Booth Barry) and his gang, Hi-Jack Harry (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  A villain known as The Masquerader seeks to have Lois Lane killed before she can expose a phony charities racket he and his gang are behind.  Accordingly, he poses as a wig-shop owner and convinces Lois that a batch of wigs he has on stock were enchanted by a sorcerer, and that the wigs, in the shape of the hair of famous figures such as Marie Antoinette, will cause their
wearers to suffer the same deaths as the persons whose hair they resemble.  To lend substance to his theory, the Masquerader, in his true identity of Booth Barry, an actor, plays the part of Alexander Hamilton, uses one of the wigs, and "dies" from a gunshot as Hamilton did after a duel.  To investigate the "curse", Lois puts on several of the wigs and barely escapes doom each time.  Finally, the Masquerader gives Lois a wig fashioned to look like Supergirl's hair.  But the real Supergirl has returned from a mission in the future, sees through the hoax, lets Lois in on it, and takes Lois's place to foil a deathtrap.   Then Supergirl captures the Masquerader and takes him to prison.

Action Comics No. 291
August 1962
Story:  "The Bride of Mr. Mxyzptlk"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #35; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #63; origin retold in flashback)
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El and Allura (chronologically between pg. 10, panel 5 and pg. 11, panel 1, of issue #309), Mrs. Hart and the children of Midvale Orphanage (last appearance), Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Cameo:  Superman, people of Argo City
Villain: Mr. Mxyzptlk (last appearance in SUPERMAN #154; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #65)
Comment:  Since Zor-El and Allura are actually alive and in the Survival Zone at the time of this story, what Mxyzptlk really accomplishes in this story is debatable.  As they do not tell Supergirl that they are really alive, their identities might be in doubt.  But, since they possess enough independent will to defeat Mxyzptlk in this story, it is doubtful they are only his creations.  Thus, we suggest that Mr. Mxyzptlk takes Zor-El and Allura at a point in time after they have sent Kara to Earth, but before they are sent into the Survival Zone, and that they are returned to that point in time and space after this story, believing they are doomed to die along with the citizens of Argo City.
Synopsis:  Mr. Mxyzptlk plagues Earth with pranks again, such as turning the entire United Nations delegation into Bizarros, and Supergirl is unable to make him say his name backwards.  When she denounces him as, among other things, "the greatest creep there ever was!", Mxyzptlk thinks that she is beautiful when she's angry, and proposes marriage to her.  She gives him an
unequivocal "No!", but Mxyzptlk proves his love by materializing her dead parents, Zor-El and Allura.  Supergirl is overwhelmed, and is torn between affection for her natural parents and the
Danverses.  Zor-El, for his part, insists that Supergirl marry Mxyzptlk.  But, before the wedding can take place, he has Mxyzptlk drink a toast laced with Krypton Truth Serum.  Thus, when Zor-El directs him to, he has to say his name backwards, and returns to the 5th Dimension.  All his magical effects are cancelled, including the existences of Zor-El and Allura.  Later, Supergirl wonders if she will ever see her real parents again.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 63
Cover: Jimmy Olsen transforming Supermen Emergency Squad impostorswith Red Kryptonite ray //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The League of Fantastic Supermen" (9 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Jerry Siegel
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #291)
GS: Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #291 / 292 (Superman story)), Kandorians (last appearance in issue #60)
Supporting Character: Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN #154)
Intro: Superman Robot X-5 (destroyed in this story)
Villains: Supermen Emergency Squad impostors (first and only appearance; four Kandorian criminals), Chameleon Chief (first and only (?) appearance; possibly one of the Durlans from ACTION COMICS #283), Sun-Emperor (first appearance), Lightning Lord II (last appearance in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (3rd series) #?; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #331), Cosmic King II (first appearance; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #331; latter four teamed as the Legion of Super-Villains; see Comment below)
Comment: It is now held that there are two different adult Legions of Super-Villains, and that this grouping is from the "canonical" Legion future.
Synopsis: Four Kandorian criminals gas the population of Kandor into unconsciousness and escape from the city's bottle.  But Jimmy Olsen, visiting in the Fortress of Solitude, uses a Red Kryptonite ray on them, and thus gives the four of them outlandish-appearing heads.  Later, the four Kandorians are captured by members of the Legion of Super-Villains who imitate them as part of a plot to free the Phantom Zone villains, but Jimmy, Supergirl, and the Superman robots capture them instead.

Superman No. 156
October 1962
Cover:  Superman in isolation booth with last will and testament, and Kandorians, Supergirl, and Krypto coming to his aid  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Last Days of Superman"
 Part I:  "Superman's Death Sentence"  (9 pages)
 Part II:  "The Super-Comrades of All Time"  (8 pages)
 Part III:  "Superman's Last Day of Life"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Edmond Hamilton
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #128; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #36)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in ACTION COMICS #292; next appears in flashback in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #64), Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Chameleon Boy (all between SUPERBOY #100 / ADVENTURE COMICS #301), Brainiac 5 (between ACTION COMICS #285 / ADVENTURE COMICS #303), Bouncing Boy (between ACTION COMICS #276 / ADVENTURE COMICS #301), Invisible Kid (between ACTION COMICS #267 / ADVENTURE COMICS #304), Sun Boy (between ADVENTURE COMICS #300 / 301), Triplicate Girl (between ACTION COMICS #287 / ADVENTURE COMICS #301), Shrinking Violet (between ADVENTURE COMICS #301 flashback / 301; all appear as the Legion of Super-Heroes), Mon-El  (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #62), Krypto, the Superman Emergency Squad, Superman robots
GA:  Batman, Robin (last appearance for both in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #128; both next appear in DETECTIVE COMICS #308)
Supporting Characters: Jor-El (in flashback; see Comment under MORE FUN COMICS #101 for chronology), Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White (all between SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #63 / SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #36), Lana Lang (betwen SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #35 / 36), Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #63)
Intro:  Tharb-El (in flashback; only appearance)
Comment:  Supergirl is incorrectly depicted as flying back in time and space to pre-exploded Krypton in this story.  Since she has no powers under Krypton's red sun, it's obvious she had to use a Legion time-bubble or some other sort of protective craft to survive and return.
Synopsis:  Superman, in the presence of Jimmy Olsen, reads Kryptonese inscriptions on a container from Krypton which has landed on Earth, emitting deadly Green Kryptonite radiation from its shell.  The inscriptions note that the container holds deadly Virus X cultures.  Superman smashes the container into the Earth with a boulder, but his weakness when Jimmy approaches him convinces him he is dying of Virus X.  Superman isolates himself in a glass chamber and begins setting his affairs in order, with the help of Supergirl, the Legion of Super-Heroes, and his
robots.  He bids farewell to Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Batman, and Robin.  Even Brainiac 5 cannot find a cure for Virus X.  But Supergirl goes back in space and time to Krypton, shortly before it exploded, and hears Tharb-El, the biologist, saying he is destroying the sample of Virus X to be included in the space container.  Supergirl returns to Earth in 1962 and explains her discovery; thus, Superman knows he is not dying of Virus X.  Mon-El, in the Phantom Zone, telepathically informs Saturn Girl that Superman is being weakened by a chunk of Kryptonite which became
lodged in Jimmy Olsen's camera when Superman smashed the container into the ground.  Jimmy finds and disposes of the Kryptonite, and Superman recovers, thanking all his friends for their great aid to him.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 64
October 1962
Story: "Jimmy Olsen, Hollywood Star" (8 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Leo Dorfman
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #36 (2))
GA: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN #156; also appears in flashback; see Superman's interim appearances for chronology), Supergirl (in flashback; last appearance in SUPERMAN #156; next appears in Superman story in ACTION COMICS #293)
Intro: Bob Hope, James Arness, Boris Karloff, Red Skelton, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Phil Silvers, Mitch Miller, Richard Boone, Elizabeth Taylor, Buddy Hackett, Groucho Marx, Danny Thomas, Alfred Hitchcock, Jerry Lewis (all of Earth-One)
Villains: Rocks Saxon (first and only appearance), Iron Colossus, Space Wolves (both in flashback; first and only appearance for both)
Comment: An undepicted mission of Superman's and Supergirl's with the Legion of Super-Heroes is mentioned in this story.  Also, a flashback to an adventure Jimmy and Supergirl had with the Space Wolves is depicted, which we have placed just before this story, since Jimmy indicates that it happened recently.
 The fact that Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis appear in comics published by DC at this time does not necessarily make them the ones who appear in this story.  (Possibly, the characters in ADVENTURES OF BOB HOPE and ADVENTURES OF JERRY LEWIS exist on the Inferior Five's Earth 12.)  Onthe other hand, Super-Hip, a BOB HOPE character, does appear in DOOM PATROL #104, and Jerry Lewis does appear in stories featuring Superman, Flash, Batman, and Wonder Woman in his own comic.  But Jerry is not a Hollywood star in his comic book, so it is probable that it depicts a non-Earth-One Jerry Lewis.
 Also, the Earth-One Boris Karloff is not the Gold Key / Whitman Earth Boris Karloff, who hosts BORIS KARLOFF'S THRILLER!
Synopsis: Jimmy Olsen faces death in a quicksand trap in Hollywood, but is saved by Boris Karloff, who uses a hangman's noose to pull him to safetuy.

Action Comics No. 292
September 1962
Cover: Superman defending Lex Luthor before a jury of Automs //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "When Superman Defended His Arch-Enemy" (14 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: Al Plastino
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #14; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #128)
GA: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #63; next appears in SUPERMAN #156)
Intro: Automs (a race of robots) and their androids (all next appear in issue #294), an Autom creator (in flashback; only appearance), Autom 4306 (destroyed but rebuilt in this story), Superman Robot X65 (destroyed in this story)
Comment: Shortly after this story, Superman helps Batman and Robin fight Moose Morans in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #128.
Synopsis: Luthor leaves Earth in a rocket of his own devising, ends up on a world of robots, and is brought in on murder charges when he destroys one of them.  Superman defends Luthor at his trial and gets him off when he rebuilds the wrecked robot with parts from one of his Superman robots.  However, Superman leaves Luthor stranded on the robots' world.

Story:  "The Super-Steed of Steel"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #157 (1))
GS:  Comet the Super-Horse (Biron the Centaur, aka "Bronco Bill"; last chronological appearance in flashback in next issue; true identity revealed in next issue; introduced in ADVENTURE COMICS #293)
GA: Streaky (between ADVENTURE COMICS #293 / 313)
Supporting Characters:  Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne
Cameo:  Krypto, alien invaders (in a dream)
Intro:  Mace Greede (only appearance)
Comment:  Story continues in next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl has several dreams about Comet, a white super-horse who performs amazing feats.  Later, she and her parents go to a "Supergirl Dude Ranch", where they meet with the real Comet, a white horse whom only she (as Linda Danvers) can claim.  Comet demonstrates that he really has super-powers and, by taking her to the giant image of Supergirl outside the ranch, indicates to Linda that he knows her secret identity.  She promises to make him a red super-cape to wear later on, and wonders where Comet came from.

Action Comics No. 293
October 1962
Cover: Superman watching Supergirl and Super-Horse battle alien spaceship //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Feud Between Superman and Clark Kent" (14 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: Al Plastino
Feature Character: Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN #157; temporarily split into an evil Superman and a non-powered Clark Kent in this story)
GS: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #64; next appears in SUPERMAN #157 (1)), Krypto (between SUPERMAN #156 / 157 (2))
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Perry White (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #64)
Comment: This story refers to an unchronicled episode in which Red Kryptonite split Supergirl into a normal Linda Lee Danvers and a super-powered Girl of Steel.
Synopsis: Red Kryptonite splits the Man of Steel into two beings--an arrogant Superman and a non-powered Clark Kent--and, if 72 hours passes without them merging, they will stay apart forever.

Story:  "The Secret Origin of Supergirl's Super-Horse"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
GS:  Comet (origin revealed in this story), Circe (in flashback; last appearance in ?; next appears in issue #311)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #15), Mace Greede
Supporting Characters: Fred and Edna Danvers
Intro:  Matt Carver (an animal trainer)
Villains: Maaldor (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #92), an evil soothsayer (both in flashback), alien invaders (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  Story continues in next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl learns that Comet has telepathic powers, by which he tells her of his origin.  He was once Biron the Centaur in ancient Greece, and saved the sorceress Circe from an enemy
sorceror, Malador.  For this she gave him a potion intended to give him full humanity, but Malador switched her potions and caused Biron to become all-horse instead.  To make up for her mistake, Circe fed Biron (now Comet) another potion which gave him the speed, invulnerability, strength, immortality and telepathic power of the Greek gods.  But, to complete his revenge, Malador and his mentor cast a spell to exile Comet to the constellation Sagittarius forever.  The rocket that sent Supergirl to Earth passed near the asteroid where Comet was imprisoned, shattered its force-field with repeller rays, and freed Comet.  Later, after performing rodeo stunts with Linda Danvers, Comet helps Supergirl and Superman overcome alien invaders.  Back at the
ranch, Linda discovers that Comet has been sold to an animal trainer from Hollywood who intends to make him a sensation in Westerns.

Action Comics No. 294, November 1962
Story:  "The Mutiny of Super-Horse"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #38)
GS:  Comet (next appears in issue #300), Superman (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #129)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
GA:  Mace Greede, Matt Carver (last appearance for both)
Intro:  Von Lutz, Liz Gaynor
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl helps Comet with his first picture, in which he co-stars with actress Liz Gaynor.  However, after he eats a variety of lotus flowers which induce amnesia, Comet forgets his old identity, Supergirl, and his super-powers.  He becomes the "pet" of Liz Gaynor, and Linda Danvers wonders tearfully if she'll ever see her old horse again as a friend.

Superman No. 157
November 1962
Cover: Perry White watching Superman release Quex-Ul from Phantom Zone //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Super-Revenge of the Phantom Zone Prisoner" (10 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #293)
GS: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #293; next chronological appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #292)
GA: Mon-El
Supporting Characters: Jor-El (in flashback; see Comment under MORE FUN COMICS #101 for chronology), Perry White (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #293)
Intro:  Rondors (in flashback; Kryptonian beasts; die in this story), Gold Kryptonite
Villains:  Quex-Ul (first appearance; next appears, as "Charlie Kweskill", in PHANTOM ZONE #1), Rog-Ar (in flashback; dies before this story begins),  Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox, Kru-El
Synopsis:  Phantom Zone prisoner Quex-Ul's 25-year sentence is up, and Superman releases him from the Zone, to which he was sent for allegedly killing the rondors and stealing their "healing
horns" for use in a medical scam.  Quex-Ul promises to destroy Superman with Gold Kryptonite, a new variety that Superman knows nothing about.  They battle inconclusively, but Quex-Ul calls a truce so that he can save a man whose life he sees endangered.  Using an anti-gravity belt and a space-warp, Superman travels back in time and space to pre-exploded Krypton.  There he
witnesses the real slayer of the rondors, Rog-Ar, using a hypno-jewel on Quex-Ul, who had intended to turn him in.  Instead, Rog-Ar hypnotically compelled Quex-Ul to front for him with his "hall of healing", to take the rap if exposed, and not to know of Rog-Ar's existence.  Quex-Ul has already attracted a Gold Kryptonite meteor from outer space, concealed it in a lead box, and trapped a submarine in an undersea crevice near the box, hoping to lure Superman into a trap.  Supergirl finds Quex-Ul and reveals the truth of his false imprisonment.  Repentant, Quex-Ul frees the sub, accidentally exposes himself to the Gold K, loses his powers, and risks death by drowning and the bends.  When he drifts far enough away from the Gold Kryptonite, Supergirl and Superman rescue him.  When he revives, Quex-Ul has amnesia from the Gold K exposure.  Superman arranges with Perry White to have Quex-Ul, who thinks he is an Earthman, employed in the Daily Planet's production department.

Story:  "Superman's Day of Doom"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Letterer:  Milt Snapinn
Feature Character:  Superman (last chronological appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #301)
GS:  Supergirl (last chronological appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #293; next chronological appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #70), Lightning Lad (between ADVENTURE COMICS #301 / 303), Cosmic Boy (between ADVENTURE COMICS #301 / 302), Bizarro No. 1 (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #299)
GA:  Comet (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #293), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #68)
Supporting Characters:   Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White (last appearance for all in ACTION COMICS #301; all next appear in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #134), Lana Lang (between SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #41 / 42), Lori Lemaris (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #297; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #42)
Cameo:  Lex Luthor, Luma Lynai
Intro:  People of the Cybern galaxy (no appearance; name only mentioned), Steven Snapinn (only appearance)
Villain:  A diamond smuggler (first and only appearance)
Comment:  It is obvious that Little Leaguer Steven Snapinn in this story is named after a real relative, possibly a son, of letterer Milton Snapinn.
 The prediction of Superman marrying an "L.L." can safely be assumed to be Lois Lane, as shown in SUPERMAN FAMILY #200.
 The presence of Comet in this story indicates that it takes place after he regains his memory in ACTION COMICS #301 and after his first mission with the Legion of Super-Pets in ADVENTURE COMICS #293, in which he first meets Krypto. Thus, this story is out of sequence.
Synopsis:  Metropolis is set to observe Superman Day with a great parade in which Superman and many of his friends, including Supergirl and some Legionnaires, will participate.  Superman is also given a prediction machine from the Cybern Galaxy in return for a good deed he once did them.  The machine, which turns up at the Daily Planet, has the power to predict the answers to three
future problems.  Since Clark Kent has been threatened by a gangster lately, he asks who will rescue him if he is endangered that day, and the answer comes back:  "L.L."  Later, Superman's
life is endangered when Bizarro leaves him with a "gift" of Green Kryptonite, flying off seconds later.  Superman hopes for aid from any of his "L.L." friends, including Lana Lang, Lois Lane, Lori Lemaris, Lightning Lad, or Linda (Supergirl) Lee Danvers, but none of them are aware of his plight.  Finally, Superman is saved in the nick of time by Steven Snapinn, a Little League baseball player.  Superman presents Steven and his team for special recognition at the Superman Day rally.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 38
January 1963
Story:  "Lois Lane's Signal Watch"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character:  Lois Lane
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #294)
Supporting characters:  Perry White, Jimmy Olsen
Villains:  Muscles, Doc, Mike Kimbo (intro for all)
Synopsis:  Racketeer Mike Kimbo concocts an elaborate ruse to get Lois Lane to reveal the hidden cache of diamonds stolen by a criminal who, in gratitude for her saving his life, gave her a letter with secret instructions as to its hiding place.  The ruse involves making Muscles, a confederate, look like Superman through plastic surgery, having him impersonate the Man of Steel, and giving her a fake "signal watch" that will do nothing more than transmit her whereabouts to the gang.  Lois does find the diamonds in a cave, signals "Superman", and is trapped.  But a falling stalactite hits the watch, changes its signal to a frequency Supergirl can hear, and the Girl of Steel is summoned to rescue Lois and capture the crooks.  Later, Supergirl confides to Lois that someday she may get a real signal watch like Jimmy Olsen's.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 39
February 1963
Story:  "The Kryptonian Courtship"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character:  Lois Lane
GS:  Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #295)
Supporting Character:  Lucy Lane
Cameo:  Superman, Krypto, Jor-El, Lara, Lyla Lerrol, Lori Lemaris (as characters in Lois's dream)
Synopsis:  On the eve of her birthday, Lois Lane goes to sleep and has a dream in which Supergirl, Krypto, and Superman give her three jewels with recordings of Lara's courtship of Superman's father, Jor-El.  Unfortunately, none of them work very well on Earth when Lois tries similar tricks in her dream to snare Superman.  The dream ends with Lori Lemaris and Lois having botched another attempt to get Superman to tie the knot with her, and Superman leaving in disgust, saying he doesn't want to see her again.
 Then Lois wakes up, looks out the window, and sees Supergirl flying towards her with a birthday present.

Action Comics No. 295
December 1962
Story:  "The Girl With the X-Ray Mind"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #39)
Supporting Characters:  Lena Thorul (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #23; origin details revealed (her first chronological appearance; next chronological appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #23); age changed for this story), Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne
GA: Jules Thorul, Arlene Thorul (in flashback; die in this story; Lex Luthor's and Lena Thorul's parents)
Cameo:  Lori Lemaris, Krypto, Jimmy Olsen, Superboy
Intro:  Several agents of the FBI
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #129; also appears in flashback, chronologically between SUPERBOY #139 (1) / SUPERMAN #273 (2), pg. 5, panel 4-pg.8, panel 4; origin details revealed), Dr. Anton, Bank Busters (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues in part in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers's friend Lena Thorul has ESP powers and wants to join the FBI, but she has no verifiable past and cannot be accepted.  Supergirl investigates and finds the reason why: Lena is really the younger sister of Lex Luthor, and gained ESP powers through contact with a "space-brain" brought to Earth by Superboy.  Lena and her parents were forced to move from
Smallville and change their last names to Thorul, though Lena never learned of her brother's criminal past and was told he died in an accident, not long before her parents died in a very real
accident.  When the FBI learns the truth, they are adamant about not hiring her.  Lena, however, pretends to infiltrate Bank Busters, a gang of bank robbers, and to use her powers in their behalf.  When Luthor hears of it, he tells all to Supergirl and pleads with her to keep Lena from a life of crime.  However, Lena was only playing along with the crooks to catch them in the act, and helps Supergirl and the police capture the Bank Busters.  Supergirl promises to tell the FBI about the case, in hopes that they will reconsider hiring her.  But she gets nerved when Lena admits that she has Supergirl telepathically linked with Linda Lee Danvers.

Action Comics No. 296
January 1963
Story:  "The Girl Who Was Supergirl's Double"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Lena Thorul, Dick Malverne, Edna Danvers, Dr. Malverne (first appearance; Dick's foster father)
Intro:  Clarissa Giltedge, Mr. Giltedge (her father; only appearance for both)
Villains:  Lex Luthor, Blackie and his gang of jewel thieves (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues in next issue.
Synopsis:  When Lena Thorul attends a costume ball dressed as Supergirl, a soiree also attended by Dick Malverne and Linda Lee Danvers, Dick is convinced by Lena's resemblance to the Girl of
Steel and by the real Supergirl's appearance when thieves attempt a jewel robbery there, that Lena is really Supergirl.  Other circumstantial evidence later on hardens Dick's mistaken belief.  Linda becomes jealous when Dick's affections are turned to Lena.  Lex Luthor, in the meantime, asks Supergirl to give Lena some diamonds he created from coal lumps, as a secret birthday gift. When Dick sees one of the diamonds fallen into the coal scuttle at Lena's house, he is finally convinced beyond any doubt that Lena is Supergirl.  Lena finally "admits" that she is the Princess of Power, and the real Supergirl, listening in with super-hearing, wonders why Lena has told a lie.

Action Comics No. 297
February 1963
Story:  "The Forbidden Weapons of Krypton"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA: Mon-El (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #295; next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #189)
Supporting Characters:  Lena Thorul, Dick Malverne, Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN #158), Jerro
Cameo:  Superman
Villains:  Lesla-Lar (last appearance in issue #282; disintegrated in this story; next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #206), Jax-Ur (last appearance in SUPERMAN #158), General Zod (last  chronological appearance in NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY #9), Kru-El (first appearance; last chronological appearance in SUPERBOY #189), Lex Luthor
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
 The calendar on Lex Luthor's cell wall indicates that this story takes place on January 15-16, and that Lena Thorul's birthday is January 16th.
Synopsis:  Lena Thorul actually told Dick Malverne that she had super-powers because her mind was controlled by a device operated by Lesla-Lar, who has recently broken jail in Kandor.  Using her teleport ray, Lesla exchanges places with Lena, and imitates her, convincing Supergirl that a special serum has given her super-powers.  Later, Lesla-Lar uses a Phantom Zone projector to free Jax-Ur, Kru-El, and General Zod from the Zone.  The threesome arm themselves with a cache of forbidden Kryptonian weapons, and repay her by destroying her with a disintegrator gun.  Since Superman is in another time-era on a mission, the three villains set up a force-field that blocks time-travel, and the people of Kandor are made prisoners of their bottle.  Both Supergirl and the villains are stalemated when they try to use their powers on each other, but the weapons give the villains the edge.  Supergirl is infected with a disease that turns living creatures into plants.  But, when Supergirl tells Lex Luthor that Lena is prisoner in Kandor, he agrees to help her battle the three Kryptonians.

Action Comics No. 298
March 1963
Cover:  Lex Luthor in costume, destroying Superman statue  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Super-Powers of Lex Luthor"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #304)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in first story of this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #132)
GA:  Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad (all between ADVENTURE COMICS #303 / 304; all three appear as the Legion of Super-Heroes), Superman's robots (destroyed in this story)
Supporting Characters: Lori Lemaris, Lena Thorul (next appears in issue #300), warden of Metropolis prison
Villains:  Lex Luthor, Jax-Ur (next chronological appearance for both in SUPERMAN #179 (2)),  General Zod, Kru-El (both next appear in issue #304)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  The warden of Metropolis prison refuses to believe Luthor when he says that Supergirl wants him as an ally, so Luthor throws in with the Phantom Zone villains.  Kru-El gives Luthor super-powers with a ray device, and, later, demonstrates a mind-over-matter helmet to him.  The Zoners, in a private conversation, plan to use Luthor to construct a magnet that will attract Gold Kryptonite to permanently remove Superman's and Supergirl's powers, but they also intend to strip away Luthor's new super-powers as well when they have it.  Unknown to them, however, Luthor is listening with his super-hearing, and, once Kru-El drops the force-field so as to lure Superman into their trap, he switches sides again by using a fake Gold K meteor.  Supergirl, Superman, and Luthor triumph, send the Kryptonian villains back to the Phantom Zone, destroy the weapons (and thus remove Luthor's powers and Supergirl's plant scourge), release Lena Thorul from Kandor, and return Luthor to prison.

Adventure Comics No. 304
January 1963
Story: "The Stolen Super-Powers" (11 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: John Forte
Letterer: Joe Letterese
Feature Characters: Cosmic Boy (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #298), Saturn Girl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #298; next appears in flashback in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (3rd series) #6), Lightning Lad (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #298; "dies" in this story, but is revived in issue #312), Triplicate Girl, Phantom Girl, Colossal Boy, Supergirl
(between ACTION COMICS #298 / 299), Brainiac 5, Shrinking Violet, Superboy, Sun Boy, Bouncing Boy, Ultra Boy, Matter-Eater Lad, Chameleon Boy, Invisible Kid (last appearance in SUPERMAN #156), Mon-El (last appearance in issue #300)
Supporting Character: Lori Lemaris (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #298; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #42)
Villain: Zaryan the Conqueror (first appearance; dies in this story)
Synopsis: Saturn Girl contrives to be elected Legion leader and expels the rest of the members while duplicating their powers thru special medallions so that she will be the only one who can face Zaryan the Conqueror, whom a computer has predicted will become the murderer of a Legionnaire.  But Mon-El gives word of the plot from the Phantom Zone  to Lightning Lad, who destroys Zaryan and is thrown into a deathlike coma and apparently killed.

Action Comics No. 299
April 1963
Cover:  Rax-Rol and other orphans, Supergirl, Mar-San and Lira, and Mrs. Hart (?) at Midvale Orphanage  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Fantastic Secret of Superbaby II"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #304; next appearance in SUPERMAN #161)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #38; next appears in SUPERMAN #161), Kandorians, Supergirl Emergency Squad (between issues #290 / 314)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Mrs. Hart, Mr. Dixon (last appearance),  children of Midvale Orphanage
Intro:  Rax-Rol, Mar-San, and Lira (three Kandorian actors), Martin Pierce, Marie Duval, Zor-El and Allura androids, Telle, Mordo, and Lorra (ancient gods of Krypton; as statues); Zor (an ancient Kryptonian explorer; no appearance; name only mentioned)
Cameo:  Lesla-Lar, Kru-El (in flashback)
Synopsis:  When Supergirl rejects two actors, Mar-San and Lira, from appearing as Jor-El and Lara in a Kandorian movie about Superman's life, they enlarge themselves on Earth with child
prodigy actor Rax-Rol (who resembles Superbaby), impersonate Ma and Pa Kent, and try to deceive Supergirl into thinking that history is repeating itself.  If their hoax succeeds, they intend
to reveal themselves to Supergirl, and thus convince her that they should get the movie roles.  Supergirl is almost convinced, but when the "Kents" drive on the left hand side of the road, as did drivers on Krypton, she deduces the truth.  However, she does recommend the three for the roles of Jor-El and his family, and they get the parts.

Superman No. 161
May 1963
Cover: Zhorian soldiers shooting at Superman //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Superman Goes to War"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Edmond Hamilton
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #41)
GA:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #299; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #308)
Supporting Characters: Perry White, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen (last appearance of all in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #68; all next appear in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #41)
Intro:  Mr. Haller (only appearance)
Villains: Zhorians (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Clark Kent, Perry White, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are hired to act as extras in Invasion, a World War II epic movie being filmed in the Pacific.  Unknown to the reporters and the movie-makers, a contingent of aliens from the planet Zhor have become marooned on Earth when their spacecraft is disabled by a meteor.  When they see the "invading" fleet of ships from the movie, they assume they are being attacked, take over Japanese weaponry still left on the island, and try to repel the "invaders".  Clark Kent, to cover for a supposed "injury" done him by a shell and to be able to operate with super-powers in public, summons Supergirl by ventriloquism.  She fakes giving Clark temporary super-powers from a blood transfusion.  The now openly-powerful Clark Kent defeats the Zhorians.  When he hears their story, Superman repairs their ship and helps them take off again.  Later, Clark pretends to have gained amnesia about recent events when the transfusion "wears off," and also pretends not to believe Jimmy and Lois's stories of his derring-do.

Adventure Comics No. 308
May 1963
Story: "The Return of Lightning Lad" (11 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisigner
Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Artist: John Forte
Feature Characters: Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Triplicate Girl, Chameleon Boy, Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #161; next appears in ACTION COMICS #300), Brainiac 5, Shrinking Violet, Superboy, Sun Boy, Bouncing Boy, Mon-El, Lightning Lass (Ayla Ranzz; first appearance; origin revealed; last chronological appearance in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (3rd series) #6 (flashback); joins the Legion of Super-Heroes in this story; all appear as the Legion of Super-Heroes)
Intro: Proty (next appears in issue #312), Jon Arkol (only appearance)
Supporting Character: Chief Wilson (between issues #303 / 316)
Cameo appearance: Lightning Lad (in flashback and as a corpse)
Villains: Hydra World criminals, Thieves' World master, Pyramid Men, Ant-Men of Canopus, Autom guard robots (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: Ayla Ranzz, sister of the late Lightning Lad, masquerades as her brother, pretends to come back to life, and is accepted as a Legionnaire, since she gained lightning powers at the same time as her brothers.  But her identity is exposed after she helps the Legion defeat criminals on Thieves' World, and she is allowed to formally join the Legion as Lightning Lass.

Action Comics No. 300
May 1963
Story:  "The Return of Super-Horse"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #308)
GS:  Comet (origin retold in flashback; last appearance in issue #294), Liz Gaynor (last appearance in issue #294; last appearance)
GA:  Superman (as a voice; last appearance in first story in next issue )
Supporting Characters:  Lena Thorul (last appearance in issue #298), Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Bonnie and her family (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Circe (in flashback), Lex Luthor (in a dream)
Villains: Stacy, Grimm (first and only appearance for both)
Comment:  This story continues in next issue.
Synopsis:  The amnesiac Comet runs away from Liz Gaynor's stables, gradually begins using his super-powers again, and eventually ends up with a farmer and his family.  When the farmer's young daughter is carried off by an eagle, Comet flies after the bird, attacks it, and rescues the girl.  Supergirl, seeing the deed with her telescopic vision, flies to Comet's side, and the sight of his old friend restores Comet's memory.  Comet telepathically recounts his origin to the farmer and his daughter, then, after getting a new cape from Supergirl, helps her perform a good deed for Lena Thorul.  Finally, Superman summons Super-Horse by radio to the Fortress of Solitude for a
special mission, saying the task is too dangerous for Supergirl.  Comet flies off  to aid Superman.

Action Comics No. 301
June 1963
Story:  "The Secret Identity of Super-Horse"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #293)
GS:  Comet  (first becomes "Bronco Bill" in this story; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #293)
GA:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN #157 (2); also appears in flashback; see Superman's Interim Appearances for chronology)
Supporting Character: Lena Thorul (next appears in issue #313)
Intro:  Prince Endor, his head advisor, Cerberus, the Griffin, the Hydra, Pegasus and other fabulous monsters (only appearance for all), Zeroxians (next appears in ?)
Villains: Lord Nomed and his henchman, the Boss and his gang (Blackie named in this story; first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
 Shortly after this story Supergirl briefly appears in the Superboy story in ADVENTURE COMICS #293, in which Comet helps form the Legion of Super-Pets.  Then Supergirl and Comet appear during a parade in Superman's honor in SUPERMAN #157 (2).
Synopsis:  Superman recruits Comet (and Supergirl, who accompanies him) to Zerox, the sorceror's world, to do a favor for Prince Endor, an old friend.  Since Endor must ride a flying
horse in a royal parade, and his usual steed, Pegasus, has lost his flying power due to a spell cast by the evil Lord Nomed, Comet substitutes for Pegasus as Zerox's steed.  In return, Endor casts a spell that causes Comet to become temporarily human when a comet passes through Earth's solar system.  (As a man, Comet has no super-powers.)  After he and Supergirl return to Earth, Comet becomes human again when a comet nears Earth, and becomes a rodeo star, taking on the name of Bronco Bill.  When Supergirl is concened over Comet's abscence, Lena Thorul directs her to Bronco Bill, whom she senses is connected to Comet.  Supergirl saves Bill from a bull and is rewarded with a kiss.  Later, Bill transforms back into a centaur and is captured by horse thieves,
but becomes Comet again, regains his super-powers, and crashes free.  He reunites with Supergirl, who remains ignorant of his Bronco Bill identity.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 70
July 1963
Cover:  Superman, Jimmy Olsen, and Silver Kryptonite   //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Secret of Silver Kryptonite"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen
GS:  Superman
GA:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #157 (3); next appears in ACTION COMICS #302)
Supporting Characters: Professor Potter, Lori Lemaris, Kandor Look-Alike Squad (first appearance), Perry White, Lois Lane, Element Lad, Lana Lang
Comment:  The revelation that Superman has, by this time, spent 25 years in Metropolis is extremely problematic.  That would make Superman about 43 years old at the time of this story.  But this has to depict the 25th anniversary of something in Superman's career, or the story must be declared null and void.  If it "really" refers to the 25th anniversary of his Superboy / Superman career, he might be 33 years of age here.  More probable is that the occasion is the 25th anniversary of Kal-El's coming to Earth at age 3.  That would make Superman 28 years old in this
story.  Or it may simply be noncanonical.
 The date of June 13th is revealed as an important anniversary in Superman's career in this story.
Synopsis:  Jimmy Olsen and Professor Potter spread rumors concerning the existence of Silver Kryptonite, a hitherto unknown variety of Kryptonite.  At the same time, Jimmy gathers silver
objects from Perry White, Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Lana Lang, and Lori Lemaris.  Finally, Jimmy summons Superman to Prof. Potter's lab, where they unveil a "meteor" of "Silver Kryptonite".  It
turns out to be a hollow phony, inside which are silver life masks of Jimmy, Clark, Lois, Lori, Perry, and Lana, formed by pouring molten silver from the gathered objects over the faces of
six members of the Kandor Look-Alike Squad who resemble his friends.  Element Lad arrives from the 30th Century to turn the table the "meteor" rests on into a silver pedestal.
 Superman is dumbfounded as to why he would receive the gift, until Jimmy tells him "It's the 25th anniversary of the day you adopted Metropolis as your official home, Superman!"
 

Action Comics No. 302
July 1963
Story:  "The Day Super-Horse Went Wild"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #70; next appears in Superman story in next issue)
GS:  Comet (last appearance in SUPERMAN #157 (3); origin retold in flashback), Atlanteans
Supporting Characters:  Jerro, Lori Lemaris, Fred Danvers,  Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne
Intro:  Finney, Gorbin, a yarcan (a mutant beast), Prof. Mysto (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Circe (in flashback), Lex Luthor
Villain: Vostar (first appearance; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #73)
Synopsis:  Vostar, an evil Atlantean scientist, plots revenge against Lori Lemaris and Jerro for testifying against him in court, and against Supergirl and Comet for saving Lori and Jerro from one of his traps.  Using a telepathic command-helmet, Vostar makes Comet run amok and destroy buildings.  Luckily, a passing comet activates the spell that makes Comet a human again, and,
imitating a carnival fortune teller, he drops hints that lead Linda Danvers, as Supergirl, to Vostar.  Comet returns to his Super-Horse identity, and Supergirl captures Vostar in time to prevent Comet from wrecking the White House.

Action Comics No. 303
August 1963
Cover:  Supergirl riding Superman (as a drang) tearing a Superman statue out of its base while soldiers fire Kryptonite at him  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Monster From Krypton"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Edmond Hamilton
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #43; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #135)
GS:  Supergirl (between Supergirl stories in last issue and this issue)
Supporting Characters: Jor-El, Lara (both in flashback), Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Lois Lane (last appearance for all in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #43), Supermen Emergency Squad
Intro:  Drangs (dragons from Krypton; in flashback)
Synopsis:  On Krypton in decades past, Jor-El and other scientists rocketed the eggs of drangs, fearsome dragon-like monsters, away from their planet to an uninhabited world.  However, a drang egg passed through the Red Kryptonite cloud in space and landed on Earth.  Even though the egg cracked and cannot hatch, Superman, investigating, becomes a drang when affected by the Red K.  Supergirl, Jimmy Olsen, and others believe that Superman has been killed by the drang and attempt to destroy it.  All of Superman's attempts to reveal the truth go awry, until he finally rescues Supergirl from a green Kryptonite weapon-burst, pulls up a Superman statue, and scratches out the letters on the base inscription to leave the message:  I AM SUPERMAN.  The drang-Superman is left unmolested until he can change back to his Superman form when the Red Kryptonite wears off.

Story:  "Supergirl's Big Brother"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in the Superman story in this issue)
Supporting Characters:  Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Lori Lemaris (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #44), Jerro
Intro:  Jan Danvers (in flashback; dies in this story)
Villains: Biff  Rigger (first appearance; dies in this story), two smugglers (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  The Danvers family is astonished when a man who appears to be their long-lost son Jan appears on their doorstep.  They had believed Jan Danvers to have died in the Korean War. Unknown to them, the real Jan is dead, and his double is Biff Rigger, another ex-soldier who met Jan in Korea and learned of the $50,000 inheritance money waiting for Jan when he got home.
Supergirl reveals her double identity to Rigger and gives him a pill which imparts temporary super-powers to him before learning of his deception, but he threatens to expose her secret identity if she tells her parents about him.  Later, though, he saves Supergirl from a Kryptonite meteor which she is exposed to undersea.  But his powers fade too soon, he develops a deadly
case of the bends, and he dies in Supergirl's arms, asking her not to tell the Danvers of his deception.  She complies, giving Biff a hero's burial in Atlantis.

Action Comics No. 304
Sept. 1963
Story:  "The Maid of Menace"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA:  Comet (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #313), Kandorians
Supporting Characters:  Dick Malverne, Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Bal-Korin, a Kandorian dentist, a Zora Vi-Lar android (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Superman
Villains:  Black Flame (Zora Vi-Lar; last name revealed in KRYPTON CHRONICLES #1; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #400), Jax-Ur,  Prof. Vakox (last appearance of both in SUPERMAN #163), Kru-El, General Zod (last appearance for both in issue #298; both next appear in issue #309), several female Phantom Zone prisoners (possibly including Faora Hu-Ul; first appearance for all; next appear in issue #321)
Synopsis:  Zora Vi-Lar, a Kandorian scientist and admirer of Lesla-Lar, vows to take revenge on Supergirl in Lesla's behalf and becomes the masked Black Flame, leaving the bottle city and
enlarging herself by flying through the Red Kryptonite cloud in space.  Her plan is to convince Supergirl that she is the evil far-future descendant of Supergirl herself, so that Supergirl will remove her own powers by Gold Kryptonite exposure in order to prevent her descendants from inheriting them.  The plot almost works, but the sight of a dental filling in Black Flame's mouth
cues Supergirl that her foe cannot have been born invulnerable.  Thus, Supergirl uses Gold Kryptonite on Black Flame herself, taking away her powers.  Shrunken to tiny size again, Black Flame is taken into custody in Kandor.

Action Comics No. 305
October 1963
Story:  "The Girl Who Hated Supergirl"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Jim Mooney
Inker:  John Forte
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #313; origin retold in flashback)
Supporting Characters:  Dick Malverne, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Mr. Blair (in flashback; dies in this story), Bill and Karen Blair (his children), people of Daxnar III (in flashback), mayor of Midvale (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Superman, Zor-El, Allura, people of Argo City (in flashback)
Comment:  This story gives the day of Supergirl's arrival on Earth as May 18, 1959.
Synopsis:  Karen Blair has a grudge against Supergirl, because her father, an astronomer who used a "hyper-ray transmitter" to communicate in code with aliens on the distant world of Daxnar
III, was killed by a dark object from space which intersected his transmission rays, spouted fire into the observatory, and gave him a heart attack.  Her brother Bill was also crippled in the fire, which took place the same day that Supergirl came to Earth.  Karen believes that Supergirl's rocket caused the disaster.  But Supergirl hooks up a chronoscope invented by Superman to show
Karen the truth:  that her father's death was caused by a space-bat, attracted by his transmitter.  Karen repents and begs forgiveness.  In return, Supergirl gets famous surgeons to operate on Bill's legs and return his mobility, and she gives the designs of Dr. Blair's transmitter to the National Space Agency.

Adventure Comics No. 313
Oct. 1963
Cover:  Superboy, Sun Boy, Chameleon Boy, Lightning Lad, and quarantined Saturn Girl, Lightning Lass, Night Girl, Triplicate Girl, and Shrinking Violet   //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Condemned Legionnaires"  (Part I; 8 pages)
  Part II:  "The Secret of Satan Girl"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Edmond Hamilton
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lass, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl, Triplicate Girl (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS:  Night Girl, Legion of Super-Pets (Comet (between ACTION COMICS #304 / 306), Beppo (last appearance in issue #293; next appears in ACTION COMICS #309), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #68; next appears in SUPERMAN #165), and Streaky (between ACTION COMICS #294 / 306))
GA:  Polar Boy
Intro:  Giants of the Puppet Planetoid and bouncing alien animals
Villain: Satan Girl (an evil duplicate of Supergirl; remerged with Supergirl in this story; only appearance)
Synopsis:  When Supergirl is exposed to a Red Kryptonite meteor in space, it produces a duplicate Supergirl and renders Kara unconscious.  To keep from merging with Supergirl when the Red K wears off in 48 hours, the duplicate becomes the lead-masked Satan Girl, goes to the 30th Century, and siphons the Red K radiation from her body into the bodies of the female Legionnaires, which will prove fatal to them if she completes the process.  Supergirl battles Satan Girl to a standstill, until the Legion of Super-Pets arrives to turn the tide.  In her last few minutes of life, Satan Girl confesses all to Supergirl before she merges with her.

Action Comics No. 306
Nov. 1963
Story:  "The Maid of Doom"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #313; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #73)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #137), Comet, Streaky, Krypto (last appearance for all in ADVENTURE COMICS #313)
Supporting Characters:  Dick Malverne, Edna Danvers
Intro: Mole creatures from the Mole World, and shadow people of the planet Erg
Cameo:  Mon-El, Brainiac 5 (in flashback), Mr. Mxyzptlk (as an identity for Sklor)
Villains:  Sklor and the Plasmos (including Trac and Bokk; first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  To prepare Earth for conquest, the Plasmos of the planet Mutor, who have the power to transform their bodies, send their secret agent Sklor to eliminate Supergirl and Superman.  First, imitating Supergirl, Sklor tricks Superman, Krypto, Streaky, Comet, and the Kandorians into going to the 40th Century.  Then he imitates Superman, Krypto, Streaky, Comet, and Mr. Mxyzptlk in succession, pretends to die and glow blue when Supergirl touches him, and convinces her she has gained the "touch of death" for super-beings.  However, Supergirl deduces the truth when she hears Comet speaking to her instead of using telepathy.  She forces the Mutorians to sign a peace treaty and abandon war forever.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 73
December 1963
Cover: Jimmy Olsen giving "golden touch" to Perry White and Superman //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Kid With the Golden Touch" (8 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: John Forte
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #306)
GS: Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #137), Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #306)
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olsen Fan Club, Perry White (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #137), Lucy Lane
Villains: Vostar (last appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #302), Targ (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Vostar, an old enemy of Supergirl's in disguise, gives Jimmy Olsen the "Midas touch", enabling him to transform anything he touches into gold, as part of a plot to rob Supergirl of her powers.

Story: "The Five Fantastic Feats of Jimmy Olsen" (9 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: Al Plastino
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen
GA: Superman, Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #307)
Supporting Characters: Lucy Lane, Perry White, Supermen Emergency Squad (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #303), Kandor Look-Alike Squad (last appearance in issue #70)
Intro: Mickey Mantle (of Earth-One; only appearance)
Villains: Mr. Fix, Shagg, and their gang (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: To trip up a horse race-fixing hoodlum called Mr. Fix, Jimmy poses as a rajah with uncanny luck, with the help of the Supermen Emergency Squad.

Action Comics No. 307
December 1963
Cover:  Kandorian priest and attendants on viewscreen, Superman android, Tor-An, and Saturn Girl disguised as Supergirl  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Supergirl's Wedding Day"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #73; next appears in SUPERMAN #170 (1))
GS:  Saturn Girl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #314 / 315), Comet, Kandorians
GA: Superman robots (destroyed in this story; probably later rebuilt)
Supporting Characters:  Jerro, Fred and Edna Danvers, Lori Lemaris
Intro:  Mayor of Midvale, Michael Barnes, a Superman android (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Tor-An (first and only appearance), Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox, General Zod
Synopsis:  Tor-An, a convict from the Phantom Zone, puts into action their plan to have Supergirl married to him and thus disgrace her and Superman forever when they learn of his criminal past.  After escaping through a dimensional rift accidentally created by Supergirl, Tor-An assumes the identity of a teacher at Midvale High, reveals his Kryptonian identity to her, and romances her, telling her that his father also rocketed her away from Krypton.  Supergirl plans to marry Tor-An, even though her telepathic friends Comet and Jerro warn her that he is shielding his thoughts from them.  Comet, Jerro, and Lori Lemaris summon Saturn Girl of the Legion of Super-Heroes from the future.  She uses her superior mental powers to read Tor-An's mind, divine his scheme, and take Supergirl's place at the wedding in disguise.  Tor-An is recaptured and later returned to the Phantom Zone.

Superman No. 170
July 1964
Story:  "Superman's Mission For President Kennedy"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writers:  Bill Finger, E. Nelson Bridwell
Artist:  Al Plastino
Feature Character:  Superman
GS:  President John F. Kennedy
GA:  Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Perry White, Supergirl Fan Club (first appearance; next appears in issue #176), Jimmy Olsen Fan Club
Intro:  John Glenn (of Earth-One)
Comment:  Since Supergirl only makes a one-panel appearance in this story, we have refrained from synopsizing it.
 As President Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, this story was published by request of President Johnson some months after his death.  We have arbitrarily placed it here in the Supergirl continuity, even though cover dates do not correspond to on-sale dates for comics and certainly do not correspond to "real time" in the DC universe!

Action Comics No. 308
January 1964
Story:  "The Super-Tot From Nowhere"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #170 (1))
GA: Kandorians
Supporting Characters:  Fred and Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne
Intro:  Candy and her mother and father (only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Supergirl is astonished by a little red-haired girl named Candy who has super-powers similar to her own.  She suspects the girl has come from Krypton, probably through Kandor, but the Kandorians have no records of her on file.  However, she is unable to leave the girl behind, and, near the spot in the African jungle where she found her, Supergirl sees a cylinder of food which she accidentally jettisoned from her rocket when she came to Earth in 1959.  Candy, eating the Kryptonian food, gained super-powers temporarily.  Supergirl finds her parents, both of them jungle explorers, and reunites Candy with them.
 

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 75
March 1964
Cover:  Jimmy Olsen dreaming of Superman carrying Linda Danvers, Linda Danvers dreaming of Supergirl carrying Jimmy Olsen  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "When Supergirl Replaced Jimmy Olsen"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #308; next appears in Superman story in ACTION COMICS #310)
Supporting Characters:  Perry White, Lucy Lane, Jimmy Olsen Fan Club
Cameo:  Superman
Villain:  Marty Blake (first appearance; dies in this story)
Comment:  Linda Danvers's hair is miscolored black on the cover.
Synopsis:  After being exposed to Red Kryptonite in the future, which causes her to become super-powered only as Linda Danvers but powerless as Supergirl, the Girl of Steel returns to 1964.  But she accidentally sees an event that will happen 48 hours from her "present":  the death of someone who appears to be Jimmy Olsen in the crash of the Daily Planet helicopter.  To save
Jimmy's life, Supergirl changes to her Linda Danvers identity, gets a job on the Daily Planet, and manages to get Jimmy fired before he can take the helicopter trip.  However, she hears the helicopter has crashed and that "Jimmy Olsen" has died in it.  Rushing to the scene, Linda discovers the real Jimmy Olsen revealing the corpse to be fugitive criminal Marty Blake, who, in disguise, resembles Jimmy.  Perry White hires back Jimmy with a raise, and Linda quits and returns to school.

Action Comics No. 309
February 1964
Cover: Lori Lemaris, Element Lad, Saturn Girl, Chameleon Boy, Chief Parker, Lana Lang, Jimmy Olsen, Robin, Batman, Supergirl, Perry White, Lois Lane, John F. Kennedy disguised as "Clark Kent", and Superman //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Superman Super-Spectacular" (14 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN #170 (1); next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #48; also appears in flashback as Superboy, chronologically between SUPERBOY #112 / ADVENTURE COMICS #319)
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN #170 (1); both next appear in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #48), Perry White, Jimmy Olsen Fan Club (including Danny; last appearance for all in SUPERMAN #170 (1); all next appear in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #76), Lana Lang (last appearance in SUPERMAN #170 (1)), Pete Ross (last chronological appearance in SUPERMAN: THE SECRET YEARS #3; also appears in flashback), Chief Parker (last chronological appearance in NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY #50), Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN #165), Kandor Look-Alike Squad (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #73)
GS: Saturn Girl, Chameleon Boy, Bouncing Boy, Sun Boy, Lightning Lass, Triplicate Girl (all between ADVENTURE COMICS #316 / 317), Element Lad, Colossal Boy, Invisible Kid (all between ADVENTURE COMICS #316 / 319), Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #170 (1); next appears in Supergirl story in next issue; all appear as the Legion of Super-Heroes), Comet, Krypto, Beppo (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #313), Streaky (all appear as the Legion of Super-Pets), Batman, Robin (last appearance for both in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #140; both next appear in DETECTIVE COMICS #326), John F. Kennedy (last appearance in SUPERMAN #170 (1))
Intro: Producer and host of Our American Heroes (only appearance for both)
Cameo: Jonathan Kent, Martha Kent
Villain: Lex Luthor (last appearance in SUPERMAN #168; next appears in Supergirl story in issue #313)
Comments: Since Lex Luthor is in prison, rather than in space, in this story, it must take place out of sequence and after SUPERMAN #168, in which he returns to Earth.
 President Kennedy's appearance in this story probably takes place after his appearance in SUPERMAN #170 (1), which places that story chronologically just before this one.
Synopsis:  When Our American Heroes, a TV show honoring great Americans by reuniting them on air with their old acquaintances, honors Superman in such fashion, he is perplexed as to how he will find someone to portray Clark Kent and thus throw suspicion off his double identity.  President John F. Kennedy agrees to do so, and, in a Clark Kent mask and make-up, shakes Superman's hand on the air.  Later, Superman tells JFK that he knows his secret identity is safe with him.

Story:  "The Untold Story of Argo City"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in next issue; also appears in flashback, her earliest chronological appearance; next chronological appearance after flashback in issue #252)
GS: Comet (last appearance in Superman story in next issue), people of Argo City (in flashback; die in this story)
Supporting Characters: Jor-El (in flashback; see Comment under MORE FUN COMICS #101 for chronology), Zor-El, Allura Zor-El (her name revealed in this story; both revealed as alive and in the Survival Zone; both last seen in issue #291; both also appear in flashback; last chronological appearance before flashback in ?), Dick Malverne, Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, children of Midvale Orphanage; Jor-El (in flashback)
Origin:  Supergirl, Zor-El, Allura, Argo City (retold in added detail)
Cameo: Superman
Villains:  Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox (last appearance for both in Superman story in next issue), Kru-El (last appearance in issue #304; next appears in SUPERMAN #223), General Zod (between issues #304 / 321), Jer-Em (first appearance; next appears in PHANTOM ZONE #1)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
 Zor-El is pictured as disbelieving Jor-El's prophecy of Krypton's destruction in a flashback, but he may have changed his mind later on.
Synopsis:  When Supergirl has dreams that her parents, Zor-El and Allura, are alive, she receives confirmation from the telepathic Comet that they are extant somewhere "in the Zone" and trying to communicate with her.  Supergirl goes to the Phantom Zone for a time and tries to learn the truth from the mad priest Jer-Em, who is repentant and tries to tell her.  But the other Zoners block his transmissions with mental interference.  Finally, at the Fortress of Solitude, Supergirl uses Superman's chronoscope to learn the truth about Argo City.  Zor-El had discovered another
"zone" on a different wavelength from the Phantom Zone.  Calling it the Survival Zone, he attempted to send himself and Allura there with a ray treatment, but apparently failed.  However,
after they send Kara to Earth in a rocket and the people of Argo City are dying from Kryptonite exposure, Zor-El and Allura fade into the Survival Zone by a delayed reaction of the ray.
Overjoyed, Supergirl pledges to free her parents from the Survival Zone.

Action Comics No. 310
March 1964
Cover: Superman, Jimmy Olsen, models of Kryptonite meteors, and Prof. Vakox and Jax-Ur in Phantom Zone //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "Secret of Kryptonite Six" (13 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #75)
GS: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #75; next appears in Supergirl story in last issue)
GA: Atlanteans, Kandorians
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olsen, Perry White (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #75), Lori Lemaris (last chronological appearance in SUPERMAN #165; next appears in issue #312)
Intro: Vorb-Un (a former Phantom Zoner; only appearance?), Jewel Kryptonite
Villains: Jax-Ur (last appearance in SUPERMAN #167; next appears in Supergirl story in last issue; also appears in flashback, his earliest (?) chronological appearance; next chronological appearance in ?), Prof. Vakox (last appearance in SUPERMAN #164; next appears in Supergirl story in last issue), Phantom Zone villains (last appearance in SUPERMAN #167)
Synopsis: Jax-Ur tricks Superman into taking him along on a mission back to old Krypton before its destruction, to gain a cure for an Atlantean plague--and, unknown to the Man of Steel, a form of crystal which is used to form Jewel Kryptonite.

Story:  "Supergirl's Rival Parents"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in Superman story in issue #309)
GA: Comet, Kandorians, Allura Zor-El android (last appearance), Zor-El android (destroyed in this story)
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Allura Zor-El (both leave the Survival Zone in this story),  Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Cameo:  Superman (in flashback)
Synopsis:  Supergirl finally makes contact with her parents in the Survival Zone through an "ultra-sensitive radar screen", and Zor-El mentally instructs her in constructing an "ionic ray" to
free her from the Zone.  The device almost malfunctions when she uses it due to a power brownout in Midvale, but Fred Danvers, an electrical engineer, sets things to rights and Zor-El and Allura emerge from the Survival Zone into Earth.  Supergirl has a joyous reunion with her real parents and introduces them to her foster parents.  However, the tearful dilemma of which parents Supergirl will live with is posed.  Ultimately, Zor-El and Allura decide to leave Supergirl in the Danvers' care, and, with the help of a shrink-ray, go to live among their own people in Kandor.

Action Comics No. 311
April 1964
Story:  "The Day Super-Horse Became Human"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Comet (origin retold in flashback), Circe (between issues #293 / 323)
GA: Clark Kent (Superman; last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #76; next appears in SUPERMAN #169)
Supporting Characters: Perry White, Lois Lane (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #76; both next appear in SUPERMAN #169), Dick Malverne, Jerro
Intro:  Sandy Powers (only appearance)
Cameo: Malador (in flashback)
Villains:  The Hooded Demon (first and only appearance)
Comment: This story takes place on February 12-13.
 Shortly after this story, Supergirl takes part in an unchronicled adventure with the Legion of Super-Heroes, as revealed in the Superman story in this issue.
Synopsis:  When Comet sees Supergirl kissing Jerro and Dick Malverne on Valentine's Day, he longs to be able to romance her himself as a human.  Accordingly, he travels back in time and
petitions Circe to use a magic solution to turn him into a normal human without super-powers.  She complies, but says that he will regret his decision.  When Comet returns to 1964, his memory is affected by the serum and, before he can change to human form, he becomes involved with a thief called the Hooded Demon.  Later, Comet becomes a human and regains his memory, but is mistaken for the Demon by the police.  Still, Comet (as Bronco Bill) gets to kiss Linda Danvers and carries on a brief romance with her.  Finally, when Supergirl's life is threatened by a Kryptonite meteor and when he is still threatened with false imprisonment, Bronco Bill asks Circe (who is watching him in the past on a crystal ball) to turn him into Comet again.  She does, though the transformation is out of Supergirl's sight.  Comet rescues Supergirl from the Kryptonite, and is gratified to hear her speaking romantically about Bronco Bill later on.

Action Comics No. 312
May 1964
Story:  "The Fantastic Menace of the LL's"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in Superman story in next issue)
GS:  Comet
Supporting Characters:  Lori Lemaris (between Superman stories in this issue and next issue), Atlanteans
Intro:  A movie director, an FBI agent, "Madcap" Marilyn Drake, students at the Space Academy (only appearance for all)
Villains:  "Lady Killer" Kane, Stebbins, the Million Dollar Gang (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  The Cybernians, who once sent a Predictor computer to Superman, send one to Supergirl via the Atlanteans.  When she uses it, it predicts that her deeds will soon be affected by five different "LL"'s.  The predictions come true in various ways, the last being HaLLey's Comet, which turns Comet into a human so that he can save Supergirl from a Kryptonite deathtrap in space.

Action Comics No. 313
June 1964
Cover:  Android Supergirl, android Perry White, and Superman  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The End of Clark Kent's Secret Identity"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist:  Al Plastino
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #28; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #142)
GA:  Supergirl (between Supergirl stories in last issue and this issue), Batman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #28; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #328)
Supporting Characters:  Lori Lemaris (last appearance in Supergirl story in last issue), Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #77; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #142), Lois Lane, Perry White (both between WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #141 / 142)
Intro:  Android doubles of Supergirl, Batman, Lori Lemaris, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, and Perry White (all destroyed in this story)
Villains: The Android Master, the Pirate Gang, and several robbers (first and only appearance for all), Superman Revenge Squad (last appearance in SUPERMAN #165)
Synopsis:  The Android Master, a member of the Superman Revenge Squad, abducts Superman's friends and co-workers at the Daily Planet, substitutes android doubles for them, and hopes to break his spirit by having the doubles, whom he will believe are his real friends, betray him.  But Superman deduces the truth and foils the plot, and the Android Master dissolves his androids.

Story:  "Lena Thorul, Jungle Princess"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in this issue)
Supporting Character:  Lena Thorul (last appearance in issue #301; appears as the "Jungle Princess" in this story; origin retold in flashback)
Intro:  Burton, a circus owner (only appearance for both)
Cameo: Jules Thorul, Arlene Thorul (in flashback)
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearance in Superman story in issue #309; next appears in SUPERMAN #170), three poachers (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  The FBI, while processing Lena Thorul's application, requests her to interview several criminals for a paper on criminology.  While interviewing Lex Luthor, her ESP abilities make her realize that she is his sister, and he regretfully tells her how she got her powers by contacting a space-brain.  Lena runs away in a state of shock, gets amnesia, and eventually winds up in Africa in a zebra-skin costume.  Calling herself the Jungle Princess, she uses her mental abilities to defend her animal friends against poachers.  A stray shot from a hunter for a circus grazes her head and restores Lena's memory, and she returns to the United States to perform with the animals as a circus trainer.  After Supergirl subs for Lena in a performance, Lex Luthor, who has broken jail, gives his sister a rare strain of plant he has developed, whose fumes cause whomever breathes them to forget unpleasant memories.  Thus, Lena's memories that she is Luthor's sister are suppressed, and she forgets her "Jungle Princess" identity.  Supergirl decides privately to tell
the FBI what occurred, so that Lena's application will not be held up.

Action Comics No. 314
July 1964
Story:  "Supergirl's Tragic Ordeal"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisigner
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (origin details revealed; also appears in flashbacks)
GS: Kandorians
GA: Comet
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Allura, Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne, Lena Thorul, Supergirl Emergency Squad (last appearance in issue #299)
Intro:  The Lumir (in flashback; Supergirl's first pet), a Kandorian healer,  Supergirl Robot SG4 (only appearance for all), Dar-Lin
Villains:  Brain-globes from Rambat (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #293; last appearance),  liquid fire creatures (first and only appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  In Kandor, Allura is wasting away due to heartbreak over being separated from her daughter, Supergirl.  The Kandorians contact Fred and Edna Danvers, and they attempt to treat Supergirl so badly that she will opt to leave them and join her natural parents in Kandor.  But Supergirl learns the truth, and the Danverses confess and reveal her mother's plight.  Thus, the Danverses switch places with Zor-El and Allura, going to Kandor while the two Kryptonian parents emerge on Earth.  Linda Danvers leaves Midvale and functions only as Supergirl with her
parents for the time being.  At the same time, Edna Danvers suffers from the loss of her foster daughter, and the Kandorians send her a girl to adopt, Dar-Lin, who is the very image of Linda
Danvers.  Edna is still not certain she wants to adopt a girl who looks like her ex-foster daughter.

Action Comics No. 315, August 1964
Story:  "The Menace of Supergirl's Mother"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Allura, Fred Danvers,  Edna Danvers, Supergirl Emergency Squad (last appearance)
GS: Kandorians, Dar-Lin (last appearance)
Intro:  Zantor and Rena (Dar-Lin's parents; only appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Dar-Lin's real parents are found in a cave, and she is reunited with them.  Edna Danvers's continuing grief over her separation from Supergirl, and her resentment of Zor-El and
Allura, is spurred to the max by an accidental injection of venom from a Kandorian Srang beast, whose secretions cause its victims to hate whatever they were thinking of at the moment of
injection.  Thus, Edna sedates Fred, disguises herself as "Bira", a Kryptonian actress, leaves the Kandor bottle, and lures Zor-El and Allura into a Kryptonite deathtrap.  But Supergirl sees the
deed, saves her parents, angrily denounces Edna, and has the Supergirl Emergency Squad return her foster mother to Kandor.  When the truth of Edna's condition comes out and the Srang venom
wears off, Edna is tearfully repentant, and Supergirl forgives her.  But Supergirl is still torn between two sets of parents, and none of them seem to know what to do.

Action Comics No. 316
Sept. 1964
Cover:  Supergirl forced to choose between Superman and Zor-El in a deathtrap  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Supergirl's Choice of Doom"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Allura, Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Lena Thorul (next appears in issue #317), Dick Malverne
Cameo:  Lori Lemaris, Superman, Atlanteans, people of Argo City
Villain:  The Zygor  (first and only appearance; dead before this story begins, but appears in a computer projection)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  Zor-El has Supergirl use a Kryptonian super-computer to project a simulation of what their future will be like if he and Allura remain on Earth.  The computer predicts that a monster
called the Zygor, who possesses hypnotic powers and wants revenge on Zor-El, will take over Supergirl's mind, lure Zor-El and Superman into a deathtrap, and force her to kill one of them.
Supergirl destroys the computer before she can see which one she would have killed.  Zor-El tells her that they can forego that future by he and Allura electing to stay in Kandor.  Supergirl agrees, and her natural parents are exchanged for the Danverses.  The family returns to Midvale to start their life anew.  Meanwhile, in Kandor, Zor-El and Allura muse over the fact that they knowingly fed false data into the computer, and then go check up on the skeleton of the Zygor, who was sent into the Phantom Zone, released and put in a Kandorian zoo, and died in captivity.

Action Comics No. 317
Oct. 1964
Story:  "The Great Supergirl Double-Cross"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #325
Supporting Characters:  Lena Thorul (last appearance in issue #314; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #387), Jeff Colby (first and only appearance; marries Lena Thorul in this story; death revealed in SUPERMAN FAMILY #211), Dick Malverne, Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers (hair incorrectly colored in this story)
Intro:  Jeff Colby robot (only appearance; does not marry anybody)
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearance in SUPERMAN #172; next appears in Superman story in next issue), spies of the Spy-Dome (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Lena Thorul has fallen in love with Jeff Colby, a mysterious man whom Supergirl, with her super-vision, has seen consorting with the spies who operate in a Spy-Dome three miles off the coast of America.  To save Lena the heartbreak of knowing her beloved is a traitor, Supergirl hypnotizes him into falling in love with Linda Danvers, then forgetting it, but being jilted by Lena anyway.  But when she tries to tell the FBI about Colby, she learns that Jeff is really an FBI agent working against the Spy-Dome!  To make up for her blunders, Supergirl tows the Spy-Dome within the legal limit of the U.S.'s jurisdiction so that the spies can be arrested.  Then she (with the help of Jeff and a Jeff Colby robot) explains all, or most, of what she did and the reasons why she did it.  Jeff and Lena resume their relationship and get married.

Adventure Comics No. 325
Oct. 1964
Cover:  Lex Luthor turning Superboy and Supergirl into phantoms //Curt Swan / Sheldon Moldoff
Story:  "Lex Luthor Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes"  (8 pages)
  Part 2:  "The Super-Vengeance of Lex Luthor"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Edmond Hamilton
Artist:  John Forte
Feature Characters:  Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl,
Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #317 / 318), Triplicate Girl, Ultra Boy
Intro:  Chameleon Boy and Proty II of another universe, Atlanteans of the 30th Century, Rygorians and other aliens, Yorrgians (only appearance for all)
Villains:   Lex Luthor (between SUPERBOY #115 / 121; origin retold in flashback), Atro, Incarno, and Mog (the Brain-Lords of Khann), Demo the Dreadful, Khannians, a space pirate (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Lex Luthor comes to the 30th Century, poses as the "good" Lex Luthor pre- his balding accident, and ingratiates himself with the Legion of Super-Heroes, intending to kill them
when they are off-guard.  He sends the Legionnaires to the Phantom Zone by mistake, but is forced to release them when Mon-El instructs the other Legionnaires on how to use their
telepathic powers to control Lex while all are in the Zone.

Action Comics No. 318
Nov. 1964
Story:  "Supergirl Goes to College"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #325 / 326)
GA:  Beppo the Super-Monkey, Comet
Supporting Characters: Dick Malverne (next appears in issue #325), Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Students and faculty at Stanhope College, girls in the Alpha Lamba sorority
Villain: Donna Storm (first appearance)
Comment:  Supergirl graduates high school and goes to college in this story; therefore, she is at least 18 years of age and 3 to 4 years have passed since she landed on Earth in 1959.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers graduates Midvale High School and goes to Stanhope University on a scholarship.  While there, she is angered by the sadistic tactics of a sorority princess
named Donna Storm, who delights in tormenting pledges.  Defiantly, Linda pledges the sorority, puts Donna to shame with her covertly-used super-powers, and makes her repent her evil deeds.  When accepted, Linda proposes that the sorority discontinue their policy of hazing pledges.  They accept the proposal.  Donna asks Linda to have Supergirl speak to the sorority, and Linda agrees.

Adventure Comics No. 326
November 1964
Cover:  Superboy seeing Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Shrinking Violet, Triplicate Girl, Supergirl, and Phantom Girl's hand with statuettes of Superboy, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Brainiac 5,
Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, and Star Boy  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires"  (8 pages)
 Part 2:  "The Triumph of the Super-Heroines"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  John Forte
Letterer:  Milton Snapinn
Feature Characters:  Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Invisible Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl, Triplicate Girl, Ultra Boy
GS:  Proty II
Villains:  Queen Azura and the Femnazis (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Queen Azura, from the planet Femnaz, puts the female Legionnaires under a super-hypnotic command that makes them lure the male Legionnaires into deathtraps.  However, when a couple of male Legion members save the broads of Femnaz from planetary disaster, the Queen reconsiders her ways, releases the revolting Legionnairesses from their spell, and allows them to rescue their male teammates.

Action Comics No. 319
December 1964
Story:  "The Super-Cheat"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #326; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #146)
GS: Shrinking Violet, Cosmic Boy (both between ADVENTURE COMICS #326 / 328), Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad (both between ADVENTURE COMICS #326 / 327; all four appear, with Supergirl, as the Legion of Super-Heroes)
Supporting Characters: Alpha Lambda sorority, students and faculty of Stanhope College, Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers, Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #81)
Intro:  Dr. Lewis, a chemistry professor, a biology instructor, an actor portraying Andrew Jackson (only appearance for all), Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr (of Earth-One; both next appear in Green Lantern story in THE FLASH #?), president of Stanhope College
Cameo:  Comet (in flashback)
Villain:  Donna Storm (last appearance)
Comment: Shortly after this story, Supergirl goes to the future to fight Evilo, as shown in flashback in ACTION COMICS #322.
Synopsis:  Maddened by her loss of status since Linda Danvers showed her up, Donna Storm begins a campaign to restore herself as "Miss Big" on Stanhope's campus.  Her schemes include using a computer her father gave her, paying off workers at her family's chemical plant to do her chemistry homework, and using radio-receiver earrings to get "cheat" information broadcasts.  But Supergirl thwarts her again and again.  Finally, Donna frames Linda for stealing gold and diamonds from a mineral collection in the science building.  Linda is expelled.  But she gets the help of Shrinking Violet, who alters Donna's radio earrings into transmitters that broadcast Donna's voice thru the school's P.A. system.  Then Linda prods Donna into arrogantly confessing to framing her, and, with the evidence heard by the whole college, Linda is reinstated, and Donna, the no-good sorority--uh, Donna is expelled.

World's Finest Comics No. 146
December 1964
Cover: Batman and Superman looking at two photos of young Bruce Wayne as "Bruce-El" //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "Batman, Son of Krypton" (Part 1; 8 pages)
 Part 2: "The Destroyer of Krypton" (9 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Characters: Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #319; next appears in SUPERMAN #174), Batman (also appears as young Bruce Wayne in flashback; see Batman index for chronology; origin details revealed), Robin (both between DETECTIVE COMICS #334 / 335)
GA: Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #319 / 320), Kandorians
Supporting Characters: Jor-El, Lara (in flashback; see Comment under MORE FUN COMICS #101 for chronology)
Intro: Thal-Arn (in flashback), Dr. Thomas Ellison (only appearance for both)
Cameo appearance: Zinn-Zal (a Kryptonian hero; first and only appearance; as a statue)
Villains: Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox (last appearance of both in ACTION COMICS #310)
Comment: This story features the first appearance of the Kryptoniad, the epic poem of the civilizing of Krypton, of the Red Tower, the Kryptonopolis capitol building, and of the Three Sisters of Krypton, three synchronized fire-geysers.
Synopsis: When Batman remembers bits and pieces of Kryptonian culture and history and comes upon pictures of himself as a child apparently demonstrating super-powers, he is convinced that he may be another refugee of Krypton, whose powers were stolen by a Gold Kryptonite exposure.  But he and Superman learn that his memories come from his association with Dr. Thomas Ellison, a scientist whose powerful telescope had enabled him to view Kryptonian life, who attempted unsuccessfully to thwart the explosion of Krypton with a ray, and who posed young Bruce Wayne, whom he baby-sat and taught Kryptonian lore, in photos that made him appear to have the powers of a Kryptonian native on Earth

Action Comics No. 320
Jan. 1965
Story:  "The Man Who Broke Supergirl's Heart"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #146; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #55)
Supporting Characters: Zor-El, Allura (both next appear in ADVENTURE COMICS #409), students and faculty of Stanhope College
Intro:  Randor (an android; destroyed in this story), Sue, androids of Calyx (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Superman
Villains: Lord Bronar, Skoll (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  Lord Bronar and his henchmen Skoll, two villains who rule a planet of android slaves, scheme to steal Supergirl's powers and transfer them to Bronar.  Their plot involves creating an android which is scientifically calculated to appeal to Linda Danvers, have him reveal that he knows Supergirl's double identity, and then have him pose as Randor, the "son" of Bronar, who wishes to marry her and make her princess of the world of Calyx.  The plot works, and Supergirl is tricked into sitting on a throne that transfers her powers to Bronar.  But Randor is ashamed of what he has done, and, incapacitating Bronar with Kryptonite, he forces them to switch chairs and transfer Supergirl's powers back to her body.  Skoll destroys Randor, but Supergirl takes the two villains off for imprisonment, and declares to the android people of Calyx that they are free to
govern themselves.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 55
February 1965
Cover:  Supergirl (in disguise), Superman, robot "super-children", Lois Lane  //Kurt Schaffenberger
Story:  "Superman's Secret Wife"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Lois Lane
GS:  Superman, Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #320 / 321)
Supporting Characters:   Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #81), Ronal (last appearance in SUPERMAN #146), Lori's and Ronal's children (first appearance for both), Lana Lang
Synopsis:  Supergirl encounters a Red Kryptonite meteor in space that causes her to hate the last person she saw before her mission--Lois Lane.  Thus, she concocts an elaborate plan to break Lois's heart.  The plan involves her masquerading as Circe the Sorceress to convince Lois that Superman is secretly married and has two children by an unknown wife.  Supergirl has already
made Superman her pawn by hypnosis, and poses in disguise as his "wife".  The children are robots.  In her regular guise, Supergirl pretends to help Lois investigate Lana Lang and Lori
Lemaris to see if either is Superman's secret wife.  Finally, she "reveals" herself as the "wife" of Superman and tries to freeze Lois in suspended animation with her super-cold breath.  But
Superman snaps out of his hypnotic spell, the Red K effect wears off on Supergirl, and Lois is rescued.  Supergirl apologizes, and Lois forgives her.

Action Comics No. 321
February 1965
Story:  "The Enemy Supergirl"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #55; next appears in Superman story in next issue)
GS: Comet (next appears in SUPERMAN #176)
Intro:  Diane (only appearance)
Supporting Characters:  Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers,  Mrs. Hart, children of Midvale Orphanage (next appear in BLACKHAWK #215), Kandorians, students and faculty at Stanhope College
Villains:  Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox (last appearance for both in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #146; both next appear in Superman story in issue #336), General Zod (last appearance in issue #309; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #395),  female prisoners of the Phantom Zone (possibly including Faora Hu-Ul; last appearance in issue #304; next appear in ?),  Debbie Porter (first and only appearance), assorted convicts and gangsters (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers uses Red Kryptonite to produce local vulnerability in her arm so that she can give blood.  However, a friend of hers, Debbie Porter, sustains a head injury in a car
crash.  She is given a transfusion with the blood Linda has donated, and the blood gives her temporary super-powers.  Since her head injury has caused her to become evil, she dons a
Supergirl uniform and becomes a fake, evil Supergirl.  The real Supergirl has a hard time coping with her until she deduces her true identity, weakens her with Kryptonite, gets her to explain,
and informs her that blood-transfer super-powers only last about 48 hours.  Debbie goes to sleep.  When she awakens, she is her normal self again, and thinks her term as the evil Supergirl was
just a dream.

Action Comics No. 322
March 1965
Cover:  Superman backing away in fear from bank robbers  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Coward of Steel"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Al Plastino
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #34; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #148)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in Supergirl story in last issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #176)
Supporting Characters:  Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White (last appearance for all in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #83)
Intro:  Loretta Land (only appearance)
Villains: Evilo (in flashback), Trok, Graz, the Purple Mob (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Trok and Graz, two members of the Superman Revenge Squad, hit Clark Kent with a ray made by a machine constructed with Kryptonian components.  The ray causes Clark Kent to become a coward, but, in his Superman guise, he is his usual courageous self.  Superman gets around the problem for a while by adopting the new secret identity of Brad Dexter.  However, Supergirl snaps him out of his fear-spell by secretly having him wear a non-invulnerable Superman costume over his Clark Kent clothes.  The costume is burned off by friction, and, when Superman sees he is doing a super-feat while in his Clark Kent identity, his fear fades.  Superman then throws Trox and Graz's spacecraft into the midst of a space police parade, and the two villains are nabbed.

Story:  "The Planet of Outcasts"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #176)
Supporting Characters:  Students of Stanhope College
Cameo:  Superman, Krypto, Streaky  (as statues)
Intro:  Varn (president of the planet Simor; in flashback; dies in this story)
Villains: Lucrezia Borgia, Lady Macbeth, Mata Hari (all of Earth-One), Ravenne, Ran-Kor, Lattora, Tempra, other memebers of the Sisterhood of Evil (first appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl is conned by three villainesses from space who pose as heroines into coming to their planet, Feminax.  Once there, she learns that her hosts are actually a traitor, an assassin, and a mass murderess.  When Supergirl attempts to leave, she discovers that the prism which filters their yellow sunlight distorts the solar rays enough to make her powers malfunction.  The three villainesses, Ran-Kor, Lattora, and Tempra, tell her that they are part of a Sisterhood of Evil ruled by the masked Ravenne, and their greatest ambition is to defeat and destroy Supergirl.  Later, Supergirl is conned again by Ran-Kor, who poses as a turncoat, but who gets Supergirl to
unwittingly use her brain-power to revive Mata Hari, Lucrezia Borgia, and Lady Macbeth, whom they have brought to Feminax via time-warp.

Action Comics No. 323
April 1965
Story:  "The Kryptonian Killer"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character:  Supergirl
GS:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #177), Comet (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #56)
GA:  Krypto, Streaky, Beppo (last appearance for all in SUPERMAN #173), Circe (between issues #311 / 331)
Cameo:  Luthor and Brainiac (as fireworks portraits)
Villains:  Ravenne, Ran-Kor, Lattora, Tempra,  and other members of the Sisterhood of Evil (all die in this story), Lucrezia Borgia, Mata Hari, Lady Macbeth (as the Evil Three; last appearance for all), Py-Ron (aka Evil-Man; first and only appearance)
Comment:  Story is continued from last issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl is infected with the evil mentalities of Mata Hari, Lady Macbeth, and Lucrezia Borgia through Ravenne's hypno-dominator, and, against her will, is forced to steal,
concoct a Kryptonite-based poison, and then feed the poison to Comet, who collapses, to a released Phantom Zone prisoner, Py-Ron, and then to Superman, both of whom apparently die--and then, to herself.  But, unknown to them, Comet was not affected by the poison, not being Kryptonian, and secretly altered the brew with his super-vision to make it produce a non-fatal reaction.  However, Py-Ron, recovering first, dons a Superman-like uniform he once used in a short career as "Evil-Man" and, by pushing Feminax off its axis, causes global disasters which kill all the Sisterhood of Evil and everyone else on the planet.  Superman and Supergirl judge Py-Ron guilty of mass murder, despite the fact that he intended to punish evildoers, and banish him to the
Phantom Zone again.

Superman No. 176
April 1965
Cover:  Judge ordering Superman to write his secret identity's name on blackboard as Lois Lane and other spectators look on //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Superman's Day of Truth"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #56)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in  Superman story in ACTION COMICS #322; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #56)
Supporting Characters:  Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen (last appearance for both in ACTION COMICS #322; both next appear in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #56), Lana Lang (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #83; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #56), Kandorians, Atlanteans, Supergirl Fan Club (last appearance in issue #170; last appearance, but a Supergirl Fan Club is formed at Stanhope College in ACTION COMICS #388), Professor Potter (between SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #82 / 84), Perry White (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #84)
Intro:  Val-Lor (in flashback; dies in this story)
Villains: The Vrangs (first appearance; in flashback), Spade and his lawyer (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  Superman and Supergirl win no popularity contests in Metropolis or Midvale when, for one 24-hour period, they tell the unvarnished truth or give their honest opinion whenever asked. When Superman has to testify at a trial, the lawyer for the plaintiff insists on having him write his secret identity's name on a blackboard--which he does, then wipes away before anyone can see it.  When asked to give the location of his Fortress of Solitude, Superman gives the coordinates for his long-abandoned underwater Fortress.  Finally, Supergirl and Superman shrink themselves and go to Kandor, where they and the Kandorians celebrate the Day of Truth.  This is a holiday observed in honor of the ancient hero Val-Lor, who spoke up boldly against the Vrang invaders who oppressed Kryptonians, died for his words, and sparked a revolt that liberated Krypton.  Later, Superman and Supergirl reveal what they had to do to their friends, and are forgiven.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 56
April 1965
Story:  "Lois Lane, Super-Telepath"  (8 pages)
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character:  Lois Lane (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #84)
GS:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #84), Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #173; next appears in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #322), Saturn Girl (last chronological appearance in KARATE KID #13; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #330), Comet (last appearance in SUPERMAN #173; next appears in ACTION COMICS #323)
Supporting Characters:  Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN #173; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #84), Lori Lemaris
Villains:  "Long Odds" Larkin, Trixie, Butch and other gangsters (first and only appearance for all), Mole Murdock (in flashback; first appearance; dies in this story)
Synopsis:  Lois Lane poses as "Miss Telepath", a girl with supposed psychic powers, in a plot to trap gang boss "Long Odds" Larkin and his mob.  Jimmy Olsen has lent her his Superman signal
watch.  But unknown to them both, Superman is in space at the time and cannot hear its signal.  Captured by Larkin, Lois is forced to "psychically" detect secrets that will aid his robberies...and every one of them comes out correct!  Superman finally returns from space and rescues her.  When it is determined that neither Supergirl, Lori Lemaris, Comet, or a time-travelling Saturn Girl was helping her, Superman and Lois determine that Lois merely made four lucky guesses in a
row...with odds of 326,454,839,047 to 1 against her doing so.

Action Comics No. 324
May 1965
Cover:  Supergirl with devil's horns, mixing witches brew to blind Superman with ghostly hands  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Black Magic of Supergirl"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #149)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Abdul, the state governor, a condemned prisoner (only appearance for all)
Villain: A bank robber (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  While patrolling in India, Supergirl sees a fakir die when he is struck by a cobra.  With his dying breaths, Abdul, the fakir, bequeaths to Supergirl a small casket containing the Satan Ring, and a scroll.  The last part of the scroll is torn off, revealing that the ring will grant wishes, but the third wish will turn the wisher into a demon--with horns such as she finds on Abdul. Supergirl, in the days to come, uses the Satan Ring's magical powers to save Superman from Kryptonite (a pair of skeletal hands hurl it into the sea), to save an innocent man from the electric
chair (a skeletal hand pulls down the knife switch while a ghostly figure sits in the chair, short-circuiting it), and, though she fears the third wish, to save her father's life during
an operation (the skeletal hands guide the surgeon).  As a result, Supergirl gains horns on her head, and, despite her resistance, does evil.  At one point, she makes a witch's brew that produces ghostly hands to blind Superman.  However, she visits India again, and sees that Abdul is alive, after having been cleansed by fire intended to cremate him.  Supergirl recovers the last of the scroll, which says the curse can be lifted by fire.  Not even the heat of the sun works on her, but
Supergirl comes across the Fire Falls of Krypton, hurled intact into space.  She bathes herself in its Kryptonite-tinged flames, and is cured.

Action Comics No. 325
June 1965
Story:  "Ugly Duckling Teacher of Stanhope College"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Lori Lemaris, Dick Malverne (last appearance in issue #318), students and faculty at Stanhope College,   Atlanteans
Intro:  Elizabeth Sparrow, Prof. Mark Hilary, Vic Haven, Miss Blane (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Ken Reed, Ronnie Barr (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  When a new teacher, Elizabeth Sparrow, comes to Stanhope College, two snobbish students, Ken Reed and Ronnie Barr, make her life hell teasing her about her plain looks.  But,
with the help of Lori Lemaris and some Atlantean scientists, Supergirl transforms her into a pretty woman, and she ends up marrying a professor to whom she once showed consideration while the latter was disguised as a hobo for a research project.

Action Comics No. 326
July 1965
Story:  "The Secret of Supergirl's Suitor"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Aritst:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character:  Supergirl (origin details in flashback; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #334)
GA: Superman (last appearance in first story in this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #179)
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El and Allura (in flashback), Dick Malverne, Jerro, students at Stanhope College
Intro:  Magus (in flashback; dies after this story), a "living doll" android (in flashback; destroyed in this story), Al Mintor (an android; destroyed in this story)
Synopsis:  When Linda Danvers (and Supergirl) finds herself powerfully attracted to Al Mintor, a petty thief in town, she covers for him and makes his bail with gold.  She is unable to explain her infatuation for him to Superman or her boyfriends Jerro and Dick Malverne.  Finally, Mintor is fatally injured in a fire.  Shortly before his death, he reveals the truth:  he is an android "doll" from Krypton, made with non-Kryptonian parts by Magus, a master dollmaker from Argo City.  He has the same face and consciousness (thanks to a mental link between Magus's androids) as a boy-doll android Kara played with as a young girl in Argo City.  Mintor was constructed by order of Zor-El, who sent him into the Survival Zone as a test long before he and Allura went to the Zone.  A freak accident set him loose on Earth, and he began constructing his own non-android dolls of
persons he knew in Argo City.  When his landlady locked him out for non-payment of rent, Mintor tried to steal enough money to buy back his doll collection.  Then Mintor "dies", and Supergirl later buys the Kara doll he built.

Adventure Comics No. 334
July 1965
Cover:  Statue of the Unknown Legionnaire, Mon-El, Supergirl, Light Lass, Superboy, and Brainiac 5  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Unknown Legionnaire"  (8 pages)
 Part 2:  "The Secret of Unknown Boy"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Edmond Hamilton
Penciller:  John Forte
Inker:  Sheldon Moldoff
Letterers:  Vivian Berg and Milton Snapinn
Feature Characters:  Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Cosmic Boy, Light Lass, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Superboy, Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #326 / 327), Sun Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS:  Proty II (in flashback), Antareans
Villain:  Dr. Norm Eldor (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  When Red Kryptonite erases Supergirl's memory temporarily but lets her see through lead with her X-Ray vision, she fashions the lead-masked costume and identity of Unknown Boy,
and helps the Legion of Super-Heroes defeat and capture Dr. Norm Eldor.  Later, Superboy deduces that Supergirl is really "Unknown Boy", and her memory is restored.

Action Comics No. 327
August 1965
Story:  "Supergirl--Fugitive From Justice"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #334)
Intro:  Inspector Blair, Col. Dupre, Director Haynes, actors from Dimension Z, "Serpena" (only appearance for all)
Villains: Stix, Hubro, a phony Superman (first appearance for all), a convict (first and only appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Stix and Hubro, two intelligence agents from Dimension Z, summon Supergirl and three international policemen to a "trial" in which they accuse Supergirl of being Serpena, a
villainess from their world.  Supergirl angrily denies it, but, when filmed evidence is presented of her guilt, a figure who appears to be Superman confirms her Jekyll / Hyde nature, and she seems to have lost her powers and grown a third eye, as did Serpena in the film.  A tearful Supergirl is taken back to Dimension Z for crimes she has no memory of committing.

Action Comics No. 328
Sept. 1965
Story:  "The Ordeals of Dimension Z"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #61)
Intro:  King Avro and the people of Dimension Z (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Stix, Hubro, the phony "Superman" (last appearance for all), an evil wizard (in flashback), the Frost Beast, the Flame-Monster, the Energy Creature (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues from the last issue.
Synopsis:  Once all of them are on a world in Dimension Z, Stix, Hubro, and the phony "Superman" reveal to Supergirl that "Serpena" was only an actress in a film and that they hoaxed her into coming to their homeworld to fight in the Contest of Peril.  The Contest, traditionally, must be fought by a heroine, and Supergirl must fight the three monsters in the gauntlet or not be
returned to her home dimension.  Despite the fact that she is powerless in this dimension, she manages to triumph.  Then Supergirl learns that her real mission is to kiss the lion-faced Prince Avro and restore his human face, turned beastly by an evil wizard.  A book of spells says that, once she does so, "what was lost will be restored."  But, after kissing Avro, Supergirl finds
that her powers are restored, but he remains lion-faced.  Nonetheless, Avro has his men take her back to her home dimension, with the order that they reveal the hoax to the FBI men.

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane No. 61
November 1965
Story:  "The Reptile Girl of Metropolis"  (Part I; 8 pages)
 Part II:  "The Secret of the Reptile Girl"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer: Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character:  Lois Lane (next appears in ACTION COMICS #330)
GS:  Superman (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #40), Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #328 / 329)
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Lucy Lane
Intro:  Dr. Price, Dr. Benton, Mr. Plumpton, Gil Grady (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Yarr (first appearance; dies in this story), the Tangs (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  When a tiny invader from the world of Tang dies in the Fortress of Solitude, he reveals to Superman that his band of space-pirates intend to kidnap several scientists in Earth'sdimension, including a Dr. Price, and to use them as components in a living computer.  With his dying breath, Yarr, the Tangian, tells Superman that his powers would be reduced to half-efficiency in their dimension.  Accordingly, Superman summons Supergirl, creates an elaborate ruse in which both he and she impersonate Dr. Price and Lois Lane, fake being given reptilian skin and Lois's i.q. being boosted by a radiation experiment gone awry, and arrange to both be kidnapped by the Tang pirates.  In that dimension, Superman's and Supergirl's powers are reduced, but their combined power is enough to defeat the Tangians.  On Earth, the real Lois has been kidnapped by Superman and Supergirl to keep her out of harm's way (while Price has himself gone into hiding).  Lois escapes and tries to solve the mystery on her own, but is told the truth by Superman and Supergirl when they return to Earth's dimension.  Supergirl explains that, since the Tang had telepathic powers that could read Lois's mind, but not super-minds like hers and Superman's, they had to keep her in the dark.

Action Comics No. 329, October 1965
Story:  "Drang, the Destroyer"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #61)
Supporting Character:  Dick Malverne (next appears in issue #335)
Villains:  Drang the Destroyer (aka Dr. Supernatural; other name revealed in next issue), Lord Kirol, Varr, and other members and applicants to the Circle of Evil, Gnomo and another Execution Bird (first appearance for all),  Fantasta and Vintan (first appearance for both; both die in this story), Lord Kirol, Varr, and other members and applicants to the Circle of Evil; Gnomo and another Execution Bird
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl is tricked by Fantasta, an evil sorceress who poses as a stage magician, into being teleported onto her spaceship bound for Gotha, the planet which is home to the Circle
of Evil, a band of master space-criminals.  Her initiation was to bring back Supergirl dead or alive.  Supergirl finds that this sector of space is unknown to her, and she cannot find Earth on her own.  However, learning that Fantasta's magic powers are neutralized by water, Supergirl snatches away the amulet which is the source of her powers.  Fantasta commits suicide by grasping the legs of Gnomo, her Execution Bird from the planet Cyclon.  Supergirl takes Fantasta's costume, disguises herself as the sorceress, and is accepted by Gnomo and the Circle of Evil as Fantasta.  However, she finds her powers do not function in the strange environiment.  Lord Kirol, head of the Circle, gives her one last initiation mission:  bring back Drang the Destroyer, a super-powerful evil sorceror, from the Purple Planet.  Drang, at that point, projects an image of himself into the Circle's meeting room and demonstrates his power by destroying a computer. After he fades away, Supergirl boards the spaceship, still lacking powers, and tries to use the magic amulet of Fantasta to return to Earth.  But the amulet does not function, and, greeted by an image of Drang, Supergirl finds her spaceship headed for the Purple Planet.

Action Comics No. 330
November 1965
Cover:  Drang the Destroyer, Superman electrified by execution bird, and Supergirl //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Supergirl's Duel With Dr. Supernatural"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA:  Superman (isochronally with first story in this issue), Gnomo
Intro:  Lux, Multiple-Man, Mask-Man, Surya (also called Slirva), Strella, and other super-heroes
Villains: Drang the Destroyer (aka Dr. Supernatural),  Purple Planet people (first appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  On the Purple Planet, Supergirl encounters a large group of super-heroes from different planets held caged prisoners by Drang (or Dr. Supernatural, as he is also known).  When she has an audience with Drang, she finds that he is composed of pure magic energy, but the expenditure of his power weakens him and he must absorb more necromantic force from an evil deed to replace it.  Supergirl attempts to outwit him, but Drang restores her powers, only within range of the Purple Planet, so that he may deceive her into using her powers for evil.  Despite her best efforts, he does just that.  With Supergirl held prisoner on the planet by a force-field and the
other heroes and heroines caged, Drang tells her that he intends to go ahead with his master plan.

Action Comics No. 331
Dec. 1965
Story:  "Operation Satan"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #63)
GS:  Lux, Multiple-Man, Mask-Man, Surya, Stella, and the other super-heroes from last issue (last appearance for all)
GA:  Circe (last appearance in issue #323; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #92)
Cameo:  Merlin, Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Chameleon Boy (as pictures), Comet (in flashback to his origin)
Villains:  Drang the Destroyer (destroyed in this story, but possibly regenerated later), Dynar, Raptor, and Voltan (first appearance for all; all die in this story)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue
Synopsis:  Dr. Supernatural intends to actuate "Operation Satan", recreating the most terrible crimes of history with him as the criminal.  The best efforts of Supergirl and the super-heroes
seem to go awry, until she tricks Drang into summoning three terrible villains from the past.  When Drang absorbs their evil energy, he overloads and explodes, killing the villains as well.  Supergirl finds his cache of spacecraft and uses them to send the super-heroes back to their own worlds, while she returns to Earth.  Shortly afterward, she sees a wraith-like concentration of evil energy near the Fortress of Solitude, and wonders if it will eventually accumulate into another Dr. Supernatural.

Brave and the Bold No. 63
December 1965 / January 1966
Cover:  Supergirl holding missle near Wonder Woman, chained on a Kryptonite-covered flying disc; Multi-Face vignette  //John Roseberger / Jim Mooney
Story:  "The Revolt of the Super-Chicks"  (25 pages)
Editor:  George Kashdan
Writer:  Bob Haney
Penciller:  John Rosenberger
Inker:  Win Mortimer
Feature Characters:  Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #331 / 335), Wonder Woman (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #40 / 41)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #330; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #89)
GA:  Wonder Girl (last appearance in SHOWCASE #59; next appears in TEEN TITANS #1), Queen Hippolyte
Intro:  "Derek" and "Stephanie", J.T. (a movie producer), Anatole, Henri, Andre Count De Tour (only appearance for all)
Villains: Multi-Face and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  When Supergirl rescues a movie actress and sees the movie crew attending to her every little need, she decides to quit being a heroine and search for romance and glamour as a Paris model.  Superman makes no headway in persuading her to return to heroics, so he asks Wonder Woman to plead in his behalf.  But, when Wonder Woman tracks Supergirl down at a fashion show, she finds the Girl of Steel with a new lover, Henri, and is soon romanced herself by Andre, Count de Tour.  Both super-heroines are on vacation at the Isle of Love with their new swains.  Unfortunately, the Isle is also the home base of Multi-Face, a super-villain who can change his facial features at will.  Multi-Face attempts to destroy both heroines to save his operation.  Supergirl and Wonder Woman prevail, and both realize they cannot give up their heroic careers.

Action Comics No. 334
March 1966
Cover:  Supergirl, Streaky, and Comet; Supergirl vs. dinosaur; Supergirl kissing Jerro; Supergirl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad; Supergirl and Superboy (five vignettes)  //Curt Swan / Jim Mooney
Story:  "The Supergirl From Krypton"  (from issue #252)
Story:  "The Cave-Girl of Steel"  (from issue #259)
Story:  "Supergirl's First Romance"  (from issue #269)
 Comment:  2 pages edited out of this story.
Story:  "Supergirl's Super Pet"  (from issue #261)
Story:  "Supergirl's Fortress of Solitude"  (from issue #271)
 Comment:  2 pages edited out of this story.
Story:  "The Three Super-Heroes"  (from issue #267)
 Comment:  2 pages edited out of this story; dialogue rewritten on page 6, panels 4 and 5, to correct the error that the Legionnaires who appear in this story are only the children of the original three Legionnaires.
Story:  "Superboy Meets Supergirl"  (from SUPERBOY #80)
 Comments:  This is a Superboy story.  1 page edited out of story.
Story:  "The Super-Steed of Steel"  (from issue #292)
Comments:  In addition to these stories, this issue reprints one page from issue #285.
 This is 80 PAGE GIANT #G-20.

Action Comics No. 335
March 1966
Story:  "The Prize of Peril"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #63)
Supporting Characters:  Dick Malverne (last appearance in issue #329),  Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Intro:  Stan Wellwood, Dean Brewster, Jak-Thal, Miss Europe, Miss Asia, Miss Orion, Miss Sirius, and other contestants in the Miss Cosmos contest (only appearance for all),  Zilya and two other former Miss Cosmoses (all die in this story)
Villain: Jak-Thal (first appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl, as Linda Danvers, uses her super-powers to win the Miss Universe contest after seeing a space-probe which played back a tape of a Miss Cosmos contest.  Since the Miss
Universe of Earth will be abducted from Earth and chosen to compete in the Miss Cosmos contest, Supergirl wishes to face the unknown herself, instead of letting a normal girl take the heat.  She wins the Miss Cosmos contest, but her prize is a phoney immortality treatment by the vengeful Jak-Thal, who kills three former Miss Cosmos winners to prevent them from warning her. Since Jak-Thal's face was turned grotesque by radiation from a nebula in space, he gets revenge by giving "ugly treatments" to the winner of the Miss Cosmos contest.  And, after Supergirl breaks free and turns him in to a space prison for murder, she does indeed become grotesque.

Action Comics No. 336
April 1966
Cover:  New Bizarro-Supergirl and Comet keeping Superman out of the Fortress of Solitude  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Forbidden Fortress of Solitude"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #186)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in first story in this issue; next appears in SUPERMAN #185), Bizarros (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #156), Comet
Supporting Characters:  Bizarro-Perry White (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #156), Lois Lane (between SUPERMAN #185 / 186), Edna Danvers, Dick Malverne
Cameo:  Miss Orion, Miss Sirius, Zilya and other former Miss Cosmoses (in flashback)
Intro:  A new Bizarro-Supergirl, a soldier, a plastic surgeon (only appearance for all)
Villain:  Jak-Thal (last apeparance)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  Nothing Supergirl does (including a Red Kryptonite treatment) can restore her face's  former beauty.  Even a duplicator-ray treatment only produces a lovely Bizarro-Supergirl
with perfect grammar but a stupid mind, who wins acceptance from her fellow Bizarros by keeping Superman out of his Fortress of Solitude for awhile.  However, seeing Supergirl aid a disfigured soldier prompts Jak-Thal to devise an antidote to the ugliness treatment, rub it on the Miss Cosmos crown, and thus restore Supergirl's natural beauty.

Superman No. 186
May 1966
Cover: "Ghosts" of Superman and Clark Kent appearing to Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Sir Seer, and others at a seance //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Two Ghosts of Superman" (15 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Artist: Al Plastino
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #336)
GA: Batman (last appearance in BATMAN #180; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #44), Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #336 / 337)
Supporting Character: Lois Lane (last appearance in Supergirl story in ACTION COMICS #336), Lana Lang
Cameo: Jor-El, Queen Isabella, Captain Kidd, Jesse James
Villains: Sir Seer, Flashy Fisher, Duke Cooper, and their gang (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: To trap a phony mystic and his gang, Superman causes him to believe he really has psychic powers...and that he has correctly predicted Superman's death.

Action Comics No. 337
May 1966
Story:  "The Green Sun Supergirl"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #186)
Supporting Characters: Alpha Lambda sorority (Joan named in this story)
Intro:  Lumalians, Ant-Men and Ant-Women, Tree-People (only appearance for all)
Villains:  The Evil-Eyed People (first and only appearance)
Comment:  Some elements of this story seem to be taken from H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.
Synopsis: A spacecraft Supergirl is testing for the U.S. government deposits her on Lumal, a planet under a green sun, where she has no super-powers.  Supergirl helps the people of Lumal triumph over their oppressors, the Evil-Eyed People.  She improvises with equipment from the spacecraft, causing the Lumalians to think she has super-powers.  Later, Supergirl manages to find radioactive material and uses it to power the ship back to Earth.

Action Comics No. 338
June 1966
Story:  "The Villain Who Married Supergirl"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jerry Siegel
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #94)
Intro:  Vampire meteors (only appearance)
Villains: Raspor, Viperie (first and only appearance for both)
Comment:  The population of Krypton at its destruction is given as "over one billion" in this story.
Synopsis:  Raspor and Viperie, two desperadoes from outer space, make Supergirl's acquaintance.  Raspor wishes to marry Supergirl, despite Viperie's protests.  When her voice becomes too strident, he exiles her to the Nightmare Dimension.  Raspor also boasts that he placed an N-Bomb in the core of Krypton, which destroyed it.  Supergirl, in vengeance, pretends to be in love with him and arranges a mock "wedding", but leaves him stranded on a planet on which she claims to have placed an N-Bomb with an indefinite timing.  Later, she admits to herself she was lying about the bomb, leaving him exiled on the planet in fear of impending death.  And, to himself, Raspor admits he was lying about planting a bomb in Krypton.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 94
July 1966
Story:  "Insect-Olsen Vs. the Bug Bandits"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller:  George Papp
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #66)
GS:  Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #338 / 339)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #66; next appears in SUPERMAN #189)
Supporting Character:  Lana Lang (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #66; appears as Insect Queen in flashback; origin of Insect Queen retold)
Villains:  The Bug and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  The Bug steals the master print of "the Beatles' latest ovie" in this story.  Unless this is just a promo film (such as the one they did for Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever), it has no counterpart in our universe.
Synopsis:  While Superman is on a space mission, The Bug, a super-villain who uses large robot "insects" for his crimes, terrorizes Metropolis.  Lana Lang gives Jimmy Olsen her Insect Queen ring so that he can change into a bug-form she has already used that day (she cannot repeat a change for 24 hours) and save a falling man.  Jimmy goes on to use the ring's power, changing
himself into insect forms to battle The Bug.  In the end, Lana Lang gets in touch with Supergirl, she assumes an "insect-Olsen" disguise, easily endures a deathtrap The Bug had set up for Jimmy, and captures the villain.

Action Comics No. 339
July 1966
Cover:  Brainiac trapping Supergirl in Kryptonite cage; Muto trapping Superman of 2966 in seawater (two vignettes)  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "Brainiac's Blitz"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #94)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #94; next appears in SUPERMAN #189)
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro:  Professor Carter (only appearance)
Villain:  Brainiac (last appearance in Superman story in issue #335)
Comment:  Superman goes on a mission to outer space with the Justice League of America in this story, an unchronicled story.
Synopsis:  Brainiac comes to Metropolis for a battle with Superman, but the Man of Steel is in outer space on a Justice League mission.  Thus, Supergirl stands in for her cousin and
battles Brainiac, who almost destroys her at one point with a cage of Kryptonite.  But, being smaller than Superman, she can slip between the cage bars and forces Brainiac to escape by
sending himself into another time-era.  When Superman returns, he compliments Supergirl on her victory.

Action Comics No. 340
Aug. 1966
Story:  "The Supergirl Identity Hunt"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #97)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #159)
Supporting Characters: Dick Malverne, Mrs. Hart (last appearance)
Intro:  Susan Meadows, Dr. Small, Elaine, Sally King, Janice Tyler, Ethel Harris (all ex-orphans of Midvale Orphanage), Cindy Harris (Ethel's daughter) and other children, Major Wood, Capt. Jerry Hawes (only appearnace for all)
Villains:  Fact Finder, Philip Raines, and other blackmailers (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  Some of the ex-orphans appearing in this story may have appeared in earlier issues, unidentified.
Synopsis:  A blackmailer called the Fact Finder takes the opportunity to search for Supergirl among the women attending a reunion at Midvale Orphanage, since his research indicates that
Supergirl once lived there.  He and his gang eliminate various ladies as suspects.  But, with the help of Superman, Linda Danvers fakes getting a tooth pulled.  Since Supergirl would never need dental work, the gang turns on Fact Finder and denounces him as a boob.

Action Comics No. 341
Sept. 1966
Story:  "The Four Helpless Heroes"  ["Supergirl's Busiest Day"] (from issue #270)
Comment:  One page edited out.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 97
October 1966
Cover: Tal-Var vs. Jimmy Olsen in Fortress of Solitude //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Fortress Death-Trap" (13 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Jim Shooter
Artist: Pete Costanza
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen
GS: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #69), Superman robots (destroyed in this story, probably rebuilt later)
GA: Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #340 / 342)
Villain: Tal-Var (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Taken to the Fortress of Solitude for a visit, Jimmy Olsen is left there by Superman when the latter goes to help Supergirl, and must face the super-villain Tal-Var alone when he makes a surprise attack.

Action Comics No. 342
October 1966
Story:  "The Day Supergirl Became an Amazon"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter?
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #97; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #350)
Intro:  Millie Cole, Sue Johnston, Queen Jarta and the Amazons of her tribe (only appearance for all)
Comment: It is possible that Queen Jarta's Amazon tribe is related to the moral Amazons of South America that turn up in the last issues of WONDER WOMAN.
Synopsis:  While on a boat trip to collect marine specimens for Stanhope University's biology department, Linda Danvers and two female classmates get blown off-course and end up on a distant island populated by Amazon women who have great strength, due to drinking a certain nectar.  The women are ruled by the tyrannical Queen Jarta, who orders Linda and her friends to work as slaves until the three-days' dose of Nectar of Strength can make them Amazons.  Linda uses her super-strength to do their tasks so well, and deliberately discomfits Queen Jarta in the
process, that the Queen gladly sends them all back to civilization.

Action Comics No. 343
November 1966
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl's Pal"  (from SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #40)

Adventure Comics No. 350
November 1966
Cover:  Supergirl and Superboy walking away from Legion Clubhouse and Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy, Light Lass, Phantom Girl, Ultra Boy, Shrinking Violet and Colossal Boy (costume miscolored)  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Outcast Super-Heroes"  (12 pages)
 Part 2:  "The Devil's Dozen"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  E. Nelson Bridwell
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Letterer:  Milt Snapinn
Feature Characters:  Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl (joins the Legion in this story), Duo Damsel, Element Lad, Ferro Lad, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Light
Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #342), Star Boy (rejoins the Legion in this story), Ultra Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
Intro:  The White Witch (Mysa Nal; last chronological appearance in TALES OF THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #316), R. J. Brande (last chronological appearance in SECRETS OF THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #1 flashback)
Cameo:  Computo, Jor-El, Lara
Villains:  Prince Evillo, Sugyn, Apollo, and the Wild Huntsman (the Devil's Dozen; first appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  When a Green Kryptonite cloud envelops the Earth in the 30th Century, Superboy and Supergirl have to leave the Legion of Super-Heroes.  They ask that the mysterious, lead-costumed Sir Prize and Miss Terious take their places, and the Legionnaires agree, inducting them.  The Kryptonians are sent back to their own eras with Kryptonite capsules in their brains to erase their
memories of the Legion.  However, the Legion fails to stop a villainous group called the Devil's Dozen in their first encounter with them.

Adventure Comics No. 351
December 1966
Cover:  Superboy with trash sack, illusion of Legion Clubhouse, Mon-El, Colossal Boy, Saturn Girl, Princess Projectra, and Element Lad  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Forgotten Legion"  (12 pages)
 Part 2:  "The Faces Behind the Masks"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  E. Nelson Bridwell
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Letterer:  Milton Snapinn
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy (power restored; rejoins the Legion in this story), Brainiac 5, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl, Element Lad, Ferro Lad, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid,
Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Superboy, Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #344), Star Boy, Ultra Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS:  Polar Boy, Night Girl, Fire Lad, Chlorophyll Kid, Stone Boy, Color Kid (the Legion of Substitute Heroes), Krypto (last appearance in issue #343; next appears in SUPERMAN #195), Beppo, Comet, and Streaky (between issues #343 / 364; the Legion of Super-Pets), White Witch (next appears in issue #370)
Supporting Character:  R. J. Brande (next appears in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (3rd series) #31 (flashback))
Intro:  Dr. Zan Orbal, Miss Morrison (only appearance for both)
Cameo:  Shrinking Violet
Villains:  Prince Evillo, Sugyn, Apollo, and the Wild Huntsman (the Devil's Dozen; last appearance for all), Mr. Mxyzptlk (last appearance in SUPERBOY #131; next chronological appearance in SUPERMAN #131 flashback)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  Sir Prize and Miss Terious are revealed as Star Boy and Dream Girl, and are allowed to stay in the Legion.  The Devil's Dozen are defeated.  Color Kid changes the Green Kryptonite to Blue Kryptonite, and Superboy and Supergirl are safely reinstated.  Bouncing Boy's power, Lightning Lad's arm, and the White Witch's identity are restored.
 

Action Comics No. 344
December 1966
Story:  "The (Super) Girl In the Green House"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #351)
Intro:  The inhabitants of Gaea, Frank and Ethel Davis, Senator Clarkson, Secretary Boyd
Villains:  Dick Malvin and other members of the Adult Revolution Movement, Secretary Quiggly (first appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue..
Synopsis:  In space, Supergirl comes upon Gaea, a parallel version of Earth.  On Gaea, a plague has wiped out most adults, leaving teenagers in charge of government and society.  Supergirl
decides to stay for a while, having two months off from college.  She establishes her Linda Danvers identity and also appears as Supergirl.  A chain of events leads to Linda becoming president of Gaea's America as a write-in candidate.  However, she is also targeted by the Adult Revolt Movement, whose crack agent, Dick Malvin, is a dead ringer for Dick Malverne of Earth.  Supergirl becomes wanted for unwittingly attacking policemen and placing fool's gold in the treasury.  When Malvin tricks Linda into exposing her Supergirl identity, she is scheduled to be impeached.

Action Comics No. 345
Jan. 1967
Story:  "The Exile of Steel"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in Superman story in next issue)
GS:  The Gaeans (last appearance for all)
Intro:  Lucas Nevins, Weemer (only appearance for both)
Villains:  Dick Malvin and the A.R.M., Secretary Quiggly (last appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues from the last issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl's impeachment trial ends with a conviction.  However, the Girl of Steel easily breaks free from her guards and escapes.  Dick Malvin, her former vice president, becomes president and appoints A.R.M. traitors to high posts, while subjecting America to fascist tyranny.  At that point, Supergirl returns to defeat Malvin and the A.R.M., liberating the Americans of Gaea.  As a going-away present, the Gaeans give her a ticker-tape parade.

Action Comics No. 346
February 1967
Cover: The Professor and Pierre watching Supergirl vs. phony "Superman" on viewscreen //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story: "The Man Who Sold Insurance To Superman" (12 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer:
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker:
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #52 (flashback); next appears in Supergirl story in this issue)
GA: Supergirl (between Supergirl stories in last issue and this issue)
Supporting Character: Perry White
Intro: Terry Mason, Jewel Cartier, Ricky Candell, Mia Doran, Photo Finish Farrell, Dr. Payne (only appearance for all)
Villains: Mr. Cartier, the Renegade Raiders, Surranians (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: An insurance salesman sells Superman a policy guaranteeing $100,000,000,000 against his death or disappearance from the Earth.

Story:  "The Case of the Superman Impostor"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Robert Bernstein
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in Superman story in this issue)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in Superman story in this issue; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #164)
Villains:  The Professor, Maxie, Marlene, and Pierre (first appearance for all; all die in this story), the Torpedo (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Clark Kent appears to summon Superman to take in the Torpedo, a mad bomber.  But a criminal mastermind called the Professor deduces Kent is Superman, and intends to blackmail Supergirl with an elaborate plot.  First, the Professor's hireling Maxie is made into a double of Superman and Clark Kent by plastic surgery.  Then, as "Superman", Maxie tricks Supergirl into switching identities in front of him.  The Professor's gang blackmails Supergirl, telling her that they will reveal her double identity to the world unless she brings them riches.  Supergirl almost succumbs, but, at the last minute, refuses, unwilling to become a thief even to protect herself.  The Professor and his gang take off in a car, with Maxie disguised as Clark Kent.  Unfortunately for them, the Torpedo has broken jail, sees Maxie as  "Clark Kent", and throws a bomb at them,
blowing the Professor and his gang to bits.

Action Comics No. 347
March-April 1967
Cover:  Bizarro-Supergirl vs. Supergirl and Superman; Biron the Centaur turning into Comet; Johnny Blank witnessing Linda Lee change into Supergirl; Supergirl and the Supergirl Emergency
Squad (four vignettes)  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Boy Who Could See In the Dark"  ["Supergirl's Darkest Day"]  (from issue #263)
Story:  "My Father, the Cop"  ["Supergirl Gets Adopted"]  (from issue #264)
Story:  "The Son of Bizarro"  (from Superman #160)
Story:  "Supergirl's Super Boy-Friends"  (from issue #290)
Story:  "The Secret Origin of Supergirl's Super-Horse" (from issue #293)
Comment:  This is 80 PAGE GIANT #G-33.

Action Comics No. 348
March 1967
Story:  "The Assistant Supergirl"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #195)
Intro:  Kara Strange (a robot; only appearance), Denekians (in flashback; only appearance)
Comment: This story supposedly takes place at the start of a "new term".  Most likely, however, it is the start of a new semester, and takes place in January.
Synopsis:  In return for her saving their race from starvation, the people of the planet Denek send Supergirl a robot double named Kara Strange.  The robot is programmed to help Supergirl in both her identities, and can assume the appearance of both Linda and Supergirl.  However, the robot turns out to be too good a helper, causing Linda much consternation.  But, when Linda orders Kara Strange to do everything in her stead one day, the robot fails one test--giving blood.  Sadly, Kara Strange packs up and flies off of Earth, back to her homeworld.

Superman No. 195
April 1967
Cover:  Superman weakened by Kryptonite gas, and Kandor, Krypto, and Supergirl imprisoned in tubes  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Fury of the Kryptonian-Killer"  (15 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #165; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #73)
GS:  Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #348 / 349), Krypto, Kandorians
Supporting Character: Jimmy Olsen
Cameo:  Jor-El, Lara
Villains:  Amalak (last appearance in issue #190), Rinol-Jag (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Amalak brainwashes Rinol-Jag, last survivor of a planet which was destroyed by a planet-sized chunk of Kryptonite, into hating all things Kryptonian.  Rinol-Jag goes
on a hate crusade against the survivors of Krypton, destroying monuments to Superman, Supergirl, Jor-El and Lara, breaking into the Fortress of Solitude to capture the bottle-city of Kandor, and then using Kryptonite to capture Superman, Supergirl, and Krypto.  But when Amalak tries to activate a device that will explode the Earth, Rinol-Jag questions his actions, and is shot by Amalak's ray-gun.  Falling, Rinol frees Superman, who is wounded by Amalak but nevertheless manages to knock him out and short-circuit his bomb.  Later, Amalak is imprisoned, and Rinol-Jag makes friends with Superman and Supergirl.
 

Action Comics No. 349
April 1967
Story:  "Supergirl's Black Deeds"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #195)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope University  (Susan and Janet named in this story)
Intro:  Miss Todd (only appearance)
Villains:  Gimmick" Gordon, Gus, Jarka, Korlo (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers finds herself in the grip of uncontrollable impulses that cause her to do unkind or even dangerous acts, such as stealing a trophy or rupturing a tank of chlorine gas underwater as Supergirl.  As a result, she is expelled from Stanhope.  But the evil impulses have been the work of two game-playing aliens, Jarka and Korlo, who have been using a mind-compelling ray on Supergirl in a chess-like situation.  Korlo, who plays in defense of Supergirl, makes it appear that another girl on campus took the trophy while sleepwalking, and
Linda Danvers is reinstated.  Supergirl remains ignorant of the existence of Jarka and Korlo.

Action Comics No. 350
May 1967
Story:  "The Anti-Supergirl Plot"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Batman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #53; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #363), Green Arrow (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #53; next appears in SUPERMAN #199), Hawkman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #53; next appears in HAWKMAN #20), Green Lantern (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #73; next appears in GREEN LANTERN #53; all appear as the Justice League of America)
Supporting Character:  Dick Malverne (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #393)
Intro:  Cindy Morbilt, Carter Hagen, editor of the Stanhope Sentinel, Kim Lorne (only appearance for all)
Cameo appearance: Mr. and Mrs. Lorne (Kim Lorne's parents; in a photo; first and only appearance)
Villains:  "Fingers" Cooley, a Batman impersonator, and a Green Lantern impersonator (in a band called The Heroes; first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  "Fingers" Cooley and his gang dress as Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Batman, and Supergirl in a rock band called The Heroes.  They use this as a cover for robberies, which the rest
of the gang commits in the wealthy homes in which they play while Kim Lorne, the Supergirl impostor, does a solo set.  When Kim learns of Cooley's thievery of a scientist's military secrets and mineral collection (including a powerful variety of Kryptonite), he threatens to have her parents harmed if she goes to the police.  Supergirl, investigating the thefts, hears Kim's
confession.  When the crooks immobilize Supergirl with the Kryptonite, Kim rescues her.  Supergirl then summons the real Green Lantern, Green Arrow, and Batman from Justice League
headquarters to capture their crooked counterparts.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 102
June 1967
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen--Campus Hero"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Pete Costanza
Feature Character:  Jimmy Olsen
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #350; next appears in SUPERMAN #199)
Supporting Character:  Perry White, students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro: President of Stanhope College
Villains:  Homicide, Inc., Nick Harkins, Mr. Quick (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  In this story Linda is revealed to be a member of the Stanhope cheerleaders' squad.
Synopsis:  After Jimmy Olsen's testimony sends a murderer to jail, his gang, Homicide, Inc., targets Olsen for death.  Several attempts are made on Jimmy's life, and Perry White gets him a
cover identity as "Jeff Ogden", a student at Stanhope College.  Linda Danvers recognizes Jimmy, but agrees to help him carry off the ruse.  She also covertly guards him against assassination
attempts made by Mr. Quick, the syndicate's killer in disguise.  Supergirl finally succeeds in capturing Mr. Quick, and Jimmy reveals his true identity to the faculty and students.

Action Comics No. 351
June 1967
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen Marries Supergirl"  (from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #57)

Action Comics No. 352
July 1967
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen's Two Brides"  (from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #57)

Superman No. 199
Cover: Superman and Flash racing as Robin, Batman, the Atom, Green Lantern, J'onn J'onzz, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman look on //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story: "Superman's Race With the Flash" (Part 1; 12 pages)
 Part 2: "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet" (12 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Jim Shooter
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #103; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #168)
GS: Flash (between FLASH #172 / 173), Aquaman (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #73; next appears in AQUAMAN #35), Green Arrow (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #350; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #55), Green Lantern (between GREEN LANTERN #54 / 55), J'onn J'onzz (between HOUSE OF MYSTERY #168 / 169), Batman (last appearance in BATMAN #194; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #356), Hawkman (between HAWKMAN #21 / 22), Atom (between ATOM #32 / 33; all appear as the Justice League of America, between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #54 / 55), Robin (last appearance in BATMAN #194; next appears in TEEN TITANS #11), Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #350 / 353)
Supporting Characters: Perry White (next appears in ACTION COMICS #351), Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #103; next appears in ACTION COMICS #351), Iris West (between FLASH #172 / 173)
Intro: Secretary-General of the United Nations (only appearance?)
Villain: Mr. Vincent, an American gambling syndicate, Werner Von Broder, Mr. DePaul, Dr. Robert Carson, the Continental Crime Syndicate, Lorenzo, Nails (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: This is the first of three Superman / Flash races.  The second appears in THE FLASH #175.
Synopsis: Superman and The Flash agree to a race around the world to benefit the United Nations.  But two rival gambling syndicates set traps for the hero that they have individually bet against.
 
 

Action Comics No. 353
August 1967
Story:  "The Cosmic Collectors"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #199; origin retold in flashback)
Intro:  Alice, Betty,  Joe Trent (only appearance for all)
Villains:  The Living Library (a group of disembodied brains), the Zorkians (first appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  When Linda Danvers notices so-so student Joe Trent checking out weighty scientific tomes, with no affect on his grades, Supergirl investigates.  She discovers that Joe, under a
hypnotic spell, is bringing the books to a spacecraft inhabited by the Living Library, a group of disembodied brains from the planet Zorkia.  The Library's mission is to scan all the books in
existence and serve as a living repository of knowledge on Zork.  However, they judge that Supergirl's super-memory would make it possible for her to retain all their knowledge in her stead, and allow them to get back into their bodies, which have been kept in suspended animation.  Thus, they use Kryptonite to keep Supergirl prisoner, and she serves as a "human library" on  Zorkia.

Action Comics No. 354
Sept. 1967
Story:  "The Brain-Stealers"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #359)
Intro:  Queen Neolla (only appearance), Piscor and the Sea-People (in flashback; die in this story)
Villains:  Cerebron (first and only appearance), the Living Library (last appearance)
Comments:  This story is continued from last issue.
 This story shows that no humanoid beings (except Queen Neolla) exist on Zorkia, which contradicts last issue's statement that the Living Library would easily return to their human bodies
and the depiction of living humanoids on Zorkia in the last panel.
Synopsis:  Supergirl, on Zorkia, learns from King Cerebron, another disembodied brain, that his race was a conquering, warlike people, but they were forced to abandon their bodies when a race of fish-people retaliated with a "plague-mist" that was deadly to human life.  Their real quest has been to find an antidote to the plague-mist.  Supergirl, though held prisoner by threat of the Kryptonite, refuses to solve their problems.  However, they trick her into using her super-powers, duplicate them, and infuse them (including invulnerability) into Queen Neolla, Cerebron's wife, who has been kept in suspended animation up to this time.  Cerebron hopes Neolla will rid them of the plague-mist and help them conquer other worlds.  But she has absorbed Supergirl's heroic nature, causing her to free Supergirl of the Kryptonite trap.  As Supergirl leaves, Neolla tells her
that she will only work on an antidote to the plague-mist when Cerebron and his people foreswear their dreams of conquest.

Adventure Comics No. 359
August 1967
Cover:  Superboy, Colossal Boy, Element Lad, Cosmic Boy, and Invisible Kid arrested by Science Police //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Outlawed Legionnaires"  (22 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Letterer:  Milt Snappinn
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Duo Damsel, Dream Girl, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-
Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #354; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #169), Ultra Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
Supporting Characters:  Mr. Norg (first and only appearance), Mrs. Norg (last appearance in issue #365; last appearance), R. J. Brande (last chronological appearance in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (3rd series) #31; next appears in SUPERBOY #221)
Intro: Chet Bradley (only appearance)
Villain:  Universo (last appearance in issue #349; revealed in next issue), Xakkan raiders (first and only appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue, but Supergirl does not appear in it.
Synopsis:  The Legionnaires return from a space mission to learn that their operation has been outlawed on Earth.  Signs indicate that the new president, Kandro Boltax, is using a form of mind-control on the people of Earth, but several Legion members are convicted of power-use and are sent to the prison planet, Takron-Galtos.  The other heroes vow to stay on Earth and form an
underground movement to learn the truth behind recent developments.

World's Finest Comics No. 169
Sept. 1967
Cover:  Superman and Batman fixing flat on Batmobile, Supergirl and Batgirl watching //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot"  (9 pages)
 Part II:  "Clash of the Super-Teams"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Feature Characters:  Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #354; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #76), Batman (last appearance in DETECTIVE COMICS #367; next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #74), Robin (between DETECTIVE COMICS #367 / 368)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #359; next appears in ACTION COMICS #356), Batgirl (between DETECTIVE COMICS #363 / 369)
Supporting Characters:  Perry White (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #354; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #106), Jimmy Olsen (between SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #105 / 106)
Cameo: Black Flame, Catwoman (as identities for Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite)
Villains:  Mr. Mxyzptlk (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #73; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #114), Bat-Mite (last appearance in issue #154; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #482), Briggs and other crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This is the first meeting of Supergirl and Batgirl.
Synopsis:  Batman, Robin, and Superman are beset by "Batgirl" and "Supergirl", who undercut them as crime-fighters, steal Superman's powers, make Batman susceptible to cowardice, and
steal the Fortress of Solitude and everything in the Batcave.  Finally, the two "villainesses" challenge Superman and Batman to a showdown fight.  The heroes are victorious and unmask
"Supergirl" as "Black Flame" and "Batgirl" as "Catwoman".  But the real Supergirl and Batgirl show up shortly afterward, having been caught and replaced by the two phonies, who are really Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite.  The two imps have been making a wager that Batman would fall into their trap, and Bat-Mite tricks Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards and vanishing.  Bat-Mite then disappears himself.

Action Comics No. 355
October 1967
Story:  "The Death of Luthor"  (from issue #286)

Action Comics No. 356
November 1967
Story:  "The Girl of Straw"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #169)
Cameo:  Superman, Zor-El, Comet, Dick Malverne, Mrs. Hart, students at Stanhope College, children at Midvale Orphanage (as characters in a dream)
Synopsis:  Supergirl's powers have been steadily slipping away, and not due to Kryptonite exposure.  When she is rescued by Superman, he tells her what he has been keeping secret from her for so long:  she is really an android created by Zor-El, sent to Earth to become Superman's helper, and now her power-source is burning out.  She flies away in tears, but soon falls to her
destruction.
 Superman wakes up.  It has all been a dream, he thinks...until he sees Supergirl's smashed android body where he dreamed it fell...
 Linda Danvers wakes up.  It has all been a dream within a dream.

Action Comics No. 357
December 1967
Story:  "Supergirl's Secret Marriage"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope University
Intro:  Veena, Thal, and other Zhonnians (only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  After Supergirl rescues the inhabitants of Zhonnia from a blazing sea of oil, Thal, a Zhonnian, falls in love with her and breaks off his engagement to Veena, his fiancee.  To get
Thal over his infatuation, Veena dresses as a man, takes the identity of "Joaquin Jarl", comes to Earth, and convinces Supergirl she has been married to "Joaquin" for a year.  Her memory of such, says "Joaquin", has been wiped out by a recent Kryptonite exposure.  Other Zhonnians, including Thal, are invited and come to Supergirl's and "Joaquin's" first "wedding anniversary."  While there, Thal admits that hearing of her marriage makes him wish he had Veena to make up with.  Supergirl, who has deduced Veena's true identity from feminine mannerisms she failed to cover up, unmasks her in private, gets the two lovers together again, and attends their subsequent marriage.

Action Comics No. 358
Jan. 1968
Story:  "Superboy In Argo City"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Jim Mooney
Feature Character:  Supergirl (origin details revealed; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #364; also appears in flashback, see Supergirl's early chronology for placement)
GS:  Superboy (in flashback; last appearance in SUPERBOY #144; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #364)
GA: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #108; next appears in SUPERMAN #204)
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Allura, people of Argo City (in flashback)
Cameo:  Jor-El and Lara (as images)
Villain:  An alien (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Years ago, Superboy was accidentally struck and knocked unconscious by a mining probe of Zor-El's from Argo City, while he was shaping a jewel from a diamond meteoroid.  The probe took the amnesiac Superboy to Argo City, where he met and became friends with young Kara, and her parents Zor-El and Allura.  However, when Argo City's crossing into space territory inhabited by an alien race is interpreted as agression, a member of that race demands one of their lives in sacrifice for the "crime".   Superboy quickly offers himself, and is taken away from Argo City, despite the protests from the family of Zor-El.  To forego interference from the Argonians, the alien cleanses their memories of Superboy's existence.  Once within range of a yellow star, though, Superboy recovers his powers and memory--though he does not remember anything of his visit to Argo City--and breaks free and eludes the alien.  Years later, Supergirl shows the jewel she got from Superboy to Superman.  Superman remembers carving it from an asteroid years ago, but neither can figure out how it got in Argo City.

Adventure Comics No. 364
January 1968
Cover:  Comet, Beppo, Krypto, and Streaky vs. Superboy, Saturn Girl, and Cosmic Boy  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Revolt of the Super-Pets"  (12 pages)
 Part II:  "Fang, Claw, and Hoof"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Artist:  Pete Costanza
Letterer:  Milt Snapinn
Feature Characters:  Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Saturn Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy,
Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #358 / 359), Ultra Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS:  Beppo, Streaky (between issues #351 / 380), Comet (last appearance in issue #351; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #92), Krypto (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #107; next appears in issue #380), Proty II (between issues #351 / 375; all appear as the Legion of Super-Pets)
Cameo: Circe, Maaldor, Jor-El, Luck Lords (in flashback)
Villains: The Thanlites (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Miffed by Legion of Super-Heroes chastisement over a case of remote-controlled super-weapons, the Legion of Super-Pets takes up an offer to reside on the planet Thanl, whose
inhabitants "worship" them.  The super-animals drive off the human Legionnaires when they try to take them back to Earth.  Later, however, the Super-Pets discover that Thanl is the source of the criminal super-weapons, and they help the Super-Heroes defeat their common enemy.

Action Comics No. 359
February 1968
Story:  "The Super-Initiation of Supergirl"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #364; next appears in issue #361)
GA:  Linda Danvers robot (formerly the Linda Lee robot?)
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College
Intro:  An unnamed co-ed, Joan (only appearance for both),  Janet Berg,Yvonne Chatam (names only mentioned; no actual appearance; only appearance for both)
Villains: Sonya, Doris, and other members of Xi-Pi-Hi-Fi Sorority (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  To teach the brutally hazing members of Xi-Pi-Hi-Fi sorority a lesson, Supergirl insists on being allowed to pledge the club.  The sorority members suspect trouble from her, and also believe that Supergirl is one of three girls attending Stanhope, one of the suspects being Linda Danvers.  Supergirl fulfills her initiation tests and foils their attempts to learn her identity.  Later, Supergirl makes such trouble for the sorority members that they come to their senses and disband it.

Action Comics No. 360
March-April 1968
Cover:  Supergirl and Superman; vignettes of Supergirl, Edna and Fred Danvers, Linda Danvers, Lesla-Lar, Dick Malverne, Kandor, Mr.Mxyzptlk, the Infinite Monster, Jerro, Saturn Girl, Brainiac 5, and Cosmic Boy  //Curt Swan / George Klein
Story:  "The Unknown Supergirl"  (from issue #278)
Story:  "Supergirl's Secret Enemy"  (from issue #279)
Comment:  2 pages edited from story.
Story:  "Trapped In Kandor"  (from issue #280)
Story:  "The Three Red K Perils"  ["The Supergirl of Tomorrow"]  (from issue #282)
Comment:  Pages 1-8 edited out, so that pages 9-13 are pages 1-5 of this story.
Story:  ["The Six Red K Perils of Supergirl"]  (from issue #283)
Comment:  Pages ??? (7 pages) are edited out, so that pages ?? are pages 6-11 of "The Three Red K Perils".
 Art is altered so that Supergirl only is exposed to three Red Kryptonite meteors, rather than six, as in the original.
Story:  "The Super-Mermaid"  ["The Strange Bodies of Supergirl"] (from issue #284)
Comment:  8 pages edited out of story.
Story:  "The World's Greatest Heroine"  (from issue #285)
Comment:  Page 1 edited out of story.
Story:  "The Infinite Monster"  (from issue #285)
Comment:  Page 1 edited out of story.
Comments:  This issue's reprints are presented as a unified seven-part story.
 This is 80 PAGE GIANT #G-45.

Action Comics No. 361
March 1968
Story:  "Supergirl's Super-Date"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in issue #359)
Supporting Characters:  Students of Stanhope College
Intro: Mr. Todd (in flashback),  Duane Todd (only appearance for both)
Cameo:  Jor-El and Lara (as statues)
Synopsis:  When Linda Danvers gets a computer date with fellow student Duane Todd, he appears to exhibit super-powers covertly, and quotes a phrase in the Kryptonian language.  After awhile, Supergirl is convinced that Duane is a Kryptonian like herself--almost.  But, when she attempts to date him as Supergirl, he gives her the brush-off.  And, when Linda cracks through the ice of a lake while skating on it, Duane admits he was faking super-powers, and she has to sneak a log up from the bottom of the lake to grab on to.  Later, Duane admits that he thought she was Supergirl, tried to convince her he was a Kryptonian, and turned her down as Supergirl because he didn't want her, as Linda, to think he was fickle.  Since he is convinced that Linda is not Supergirl, he tries the computer dating service again, and gets...well...a "plain" person might be putting it nicely.  (Oh, heck, he gets a real dog!)

Action Comics No. 362
April 1968
Story:  "The 40th Century Outlaw"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Intro:  The women's dean of Stanhope College,  Maza, students of Stanhope College in 4,000 A.D. (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman (as statues)
Villain: Mr. Mxyzptlk LX (first and only appearance; Mr. Mxyzptlk's 40th Century descendant; disguised as Robin in this story)
Comment:  This story states that astronauts will land on the moon in 1970.  Since they landed on the moon in 1969, this is obviously an "alternate" future of Earth-One.
 The robots in this story may be a tribute to Magnus, Robot Fighter, which is set in 4,000 A.D.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers is chosen by a Stanhope student from 4,000 A.D. to visit their college in the future.  Once there, she discovers that Supergirl is considered an outlaw, and supposedly
stole moon mail from the first lunar landing in 1970, intending to sell it and profit from it herself.  When she reveals herself to stop an out-of-control robot, Supergirl is captured with Kryptonite, tried, and sentenced to have the word "OUTLAW" branded on her forehead with a special ray, though her defender in court appears to be a time-travelling Robin from the 20th Century.  However, Robin is actually Mr. Mxyzptlk of the 40th Century, who has magically commanded everyone on Earth to believe Supergirl is a criminal.  Supergirl deduces his ruse when she sees "Robin" flying without a Legion flight-ring, tricks Mr. Mxyzptlk LX into saying his name backwards, and undoes his magic, including the "OUTLAW" brand, which was his doing.  She then returns to the 20th Century.

Action Comics No. 363, May 1968
Story:  "The Landmark Looters"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (next chronological appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #117)
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College
Intro:   Zikka, Roxxi  (only appearance for both)
Comment:  Supergirl says that the Justice League of America is in space at the time of this story.  This may be an unchronicled mission, or it could possibly be their battle with the Queen Bee in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #62.
Synopsis:  Giant tweezers from a hole in space reach down and snatch Alcatraz Prison, the Sphinx, the Eiffel Tower, the Stanhope Observatory, the Taj Mahal, and the Statue of Liberty in
that order.  When Supergirl investigates, she discovers the culprits are two gigantic alien children from another dimension who are using the monuments as markers on a giant board game.  They take her captive with a "super-rope" and offer to play her a game of "Snatchaway", with them leaving Earth if she wins.  When she deduces they are weakened in the presence of gold, she steals
Fort Knox, immobilizes them with the buillion, and restores the monuments to Earth.  The aliens go off to play marbles with asteroids.

Adventure Comics No. 368
May 1968
Cover:  Superboy, Ultra Boy, Supergirl, Light Lass, Saturn Girl, Princess Projectra, Phantom Girl, Shrinking Violet, Triplicate Girl, and Shadow Lass  //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Mutiny of the Super-Heroines"  (12 pages)
 Part 2:  "Ladies First"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  George Klein
Letterers:  Gaspar Saladino and Charlotte Jetter
Feature Characters:  Brainiac 5, Dream Girl, Duo Damsel, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (last chronological appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #117; next appears in ACTION COMICS #364), Ultra Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
Supporting Character:  President Boltax (last appearance in issue #366; next appears in SUPERBOY #197)
Villains: Thora (first appearance; dies in this story), various thieves, convicts, and vandals (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Thora, ambassador from the feminist world of Taltar, uses radiation treatments to secretly increase the power of the female Legionnaires and to make them hate men.  The girls win a fight with the boys, but Supergirl later divines the truth by examining the bracelet device which Thora uses to empower and corrupt the heroines.  Finally, during a battle in which the heroines are on the point of killing the heroes with their increased powers, Supergirl causes the bracelet to blow up on Thora's wrist, negating its effects and returning the girls to normal.  As a penalty for failure, Thora takes poison and dies.  One of the male Legionnaires notes that her feminist government was overthrown by men while she was away.

Action Comics No. 364, June 1968
Cover:  Doctors laboring to save Superman from Virus X //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Untouchable of Metropolis"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Ross Andru
Inker:  Mike Esposito
Feature Character:  Superman
GS:  Supergirl (last chronological appearance in Supergirl story in next issue)
GA:  Kandorians
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN #209)
Intro:  Delegates from the United Nations
Villains:  Lex Luthor and his gang, the Gimmick Gang (first and only appearance), Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN #205)
Comments:  This story is part three of a five-part serial.
Synopsis:  Superman, infected by Lex Luthor with Virus X, will die within days.  An international team of doctors fails to cure him.  Lex Luthor cons Superman's friends out of a million dollars with a phony remedy.  Finally, Superman resigns himself to his fate, and boards a rocket which will take him to cremation in Flammbron, the hottest sun in the universe.

Story:  "The Kiss of Death"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Otto Binder
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #368; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #176)
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope College
Intro:  Durkla (only appearance)
Villains:  Vandarr, Dorah, and Jaquella (first appearance for all; all die in this story)
Synopsis:  When two women wearing a strange tattoo on their arm are romanced by a man named Durkla and die shortly after kissing him, Supergirl investigates.  She learns that the two victims and one other woman were part of a gang of murderers and raiders on the water-world of Valair.  All three were tattooed with a mark that emitted X-rays so they could be detected by their
executioner, Durkla.   But all three escaped to Earth, including one who is being hidden by Supergirl; Durkla executed the first two by a poisoned ring.  The third proves to be a thief, and dies when she falls into a vat of liquid helium in the Fortress of Solitude.

World's Finest Comics No. 176
June 1968
Cover:  Heads of Batman, Superman, Supergirl, and Batgirl, silhouette of Ronald Jason  //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Superman-Batman Split"  (9 pages)
 Part II:  "A Tale of 3 Teams"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Neal Adams
Feature Characters:  Superman (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #63 / 240), Batman (last appearance in  DETECTIVE COMICS #376; next chronological appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #240),  Robin (last appearance in DETECTIVE COMICS #376; next appears in TEEN TITANS #16)
GS:  Supergirl (between Supergirl stories in ACTION COMICS #364 / 365), Batgirl (last appearance in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #78; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #384)
Supporting Characters:  Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #111; next chronological appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #240), Commissioner Gordon, students at Stanhope University
Intro:  Roland Jason and Desmond Jason (latter in flashback; both die in this story)
Cameo:  Ulysses S. Grant (as a statue)
Comment:  Robin appears in this issue just after a Teen Titans mission, possibly an untold story.
Synopsis:  Superman and Batman are separately contacted by what appear to be two aliens.  One,   Dur, masquerades as actor Roland Jason, and claims to be the ruler of an alien world seeking
Superman's help in eluding political assassins.  The other, Tiron,  purports to be a lawman chasing Dur, whom he tells Batman is a criminal.  Batman contacts Supergirl to help him against Superman.  Superman counters by enlisting Batgirl as his aide.  On a monitor in their Aerie, Jimmy Olsen and Robin discover the truth about the aliens, but are rendered unconscious with a gas pellet.  After the heroes and heroines battle, the "alien" collapses and reveals he was only one man, Ronald Jason, pretending to be both aliens.  Jason confesses that his brother had discovered
Batman's and Superman's double identities through voice prints, but his brother was killed shortly afterward by radiation exposure, which has also doomed Jason.  The actor hoped to go out
in his finest performance, deceiving the four heroes.  After Jason dies, Superman tells the others that he had discovered the impersonation already, but played along to make him happy, told Batman the truth, and gave Robin and Jimmy the knockout gas to keep them out of action.

Action Comics No. 365
July 1968
Cover:  Superman (with Virus X) in space-coffin, Supergirl carrying space-capsule with Lois Lane, Lori Lemaris, and Lana Lang  //Ross Andru / Mike Esposito
Story:  "Superman's Funeral"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Ross Andru
Inker:  Mike Esposito
Feature Character:  Superman (origin retold in flashback)
GA:  Atom (between THE ATOM #38 / JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #65), Batman (last appearance in BATMAN #204), Flash (last appearance in THE FLASH #181), Green Arrow (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #63 / 65), Green Lantern (last appearance in GREEN LANTERN #62), Hawkman (between HAWKMAN #27 / JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #65), J'onn J'onzz (last appearance in HOUSE OF MYSTERY #173), Wonder Woman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #63; next appears in WONDER WOMAN #177; all appear, with Superman, as the Justice League of America), Robin (between BATMAN #204 / DETECTIVE COMICS #378), Supergirl, Bizarros (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #74)
Supporting Characters:  Lois Lane, Lana Lang (next appears in SUPERMAN #210), Lori Lemaris (last appearance in SUPERMAN #204), Ardora (last appearance in issue #335), Lexorians (last appearance in issue #332)
Intro: Knorrians (only appearance)
Cameo:  Jimmy Olsen, Jor-El, Lara, Jonathan and Martha Kent, Superboy, Cosmic Boy, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Brainiac 5, Duo Damsel, Saturn Girl, Phantom Girl, Star Boy (?), Perry White, Brainiac, Kandor, Nightwing and Flamebird (in flashback)
Villain:  Lex Luthor (behind the scenes and in flashback; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #177)
Comment:  This is part four of a five-part serial.
Synopsis:  Superman remembers the events of his life as his coffin draws nearer to the star Flammbron.  When he passes the Bizarro world, the inhabitants fling red and white Kryptonite at
him in "mourning."  Just before the space-casket comes within range of the star, he gets a glimpse of Supergirl, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, and Lori Lemaris, whom Supergirl has brought there in a special space-capsule for one last look at Superman.  Then they turn back, and his coffin is engulfed by Flammbron's flames.

Story:  "The Case of the Curious Crimes"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Dave Wood
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in the Superman story in issue #364)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Cameo: Superman (as statues)
Intro:  Leon Jackson, Professor Brown, Mr. Smallville (only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Leon Jackson, a Superman fan and Stanhope student, steals a gold Superman statuette from a college exhibit to use as a hood ornament on one ride before he returns it.  Supergirl
captures him, but he is allowed clemency by the court.  Later, acts of vandalism and theft occur on campus, and the evidence points to Leon.  Finally, Supergirl deduces that the acts were
committed by herself, under the influence of Red Kryptonite.  To make amends, she gives Leon the Superman statuette as a gift.

Action Comics No. 366
August 1968
Cover:  Supergirl and substitute Supermen  //Neal Adams
Story:  "Substitute Superman"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Ross Andru
Inker:  Mike Esposito
Feature Character: Superman (next appears in Supergirl story in next issue)
GS:  Aquaman (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #240 / 65), Batman (next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #378), Flash (next appears in FLASH #182), Green Lantern (next appears in GREEN LANTERN #63), J'onn J'onzz (next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #71; all appear, with Superman, as the Justice League of America), Supergirl (next appears in WONDER WOMAN #177)
GA:  Kandorians
Supporting Character: Lois Lane
Intro:  The Flammbronians (only appearance)
Cameo:  Bizarros
Villains:  Jax-Ur, Phantom Zone villains (last appearance in SUPERMAN #205), assorted crooks
Comment:  This is part five of a five-part serial.
Synopsis:  Superman and his coffin are shielded from Flammbron's flames by devices used by the Flammbronians, creatures of living flame who live on Flammbron's surface.  Superman had saved the life of a flame-breathing man related to their race years ago, as Superboy.  Taken to an icy planet, Superman discovers that he has been cured of the Virus X, a plant-form of life, by the White Kryptonite meteors thrown by the Bizarros.  He returns to Earth to discover that Supergirl and five substitute Supermen are pinch-hitting for him.  The substitutes are really five Justice
Leaguers in disguise, who were filling in for him while the Kandorians chose a successor for Superman.  Superman thanks his cousin and his fellows for their vigilance.

Story:  "Stanhope--Off Limits"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in WONDER WOMAN #177)
Supporting Characters: Stanhope College students and faculty
GS: Linda Danvers robot
Intro:  David Carew
Villains: Alpha, Beta (Beta-Zin; first appearance for both)
Comments:  This is the first part of a three-part serial.
 Supergirl states that this story takes place not long after Superman's recovery from Virus X, which makes his appearance in the next issue probably his next chronological appearance after
the first story in this issue.
 Supergirl's joke about Wonder Woman on page 5 indicates that her case with Wonder Woman takes place just before this story.
Synopsis:  Two alien female terrorists, Alpha and Beta, construct a force-barrier around Stanhope College to imprison the faculty and students (including a Linda Danvers robot) within.  Supergirl
is more powerful than the twosome, but they warn her that any use of her powers against the barrier, even super-vision, will trigger a bomb which will blow Stanhope to bits.  However, Alpha
and Beta are free to enter and seek a student named David Carew, who flees them.  Supergirl decides that the crisis warrants her opening a special box which, she thinks, will "change my life...drastically".

Wonder Woman No. 177
July-August 1968
Cover:  Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Klamos, and Grok  //Carmine Infantino (signed)
Story:  "The Planetary Conqueror"  (8 pages)
 Part 2:  "The Captive Queens"  (9 pages)
 Part 3:  "A Fight To the Death"  (5 pages)
Editor:  Jack Miller
Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character:  Wonder Woman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #365)
GS:  Supergirl (between first and second stories in ACTION COMICS #366)
Villains:  Klamos (a robot; destroyed in this story), Grok, an all-female gang, a gang of undersea crooks, various alien females, Klamos's army (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Klamos, a towering conqueror who can emit deadly beams from his visor, and his advisor Grok have conquered all the known inhabited planets in a galaxy.  Now Klamos proclaims his wish for a queen, and his armies scour the universe to bring back females to fight for the right to marry him.  Wonder Woman and Supergirl are also taken captive, with the Earth threatened by destruction from Klamos's fleet if they refuse.  Both women "play possum" during a free-for-all battle among the candidates for queen, and end up being the only two left in the arena.  As a result, Wonder Woman and Supergirl are forced to combat each other in a punishing physical fight to the death.  Supergirl apparently kills Wonder Woman and throws her at Klamos's feet.  But her "death" has been a ruse, and Wonder Woman tosses the surprised Grok to Supergirl, who discovers a wrist control panel that Grok is using to control Klamos, a robot.  She destroys Klamos, and Wonder Woman proclaims to the crowd that the planets once conquered by Grok, using "Klamos", are free again.  But Grok teleports away, vowing vengeance on the two heroines.

Action Comics No. 367
Sept. 1968
Cover:  Superman about to crash through barrier separating him from Supergirl  //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Evil of Alpha and Beta"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA: Superman (last appearance in Superman story of last issue)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Other Character: David Carew

Villains:  Alpha and Beta
Comment:  This is part two of a three-part serial.
Synopsis:  Supergirl exposes herself to Gold Kryptonite in hopes of destroying her powers, thus preventing the bomb at Stanhope from detecting them and detonating. Then she assumes her Linda Danvers identity, and tricks Alpha and Beta into letting her inside the barrier.  The two female terrorists put her to work in a lab assisting David Carew, whom they have captured.  Carew tells Linda that Alpha and Beta have told him he is destined in the future to create Noricon, a vaccine against all diseases, so they are forcing him to try and discover it now.  Linda spurs Carew into creating a diversion that allows them to escape the lab.  When David sees the Linda Danvers robot, Linda changes to her Supergirl costume, revealing her double identity and her plans to him.  They head for the bomb, intending to dismantle it, but Alpha and Beta deduce their destination and come after them.  Meanwhile, Superman wonders why Supergirl has not kept an appointment to meet him at the Fortress of Solitude.  Seeing her plight with his super-vision, he flies to Stanhope and intends to crash through the barrier.  Supergirl shouts a warning to her cousin, but he is moving too fast to stop himself in time.

Action Comics No. 368
October 1968
Story:  "Supergirl's Stand To Save Stanhope"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #374)
GS:  Superman (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #177)
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope University
Intro:  Two policemen from 3604 A.D. (only appearance)
Other Character: David Carew (last appearance)
Villains:  Alpha and Beta (last appearance for both)
Comment: This is part three of a three-part serial.
Synopsis:  Superman speeds up to exceed the speed of light, breaks through the time barrier, and emerges several days in the past, before the force-field around Stanhope was created.  David
Carew and Supergirl finally locate the bomb and disarm it.  Two policemen from the year 3604 appear, inform Supergirl that they covertly shielded her from the Gold Kryptonite exposure, and tell her that she still has her powers.  She then captures Alpha and Beta and turns them over to the officers.  The policemen tell them that Alpha and Beta are criminals from their time, and that, due to substances which are rare in the 37th Century but plentiful in the 20th, Noricon is a priceless substance.  They intended to force David Carew to make a large supply of Noricon in 1968, which they would take to 3604 and sell for a fortune.  However, the policemen reveal that Alpha's and Beta's research was faulty:  Noricon is destined to be discovered by David Carew, Jr., the son of the David Carew of this era.  The villainesses are taken back to the future for imprisonment.  Supergirl notes that Superman has now returned, and is about to crash through the force-barrier around Stanhope.

Adventure Comics No. 374
Nov. 1968
Cover:  Supergirl and Ultra Boy, Chief Zoltorus, and statues of Shagrek, Mystelor, Quanto, Rogarth, and Black Mace  //Curt Swan / Mike Esposito
Story:  "Mission:  Diabolical"  (15 pages)
 Part 2:  "Mission:  Infiltrate Taurus"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Artist:  Win Mortimer
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl, Duo Damsel, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #368 / 369), Star Boy, Ultra Boy  (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS:  Chlorophyll Kid, Color Kid, Fire Lad, Night Girl, Polar Boy, Stone Boy  (the Legion of Substitute Heroes)
Supporting Character: Leland McCauley III (first appearance; next appears in issue #377)
Villains:  Mystelor, Quanto, Rogarth, Shagrek, Chief Zoltorus (first and only appearance for all), Black Mace (first appearance; last chronological appearance in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (3rd series) #31 flashback; next appears in SUPERBOY #213; all appear as the Taurus Gang), Scorpius Gang (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Chief Zoltorus of the Science Police kidnaps R. J. Brande and uses his money to build a crime empire, forming a gang called Taurus.  He involves the Legion of Super-Heroes in a battle against Scorpius, a rival super-gang, to eliminate the competition.  Once the heroes are victorious, Taurus intends to kill them, but the villains are stopped by the Legion of Substitute Heroes.

Action Comics No. 369
November 1968
Story:  "The Boy Who Broke Supergirl's Heart"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #374)
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College
Intro:  Doreen, Claire Valton,  Richard Merton (only appearance for all), Elizabeth Baylor (next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #444), Gary Sparks
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl notices the heartbreaking tactics of campus romeo Gary Sparks and decides to give him a taste of his own medicine by making a play for him as Linda Danvers, using her
super-charms on him, and then dumping him.  But the plan backfires two ways:  first, Gary shows up with another girl at the football game Linda stood him up at; second, she finds herself falling in love with him.  She finally decides to go to him, reveal herself as Supergirl, and try and win his love that way.

Action Comics No. 370
December 1968
Story:  "Supergirl's Shattered Marriage"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #213)
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College, Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Cameo:  Superman, Batman, Zor-El, Allura (on a computer screen), Kala and Lustra (first and only appearance; characters in a computer simulation)
Other Character: Gary Sparks (last appearance)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  When she sees Gary Sparks kissing another girl passionately, Linda Danvers decides not to reveal her double identity to him.  However, she is still in love with him, so she approaches him as Supergirl and begins romancing him.  Eventually, Gary proposes marriage, and Supergirl accepts.  Later, however, she uses a Prognosticon computer to create a simulation of what married life with Gary will be like.  She discovers that he will be a lazy sod, will cheat on her, and will neglect their daughter.  Tearfully, Supergirl admits that Gary is not the man for her, so she will have to find a way to get him to break the engagement.  She does so by showing him such a super-display of affection that Gary's bodily safety is threatened.  In self-defense, Gary breaks off their engagement.  Later, he tries to convince the students at Stanhope he was Supergirl's fiance,
and becomes a laughingstock.

Superman #213, January 1969
Cover:  "Dead" Superman in front of a vault bearing his note  //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Most Dangerous Door In the World"  (8 pages)
 Part II:  "Success Is a Heartbeat Away"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #181)
GS:  Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #370 / 371), Brainiac 5 (as an adult; last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #168)
Supporting Character:  Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #181)
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearnce in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #177), Mordru (voice only heard)
Synopsis:  When Mordru imprisons Superman in a vault with a magical command not to open it and the warning that Supergirl will be drawn inside too if she attempts to free him, the Man of
Steel concocts an elaborate ruse which, with the help of Supergirl and a disguised Brainiac 5, induces Luthor into cracking the vault and liberating him.  They repay Luthor by sending him back to prison.

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen No. 117
January 1969
Cover: Slave trader with Jimmy Olsen in chains, auctioning him off to Professor Lang, Perry White, Clark Kent, and prospector in Batman cape and cowl //Neal Adams
Story: "The Planet of the Capes" (16 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Pete Costanza
Feature Character: Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in SUPERMAN #213)
GA: Superman (between SUPERMAN #213 / 214; also appears in flashback, between issue #110 / SUPERMAN #206), Supergirl (last chronological appearance in ACTION COMICS #363; next chronological appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #368), Batman, Robin (last chronological appearance for both in DETECTIVE COMICS #374; next chronological appearance for both in BATMAN #201), Star Boy, Duo Damsel, Mon-El, Princess Projectra, Lightning Lad, Phantom Girl, Shadow Lass (the Legion of Super-Heroes; all between ADVENTURE COMICS #367 / 368; all appear in flashback)
Supporting Character: Prof. Lewis Lang (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #79)
Intro: Jor-El ("Dr. X"), Prof. Lewis Lang, Clark Kent, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen of a parallel Earth, aliens (only appearance for all)
Synopsis: Jimmy Olsen wanders through a dimensional portal left by aliens on Earth and finds himself in a parallel world in which anyone not wearing a cape is considered a slave.

Action Comics No. 371
January 1969
Story: "The Supergirl Best-Seller" (12 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Leo Dorfman
Artist: Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #213; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #375; also appears in flashback (see early Supergirl chronology for placement); origin details revealed)
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope University
GA: Argo City citizens (in flashback)
Intro: Morina (in flashback; dies in this story)
Cameo appearance: Superman, Green Lantern, Flash, Batman (as balloons)
Villains: Raxton the Collector (in flashback), Getaway Gillen and his henchman, Hilda Powell (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis: During an incident in which Supergirl transported the Stanhope University library into the future to protect it from a super-villain, a student from the future mistakenly took a biography of Supergirl from his time to the library and left it there.  After Supergirl takes the Stanhope library back to the 20th Century, librarian Hilda Powell acquires the Supergirl biography and uses it as the basis of a best-selling book which reveals much of Supergirl's personal life and foretells accurately her future deeds.  Supergirl takes Powell to court, but the court rules that, as a public figure, she has no right to stop Powell from writing an unauthorized biography.  But, by performing a super-feat in a different manner from the book's recounting of it, she shifts them into a different time-line.  The book's pages turn blank, Hilda Powell's memories of it fade, and even Supergirl cannot remember what she has read of her future life.  Presumably, all the other copies of the book turn blank, and the people of Earth forget what they have learned of Supergirl's
future.

Adventure Comics No. 375
December 1968
Cover:  Chameleon Boy as Bouncing Boy, watching Ultra Boy, Sun Boy, Saturn Girl, and Superboy tearing off  their emblems  //Neal Adams
Story:  "The King of the Legion"  (15 pages)
 Part 2:  "Hero Against Hero"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Artist:  Win Mortimer
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Chemical King, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Duo Damsel, Element Lad, Invisible Kid, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #371), Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS:  Proty II (last appearance in issue #364)
Intro:  Celebrand, Dartalk, Elvo, Immorto, Ornitho, Psyche, and Quantum Queen (the Wanderers; next appearance in SUPERBOY #200), Chief Ianos, King Artros (a voice; name and identity revealed in next issue)
Synopsis:  After a team of super-heroes, the Wanderers, is temporarily turned evil by a glowing space cloud, and the Legion is challenged by a disembodied gauntlet to send their strongest member to combat, the Legionnaires decide to make finding and defeating the Wanderers a test of who is their mightiest member.  By a twist of fate, Chameleon Boy, frozen in the shape of
Bouncing Boy, is chosen as the winner and is teleported away to face the unknown challenge.

Adventure Comics No. 376
January 1969
Cover:  Brainiac 5, Superboy, and Supergirl using mystic stone to see Chameleon Boy at his "execution"  //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Execution of Chameleon Boy"  (15 pages)
 Part 2:  "Cupid Clips Cham"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Artist:  Win Mortimer
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Cosmic Boy, Duo Damsel, Element Lad, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Star Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #272), Ultra Boy  (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS: Proty II (next appears in issue #380)
Intro:  King Artros, Princess Elwinda, Sir Kayle, Sir Borrs, Sir Ellstar, Sir Galado, Sir Norwith, Radagor, Dorl (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Celebrand, Psyche (in flashback)
Villains: Kodar the Black Vassal and his army (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Chameleon Boy is transported to a medaeval world, defeats Kodar, who had threatened King Artros and his daughter with conquest, and takes the hand of Artos's daughter Elwinda in payment.  However, just as the wedding is about to be confirmed by Chameleon Boy laying his head under an executioner's axe, as is their custom, the Legion members see him with a mystic stone.  Misinterpreting, they teleport him back home and seal the boundaries between their two dimensions.

Action Comics No. 372
February 1969
Story:  "Linda Danvers--Movie Star"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorman
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #376; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #182)
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope University
Intro:  Brand Burton, Zita Monroe, Mrs. Seldon
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers wins a date with famed actor Brand Burton on a quiz show.  She is taken to the tropical island where Brand and his significant other, Zita Monroe, are shooting a movie.  On the way, however, the plane encounters difficulties, and, when Supergirl rescues the plane and a falling stewardess, Brand suspects Linda is the Girl of Steel.  He tells Zita of his
suspicion, and they offer her a part in their movie.  Linda performs adequately, despite Zita's vicious attempts to either hurt her or expose her Supergirl identity.  Linda engineers things to get Zita and Brand back together, and the movie is released, with Linda in her first starring role.

World's Finest Comics No. 182
February 1969
Cover:  Superman chaining Batman //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Mad Manhunter"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Ross Andru
Inker:  Mike Esposito
Feature Characters:  Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #69; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #118), Batman, Robin (last appearance for both in DETECTIVE COMICS #384; both next appear in BATMAN #210)
GA:  Supergirl (between ACTION COMICS #372 / 373)
Supporting Character:  Perry White (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #90; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #118)
Intro: King Apala, another King,  Rorna (a sorceror), other members of the Rorna family (all in flashback), Harry and his wife (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Assorted thieves (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Superman is bewitched by a cursed magic medallion which induces him to attempt suicide the next time he is alone.  Thus, Batman, Robin, and Supergirl collaborate on a ruse to keep Superman from being alone for the next 48 hours, which involves Batman feigning madness.

Action Comics No. 373
March-April 1969
Cover:  Supergirl; Krypto and Streaky; Supergirl and Mr. Mxyzptlk; Sun Boy, Chameleon Boy, Supergirl, Brainiac 5, and Cosmic Boy; Superman and Supergirl; Supergirl and Supermen Emergency Squad  (six vignettes)  //Neal Adams
Story:  "The Battle of the Super-Pets"  (from issue #277)
Story:  "The Bride of Mr. Mxyzptlk"  (from issue #291)
Story:  "Supergirl's Farewell to Earth"  (from issue #258)
Story:  "The War Between Supergirl and the Superman Emergency Squad"  (from issue #276)
Story:  "Supergirl's Greatest Challenge"  (from issue #287)
Comment:  One page edited out of story.
Comment:  This is GIANT #G-57.

Action Comics No. 374
March 1969
Story:  "No Mercy For Supergirl"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #182)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro:  Sarkonites, inmates of the 5th Continuum (in flashback; only appearance for all)
Villains: The Avenger (first appearance; dies in this story)
Synopsis:  When Supergirl tries to recover the notes left by an experimenter in diseases for the World Health Organization, she is captured by a tractor-beam wielded by an alien calling himself
the Avenger.  The Avenger is from the planet Sarkon, whose laws absolutely forbid taking any life whatever.  For super-beings who flaunt this law, the penalty is imprisonment in the 5th Continuum.  Since Supergirl has been observed cutting a flower and killing a butterfly for a collection, he sentences her to die.  However, Supergirl tricks the Avenger into killing some
disease germs.  Convicted by his own law, the Avenger commits suicide.

Action Comics No. 375
April 1969
Story:  "The Woman Who Hated Supergirl"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope University
Intro:  Dr. Marla Alexander, Tony Alexander (her son; only appearance)

Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Dr. Marla Alexander, an astronomer whose husband was killed in the Vietnam War, discovers a "red hand nebula" in outer space and gets Supergirl to take her there.  While photographing it at relative close range, Dr. Alexander is affected by a burst of blinding red light from the nebula.  The light causes Alexander's sight to dim and then fail entirely, making her
blind.  She covers up as best as possible at first, feigning arrogance, but hates Supergirl for her part in her sight-loss, and tells the Girl of Steel about it.

Action Comics No. 376
May 1969
Story:  "The Hated Girl of Steel"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #189)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope College
GS:  Dr. Marla Alexander (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #393)
Intro:  Dr. Stanton and a group of scientists, the Technicon Wizards of Korkuk
Villains:  Tiras and the Rancors (first and only appearance for all)
Comments:  This story continues from last issue.
 This is the tenth anniversary of Supergirl's first appearance.
 Supergirl appears in ADVENTURE COMICS after this issue.
Synopsis:  Dr. Alexander's eyesight cannot be restored by any known operation or process.  However, it turns out that her eyesight has been accidentally destroyed by an effect of marauding aliens called the Rancors, whose leader, Tiras, explains that the Red Hand Nebula is their doing.  Dr. Alexander was blinded by a sentinel satellite which detected her observation.  She and the other scientists of Earth who were kidnapped from a science building's dedication are scheduled to have their intellects sapped away and stored in a computer by the Rancor's device, but Supergirl disguises herself as Dr. Alexander, takes her place, and destroys the machine.  Another
device of the Rancors, a Protoplasmic Regenerator, restores Alexander's sight.  Supergirl restores Alexander and the rest of the scientists to Earth.

World's Finest Comics No. 189
November 1969
Cover: Batman on surgical table, surgeon, and Superman's "body" on another table //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story: "The Man With Superman's Heart" (Part 1; 6 pages)
 Part 2: "The Great Superman Auction" (11 pages)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Mike Esposito
Feature Characters: Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #71), Batman, Robin (last appearance for both in DETECTIVE COMICS #387)
GS: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #376; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #381)
GA: Hawkman, Atom, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow (all appear, with Superman and Batman, as the Justice League of America; between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #71 / 72), Batgirl (last appearance in DETECTIVE COMICS #385; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #381)
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Commissioner Gordon (as a voice)
Intro: President Richard M. Nixon (of Earth-One), a Nim-El android (first appearance; last chronological appearance in flashback in next issue; destroyed in this story)
Villains: Lex Luthor (last appearance in SUPERBOY #159), the Big Four Syndicate (Big Dan Clay, King West, Brain Lewis, Ace Sloane; first appearance for all), Mr. Paris, various crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: This story continues in the next issue.
 The presence of Green Arrow in his old uniform (pre-BRAVE AND THE BOLD #85) argues for placing this issue and the next out of sequence, just after issue #184.
Synopsis: Superman is apparently killed and, as per his last request, his heart, lungs, eyes, and ears are harvested and preserved for worthy recipients.  Batman refuses the gift of Superman's heart.  But Lex Luthor steals the organs and auctions them off, transplanting each of them into a body of one of the Big Four Syndicate members.

Adventure Comics No. 381
June 1969
Cover:  Superman, Supergirl, and members of Maxom's all-girl gang  //Neal Adams / ?
Story:  "The Supergirl Gang"  (7 pages)
 Part II:  "Classes In Crime"  (8 pages)
 Part III:  "The Girl of Steel Steals"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Win Mortimer
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #189)
GS:  Batgirl (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #187; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #388)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #377; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #189), Linda Danvers robot
Intro:  Judy Belson, Sandy, Diane, and several other female Stanhope University students  (some of whom are hypnotized into joining Belson's gang), Albert Maxom (cameo; in a photograph; only appearance for all)
Villains: Telix (Jonathan Maxom, teachers at the Sleuth School (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This is Supergirl's first solo story in ADVENTURE COMICS.
 Supergirl mentions that Superman is coming back from a Justice League case, which probably is an untold JLA adventure.
 The cover's statement that this is Supergirl's first "book-length novel" is only true if one discounts ACTION COMICS #285,  in which she shared billing in the first part of the story with
Superman.
Synopsis:  Supergirl captures five masked and costumed women carrying out a jewel robbery in Metropolis, only to discover one of the women is Judy Belson, one of her Stanhope classmates.
After Judy is bailed out, Linda Danvers learns that she has been taking classes at the Sleuth School, an institute to train female detectives and crime-fighters.  Linda enrolls to learn its
connection with the all-girl gangs of thieves.  She discovers that the head of the Sleuth School is one Jonathan Maxom, whose brother has been jailed for bunko but who himself has no criminal
record.  She also encounters a top-notch student detective called Barbour.
 Maxom is actually hypnotizing the women into performing daring robberies for him, calling himself "Telix".  When Supergirl attempts to bring him in, he paralyzes her with a Kryptonite trap.  But Barbour doffs her disguise and stands revealed in costume as Batgirl, who rescues Supergirl and helps her capture Maxom.

Adventure Comics No. 382
July 1969
Cover:  Superman stopping Supergirl from entering the Fortress of Solitude with giant key  //Curt Swan / Neal Adams
Story:  "The Super-Team's Split-Up"  (6 pages)
 Part II:  "Supergirl's Super-Goofs"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #378; next appears in SUPERMAN #219; also appears as Superboy, in flashback to ADVENTURE COMICS #240), robot teacher from Krypton (last chronolgical appearance in DC SUPER-STARS #12; last appearance), Linda Danvers robot (designation Y-5 revealed in this story)
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro:  Pandor-9 (in flashback), the Red Rebel (Nick Gray), Congressman William Forbes, Supergirl robot G-9, Stanhope University dean (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Jor-El and Lara (flashback)
Villain:  Vulinac (in flashback; first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Jor-El's robot teacher from Krypton, which originally tested Superboy and found him worthy of being a super-hero, now comes to Earth to test Supergirl, believing her emotionally
incapable of properly using her powers.  (At the time, Supergirl is on the outs with Superman for messing up during a fight with the villain Vulinac.)  Disguising itself with a light-cloak and calling itself "Topar", the robot-teacher takes control of Supergirl's Linda Danvers and Supergirl robots, makes them misperform to put her under more strain, and threatens to take away her powers.  But, with the help of a campus vandal called the Red Rebel, Supergirl traps and reveals the robot-teacher, who admits she has passed the test.  Later, Superman apologizes for
"being so miffed" with Supergirl.

Adventure Comics No. 383
August 1969
Cover:  Supergirl, Lucy Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, and Clark Kent at Supergirl's funeral  //Neal Adams
Story:  "Please Stop My Funeral"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA:  Clark Kent (Superman; last appearance in ACTION COMICS #379; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #72)
Supporting characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro:  Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Fred and Edna Danvers, Lois Lane, Batman, Robin, Comet, Streaky, Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, and Sir Isaac Newton of a Negative Earth (only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Supergirl destroys an unmanned UFO which tries to snatch the Apollo 15 space capsule.  The UFO explodes and, unbeknownst to her, throws her into a "negative Earth" populated by negative duplicates of humans on Earth-One.  "And when a person dies on our Earth, his negative double on their world becomes a normal, positive being...unseen by the negative people and mourned by them as dead!"  On the negative Earth, Supergirl attends her own funeral and then encounters Abraham Lincoln, Sir Isaac Newton, and Joan of Arc, before a skyrocket's explosion throws her back into her own world.

Story:  "Supergirl's Day of Danger"  (8 pages)
 Part II:  "Danger By Deputy"  (4 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Intro:  Tony Walston, two scientists (resemble Mort Weisinger and Kurt Schaffenberger), a doctor (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Vince Martell (first appearance; possibly appears next in issue #399) and his gang  (Lefty named in this story; first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Two scientists undertake an experiment with Supergirl, hoping to transfer her invulnerability to student and wrestler Tony Walston for 24 hours.  They make Tony invulnerable, but whatever blow is directed at him is felt by Supergirl, through a psychic link.  When gambler Vince Martell tries to work Tony over to make him throw a match with Metropolis athletes, Supergirl is almost incapacitated.  She recovers and uses her powers to help Tony escape Martell's clutches, then has her invulnerability restored to her own body.

Adventure Comics No. 384
Sept. 1969
Cover:  Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Heroine Haters"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #74)
Intro:  Volar (Ren Uoxon), Danon, Mara, and other inhabitants of Torma, Becky and Jan (Linda Danvers's roommates; only appearance for all)
Villains: The Visitor (in flashback), a gang of crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  After seeing her roommates at Stanhope College get computer dates, Linda Danvers becomes Supergirl and uses a computer at the Fortress of Solitude to find a "perfect match" for her.  The computer picks a super-being named Volar, who fights crime on the planet Torma.  Superman warns Supergirl that even his computer is not infallible, but she goes to Torma to meet Volar anyway.  Supergirl becomes a friend of Volar, but no romantic interest is felt.  She learns that, on Volar, women are considered totally inferior thanks to the teachings of The Visitor, a philosopher who preached against women after he was jilted by a girl on his homeworld.  Finally, Supergirl learns that Volar is actually a super-heroine masquerading as a male to avoid Torma's sexual discrimination.  In anguish, she leaves.  But Volar, encouraged by Supergirl's example, begins operating openly as a super-heroine, and vows to shatter Torman prejudices against women.

Story:  "Supergirl's Greatest Failure"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA:  Superman (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #186)
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane (last appearance for both in ACTION COMICS #379; both next appear in SUPERMAN #220)
Cameo:  Batman, Robin (as figurines)
Intro:  Jenny, Arlene, Alice, Phyllis, Paula, Gerda, and other campers and counselors at Camp Nokomis (only appearance for all)
Comment:  Story takes place during Supergirl's summer vacation.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers takes a summer job as a counselor at Camp Nokomis.  While there, she discovers telltale signs that someone knows her secret identity--and is trying to expose it. Eventually Supergirl learns that she has been exposed to Red Kryptonite, and its temporary effect has been to give her a split personality, with her conscious self trying to conceal her double identity and her unconscious self trying to reveal it.

Adventure Comics No. 385
October 1969
Cover:  Supergirl meeting Kranna //Carmine Infantino / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "Supergirl's Big Sister"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Intro:  Prof. Benson (no appearance; name only mentioned; first and only appearance)
Cameo:  Zor-El, Allura (in Carol Benson's fantasy), Fel-Ix, space pirates from Astrid VF-1 (first and only appearance for all; nonexistent characters from Carol Benson's fantasy)
Villain: Kranna (Carol Benson; first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Carol Benson hatches a ruse to be used on Supergirl, to get her to create diamonds for her from lumps of coal.  Disguising herself as "Kranna", appearing before Supergirl in a rocket actually created by her father, a scientist, and claiming to be her long-lost older sister from Krypton, Carol fakes super-powers with scientific tricks and, finally, gets Supergirl to squeeze coal into diamonds in a super-power "competition."  Supergirl leaves momentarily, baiting Carol into revealing her true nature when the Girl of Steel is out of sight.  After Carol laughs raucously, Supergirl comes back, melts the diamonds with her heat-vision, and tells Carol she gave away her non-super nature from the start:  if she was really a Kryptonian, she would not have needed a rocket to fly to Earth.

Story:  "The Jilting of Supergirl"  (6 pages)
   Part II:  "Wedding Bells For Supergirl"  (6 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA:  Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #381; next appears in SUPERMAN #221)
Supporting Character:  Lois Lane (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #381; next appears in SUPERMAN #221)
Intro:  Prince Raynor, the King and Queen of the "inner world", Princess Vee-Raa,  Phil (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Three rebels from the inner-world (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Raynor, the prince of a subterranean kingdom, comes to the surface world, romances Linda Danvers while disguised as a student, then reveals his true identity while telling her he
knows her Supergirl identity.  He also exhibits his super-powers, which are given to the royal family members of his inner-world by a "chalice nectar" which they drink.  Supergirl accepts his offer of marriage and returns with him to the subterranean kingdom, which thrives under an artificial sun.  However, the rays of the "sun" act like Red Kryptonite on Supergirl, temporarily removing her powers.  She is briefly kidnapped by terrorists in search of the chalice elixir, but is saved by Raynor.  Raynor feels that she would be a hindrance rather than an asset to him, and,
despite her protests that the power-loss is only temporary, breaks off the engagement and leaves a tearful Supergirl on the surface.

Adventure Comics No. 386
November 1969
Cover:  Mr. Mxyzptlk (as monster) tearing Linda Danvers disguise (and dress) off of Supergirl  //Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Beast That Loved Supergirl"  (6 pages)
 Part II:  "The Brute Suitor With the Ape Shape"  (6 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
GA: Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #382; next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #125)
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College
Intro: Captain Stevens, Mike (only appearance for both)
Villain:  Mr. Mxyzptlk (last appearance in SUPERMAN #218; next appears in issue #393)
Synopsis:  Supergirl is plagued by the antics of a "mystery monster" with magical powers who appears to have fallen in love with her.  The monster's attempts to show his affection result in
near-disaster, as when he rips up a section of railroad track to make a huge metal "ring" for her.  Supergirl deduces the magical monster is Mr. Mxyzptlk in disguise.  She takes him to the
Fortress of Solitude, gets him to repeat his name backwards, and succeeds in banishing him to the 5th Dimension.

Story:  "The Godmother of Steel"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College
Intro:  Cindy Frazer, Esther, Eric Prince, Anthony Carlisle, Nicky Thyme (only appearance for all)
Villains: Edith, Ella, and their mother (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  When Linda Danvers detects sadness in the countenance of her friend and dance-act partner Cindy Frazer, who is a lookalike for her, she investigates and discovers that Cindy's
foster mother is an overbearing bitch and her two stepsisters are chips off the old blockbuster.  Supergirl takes Cindy to a dude ranch, where she meets Eric Prince and begins a romance with him.  She substitutes for Cindy in her home, but can't resist giving the three bears their comeuppance when their bullying goes too far.  In retaliation, Cindy's foster mother leaves town with her daughters, and orders "Cindy" (Linda) to leave.  Supergirl thinks she's blown it, until she finds that Cindy and Eric are going to get married.

Adventure Comics No. 387
December 1969
Cover:  Supergirl seeing Val Colby levitate himself and Lex Luthor in cage  //Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Wolf-Girl of Metropolis"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #223)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #77; next appears in TEEN TITANS #25)
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope College
Intro:  Dr. Sanford, Dr. Sanford and Supergirl of a parallel Earth (has a wolf's face), an alien
biochemist, Supergirl robot Z-7 (only appearance for all)
Villains:  The Superman Revenge Squad (behind the scenes; last appearance in ACTION COMICS #380)
Synopsis:  Dr. Sanford develops a serum that can make Supergirl immune to Kryptonite, but it also gives her a hairy wolf's face and hairy hands.  Superman and Dr. Sanford try to find an antidote for the serum, but neither have any luck.  Ironically, though, a Supergirl from a parallel universe where hairy wolf-faces are the norm for humans has taken a similar serum, which makes her into a smooth-faced freak.  The barriers between their dimensions are opened by an explosion which occurs after Supergirl rescues astronauts from a faulty rocket.  After they meet and compare notes, both Supergirls take sera developed by the Dr. Sanfords of each universe.  The heroines' normal appearances are restored, and they return to their native dimensions, sealing the warp with their heat-vision.

Story:  "Lex Luthor's Outlaw Nephew"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Character:  Lena Thorul Colby (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #317; origin retold in flashback)
Intro:  Val Colby (Lena's son), Prof. York, other members of the Psychology Institute
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearance in SUPERBOY #159), "Rhino" Quinn
(first appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Lex Luthor, out of jail again, goes to Midvale to covertly observe his sister Lena Thorul Colby and discovers she has a young son, Val Colby, who has incredible psychokinetic
powers.  Luthor deduces that Val's powers came partly from inheritance from his mother, and partly from a space-jewel he sent as an anonymous birthday gift which was originally used to
energize alien computers.  When Val is almost hit by a car he had levitated, Luthor breaks cover, rescues him, and gains his trust.  Luthor is jailed shortly afterwards by Supergirl.  When Val sees
him on television, he levitates to the prison and breaks Luthor out.  By the time Supergirl arrives, Val has levitated himself and Luthor outside the three-mile limit, and Luthor claims immunity from capture.  He takes Val to a remote island where he has a secret laboratory, and makes plans to use the lad against Superman and Supergirl.

Superman No. 223
January 1970
Cover:  Supergirl (in disguise), Elura and Alena talking to Superman in test chair  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "Half a Hero"  (23 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Joe Giella
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in TEEN TITANS #25; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #98)
GS:  Supergirl (disguised as Nura in this story; last appearance in first story in ADVENTURE COMICS #387; next appears in ACTION COMICS #384), Kandorians
Supporting Characters:  Perry White, Lois Lane (last appearance for both in ACTION COMICS #382; both next appear in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #98)
Intro:  Elura, Alena, Robot 5-X6, Vax-Nor, Kur-Dul, Daravon (a rock singer, probably based on Donovan; first and only appearance for all)
Villains:  Gor-Nu (first and only appearance), Jax-Ur (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #368), Kru-El (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #309)
Synopsis:  When a crystalline menace threatens Kandor, Supergirl and two enlarged girls from Kandor masquerade as "The Galactons" and concoct an elaborate ruse to make Superman think he will die if he does not remain within Earth's solar system.  The plan's object is to keep Superman from returning to Kandor for R-Day.  Kandor is under an artificial red sun and is endangered by a crystal menace, and Supergirl believes he would stay there to die with his fellow Kryptonians if he learned of the problem.  Superman does learn of the menace and frees criminal biologist Gor-Nu from the Phantom Zone, making a bargain with him to switch bodies if he destroys the crystal.  After Gor-Nu does so, Superman takes poison just before the switch.  Threatened with death in Superman's body, Gor-Nu switches his mind back to his former body.  Superman is taken from Kandor to the outer world, in which his invulnerabilty returns.

Action Comics No. 384
January 1970
Cover: Cops fluoroscoping Superman to reveal Aarbur's uniform  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Forbidden Costume"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker: George Roussos
Feature Character: Superman (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #191)
GA:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #223; next appears in second story of ADVENTURE COMICS #387), Batman (last appearance in BATMAN #218; next appears in DETECTIVE COMICS #388)
Supporting Character: Perry White
GS: Enforcer NZ-2 (as a uniform; destroyed in this story)
Villains: Aarbur-Z (as a uniform; destroyed in this story), Mark Peron (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Superman must deal with two discarnate intelligences who have possessed their super-powered uniforms.  He manages, with the help of Supergirl, Batman, and Perry White.

Adventure Comics No. 388
January 1970
Cover:  Supergirl primping in dressing room, and robot double of Kimor Dinn  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Kindergarten Criminal"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Lena Thorul Colby (next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #168), Val Colby (next appears in ACTION COMICS #486)
Villain:  Lex Luthor (next appears in ?)
Comment:  Story continues from last issue
Synopsis:  Lex Luthor tries to train Val Colby to be his secret weapon against Superman, Supergirl, and the forces of law and order, and has Val levitate Kryptonite blocks around the island to demonstrate his power is not weakened by Green K exposure.  Supergirl is, though, and she has come to Luthor's island to check things out.  She disguises herself as Linda Danvers,
appeals to Val, and gets on his good side.  Though Luthor wants to toss Linda off the island, Val prevails.  Linda treats Val in kindly ways while Luthor tries to corrupt him, and Linda wins out.  Finally, a freak accident with an "imago-helmet" of Luthor's creation short-circuits Val's power, and Supergirl pushes Luthor's island within the legal boundaries of the United States.  Captured, Luthor snarls at his nephew, saying that he is not really his uncle, deliberately lying to keep him away from a life of crime.  Approving of Luthor's unselfish act, Supergirl flies Val back to Lena Colby.

Story:  "The Romance Machine"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro: Guards on Balton-IV, Supergirl Fan Club of Stanhope College
Villains:  Brainiac (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #183), Kimor Dann, a Kimor Dann robot (first appearance for both), Taurs, inmates on Balton IV (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues in the second story of next issue.
Synopsis:  Brainiac makes a robot in the image of heartbreaker and criminal Kimor Dann, programs it with Kimor Dann's personality, and then isolates the real Kimor Dann on a primitive
planet.  He sends the robot to Stanhope University, where, as "Kim O'Ryan", it romances Linda Danvers in an attempt to get at Supergirl.  However, the robot's haughty and egotistically cruel
ways repulse Linda, and he treats Supergirl the same way when she meets him.  In spite of herself, Supergirl is still attracted to him, and flies after him, begging "Kim O'Ryan" not to leave.

Adventure Comics No. 389
Feb. 1970
Cover:  Supergirl turning Kimor Dann robot to stone in gallery of statues  //Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Mystery Magician"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in second story of this issue; next appears in issue #391)
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Fred Danvers (next appears in issue #406), students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro:  Malcolm the Mysterious and his daugher Harriet, Vera, Amy and her father, Gloria and her father, Emily and her father (first and only appearance for all)
Cameo appearance:  Wanda (first and only appearance; Malcolm's wife and Harriet's mother; dies before this story opens; on a poster)
Synopsis:  Many fathers of the Stanhope College coeds show up for a special Father's Day ceremony, and Supergirl (as Linda Danvers) helps stage magician Malcolm the Mysterious regain the confidence he lost ten years ago with his wife's death by helping him perform magic tricks with her powers.  Vera, suspecting Linda is Supergirl, makes her stay in a lead-lined windowless room while Malcolm finishes his act.  To help out, Supergirl asks her father Zor-El, now tiny-sized and living in Kandor, to come and secretly aid Malcolm.  With his unknown partner, Malcolm finishes his act successfully.

Story:  "Supergirl's Jilted Boy Friends"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in second story of last issue; next appears in first story of this issue)
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College
Villains:  Brainiac (next appears in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #130), Kimor Dann robot, Kimor Dann (last appearance for both)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  Brainiac orders the Kimor Dann robot to keep being abusive to Supergirl, planning to have the robot eventually pull a scene before the Girl of Steel and blow himself up.  Since Supergirl, he thinks, will blame herself for "Kim O'Ryan's" "suicide", she will have to retire.  But the real Kimor Dann has made his way to Earth and taken the robot's place, and Supergirl has learned of Brainiac's plot.  When Brainiac, thwarted, tries to kill Supergirl with a Kryptonite spray, she has Kimor Dann throw her the explosive device the robot was to have destroyed
itself with, and uses it to blow the Kryptonite off of her.  Brainiac escapes, but Supergirl takes Kimor Dann to a reformatory.

Adventure Comics No. 390
March-April 1970
Cover:  Comet changing into "Bronco Bill" Starr and kissing Supergirl; Supergirl and Tor-An on wedding jewel; Superman kissing Luma Lynai (three vignettes) //Murphy Anderson
Story:  "When Supergirl Played Cupid"  ["Supergirl's Super Courtship"]  (from Action Comics #289)
Story:  "The Secret Identity of Super-Horse"  (from Action Comics #301)
Story:  "Supergirl's Cowboy Hero"  ["The Day Super-Horse Became Human"]  (from Action Comics #311)
Story:  "The Great Supergirl Mirage"  (from Action Comics #256)
Story:  "Supergirl's Wedding Day"  (from Action Comics #307)
Comment:  This issue is Giant #G-69.

Adventure Comics No. 391
March 1970
Cover:  Supergirl falling from broken wire on movie set //Murphy Anderson
Story:  "Linda Danvers, Super-Star"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in issue #389)
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope College, Janice Butler (first appearance; next appears in issue #393)
Intro:  Prof. Vizhago, Albert Ames, Eve Emerson, Vic Tane, John Harris (only appearance for all)
Villain: Nicky (a press agent; first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  After a computer picks "actress" as a good career choice for both Linda Danvers and Eve Emerson, filmmaker John Harris tries them both for the title role in a movie he's making
about Supergirl.  Linda gets the part, much to Eve's and her boyfriend Vic Tane's displeasure.  But the production is plagued by accidents which would easily have killed a person without
super-powers, and, suspecting treachery, Linda fakes fear for her life and quits.  Eve takes her place, and is endangered by another mishap.  Supergirl saves her and unmasks Nicky, a press
agent, as the culprit, who was out to revenge himself on the director for marrying the girl he loved.  Eve resigns the role in favor of the real Supergirl, who completes the movie herself.

Story:  "The Super-Exchange Student"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #387)
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty at Stanhope College
GA: Linda Danvers robot (destroyed in this story)
Intro:  Thetoans, Enora Doruu and other students and faculty at Asborg College (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Agent 9K and the Disruptor League (only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  The planet Thetoa and Earth have an exchange student program in which Asborg College student Enora Doruu is to be exchanged via teleportation for Supergirl.  However, Enora has been kidnapped by the Disruptor League, a group of student radicals.  Her place has been taken by Agent 9K, a Linda Danvers lookalike, who uses a Neuro-Scon device to agitate students'
minds and make them riot on campus.  Supergirl has been struck by a hypnotic beam from Agent 9K that inhibits her from leaving the Asborg campus.  But she travels back in time to a point at which Thetoa occupies a different space, and, the campus having left her, is free of the compulsion.  Supergirl returns to Earth, frees the students of the Neuro-Scon, and captures Agent 9K.

Action Comics No. 387
Apr. 1970
Story:  "One Hero Too Many"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Jim Shooter
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Letterer:  Joe Letterese
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chemical King, Dream Girl, Duo Damsel, Element Lad, Karate Kid, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Sun Boy, Superboy (leaves the Legion in this story), Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #391 / 392), Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GS:  Beppo (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #380; last appearance), Comet (between ADVENTURE COMICS #380 / 392), Krypto (between ADVENTURE COMICS #380 / 396), Proty II (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #380; next appears in issue #390), Streaky (between ADVENTURE COMICS #380 / 394; all appear as the Legion of Super-Pets)
Cameo:  Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Invisible Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Saturn Girl, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, and Star Boy
Intro:  Professor Sayar, Wayland Bannan (only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  The Legion of Super-Heroes must drop one of their 26 members or face a huge tax bite.  Supergirl tries to leave, feeling her absenteeism makes her a good candidate for cancellation, but the Super-Pets, summoned by Superboy, show up and cause her to reconsider.  Superboy quits.  His reasons:  that Mon-El has all of his powers; that he really belongs in the 20th Century; and that Supergirl has a romance going with Brainiac 5.

Adventure Comics No. 392
April 1970
Cover:  Linda Danvers in class with girls in Supergirl uniforms  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Super-Cheat"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #387)
GA:  Comet (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #387; last appearance)
Intro:  Gretchen, Betty, and Sue (three Stanhope students; only appearance for all)
Villains: Two Ionian agents (first and only appearance)
Comment: This issue also includes a one-page text feature, "Supergirl's Two Sets of Parents".
Synopsis:  An International Athletic Competition is being held in California, and Supergirl has learned that two Ionian agents intend to use any means necessary to stop American athletes from
winning, so that Ionia may score an athletic and propaganda victory.  Thus, Linda Danvers uses her super-powers (and Comet) to triumph over her rivals in preliminary bouts of track, swimming, and horse-jumping.  Once at the games, Linda wins two of the three events, using only as much skill as her rivals from Stanhope possessed.  But she has to take a loss when struck by an electric bolt in the swimming competition, or be suspected of being Supergirl.  Later, she tricks the Ionians into exposing their hand in public, captures them, and explains (as Supergirl) to her three college competitors that Linda had some super-aid to win the contests.  The three girls are allowed to compete in a make-up round of the games, to be held later.

Story:  "Supergirl's Lost Costume"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Story:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Intro:  Supergirl robot SG 32, Jane Wesley (only appearance for both)
Villains:  Dale Baxter, "Foxy" (first and only appearance for both)
Synopsis:  TV producer Dale Baxter cooks up a scheme to discover which girl at Stanhope College is Supergirl so that he may expose it to the world in a top-selling TV special.  His gimmicks include electrified belt-buckles, a barbell weighing half a ton, and costumes chemically treated to burst into flame at a certain time, except if neutralized by sweat--and, since
super-beings presumably do not sweat, Supergirl's will be the only costume aflame.  Linda Danvers checks him at every opportunity, with each scheme costing Baxter a lot of bucks.
His final scheme costs him all his remaining money, and nearly gets him in trouble for attempted manslaughter.  But Supergirl believes that bankruptcy and a busted ego are enough problems for
Baxter at the moment.

Adventure Comics No. 393
May 1970
Cover:  Supergirl being booed at an Anti-Supergirl Rally  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Unwanted Supergirl"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA: Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #388; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #192)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope University, Dick Malverne (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #350; next appears in SUPERGIRL (2nd series) #23)
Intro:  Astra Allison, Princess Jeannette, a king and queen (her parents; only appearance for all)
Villains:  Mr. Mxyzptlk (last appearance in issue #388; next appears in SUPERMAN #278), a blackmailer (first and only appearance)
Comment:  Since Mr. Mxyzptlk is controlling the flow of events in this story, it is difficult to know what really occurs in it, even given the fact that his magic effects vanish with his departure from Earth.  For instance, it is doubtful Princess Jeannette really dies (though not impossible; when Mask Man, a Mxyzptlk of the future, kills all the Legion members except Superboy and Supergirl in ADVENTURE COMICS #310, they come back to life when he is returned to the 5th Dimension).  And it isn't certain that the blackmailer harassing Astra Allison even exists.
Synopsis:  On March 31st, 1970, one Prof. Miles Morrison tests his Crime Computer at a rally in Stanhope, which site he has chosen because (he says) he admires Supergirl more than anyone
else in the world.  But, when the computer accurately predicts Princess Jeannette of a foreign country will be killed by terrorists, Supergirl cannot save her.  And when Oscar-nominated
actress Astra Allison is predicted to be blackmailed, Supergirl cannot thwart the blackmailer from making charges against her on nationwide TV.  Even Superman seems callous towards his cousin.
But on the next morning, Supergirl realizes--even though the students at Stanhope have an anti-Supergirl rally--that it is now April 1st.  That cues her to the entire affair being a ploy of
Mr. Mxyzptlk, whom she exposes as "Prof. Morrison" and tricks into saying his name backwards.  When he returns to the 5th Dimension, all the deeds he has done with his magic--including
the death of Princess Jeannette, the blackmail of Astra Allison, and the anti-Supergirl sentiment of the students and Superman--are cancelled.

Story:  "The Girl Who Knew Supergirl's Secrets"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  E. Nelson Bridwell
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character:  Supergirl (origin retold in flashback)
Supporting Characers:  Dr. Marla Alexander (last seen in ACTION COMICS #376; last appearance), Janice Butler (last appearance in issue #391; last appearance), students at Stanhope University
Intro:  Supergirl robot SG 12
Cameo:  Zor-El (in flashback)
Synopsis:  Dr. Marla Alexander is teaching a course on Supergirl, which both Linda Danvers and her roomie Janice Butler attend.  But Janice demonstrates incredible knowledge of the Girl of
Steel, including some details which have never been made public.  When suspicion falls on Linda being Supergirl due to a detail Janice reports, Linda throws it off by means of a ruse.  Later
she discovers she has been talking in her sleep, and imparting the information about her career to Janice, who subconsciously picked it up in her own sleep.  Linda hypnotizes herself out of sleep-talking.

Adventure Comics No. 394
June 1970
Cover:  Supergirl and other prisoners in a food riot  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Mysterious Motr of Doov"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  E. Nelson Bridwell?
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: SupergirlGS:  Streaky (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #387; last appearance)
Intro:  Cresa, Chalom, Poxar, the Motr of Doov (only appearance for all)
Villains:  The Wicked One of the West, a many-eyed creature (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  The name "Motr" is a scrambling of editor Mort Weisinger's first name.
 The first letters on the left-hand side of the introductory caption on page 1, panel 1 spell out the words:  THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Synopsis:  Supergirl and Streaky are sent to another dimension by a mysterious tornado.  There they encounter the robot Cresa, the fearful, satyr-like Chalom, and the neon-being Poxar, and follow a crimson rainbow trail to the lair of the Motr of Doov.  The Motr says that he abducted them (except for Cresa, whom he built) from other dimensions via his warp-tornadoes so that he could have them ascertain that his old foe, the Wicked One of the West, was no longer in existence.  The Motr turns out to be an American man in a top hat, who says that he is not the original Motr, but his assistant, who was brought there in 1898 from Chicago.  The original Motr died long ago.  As all near the dimensa-geyser that will return them to their normal worlds, they are attacked by the Wicked One of the West.  Supergirl and Streaky, knocked into the geyser, are sent home.  Later, doing some research, Linda Danvers discovers that L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz, lived in Chicago in 1898, and must have been inspired by a tale he heard from the Motr.

Story:  "Heartbreak Prison"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN #229)
Supporting Characters:  Students at Stanhope College
Cameo:  Tom Jones
Intro:  A mysterious unknown intelligence, Yo-La, Tyy-ra, and other super-heroines (first and only appearance for all)
Villains: Tyrox and his humanoids (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Supergirl is sent by a mysterious telepathic voice to a world ruled by Tyrox, a tyrant who possesses a deadly Zenith Weapon which threatens the universe.  Faking helplessness, she is
tried by Tyrox and sentenced to a prison with other super-heroines who have defied him.  If any use their super-powers, all the prisoners will be executed.  Eventually, Supergirl deduces that the bars of her own prison cell contain the Zenith weapon, and, despite Tyrox's machinations, she and the other heroines escape, defeat Tyrox, and destroy the Zenith Weapon.  Supergirl then returns to Earth, and is thanked by the mysterious telepathic voice.

Superman No. 229
August 1970
Cover:  Superman in Supro costume, flying with glider-wings over slaves  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Ex-Superman"  (15 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Joe Giella
Feature Character:  Superman
GS:  Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #394 / 395)
Intro:  Dulgran (dies in this story), Supro and other slaves
Cameo:  Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Anti-Superman Gang (in flashback)
Villains: Lord Korpon (first and only appearance), Executioners of Morgu (first appearance; most die in this story)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue, in which Supergirl did not appear.
Synopsis:  Superman, suffering from power-loss, is rocketed to Morgu, the executioner's planet, by the Anti-Superman Gang.  While there, he evades the executioners, becomes the new hero of
slaves, and, finally, meets Supergirl, who has come to rescue him.  She reveals that his costume was dusted by a Red Kryptonite-like dust which removed his powers by an allergic reaction.  With the dust removed from his uniform, he becomes super again.  She also tells him that the executioners of Morgu committed suicide after they failed to kill him.  Superman and Supergirl return to Earth.

Adventure Comics No. 395
July 1970
Cover:  Supergirl and ghost of a Kryptonian thought-beast  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "The Rejected Supergirl"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #229)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty of Stanhope University
Intro:  Dr. H. H. Hanson, Binnie Baker, Mr. Baker (her father), a Red Cross ship captain (only appearance for all)
Cameo: Scarlett O'Hara, Juliet, Sophia Loren, Coretta Scott King, Barbra Streisand, Greta Garbo, Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie
Villains: The Metal Lions (Gold, Iron, Tin, Lead, Mercury, and Platinum Lion; first appearance for all; all destroyed in this story)
Comment:  The Stanhope girls' list of top nine females includes Scarlett O'Hara and Juliet.  Nice placing for fictional characters.
Synopsis:  Supergirl is asked to place markers on the nine planets with the names of the top nine most-admired men on the Stanhope campus.  In the process, she fights and destroys robotic "Metal Lions" on Pluto.  When she comes back, the class votes on the top nine women, and Supergirl places last.  Supergirl is miffed, until she discovers that all voted for her first, the
metallic dust on her hair left after fighting the Metal Lions distorted the computer's findings, and that she is actually #1 on their list, with an acrostic spelling out her name.

Story:  "The Heroine in the Haunted House"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Students of Stanhope College
Intro:  Eli Ameswell, Rita Parker, Vincent Sale (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Jor-El, Zor-El, Allura
Villains:  Jax-Ur, Kru-El (last appearance for both in SUPERMAN #223; both next appear in issue #400), General Zod (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #321; next appears in issue #400), Roz-Em (last appearance in issue #304; last appearance), Amos Ameswell (first appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  When horror-movie actor Vincent Sale goes insane from a horrific thing he has seen in a supposedly haunted house, Linda Danvers tries to earn the $1,000 which will be given to anyone
who spends a night in the house alone.  She sees ghosts of Jor-El and a Kryptonian thought-beast, and turns into Supergirl.  The sights have been created by Jax-Ur and his cronies of the Phantom
Zone, whose mental emanations can reach anyone in the house through a custom-made television set created by Amos Ameswell, the supposedly-dead inventor.  Supergirl turns off the TV set and
banishes the Phantom Zoners.  But she is still left with what appears to be the ghost of Amos Ameswell, dressed as Death...and swinging his sickle at her.

Adventure Comics No. 396
August 1970
Cover:  Supergirl and other orphans in Midvale Orphanage  //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story:  "I Am a Witch"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Bob Kanigher
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl
Cameo:  Eli Ameswell, Vincent Sale, Jax-Ur, Kru-El, General Zod
Intro:  Dr. Faustus, Cagliostro, Nostradamus, and Merlin (cameo; in flashback)
Villain:  Amos Ameswell (last appearance)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  Amos Ameswell challenges Supergirl to break superstitions on this day, Friday the 13th, including spilling a lot of salt.  But afterward, wherever she tries to do a good deed, she ends up wreaking destruction instead.  She finally deduces that the "salt" Ameswell had her spill was secretly a powder loaded with his "anti-mass destructive element".  Supergirl cleanses the powder from her person and takes Ameswell to jail.

Story:  "The Mystery of the Super-Orphan"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Mort Weisinger
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS: Superboy and Clark Kent robots
GA:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #103; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #194), Krypto (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #387; next appears in flashback in SUPERMAN #287)
Supporting Characters: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers (next appears in issue #406)
Intro:  A Supergirl robot
Synopsis:  A Supergirl robot goes to Smallville on the anniversary of Jonathan and Martha Kent's death, but is confused by the fact that she has the memories of Superboy.  Eventually Supergirl and Superman catch up to the robot and restrain it, explaining that she was mistakenly programmed with a Superboy robot tape.

Adventure Comics No. 397
Sept. 1970
Cover:  Supergirl examining new costume sketches from readers //Mike Sekowsky / Vince Colletta
Story:  "Now Comes Zond"  (14 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Diana Prince (Wonder Woman; last appearance in WONDER WOMAN #188 (2); next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #199)
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope College
Intro: A girl victim (only appearance)
Other Character: Henry (last appearance in WONDER WOMAN #186; last appearance)
Villains:  Morgana (last appearance in WONDER WOMAN #186; last appearance), Zond, a witches' coven (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Supergirl gets a new costume in this story.
Synopsis:  When a girl is found in a zombie-like state on the Stanhope campus, Supergirl goes into a trance and probes her memories.  She learns that she was terrified into catatonia by a being named Zond whom she met at a witches' coven.  Supergirl tracks down the coven and confronts Zond, but his magic powers defeat her and shred her costume somewhat.  Supergirl consults with Diana Prince, the former Wonder Woman, and has her ask her old foe Morgana the Witch for help.  Since Zond is a common enemy, and her mother's former stable-boy, Morgana agrees.
Supergirl gets a new uniform from Wonder Woman's boutique before she goes with the other women to the next coven meeting.  Morganna takes care of Zond's magic, and Supergirl kicks him around the block.  Morganna leaves with Zond, but not before releasing his victim from her fear-trance.

Story:  "Supergirl Meets Nasty"  (8 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope University
Intro:  Marion Waters (only appearance)
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearance in SUPERBOY #159; next appears in ACTION COMICS #407), Nasthalia "Nasty" Luthor (first appearance; next appears in issue #406), Nasty's Nasties (first and only appearance)
Comment:  Nasty's real relationship to Luthor is unclear.  Luthor's only depicted sibling is Lena Thorul Colby, whose only child is Val Colby.  Nasty is too old to have been her daugher.  In the letters column of issue #401, it is explained that Nasty is really the daughter of Luthor's older sister, who married a "European gentleman and has been living abroad."  The editor goes on to say that Lex's and Lena's parents disapproved of the marriage and cut off communication with her, so that Lena knows nothing of her.  Such a person, however, has never been depicted or referred to in the Superman family stories.
Synopsis:  Lex Luthor deputizes his niece Nasthalia, or Nasty for short, to terrorize Stanhope with her motorcycle gang, Nasty's Nasties.  Their objective:  flush out Supergirl and discover her
secret identity.  It backfires, as Supergirl tracks down Luthor and imprisons him again.  Then she takes Nasty and her gang on a harrowing series of carnival rides, hyped by her super-powers.  She warns the gang sternly not to try their terror tactics again, but Nasty later promises to strike again in the future.

Adventure Comics No. 398
October 1970
Cover:  Superman exiling Supergirl to Phantom Zone, fallen Comet, Streaky, and Krypto  //Carmine Infantino / Dick Giordano
Story:  "The Maid of Doom"  (from Action Comics #306)

Story:  "Catcher In the Sky"  (6 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Intro:  Griml and his father, the crews of the Whitney and two planes
Comment:  In addition to this story, this issue also includes two one-page features, one revealing that readers Louise Ann Kelley and Jean Bray were the sources of Supergirl's new costume, the
next a one-page preview of next issue's story.
Synopsis:  Supergirl, investigating the disappearance of an aircraft carrier, follows two vanishing planes.  All of them turn up on the examination table of a gigantic alien child, who has stolen his father's dimensional grappler to bring in objects and tiny people from another dimension.  Supergirl gets the attention of the child's father, and, just before they are sent back to their normal dimension, the humans see the child's father giving his son a licking.

Adventure Comics No. 399
November 1970
Cover:  Supergirl confronting Johnny Dee on football field  //Mike Sekowsky
Story:  "Johnny Dee--Hero-Bum"  (22 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope College
Intro:  Johnny Dee, Stanhope football team and their coach (all next appear in issue #406), Roxie,  Rawlins College football team (only appearance for all)
Villains:  A gang of gamblers (possibly including Vince Martell from issue #383; last appearance of Martell, if he is present; first and only apperance for all the rest)
Comment:  This story actually begins on the cover of this issue.
Synopsis:  When a gang of hoods employed by gamblers beat Stanhope College football star Johnny Dee and his girlfriend Roxie brutally, they warn him to throw his next game or risk his
girlfriend's life.  Johnny obeys, and the opposing team wins.  Supergirl questions Roxie and learns the story, but Johnny fakes a stomach upset to get out of playing the next game, against Rawlins College's team, since the gangsters have warned him they will have three snipers present at the game.  Supergirl nabs the snipers and the gamblers, and Johnny Dee goes in to win the game for Stanhope.

Action Comics No. 395
December 1970
Story:  "The Credit Card of Catastrophe"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Murray Boltinoff
Writer:  Geoff Brown  [Leo Dorfman]
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Murphy Anderson
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #198)
GS:  Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #399 / 400)
Supporting Characters:  Students and faculty at Stanhope College
Synopsis:  Superman visits Madame Mephisto, a gypsy fortune-teller at a carnival, who gives him a "credit card" that is good for three wishes.  She says once he uses it three times, he will
find out what it costs.  Superman considers it a gag, until his power fades out three times and he regains it each time by using one of the wishes on the card.  He goes to Madame Mephisto, who
says she has erased his powers magically and will restore them for half the gold in Fort Knox.  He agrees.  She makes him super again, and he returns with half the gold in Fort Knox, given to him with a promise to the authorities to replace it, and dumps it all on Madame Mephisto.  Seconds later, he digs her out and unmasks her as Supergirl.  She said that she assumed the identity of the fortune-teller to see whether or not she or Superman could be hypnotized into comitting a super-crime, and used super-hypnosis to convince Superman he had lost his powers, while standing nearby when each crisis happened in which Superman used his card.  Superman said he deduced her true identity when he wondered why Madame Mephisto didn't use her magic to get the gold herself, rather than using him to do the job, and then realized he had not lost all his powers.  The two Kryptonians fly the gold back to Fort Knox, and Supergirl admits she still doesn't know if they can be hypnotized into committing crimes or not.

Adventure Comics No. 400
December 1970
Cover:  Black Flame standing over Supergirl //Mike Sekowsky
Story:  "Return of the Black Flame"  (22 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
GA:  Kandorians
Villains:  Black Flame (last seen in ACTION COMICS #304; next appears in KRYPTON CHRONICLES #1), L. Finn, Inventor, Toymaster (first and only appearance for all), Jax-Ur, General Zod, Kru-El (last appearance for all in issue #395; all next appear in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #199), Phantom Zone villains (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #98; next appear in ACTION COMICS #473)
Comment:  This story presents several puzzling aspects, not the least of which is a Kryptonian leprechaun (L. Finn).  It must be assumed that Black Flame managed to enlarge herself after she
escaped from Kandor.  It must also be assumed that the toys created by the Inventor and Toymaster were of Kryptonian metal, or they would not be able to successfully attack their masters.  Of course, Black Flame herself has no powers, and thus can safely handle Gold Kryptonite.  But this is the first story (and the only one) to imply that a long exposure to Gold Kryptonite must be undertaken to erase a Kryptonian's powers; all other stories assert that one quick exposure to Gold K is enough.  Also, it is not explained how L. Finn, the Inventor, and the Toymaster are protected from the Green Kryptonite bowling balls' radiation.  Perhaps L. Finn used his magic powers to shield them.  At any rate, this is possibly the most sloppily researched Supergirl story of all.
Synopsis:  Black Flame breaks out of jail in Kandor and leaves the Kandor bottle, apparently enlarging herself afterward.  She then acquires a spaceship, goes to a warp portal in the Phantom
Zone, and takes on three super-criminals from the Phantom Zone:  L. Finn (a leprechaun), the Toymaster and the Inventor.  She tricks Supergirl into coming to the house which they use as their headquarters.  There she is weakened with Green Kryptonite dust and made to be a "pin" in a bowling alley with Green Kryptonite bowling balls.  Finally, she is placed in a deathtrap with Gold Kryptonite slowly stealing her powers, and a Green Kryptonite spear is set to be launched through her body once she loses them entirely.  But Supergirl manages to reach a remote control for Toymaster's minature robots and uses them to cut her free.  She recovers her powers once she is away from the Gold K, and uses the toys to capture the three Phantom Zoners while she herself
takes care of Black Flame.  Later, Black Flame is taken back to Kandor and the three other villains are returned to the Phantom Zone.

Action Comics No. 397
February 1971
Story: "The Super-Captive of the Sea" (11 pages)
Editor: Murray Boltinoff
Writer: Leo Dorfman (Geoff Brown)
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: Superman (next appearance in FOREVER PEOPLE #1)
GA: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #400)
Villains: Two Quorians (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Two denizens of a water-world force Superman to live underseas as a test by polluting the atmosphere of Earth with power-sapping gases from a red-sun planet.

Action Comics No. 398
March 1971
Story:  "Spawn of the Unknown"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Murray Boltinoff
Writer:  Geoff Brown [Leo Dorfman]
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Murphy Anderson
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN #233)
GS:  Supergirl (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #401)
Intro:  Ituru (a game keeper),  Prof. Bruno (in flashback; only appearance for both)
Villains: A gang of thieves (first and only appearance)
Comment:  Since Supergirl has enough super-powers to safely help Superman on a long space voyage, this story obviously happens before her "on-again-off-again" powers occur.
Synopsis:  When the experimental plant-seeds of Prof. Bruno, who is operating in Africa, run wild in an extinct volcano crater, Superman is called in by an old game keeper friend.  The game keeper tells Superman the seeds have turned animals into plants, and, when they see a plant-creature with Supergirl's costume, Superman is convinced his cousin has become a victim.  But the real Supergirl appears later, and says that the "Supergirl" tree--like a "Superman" tree which sprouts not long after--is only a plant.  Professor Bruno's plants imitate the life forms around them.  Superman and Supergirl take the volcano crater to a remote planet, but save the Supergirl and Superman trees for the Fortress of Solitude.

Adventure Comics No. 401
January 1971
Cover:  Lex Luthor and Nasthalia watching Supergirl in glass cage cringe from mouse  //Mike Sekowsky
Story:  "The Frightened Supergirl"  (14 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #398)
Cameo:  Lex Luthor, Nasthalia Luthor, Bumphy (first and only apperance; no real existence; all characters in Linda Danvers's dream)
Comment:  Since this adventure is presented as "just a dream", there is no need to explain how Supergirl could be affected by the fear-serum.
Synopsis:  Supergirl dreams that Nasty and Lex Luthor have dosed her with a "fear-serum" that causes her to rampage through Stanhope, terrified of a spider or a mouse or a toy car.  Linda
wakes up and discovers it has only been a dream.

Adventure Comics No. 402
 February 1971
Cover:  Supergirl embracing Derek Ames as bank robbers pull a heist  //Mike Sekowsky / Jack Abel
Story:  "Love Conquers All--Even Supergirl"  (14 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Students at Stanhope College
Villains:  Starfire, Derek Ames, Dr. Kangle (first appearance for all),  a gang of crooks (first and only appearance)
Comment:  Derek's last name is given as Marlowe in issue #405, but that may be an error.
 Another new costume for Supergirl is shown in this story, designed by Patricia Martel.
 This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Starfire, a villainess, employs handsome con-man Derek Ames to meet Supergirl on the Stanhope campus.  He romances her, then covertly feeds her a capsule specially designed to negate her super-powers.  When Starfire's gang attacks with machine guns, Supergirl feels her powers ebbing, and is knocked unconscious by a fall.  Derek and the thugs leave her for dead.

Adventure Comics No. 404
March 1971
Cover:  Starfire wrestling Supergirl while her gang looks on  //Mike Sekowsky / Jack Abel
Story:  "Super-Girl?"  (22 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Kandorians
Villains:  Starfire, her all-female gang (first appearance), Dr. Kangle, Derek Ames (dies in this story)
Comment:  This story continues in next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl revives, discovers her powers have indeed ebbed away, and goes to the bottle city of Kandor for a scientific examination.  The Kandorian scientists cannot reverse her condition, and say that she will have "on-again-off-again" super-powers for the duration of its effect.  But they design an "exo-skeleta cyborg" for her, worn under her clothes, which gives her some super-strength, and outfit her boots with jets that will allow her to fly when she loses her powers.  Starfire rewards Derek Ames, but has him shot seconds afterward when she fears he will expose her operation.  Later, Starfire and her all-woman gang pull bank robberies in the neighboring town of Carvale, where a Mardi Gras celebration is going on.  Supergirl tries to
capture the gang at one robbery site, but her powers are off and the women knock her unconscious.  The Girl of Steel is taken prisoner.  Later, at her headquarters, Starfire confirms for
herself that Supergirl has lost her powers, and delivers a punishing martial-arts beating to her, knocking her out again for a brief time.  Supergirl's powers return seconds later, reviving her.  She attacks Starfire and her gang, capturing most of the gang members.  But Starfire herself and her scientist aide Dr. Kangle escape.

Adventure Comics No. 405
April 1971
Cover:  Supergirl and Rodney Ames  //Mike Sekowsky / Jack Abel
Story:  "Starfire's Revenge"  (22 pages)
Editor, writer, artist:  Mike Sekowsky
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #400)
Intro:  Paul De Paris (dies in this story)
Villains:  Starfire, Dr. Kangle (both next appear in issue #407), Starfire's all-female gang (last appearance), Rodney Ames,  a fashion buyer (first and only appearance for both)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue.
Synopsis:  Starfire and Dr. Kangle plot to eliminate Supergirl's powers forever with a stronger dose of Kangle's formula.  To get someone to administer it to her, Starfire contacts Derek Ames's
brother Rodney.  She tells him that Supergirl murdered his brother while maddened by Kangle's serum.  Rodney desires vengeance for his brother, and Starfire hands him a gun loaded with capsules of the formula and tells him she will lure Supergirl to Paris.  Once de-powered, Supergirl can be killed in any way Rodney chooses.
 Starfire makes herself visible in Parisian high society.  Supergirl, seeing photos of her foe and a story detailing Derek's death, reasons that she had Derek murdered.  She goes to Paris to
capture Starfire, who is executing the theft of the entire fall fashion line of Paul De Paris, a designer.  Supergirl fails to capture Starfire, and Rodney fails to de-power or kill Supergirl.  But she convinces Rodney to listen to her side of the story, and that he may be in danger for having failed Starfire like his brother did.  When Rodney brings Starfire an apparently unconscious and
non-super Supergirl, she has them both thrown in a barred pit and lets in a gorilla to kill them.  Supergirl renders the ape unconscious, frees them both, and battles Starfire and her gang.  Starfire leaps to freedom from a high window in her castle hideout, landing in the moat.  She emerges on shore after Supergirl and Rodney lead Kangle and her gang away.

Action Comics No. 400
May 1971
Story:  "Duel of Doom"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Murray Boltinoff
Writer:  Geoff Browne [Leo Dorfman]
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Murphy Anderson
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN #238)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #405; next appears in issue #403), Kandorians
Intro:  Yllura, Arvor (only appearance for both)
Villain:  Brainiac (in flashback; between flashback and story proper in issue #413)
Synopsis:  Two Kandorian students, Yllura and Arvor, face a graduation exercise of conducting "an original exploration into Kandor's past."  Both are rivals, with Yllura idolizing Supergirl and Arvor hero-worshipping Superman.  But, when each gets in trouble on their archaeological trip, they help each other to reach safety.  Realizing that teamwork is necessary for success, Arvor and Yllura call off their rivalry.  Later, they are awarded a joint trophy by Superman and Supergirl.

Action Comics No. 403
August 1971
Cover: Doctors and nurses directing crowd for Superman's blood transfusion //Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson
Story: "Attack of the Micro-Murderer" (15 pages)
Editor: Murray Boltinoff
Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN #238; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #406)
GA: Linda Danvers (Supergirl; last appearance in issue #400; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #406), Kandorians
Supporting Character: Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #112)
Villain: A Zohtt (first and only appearance)
Comments: This story takes place from March 27th through probably March 31st.
 Since Supergirl has not yet graduated college in this story, it must be moved back in sequence to just before ADVENTURE COMICS #406.
 With this issue, ACTION COMICS becomes a 25-cent, 52-page comic.
Synopsis: Superman's body is invaded by a Zohtt, a magical wraith-being which attempts to destroy him, and not even a blood transfusion from most of Metropolis's citizens can save him.

Adventure Comics No. 406
May 1971
Cover:  Half Linda Danvers / half Supergirl and Nasthalia  //Mike Sekowsky / Jack Abel?
Story:  "Suspicion"  (22 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #403)
GA: Clark Kent (Superman; last appearance in ACTION COMICS #403; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #203)
Supporting Characters: Students and faculty of Stanhope College, Fred Danvers (last appearance in isssue #389; next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #184), Edna Danvers (last appearance in issue #386; next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #184), Johnny Dee, Stanhope football team (last appearance for both in issue #399; last appearance for both), Johnny Drew, Geoffrey Anderson, staff of KSFTV (first appearance for all)
Intro:  Susie (Linda Danvers's roommate), Rocco Caridi (no appearance; name only mentioned), Freddie Smith, Allison and her mother (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Starfire, Dr. Kangle, Derek Ames
Villain:  Nasthalia Luthor (last appearance in issue #397)
Comments:  Linda Danvers graduates from Stanhope College in this story.
 This story continues in next issue.
 There are some touch-ups on Clark Kent's face by Murphy Anderson in this story.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers tries to attend her own graduation ceremonies at Stanhope, but the commencement is broken up by rioting student radicals.  Even worse, Nasthalia has seen Supergirl go into Linda Danvers's room and Linda come out.  Now convinced that Linda is Supergirl, she intends to tail her until she can prove it to herself--and to Lex Luthor.  With some help from Clark Kent, Linda gets a job on the news crew of KSFTV in San Francisco.  Unfortunately, Nasty has been listening to her conversation with Kent, and gets herself a job with the same news crew.  When Supergirl saves some people from a burning building, to throw Nasty's suspicion off she dresses as Linda Danvers, fakes being overcome by smoke, and lets herself be "rescued" by emergency personnel.

Adventure Comics No. 407
June 1971
Cover:  Nasty's hands holding up Supergirl costume before Linda Danvers  //Mike Sekowsky / Jack Abel
Story:  "Suspicion Confirmed"  (22 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Jack Abel
Supporting Characters:  Johnny Drew, Geoffrey Anderson (called Geoffrey Morgan in this story)
GA:  Kandorians
Villains:  Starfire, Dr. Kangle (last appearance for both in issue #405; last appearance for both), Mr. Renard (first and only appearance), Nasthalia Luthor
Comments:  This story continues from last issue.
 Supergirl gets yet another costume, this one designed by Anthony Kowalik.
Synopsis:  Mr. Renard comes to KSFTV and tells the news crew that he is reopening a theater supposedly haunted by the ghosts of an old film star and the leading lady he murdered.  The crew spends two nights there trying to check things out, resulting in Johnny Drew and Nasty getting kidnapped by a ghoulish figure.  Supergirl's powers cut out and she is unable to rescue them.  But
on the third night they discover that the "haunting" has been arranged by Starfire, who captures Supergirl and tries to dissolve her in an acid bath.  Supergirl shields herself with her acid-proof costume, then rescues her friends and captures Starfire and Renard, who had posed as the ghoulish kidnapper.

Super DC Giant No. S-24
May-June 1971
Cover:  Supergirl watching Lex Luthor punch a hole in Superman statue; Supergirl and Lesla-Lar in Supergirl costume; Lesla-Lar freeing Jax-Ur, General Zod, and Kru-El from Phantom Zone;
Supergirl  (four vignettes)  //Murphy Anderson; Mike Sekowsky (bottom vignette)
Story:  "The Girl With the X-Ray Mind"  (from Action Comics #295)
Story:  "The Girl Who Was Supergirl's Double"  (from Action Comics #296)
Story:  "The Forbidden Weapons of Krypton"  (from Action Comics #297)
Story:  "The Super-Powers of Lex Luthor"  (from Action Comics #298)

Story:  "Fashions From Fans"  (3 pages)
Editor, writer, artist:  Mike Sekowsky
Feature Character: Supergirl
Comment:  Not a story; showcase of Supergirl costumes designed by fans

Action Comics No. 402
July 1971
Story:  "Superman Vs. Supergirl:  The Feud of the Titans"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Murray Boltinoff
Writer: Leo Dorfman (Geoff Browne)
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Murphy Anderson
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #112)
GS:  Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #407 / 408)
Synopsis:  Superman and Supergirl are made hostile to each other and goaded into a super-feud when fumes from a "brainwash bomb" they are disposing of in the Fortress of Solitude's disintegration pit combine with Kryptonian elements there and make them hate each other.  Superman begins to suspect the truth after seeing a two-headed bird's two heads quarrel with each
other in the Fortress, and he rescues Supergirl from death when she falls into the disintegration pit.  Once outside the Fortress, they regain their senses, and they clean the gas from their headquarters.

Adventure Comics No. 408
July 1971
Cover:  Supergirl, Cynthia Stanley, and a painting of Cynthia Stanley  //Mike Sekowsky / Jack Abel
Story:  "The Face At the Window"  (14 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Jack Abel?
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #402)
Supporting Characters:  Johnny Drew, Geoffrey Anderson
Intro:  Cynthia Stanley (a ghost; only appearance), John and Elizabeth Stanley (as skeletons; die long before this story opens)
Villains: Mr. Stanley, two of Nasthalia's gang (first and only appearance for all), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  The KSFTV news crew attempts to make a documentary of the old Stanley mansion and are chased away at shotgunpoint by old man Stanley himself.  But Linda has seen a little girl
standing at an upstairs window, and, when she is told that Stanley has lived alone in the house ever since the deaths of his niece and nephew circa 1918, she decides to investigate.  (Nasty goes there to try and catch her in an identity switch, but she gets caught and thrown out by Mr. Stanley.)  Inside the mansion, Supergirl encounters the little girl, who says she is looking for her parents.  Using her super-vision, Supergirl melts away the container which has held the bodies of her parents, John and Elizabeth Stanley, ever since old man Stanley killed them back in 1918.  The little girl has vanished, having found her parents.  Old man Stanley confesses to the double murder and is taken away by police.  Supergirl sees the little girl in a portrait--of Cynthia Stanley, the couple's daughter, who died of influenza shortly before her parents' deaths.

Story:  "Invasion of the Mer-Men"  (8 pages)
Editor, writer, penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Jack Abel?
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Johnny Drew, Geoffrey Anderson
GA:  Kandorians (Andor named in this story)

Villains:  The Mer-Men (first appearance), Nasthalia Luthor
Comment:  This story continues in next issue.
 In this story, Supergirl gets yet another new uniform.
Synopsis:  While spending the day at the beach, Linda and Johnny Drew are confronted by an invading force of alien Mer-Men.  Johnny is kidnapped and Supergirl tries to follow, but her powers cut out underwater and she has to surface.  Later, she goes to Kandor and has the scientists implant filters in her nostrils that will enable her to breathe underwater or in space.  Neither she nor the police, however, can locate Johnny.  And the Mer-Men appear before an assemblage of Earth's scientists and military men to confirm they are stealing Earth's water, and, within a year, will leave the Earth a lifeless desert.

Adventure Comics No. 409
August 1971
Cover:  Fire-Drake and his henchman, Supergirl, and Geoffrey Anderson; Satan Girl vignette  //Art Saaf / Dick Giordano; Curt Swan / George Klein (vignette)
Story:  "Invasion of the Mer-Men"  (Part 2)  (14 pages)
Editor, writer, artist:  Mike Sekowsky
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Geoffrey Anderson, Johnny Drew
GA: Richard Nixon
Intro:  Adm. Bulldog Cramer (only appearance), Spiro Agnew (of Earth-One)
Villains:  Mer-Men (last appearance)
Comments:  This story continues from last issue.
 Even though the cover bears the title of this story, the cover depicts a scene from the second story.
 With this issue, ADVENTURE COMICS becomes a 25-cent, 52-page comic.
Synopsis:  Supergirl finds the secret base of the Mer-Men underwater, and discovers they are loading giant "tanker" space-globes with water to be shipped to their home planet.  The globes
have force-fields that resist any attempt Earth makes to destroy them.  Supergirl locates and rescues Johnny, then smashes the globes herself and lets them rain their waters back on Earth.
Finally, the Mer-Men leader gives up, telling Supergirl that they couldn't load enough water up in time to save his world, anyway.  He and the other Mer-Men depart, resigned to their eventual
extinction.  Realizing this, Supergirl cries.

Story:  "Fight With Fire Drake"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  E. Nelson Bridwell
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Dick Giordano
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #403)
Supporting Characters:  Geoffrey Anderson, Zor-El, Allura (last appearance for both in ACTION COMICS #320; both next appear in SUPERGIRL #2)
Intro:  Mr. Stanton (head of WSFTV, now called KSF-TV; only appearance)
Villains:  Fire-Drake (Freddy Nero) and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Supergirl gets yet another costume in this story, designed by Margaret Berg.
Synopsis:  Freddy Nero, a party-crasher, tries romancing Linda Danvers at a party aboard the yacht of Mr. Stanton, the owner of KSF-TV.  Minutes later, a scuba-costumed, masked villain called Fire Drake, who "breathes fire" with an acetylene torch nosepiece, loots the yacht and its passengers with his gang.  Supergirl tries to follow, but her powers fail and she is repelled by Fire Drake's flame.  Later, Linda Danvers is summoned by Allura to Kandor, where her father Zor-El has some new power-substitution gimmicks for her:  a bracelet which can enhance her normal strength when she is depowered, replacing the exo-skeleta cyborg, and her Legion of Super-Heroes flight-ring, to replace her jet-boots.  Supergirl encounters Fire Drake a second time,
captures him, and unmasks him as Freddy Nero.

Story:  "The Condemned Legionnaires"  (from issue #313)
 

Adventure Comics No. 410
Sept. 1971
Cover:  Supergirl watching Judy stop truck  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Nature of the Beast"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Penciller: Bob Oskner
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #403)
Intro:  The Professor (in flashback; dies in this story), a tribe of bird-men (only appearance)
Villains:  Mike Merrick (first appearance; next appears in issue #419), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  Nasty tries to get Linda to room with her so that she'll have more opportunities to uncover her Supergirl identity, but is denied.   Linda has to become Supergirl a few seconds
later, out of Nasty's sight, to save next-door neighbor Mike Merrick from an attack by a pair of monstrous bird-men.  Supergirl drives them out and tries to follow, but her powers give out.  She changes back to Linda Danvers and goes dancing with Mike and Nasty.  Mike spends most of his time with Linda, and Nasty leaves.  The two are captured by bird-men when they leave the club at an early hour.  Linda and Mike end up on the island home of the bird-men.  The avians' leader tells her that Mike and a professor he aided conducted scientific experiments that turned the natives of the island into the bird-men.  Worse, however, was the professor's theft of a large ruby from their
tribal idol, which Mike killed the professor to possess.  When Linda is threatened with being immersed in lava from an active volcano, Mike says that he has the ruby secreted in his apartment.  Both are imprisoned again.
 Mike tells Linda that the jewel theft was the professor's idea, and that the professor's death was an accident.  However, he shows no remorse about helping the professor with his experiments.  Mike breaks them out of their prison, and Linda, changing into Supergirl out of his sight, defeats their bird-men guards and flies herself and Mike back towards San Francisco.  But her powers fade out over the ocean, and Mike saves them both with his expert swimming skills.  Supergirl, exhausted, has passed out by the time they reach land.  Mike kisses her, says to the sleeping Supergirl that he lied about the jewel and that when she wakes up, she'll probably have to hunt him down.  Then he leaves.

Story:  "The Revolt of the Girl Legionnaires"  (from issue #326)

Story:  "The Ruler Without a Planet"  (9 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Penciller:  Bob Oskner
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl
Intro:  Judy (Equila; next appears in issue #414), Tunga (a giant ape)
Villain: Judy's stepfather (first appearance; dies in this story)
Comment: Supergirl gets another super-costume, designed by John Sposato, which she retains for a time.
Synopsis:  After Supergirl subdues a giant ape which has broken free from a circus, she sees a young girl named Judy, about 6 years of age, blow out a fire nearby with super-breath.  Supergirl questions Judy, who tells her she is from another planet and came there when she climbed aboard a spaceship, accidentally started it, and wound up on Earth.  Judy also demonstrates other super-powers, such as flight and super-strength, and says that she knows Supergirl is Linda Danvers from watching her on interplanetary television.  Supergirl takes Judy under her wing and lets her assist her in her duties with her super-powers, while trying lucklessly to find her stepfather.  One night, her stepfather mentally contacts her, reminds her he put her on Earth to destroy its super-heroes, starting with Supergirl, to pave the way for its conquest, and demands she kill Supergirl with the Kryptonite ray he has given her.  Judy almost does so, but turns away at the last moment.  Angered, her stepfather tries to kill Judy with a force-bolt from his ship, but
Supergirl shields her from the bolt.  Judy confesses all to Supergirl.  The Girl of Steel tries to capture the alien's ship, but USAF planes have detected it and are engaging it in battle, about to destroy it.  Supergirl returns to Judy, telling her she could not locate the ship.  Both look out the window and see the explosion of her father's ship, which Judy thinks is a falling star.

Adventure Comics No. 411
October 1971
Cover:  Supergirl, an alien, and a boy  //Carmine Infantino & Bob Oskner?
Story:  "The Alien Among Us"  (16 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Penciller:  Bob Oskner
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Geoff Anderson, Johnny Drew
Intro:  An alien (dies in this story), a boy and his father (only appearance for both)
Villains:  Councilman Scribe, Lonny and his gang (first and only appearance for all), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  An alien being lands near San Francisco with some help from Supergirl, who is eluded by him shortly after he arrives.  The alien is subjected to blind fear and prejudice and is attacked by police and citizens alike, despite his own powers and lack of aggessive force--though he does use potent defensive force.  The alien's presence touches off a spate of xenophobic riots in San Francisco.  He takes refuge in a tenement building and is befriended by a child who feeds him.  In return, he heals the boy's paralyzed arm.  But the child's father learns of it and lures the alien into a trap.  Before Supergirl can save him, he is killed by a shell from a tank.

Story:  "The Weddings That Wrecked the Legion"  (from issue #337)

Adventure Comics No. 412
November 1971
Cover:  Zogg, Glynix, Zogg's warrior, female giant, and Supergirl //Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Battle For Survival"  (22 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Johnny Drew, Geoff Anderson
Intro:  Glynix, Largyn, people of Liquel II (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Zogg (first appearance; dies in this story), his army, a giant female warrior (first and only appearance for all), Nasthalia Luthor
Comment: Supergirl gains another costume in this story.
Synopsis:  When a girl in a Supergirl costume robs an art dealer, the real Supergirl investigates.  Her double proves to be Glynix, who rules her planet of Liquel II with her mate Largyn.  They are
threatened by aggression from the conqueror Zogg, and the conflict must be decided by single combat between champions.  Since Zogg's champion is a giant blue female warrior with incredible strength, Supergirl has been chosen by Glynix.  Supergirl agrees to battle, goes to Liquel, and fights Zogg's champion.  After a brutal battle, Supergirl finally prevails.  However, custom calls for Supergirl to kill her opponent with a sword, and the Girl of Steel refuses.  By their law, that means Glynix must be executed in her place.  Supergirl appeals to the populance watching the contest, gains their loyalty, and has them proclaim that both Glynix and the female giant must live.  But both Glynix and Supergirl are astonished to see Zogg and his army confronting them with Glynix's mate Largyn at Zogg's side.  Shamefacedly, Largyn confesses that he didn't think Supergirl had a chance, and agreed to cede control of Liquel II to Zogg in return for high government posts for himself and Glynix.  Supergirl intervenes, taking Glynix out of harm's way, and disarms Zogg's army.  After Zogg hits Supergirl with a stunning blast from an outlawed weapon, Largyn attacks Zogg and the two, wielding knives, fall into a moat.  Largyn emerges alive.  Supergirl returns to Earth.

Adventure Comics No. 413
December 1971
Cover:  Supergirl in bank, confronting four-armed robot  //Carmine Infantino and Bob Oskner?
Story:  "The Walking Bombs"  (15 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Geoff Anderson, Johnny Drew
Intro:  Mrs. Robert Meekly, Robert Meekly, Jr. (in flashback; only appearance for both)
Villain:  Robert Meekly (first appearance; dies in this story), bomb-carrying robots (first appearance for all; all destroyed in this story)
Synopsis:  Supergirl comes upon a bank robbery carried out by a bomb-equipped android, but cannot apprehend it or stop the theft for fear of people in the bank being killed by an explosion.  She trails the robot to its desert headquarters, where she meets its creator, Robert Meekly, who imprisons her within electrical bars.  If she walks into the bars, he warns, she will trigger a massive explosion in San Francisco.  Meekly, who has created a number of bomb-robots, explains that he had been married and had an eight-year-old son 12 years ago who was blinded by a car accident.  Since the banks would not loan him enough money for an operation to restore the child's sight, Meekly, who worked in a bank, stole the money himself and altered the books.  After the operation was performed, the deed was discovered, Meekly was jailed, and his wife moved away with his son, promising that he would never see either of them again.  After his release from jail, Meekly created the robot bombs, seeking to rob and then destroy every bank in the country.  Supergirl, whose powers momentarily fade, short-circuits the electrical bars with a hairpin.  Her powers return.  Meekly has sent off two androids in giant ball-craft to different locations, and tells Supergirl she will only be able to stop one.  Supergirl tells him that she recalls the name of a teller in one of the banks:  Robert Meekly, Jr.  Aghast, Meekly goes to retrieve his android and does so, though it explodes and kills him.  Supergirl finds the other android in time and takes it into the desert to detonate harmlessly.  Later, when Linda and the KSF crew are combing the wreckage of one explosion, they find Meekly's body, with his hand clutching a Little League award his son had once won.

Adventure Comics No. 414
January 1972
Cover:  Vortex lifting skyscraper over a bound Supergirl  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "Vortex"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  Len Wein
Artist:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Character:  Geoffrey Anderson
Intro:  Harry Porgus (only appearance)
Villains:  Vortex (Porgus; first appearance; probably dies in this story), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  Vortex, a villain with a weapon which can create great waves of centrifugal force, takes revenge on Harry Porgus--a financier whom he claims stole building designs from him--by
ripping Porgus's skyscraper from its roots and plunking it down in the Grand Canyon.  Supergirl trails the building there, but her powers go out and she is captured.  When her powers return, she stops Vortex from destroying the skyscraper with his power.  Then she knocks him off his flying sled into a waterspout he has created in the Canyon river.  She cannot find his body, and, when
she is amazed that Porgus is concerned for him, she is astonished to hear him say that the Vortex was his brother.

Story:  "The Kidnapping"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Artist:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters: Geoffrey Anderson, Johnny Drew
GS:  Judy (last appearance in issue #410; last appearance)
Intro: Judy's grandmother and grandfather (only appearance for both)
Villains:  Margaret Waters, her boyfriend (first appearance for both; both die in this story), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  While Linda Danvers is out, her apartment is burgled, her identity is disclosed to the burglar when he finds her costume in a closet, and Judy is kidnapped.  The kidnapper forces
Supergirl to steal for him and leave the booty at a predetermined place.  Supergirl finally deduces where Judy is being held and goes to rescue her.  She succeeds, but the kidnapper and his
girlfriend are killed by a ray from a spacecraft which has just landed.  Two of Judy's race emerge, and tell Supergirl that they have come to take Judy back home.  Judy gives Supergirl her rag doll to remember her by.

Adventure Comics No. 415
February 1972
Cover:  Supergirl being dragged by her hair by the Captain to the Commander and his wedding party  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Space Pirates"  (12 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Penciller:  Win Mortimer
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Character:  Johnny Drew
Intro: The Planetary Galaxy Patrol (only appearance)
Villains:  The Captain (first appearance; dies in this story), the Commander, and other space pirates (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Supergirl gets another new costume in this story.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers is captured by the Commander of a group of space pirates to become his mate.  She changes into Supergirl and attempts to break free, but is stunned by the Commander's ray-blast.  Wakening soon after, she learns from the ship's Captain that he and his crew are political refugees from the planet Somar, and cannot go home until their planet's corrupt
government is overthrown.  Supergirl informs him that such a revolution has taken place on Somar, and the Commander was keeping it a secret to retain his power.  Unable to serve the
Commander anymore, the Captain commits suicide.  Supergirl wrecks the ship and captures the space pirates, and turns them and the Commander over to an interplanetary police force.

Story:  "Like a Death's Head In the Sky"  (6 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  Len Wein
Artist:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Intro: Two rocket technicians (only appearance)
Villain: Dr. Noah Kyle (first appearance; dies in this story)
Comment: Supergirl goes back to her "regular", hot-pants-style costume in this story.
Synopsis:  A satellite designed by the radical Dr. Noah Kyle and outfitted with nuclear weapons to be used against the Soviets in case of atomic attack is launched into orbit.  But Dr. Kyle
himself is aboard, and is launching missles at the Soviets in a preemptive strike.  Supergirl must choose between stopping the missles and saving the satellite, which is breaking up.  She chooses the former, destroying all the weapons, and sheds a tear for Kyle as the satellite's orbit decays and it burns up in reentry.

Adventure Comics No. 416
March 1972
Cover:  Supergirl, Hawkgirl, Thorn, Tina, Zatanna, Big Barda, Beautiful Dreamer, Star Sapphire, Liberty Belle, Lilith, Wonder Girl, Merry, the Enchantress, Dumb Bunny, Phantom Lady, Cheetah, Harlequin, Batgirl, Black Canary, Wonder Woman; Merry and Gimmick Guy; Phantom Lady; Black Canary and thug's hand with gun; Wonder Woman chained by Eviless and Cheetah; Supergirl with witches' brew and Superman blinded by ghostly hands //Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Untold Story of Argo City"  (from Action Comics #309)
Story:  "Supergirl's Rival Parents"  (from Action Comics #310)
Story:  "The Black Canary"  (from Flash Comics #86)
Comment: This is a Johnny Thunder story.
Story:  "Villany, Incorporated"  (from Wonder Woman #28)
Comment: This is a Wonder Woman story.
Story:  "Mystery of the Black Cat"  (from Police Comics #17)
Comment: This is a Phantom Lady story.
Story:  "The Duel of the Gimmicks"  (from Star-Spangled Comics #90)
Comment: This is a Merry story.
Story:  "The Black Magic of Supergirl"  (from Action Comics #324)
Comment:  This is DC 100-PAGE SUPER-SPECTACULAR #DC-10.

Adventure Comics No. 417
March 1972
Cover:  Supergirl rescuing Mr. Drew, Johnny Drew, and other men from execution by female soldiers  //Carmine Infantino and Bob Oskner?
Story:  "All Men Are But Slaves"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  Steve Skeates
Artist:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #411)
Supporting Character:  Johnny Drew
Intro:  Mr. Drew (Johnny's father), Dorothy Drew (Johnny's sister), a race of other-dimensional women, their queen, Narkrana (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  Mr. Drew, Johnny's father, is abducted into a magic-based dimension where women rule men.  Johnny Drew, investigating with Linda Danvers, finds a page with a magic spell on it which his father had used to enter that dimension earlier.  When they recite the spell, both Johnny and Linda (as Supergirl) enter that dimension.  Supergirl fights the female soldiers of the other world until their queen calls a halt to hostilities.  Narkrana, the queen's police commissioner, gets called on the carpet for abducting Mr. Drew and enslaving him and Johnny.  The women of this world have enslaved their men, and thus avoided pollution and wars, but they have strict laws against enslaving other-dimensionals.  Supergirl protests that nobody should be enslaved, but they disregard her and send all three back to their own dimension.  The page with the mystic spell is magically burned so that they cannot return to the women's world.

Action Comics No. 411
April 1972Cover: Superman and T. J. Pearson and his men at the Fortress of Solitude  //Nick Cardy
Story:  "The Day They Sold Superman's Fortress"  (16 pages)
Editor:  Murray Boltinoff
Writer:  Leo Dorfman
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Murphy Anderson
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #121)
GS:  Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #417 / 418)
GA:  Kandorians
Intro:  Titus J. Pearson (only appearance)
Cameo:  Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman (as statues)
Synopsis:  Oilman T. J. Pearson has leased 500 miles of Arctic land from the U.S. government to prospect for oil...and Superman's Fortress of Solitude is on that land.  To Superman's chagrin, Pearson finds the locked Fortress door, but has no idea what it is.  Superman consults with Supergirl, who is in favor of helping him airlift the Fortress elsewhere.  But Superman is sworn to obey the law, and a legal expert informs him that he is technically a squatter and Pearson indeed owns the Fortress and everything in it, though he doesn't know what it is.  After Superman secretly causes Pearson's oil-drilling operations to fail, the oilman abandons the project.  Superman builds a new Fortress door, gives it to Pearson as a gift, and convinces him it was built by an alien from space as a symbol of hope...which, technically, it was.

Adventure Comics No. 418
April 1972
Cover:  Supergirl and Chin facing dragon //Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Face of the Dragon"  (18 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  Len Wein
Penciller:  Jose Delbo
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #411; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #98)
GS:  Jonny Double (last appearance in CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN #74; next appears in WONDER WOMAN #199)
Intro: Chin (only appearance)
Villains:  Dr. Tzin-Tzin (last seen in DETECTIVE COMICS #408; next appears in BATMAN #284), Dragon Tong (first appearance; one member dies in this story), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  Nasthalia hires detective Johnny Double to trail Linda Danvers, telling him Linda wants to kill her, but secretly hoping he will discover her Supergirl identity.  He catches up with
Linda in Chinatown, where a radical group, the Dragon Tong, has killed one of their own for betrayal and attempts to kill the mayor of Chinatown.  Supergirl intervenes and captures the Tong
men.  Later, Linda and Johnny run across a Chinese boy who is in the employ of Batman's enemy Dr. Tzin-Tzin.  They stop the youth from committing suicide over his failure to help his fellow Tong men, and trail him back to Tzin-Tzin's hideout.  Linda becomes Supergirl, encounters one of Tzin-Tzin's illusions, and dispels it with heat-vision.  Tzin-Tzin escapes by jumping into the bay.
Later, Johnny tells Nasthalia that he won't take her case.  After she storms out, he wonders if Linda really could be Supergirl, but doubts it.

Justice League of America No. 98
May 1972
Cover: Sargon the Sorceror, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Superman, Batman, Flash, and Green Lantern in giant power ring //Neal Adams
Story: "No More Tomorrows" (25 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Mike Friedrich
Penciller: Dick Dillin
Inker: Joe Giella
Letterer: John Costanza
Feature Characters: Superman, Batman, Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Green arrow, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary (the Justice League of America)
GS: Sargon the Sorceror (next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #462)
GA: Hawkgirl (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #?; next appears in issue #119), Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #418 / 419)
Intro: Pedro Valdez, Maria Valdez, General Lopez, Brick Ford (only appearance for all)
Villains: Starbreaker (last appearance), three assassins (first and only appearance)
Synopsis: Sargon the Sorceror leads the Justice League of America in an operation that finally enables them to defeat Starbreaker and save the Earth.

Adventure Comics No. 419
May 1972
Cover:  Supergirl holding invisible gunman before policeman  //Carmine Infantino and Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Thief Who Loved Supergirl"  (11 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  John Albano
Penciller:  Tony DeZuniga
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #98; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #211)
Villains:  Mike Merrick (last appearance in issue #410; dies in this story), Lorelei (first appearance; dies in this story), a gunman (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Supergirl is plagued by happenings which make her, and the public, doubt her sanity:  she apprehends an assassin who does not exist and builds a seawall around San Francisco to take
care of a nonexistent tidal wave.  The illusions are the work of Lorelei, the witch-lover of thief Mike Merrick.  Lorelei has been using her powers to confound Supergirl and to facilitate Merrick's thievery.  Since Merrick is still in love with Supergirl as well, and knows her double identity, he fears that Lorelei will destroy Supergirl with her magic out of jealousy.  Thus, to save her, he crashes his car head-on into a cliff with himself and Lorelei inside, killing them both.

World's Finest Comics No. 211
May 1972
Cover:  Superman and Batman  //Neal Adams
Story:  "Fugitive From the Stars"  (25 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Denny O'Neil
Penciller:  Dick Dillin
Inker:  Joe Giella
Feature Characters:  Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #412; next appears in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #122), Batman (between DETECTIVE COMICS #423; next appears in BRAVE AND THE BOLD #102)
GA: Supergirl (between ADVENTURE COMICS #419 / 420), Kandorians
Intro:  Sarah Jongueler, a female fugitive (only appearance for both)
Villains:  The Krush, assorted crooks (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  The Krush, alien manhunters, come to Earth in search of a woman who is a fugitive from their planet.  At first, Superman and Batman decide to aid in the search, but become
suspicious of the Krush's intentions.  Supergirl helps Batman locate the female fugitive in Kandor, and learns that her crime was speaking out against the warmongers of the Krush, for which she was condemned to die.  Batman refuses to help the Krush take her back, and Superman assumes Batman's disguise, challenges them to battle, defeats them, and forces them to honor an agreement they had made with him and leave the planet.  The woman remains safe in Kandor.

Adventure Comics No. 420
June 1972
Cover:  Supergirl running amok on alien battlefield  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writers:  Raymond Marais, Len Wein
Penciller:  Tony DeZuniga
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #211)
Intro: Togran (dies in this story)
Villains:  The Mind Warp  (Opra, Vorko, and Draak; first appearance for all; all die in this story)
Synopsis:  Supergirl, heading Earthward after a space mission, is diverted by a decoy explosive-ball that she lures away from herself.  She tracks it to its planet of origin, which is
precisely what three evil wizards, Orpa, Vorko and Draak (collectively known as the Mind Warp) wanted.  On the planet, she is met by Togran, son of Vorko and enemy of the Mind Warp
wizards.  Togran tells her that the wizards' enemies, the people of Westland, have destroyed all of his people except for the Mind Warpers and their families.  They brought Supergirl there to
devastate the Westlanders in revenge.  Supergirl intends to leave, but missles strike in Togran's garden and severely injure him.  Angered, Supergirl heads to Westland and begins laying waste their war machine.  But Vorko revives his son, and, against Vorko's wishes, Togran uses his mystic powers to go to Supergirl's side and explain that the Mind Warpers themselves directed the missles against him, as a ploy.  Seconds later, Togran dies of overstrain.  Vorko kills his two fellow wizards, though their mental linkage causes Vorko to die himself.  Supergirl departs, knowing the war is finally over.

Story: "The Monster From Krypton" (from Action Comics #303)

Adventure Comics No. 421
July 1972
Cover:  Supergirl held by demons, about to be sacrificed by Nightflame  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "Demon Spawn"  (6 pages)
 Chapter Two:  "Enter the Demon World"  (4 pages)
 Chapter III:  "The Demon Fire"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writers:  Marv Wolfman and Steve Skeates
Penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Character:  Geoffrey Anderson
Cameo: Fred Danvers, Edna Danvers
Villains:  Nightflame, Supergirl's "inner demons" (first appearance for all; all possibly destroyed in this story), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  An amazon named Nightflame wielding a sword with awesome energy-powers appears in San Francisco, raises havoc, and demands that Supergirl be brought to her.  She locates the Girl
of Steel at KSF-TV, renders her unconcsious, separates her spirit from her body, and flies off.  When Supergirl awakens, she is beset by demons and Nightflame, who tells her that she is now on
a world that exists only in an atom of her brain.  The "innerverse" is sustained by evil, and her choice to do good is eating it away.  Nightflame intends to make her choose evil, take over her body, and become the new Supergirl.  But mental contact with Geoff Anderson helps Supergirl throw off Nightflame's influence.  In the end, Nightflame, the demons, and the "inner world" are destroyed, and Supergirl revives.  She kisses Geoff gratefully.

Adventure Comics No. 422
August 1972
Cover:  Robot holding Supergirl, climbing tall building, and being attacked by planes  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "Pawn of Peace"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  Steve Skeates
Penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Character: Geoffrey Anderson
Intro:  Professor Axel (dies in this story), Charlie, Prof. Zlotsky, a Russian driver, another robot (only appearance for all)
Villains:  A group of alien invaders (first and only appearance), a monster robot (first appearance; destroyed in this story), Nasthalia Luthor
Synopsis:  Two alien invaders with the power to make themselves look like Earthmen pose as scientists from a "peace committee" and pay a visit on Professor Axel.  Axel has spent ten fruitless
years trying to make a giant warrior-robot work.  The aliens lend a hand and animate the robot with their superior technology.  But they use it as a weapon, to wreak havoc in San Francisco.
Supergirl battles the robot, but its power exceeds her own and it grabs her in a crushing grip.  Professor Axel, trying to short-circuit his creation, is crushed by its mighty hand.  Supergirl
finally hits on the idea of irradiating the robot's "brain" with her X-ray vision.  This disrupts the robot, and it crashes inertly to earth.  Supergirl becomes Linda Danvers again and gets bawled out by Geoff for missing the robot story, and undercut by Nasthalia, who takes Geoff to lunch.  Meanwhile, the alien invaders have taken on the shape of Russians, and are paying a visit to a Soviet scientist who has been trying to get his own giant robot to work...

Adventure Comics No. 423
September 1972
Cover:  Supergirl bursting into Justice League headquarters to confront Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Flash, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary, and Green Lantern  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "Treachery"  (24 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writers:  E. Nelson Bridwell, John Albano
Penciller:  Mike Sekowsky
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl
GS:  Aquaman, Black Canary, Hawkman (all between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #99 / 100), Atom (between WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #213 / JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #200), Batman (between BRAVE AND THE BOLD #103 / DETECTIVE COMICS #427), Flash (between THE FLASH #217 / 218), Green Arrow (between BRAVE AND THE BOLD #100 / JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #100), Green Lantern (between SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #151 / JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #100), Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #416; next appears in SUPERMAN #257; all appear as the Justice League of America, between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #99 / 100)
Intro:  Gur's brother (dies in this story), a race of aliens, a "sub-human" (only appearance for all)
Villain:  Gur (first appearance; dies in this story)
Comments  Supergirl's "on-again-off-again" powers are still in effect as of this story.
 Dialogue for this story is mistakenly credited to Steve Skeates.
Synopsis:  A race of alien warriors led by the conqueror Gur and his more pacifistic brother land on Earth below its seas in secret.  Then one of their secret agents places a pair of spectacles on Supergirl's eyes that enable them to mentally control her.  The aliens plan to control every super-hero on Earth through the glasses, and to use them as an invincible space-army.  Gur succeeds in getting Supergirl to get Superman to put on a pair of alien glasses, and he falls under their domination as well.  But Gur's brother, repentant, tricks Supergirl into melting the glasses with her heat-vision.  Superman goes to the Justice League satellite to try and persuade them to don other pairs of the glasses, saying they will give his friends "super-vision".  Supergirl appears, and Superman begins fighting her and the other Leaguers.  At Supergirl's prompting, Green Lantern uses his ring to destroy Superman's glasses, removing him from the aliens' control.  Meanwhile, back at the spaceship, Gur goes after his treacherous brother, breaches the hull of his ship with a ray-blast, and is shot by one of his own soldiers.  Gur's brother goes below to die with Gur as the waters flood the belowdecks of their ship.  Later, Superman and Supergirl build the remaining aliens a new spacecraft so they can return home.

Supergirl No. 424
October 1972
Cover:  Supergirl and men in space-capsules  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "Crypt of the Frozen Graves"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Joe Orlando
Writer:  Steve Skeates
Penciller:  Tony DeZuniga
Inker:  Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERGIRL #1)
Supporting Characters:  Geoff Anderson, Johnny Drew (last appearance for both)
Intro:  Bruce Ryan (dies in this story)
Villains:  The Frisco Syndicate (including Mr. Big, Theobald, the Professor, and others; first and only appearance), Nasthalia Luthor (last appearance)
Comment:  This is Supergirl's last solo-story in ADVENTURE COMICS.  Her adventures continue in the SUPERGIRL title.
 Since Supergirl's "on-again-off-again" powers are never mentioned again, it appears that the effects of Dr. Kangle's pill have finally worn off.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers has been getting information on the Frisco Syndicate from former gangster Bruce Ryan, but Bruce is scared into hiding by mob attempts to kill him.  Linda herself
has been getting flak from Geoff and Johnny at work about her camera operation due to Nasty's machinations, but gains praise for her reporting.  Later, Bruce gets killed by a gunman who
appears and disappears as if by magic.  When Linda learns that Nasty may have been giving information to the mob about Bruce to frustrate her reporting efforts, she physically attacks her and has to be restrained by Johnny and Geoff.  Supergirl finally tracks down the Frisco Syndicate, who have been using a scientist's teleportation device to send in assassins and dispose of witnesses in space capsules.  After jailing them, Supergirl returns to her Linda Danvers identity, goes to KSF-TV, and angrily resigns.

Supergirl No. 1
November 1972
Cover:  Supergirl and Frank Morris vs. Basil Rasloff and his steam shovel  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "Trail of the Madman"  (16 pages)
Editor:  Dorothy Woolfolk
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #424)
Supporting Characters:  Sheila Wong, Terry Blake (first appearance for all)
Intro:  Ron Buxton, Michael Heimes (both die in this story), Aunt Rosie, Dean Madison, Wanda Five, Suzie, Frank Morris (only appearance for all)
Villains  Basil Rasloff, a blackmailer (first and only appearance for both)
Comments:  Supergirl enrolls at Vandyke University, 10 miles away from San Francisco, in this story.  Presumably, she is taking post-graduate training and getting her second major, in Drama.
 This story takes place on September 15th.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers enrolls at Vandyke University as a Drama major.  She moves into the Delta Zan sorority house and soon learns that one of her roommates, Wanda Five, is a girl with ESP powers.  Wanda has picked up on bad vibes when two student actors were killed.  With some help from Wanda, Supergirl unmasks their killer as drama teacher Basil Rasloff, a former Hollywood leading man, who has gone mad and is killing students who were to star in plays he once made famous.
 

Supergirl No. 2
January 1973
Cover:  Supergirl trying to get Allan Forsyte out of  Kandor bottle  //Art Saaf / Bob Oskner
Story:  "Death of a City"  (18 pages)
Editor, writer:  Bob Kanigher
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Shiela Wong, Tracy Blake (last appearance for both), Zor-El, Allura (last appearance for both in ADVENTURE COMICS #409; both next appear in SUPERMAN FAMILY #165), Nor-Kan (as a corpse; last appearance in ACTION COMICS #317; last appearance), Kandorians
Intro:  Prof. Allan Forsyte, Jeff (only appearance for both)
Comment: A note in the letters column of this issue indicates that Streaky is living with Fred and Edna Danvers at this time.
Synopsis:  After Linda Danvers rescues Prof. Allan Forsyte from drowning at the beach, she discovers he is suffering from a brain malady to which there is no known cure.  Since Forsyte is working on a cure for sickle-cell anemia, Supergirl tries to find a way to save his life.  She takes him to the Fortress of Solitude, where a computer tells her the solution may be found with Nor-Kan in the bottle city of Kandor.  Nor-Kan, one of Krypton's leading scientists, is dead.  Nonetheless, Supergirl and Forsyte are shrunk and enter Kandor, where, in Nor-Kan's tomb, she finds a vial of "cure-all" formula in the scientist's dead hand.  Since Forsyte is now dying, she administers it to him.  But a recorded message of Nor-Kan's reveals that the "cure-all" also induces giantism, and Forsyte begins to grow.  Supergirl leaves the bottle-city and returns to normal size.  Forsyte, cured of his brain disease, is threatening to crush Kandor.  To get him out, Supergirl heats the glass walls of the bottle and blows it into a bigger shape, enabling her to extract Forsyte.  Afterward, she restores the bottle to its original shape.

Supergirl No. 3
Feb. 1973
Cover:  Supergirl and a kitten sitting outside a house in which a party is going on  //Art Saaf / Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Garden of Death"  (16 pages)
Editor:  Bob Kanigher
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Sabra, Terri Blake (first appearance for both)
Intro:  Bob Lewis, Frankie, Mary Ann Brooks, Albert Brooks, Vic Mason, a group of botanists, a police detective (only appearance for all)
Villains:  "Lucky Coin" Lacey, Doc (first and only appearance for both), four unnamed criminals (first appearance for all; all die before this story begins)
Comment: Shortly after this story, Supergirl asks Zatanna to put on a magic show for the children at Midvale Orphanage, as shown in the Zatanna story in this issue.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers loses a date with her current swain, Bob Lewis.  An actor named Frankie asks to take his place, since his current girlfriend, Mary Ann Brooks, stood him up, while crying over the phone.  Supergirl investigates and finds that Mary Ann's father, botanist Albert Brooks, has been charged with the murder of "Lucky Coin" Lacey, whose body was found on his estate grounds.  Supergirl finds the bodies of three other gangsters on the estate.  But she also finds the one witness who can establish that Brooks was in his presence at the time of the murder, and Brooks is released.  Later, Brooks is kidnapped by the real "Lucky Coin" Lacey and his crony, a plastic surgeon named Doc.  The phony "Lacey" was another gang rival, made to look like Lacey by Doc.  Now Doc has changed Lacey into a look-alike for Brooks, and they intend to murder him and have Lacey take his place.  Supergirl arrives in time to save Brooks and capture Lacey and Doc.  But, since Mary Ann is now reunited with Frankie, Supergirl loses her date to the party.

Supergirl No. 4
March 1973
Cover:  Supergirl with half-Super Scavenger's mask and hairy hand //Art Saaf / Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Borrowed Brain"  (17 pages)
Editor: Robert Kanigher
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Sabra, Terri Blake
Intro: Nar-Kor (only appearance)
Villains:  Super-Scavenger (David Grahm) and his gang (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  David Grahm, a gangleader who plots perfect crimes which his men execute for him, uses his enrollment as a student at Vandyre University as a cover.  At a swimming party, he
romances Linda Danvers.  Shortly afterward, he sustains a brain injury when trying to save Terri, Linda's roommate, from hitting her head on a chunk of concrete on the bottom of the swimming
pool.  At considerable pain to herself, Supergirl uses Kandorian brain-surgery equipment to transfer some of her brain cells to David's head to replace his damaged cells.  David recovers, and
more:  the cells multiply and he gains super-powers.  Creating a costume with a lead mask, David becomes Super-Scavenger, stealing loot from his own gang.  When Supergirl tries to apprehend him, he fights her off with super-strength.  But, as in all such Kryptonian power-transfer cases, Super-Scavenger's powers prove to be temporary, and Supergirl has to save him from falling to
his death.  She turns him in to the police.  Later, Terri and Sabra ask Linda to come boy-hunting with them, but Linda says she isn't ready yet.

Supergirl No. 5
June 1973
Cover:  Supergirl, Dax, and rebels facing firing squad  //Art Saaf / Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Devil's Brother"  (16 pages)
Editor:  Bob Kanigher
Writer:  Arnold Drake
Penciller:  John Rosenberger
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl
Supporting Characters:  Terri Blake, Sabra (last appearance for both)
GA:  Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #217; next appears in SUPERMAN #264)
Intro: Student rebels of an other-dimensional world,  Rowena and other children (first and only appearance for all)
Villain: Dax (first and only appearance)
Comment:  Supergirl's "on-again-off-again" powers have definitely been cured as of this story, since Supergirl sees her power-loss as unusual.
Synopsis:  Supergirl discovers her powers cutting out on her shortly before she takes a group of teenagers to an amusement park.  At the park's Fun House, she is yanked through a dimensional doorway to the world of Dax, a planetary tyrant.  Dax says that he stole her powers with rays which she absorbed from a book he sent her, and he holds one of the children, Rowena, hostage as well.  He agrees to restore her powers if she will lead a group of student rebels into an ambush.  Supergirl agrees, but insists on seeing Rowena's watch as proof of her abduction.  After she hands back the watch, Dax restores her powers.  She flies off, gains the confidence of the rebels, and does indeed lead them into a trap.  But Dax is rendered unconscious by a sleep-gas capsule she had planted in the watch, and Supergirl defeats Dax's forces.  Turning them over to the student rebels, Supergirl takes Rowena and returns to her own dimension just before the warp-gateway closes.

Supergirl No. 6
August 1973
Cover:  Rick, Supergirl, and Loretta  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "In Love and War"  (14 pages)
Editor:  Bob Kanigher
Writer:  Arnold Drake
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl
Intro:  Loretta, Rick, and the Hustlers (a gang; including Gordy), the Flaming Serpents (a gang; including the General (Steve) and Kong; only appearance for all)
Villain: Little Napoleon (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Supergirl saves Rick, the head of the Hustlers street gang, from an assault by their rivals, the Flaming Serpents.  Taking him back to his home turf, she learns from Rick that the
gang has gotten out of warfare and into community service, such as restoring a condemned building.  Supergirl goes to the Flaming Serpents to talk peace, but, when one of their gang is kayoed from behind and put in a deathtrap from which Supergirl rescues him, Little Napoleon, a Serpent, accuses the Hustlers of the deed.  A gang war almost ensues, but Supergirl immobilizes both gangs with her powers and then proves that Little Napoleon is the guilty party.  He confesses that he wanted to be a big man in the gang, and both Hustlers and Serpents cease hostilities and agree to work on the building project together.

Supergirl No. 7
October 1973
Cover:  Supergirl and Zatanna in a tug-of-war over an abominable snowman  //Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Sinister Snowman"  (20 pages)
Editor:  Bob Kanigher
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Don Heck
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in ACTION COMICS #429)
GS:  Zatanna (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND, LOIS LANE #132; next appears in ACTION COMICS #434)
Intro:  Tony Martyn (only appearance)
Villain: The Orgox (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Supergirl and Zatanna have separately fallen in love with Tony Martyn, a Peace Corps volunteer who has been lost in the Himalayas.  Both women decide to try and track him down.
Supergirl learns from the Himalayans that they are ruled by an evil wizard called the Orgox, and that Tony went to his mountain to prove that the Orgox was only a mortal.  Zatanna and Supergirl each encounter mystic menaces on their way up the mountain, finally work together, and manage to defeat the Orgox and rescue Tony.  In anger, the Orgox brings the mountain crashing down; though the heroines think he has perished, they cannot be sure.  Tony thanks both Zatanna and Supergirl, and then reveals he has a fiancee waiting for him in America.

Action Comics No. 429
November 1973
Cover: Superman and Ryan Lowell with projector slide of Superman / Clark Kent dossier //Nick Cardy
Story: "The Man Who Wrote Superman's Obituary" (13 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Elliot S! Maggin
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Bob Oskner
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #161; next appears in SUPERGIRL #8)
GA: Batman, Green Lantern (last appearance for both in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #108; both next appear in SUPERGIRL #8), Flash (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #108; next appears in FLASH #225; all appear, with Superman, as the Justice League of America, between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #108 / SUPERGIRL #8), Supergirl (between SUPERGIRL #7 / 8)
Intro: Ryan Lowell (first and only appearance)
Villain: Ozymaxias (first and only appearance)
Comments: In this story, we learn that Superman was born on 35 Eorx in the Kryptonian year 9998, which corresponds to February 29th.
 Shortly after this story, Superman and the Justice League help Supergirl in her battle against Medusa in SUPERGIRL #8.  Then Superman and Batman encounter El Monstro in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #219-220.
Synopsis: After Superman defeats Oxymaxias, a monster from ancient Earth, he learns that the Daily Planet's morgue keeper has learned his secret identity thanks to an accidental link between his teletype and the diary-writing device at the Fortress of Solitude.

Supergirl No. 8
November 1973
Cover:  Supergirl with head of snakes, Hawkman, Batman, and Green Lantern being turned to stone //Bob Oskner
Story:  "A Head-Full of Snakes"  (20 pages)
Editor:  Bob Kanigher
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Art Saaf
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #429)
GS: Superman, Batman (last appearance for both in ACTION COMICS #429; both next appear in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #219), Hawkman (between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #106 / 109), Green Lantern (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #429; next appears in THE FLASH #225; all appear as the Justice League of America, between ACTION COMICS #429 / JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #109)
Intro:  Mitch Baxter, Professor Garth, Perseus (as a ghost; only appearance for all)
Villains: Vick, Jake, another mugger, Medusa (as a ghost; first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  After Linda Danvers takes part in a play rehearsal in which she dons a snake-headed mask and portrays Medusa and her leading man Mitch Baxter takes the role of Perseus, she is
astonished when the real Medusa's ghost gives her a head full of real snakes and the curse of turning any man who looks at her to stone.  Medusa's spirit informs Supergirl that if she dies in the next eight hours, her body will be taken over by Medusa, who will gain a superhuman corpus with which to conquer the world.  Batman, Green Lantern, and Hawkman try to bring in Supergirl for treatment, but she fights them off and accidentally turns them to stone.  However, with the help of Perseus's ghost, who possesses Mitch's body, they fight and defeat Medusa and remove the snakes from Supergirl's head and the curse from her body.  She tells Mitch, whose body is left by Perseus's spirit, that the victims whom she turned to stone will return to normal.

Supergirl No. 9
December 1973 / January 1974
Cover:  Supergirl saving Queen Hippolyte from shark-men //Don Heck / Bob Oskner
Story:  "The Super-Amazon"  (20 pages)
Editor, writer:  Bob Kanigher
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPERBOY #200)
GS:  Queen Hippolyte, Amazons (between WONDER WOMAN #208 / 209), Nubia (last appearance in WONDER WOMAN #206; last appearance)
Intro:  Dale, Bambi, Fong, Drake Cassand (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Shark-men, witch-doctors of Cologi Island (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  After Supergirl has some disenchanting experiences with men, she flies by Paradise Island, where she saves Nubia and Queen Hippolyte from some Shark-Men.  In gratitude, Hippolyte asks Kara to become an Amazon.  Supergirl passes the tests with flying colors and is made an official Amazon and the honorary daughter of Queen Hippolyte.  But Nubia has been bitten by a Shark-Man and poisoned, and the only antidote is an herb growing on Corigi Island.  Supergirl must fetch the herb, enduring an adventure on the way, and gets it to Nubia in time to save her life.  However, she feels her self-imposed isolation on Paradise Island would deprive the world of her services, so she elects to return to Man's World.

Superboy No. 200
January-February 1974
Cover:  Starfinger, Bouncing Boy, Duo Damsel, and Superboy  //Nick Cardy
Story:  "The Legionnaire Bride of Starfinger"  (7 pages)
 Part 2:  "This Wife Is Condemned"  (6 pages)
 Part 3:  "Secret of the Starfinger Split"  (7 pages)
Editor:  Murray Boltinoff
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Dave Cockrum
Feature Characters:  Bouncing Boy, Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Colossal Boy, Cosmic Boy, Dream Girl, Duo Damsel, Karate Kid, Light Lass, Lightning Lad, Matter-Eater Lad, Mon-El, Phantom Girl, Princess Projectra, Shadow Lass, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Sun Boy, Superboy, Supergirl (last appearance in  SUPERGIRL #9; next appears in issue #204), Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy, Wildfire (as ERG-1) (the Legion of Super-Heroes)
GA:  Stone Boy, Polar Boy, Color Kid, Night Girl, Chlorophyll Kid (the Legion of Substitute Heroes), Duplicate Boy
Villain:  Starfinger (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #336; last appearance)
Synopsis:  Supergirl joins the Legion of Super-Heroes to attend the wedding of Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel, during which Starfinger strikes.

Superboy No. 204
Sept.-Oct. 1974
Story:  "Brainiac 5's Secret Weakness"  (8 pages)
Editor:  Murray Boltinoff
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Mike Grell
Feature Characters:  Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Star Boy, Supergirl (last appearance in issue #200; next appears in SUPERGIRL #10 (2)
Intro:  A Supergirl android (destroyed in this story)
Synopsis:  Brainiac 5, who has been putting in long hours and mooning over the abscence of his love Supergirl, has created a Supergirl android in his sleep and programmed her to love him.  When Brainiac and Star Boy go on vacation, the Supergirl android appears.  Brainiac is convinced the android is the real Supergirl, and that she loves him, so he resigns from the Legion and heads into a radiation belt in space by accident.  He is rescued by the real Supergirl, but the android, who reveals herself to them, is destroyed by the radiation.  Brainiac 5 rejoins the Legion.  Supergirl tells him that she cannot cope with being a part-time Legionnaire until she gets her life
straightened out, but she may someday return and maybe they can pick up where they left off.

Supergirl No. 10
September-October 1974
Cover:  Supergirl holding Prez over buildings  //Art Saaf / Bob Oskner
Story:  "Death of a Prez"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Bob Kanigher
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl of Earth-B (first and only appearance)
GS:  Prez (last appearance in PREZ #4; last appearance)
Villains:  Hepzibah, two assassins (first and only apperance for all)
Comment:  Since Prez is not the president of the USA on Earth-One, this is a non-canonical Supergirl story.
 Even though this issue occurs between two issues of SUPERMAN FAMILY, chronologically it takes place just before SUPERMAN FAMILY #164.
Synopsis:  Supergirl encounters Prez and saves him from two assassination attempts.  Unknown to her, the master assassin has been setting her up for mental takeover by Hepzibah, a witch in
his employ.  With the aid of Hepzibah's magic and a "cranial cannon", the assassin hopes to make Supergirl kill Prez.  But the Girl of Steel resists the compulsion, destroys the "cranial cannon", and brings in Hepzibah and her employer.

Story:  "Her Brother's Keeper"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Bob Kanigher
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERBOY #204; next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #165)
Villains:  Dr. Forte (first and only appearance), Superlad (first appearance; dies in this story)
Comment: Dr. Forte is named after Superman family artist John Forte.
Synopsis:  Pretending to appeal to Supergirl for help in financing, geneticist Dr. Forte steals one cell from her hand with a "super-laser" and uses it to clone a male super-youth whom he calls Superlad.  She is amazed to meet her "twin brother", but is appalled that he commits bank robberies to benefit Forte, and battles him.  Superlad eludes her and goes to confront Forte,
wondering why (as Supergirl has told him) he has not been given a sense of morality.  Supergirl trails her clone to the lab of Dr. Forte.  Forte orders Superlad to kill Supergirl with a super-laser gun.  Instead, Superlad uses the gun on himself, committing suicide.  Supergirl takes Dr. Forte captive.

Superman Family No. 164, Apr.-May 1974
Story:  "Brainiac's Blitz"  (from Action Comics #339)

Superman Family No. 165, June-July 1974
Cover:  Tlaca vs. Supergirl; Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane vignettes //Nick Cardy
Story:  "Princess of the Golden Sun"  (1 page)
 Part One:  "Go East, Young Woman"  (6 pages)
 Part Two:  "To Lose a Battle"  (4 pages)
 Part Three:  "And Win a War"  (8 pages)
 Epilogue  (1 page)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Elliot S! Maggin
Penciller:  Art Saaf
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERGIRL #10; next appears in SUPERMAN #282)
GS:  Superman (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #436; next appears in SUPERMAN #277)
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Allura (last appearance for both in SUPERGIRL #2; both next appear in issue #177),  Dean Betsy Lyman (first appearance; next appears in issue #174), Martin Hamilton, Benjamin Pierce (both next appear in issue #171)
Intro:  Eileen Falco, Kerry Berkman, Mrs. Falco (only appearance for all)
Cameo appearance:  Cortez (in flashback)
Villains: Tlaca, Mixcal, Poxhuala (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  Supergirl leaves Vandyre University and becomes a counselor at New Athens Experimental School in this story.
Synopsis:  Linda Danvers leaves Vandyre University and goes to New Athens Experimental School in Florida to become a counselor there.  Not long afterward, she encounters and battles Tlaca, a warrior-princess of a lost Aztec tribe, who possesses super-powers comparable to her own.  Tlaca is at first defeated and imprisoned, but she uses her meditation techniques to develop
power more than equal to Supergirl's in seven days time.  Supergirl deduces that Tlaca's power derives from the magnetic field of the Earth.  She uses an electromagnet to nullify Tlaca's powers and defeats her again.  Taking Tlaca to prison, Supergirl says that she will be placed in a special electromagnetic jail cell.  Tlaca vows to escape and revenge herself on Supergirl.

Superman Family No. 166
August-September 1974
Story:  "The Great Supergirl Double-Cross"  (from Action Comics #317)

Superman Family No. 167
October-November 1974
Story:  "Supergirl's Greatest Victory"  (from Action Comics #262)

Superman No. 282
December 1974
Story:  "The Loneliest Man In the Universe"  (6 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Marty Pasko
Artist:  Ernie Chua
Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in first story of this issue; next appears in ACTION COMICS #440)
GS:  Supergirl (between SUPERMAN FAMILY #165 / 168)
Intro: The Anti-Crime Patrol (in flashback; only appearance)
Villain:  Nam-Ek (in flashback; first appearance;  next appears in issue #311)
Comments: This is a Fabulous World of Krypton story.
 In later stories, it is revealed that Nam-Ek is now in the Phantom Zone.  It is also hard to conceive how even a Rondor horn could help him survive the explosion of Krypton.
Synopsis:  Supergirl tells Superman she is thinking about giving up her Supergirl identity to live the life of an ordinary woman, with a husband and children.  To illustrate that she might feel
different later on if she makes that choice, Superman tells her about Nam-Ek.  Nam lived 500 years before Krypton's explosion, killed two Rondors for their curative horns, and extracted a
serum from them to make himself immortal.  But, since slaying a Rondor is illegal, Nam-Ek became a fugitive from justice.  Drinking the serum from the horns, Nam-Ek transformed himself
into a hideous, smelly "human Rondor" with a curative horn growing from his forehead.  He learned that he was immortal and invulnerable, and worked in solitude for five centuries, only to
learn that he needed companionship.  Unfortunately, since he was smelly and ugly, nobody wanted to get within throwing distance of him, and everyone drove him away.  Just as Nam-Ek sought out another Rondor in hopes of changing himself back to normal, Krypton exploded.  Nam-Ek floated in lifeless space, alone forever.  Thus, Superman cautions his cousin about the danger of
getting one's wishes fulfilled.  He doesn't tell her how he knew of Nam-Ek.  But she admits that she has some "heavy thinking" to do.

Superman Family No. 168
December 1974 / January 1975
Cover:  Supergirl, Shari Jones, and two gargoyles; Jimmy Olsen in Nazi Germany; Brainiac vs. Lois Lane and Superman (three vignettes) //Nick Cardy
Story:  "The Girl With the See-Through Mind"  (20 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Elliot S! Maggin
Penciller:  John Rosenberger
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character:  Supergirl (origin retold in flashback; last appearance in SUPERMAN #282; next appears in issue #171)
Supporting Character:  Lena Thorul Colby (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #388; next appears in issue ACTION COMICS #488), Shari Jones (first appearance; next appears in issue #171)
Intro:  Jan Thurston, Mike (only appearance for both)
Cameo:  Lex Luthor, Batman, Superman, Zor-El, Allura, people of Argo City (in flashback)
Villains:  Don Romero (Lemon Lips Romero), four gargoyles (returned to human form in this story; only appearance for all)
Comment:  Lena Thorul's married name of Colby is not used in this story.  No explanation is given for the change.  But in her next appearance, in issue #211, her name is given as Lena Thorul
Colby, and it is revealed that her husband Jeff Colby is dead.
Synopsis:  When genius-level student Jan Thurston exhibits marked ESP abilities in an experiment conducted by psychic Lena Thorul Colby on a visit to New Athens School, she rushes away and,
against her will, tries to commit suicide.  Supergirl rescues her from each attempt.  When Supergirl, Lana, and Jan investigate, they discover that Jan is an empath, able to absorb and destroy others' pain.  Also, she has been terrified by visions of evil at an old house.  Supergirl discovers she has been in psychic contact with Shari Jones, a woman whom sorceror Don Romero has been trying to induce mystically to commit suicide so that he can steal her life-force and lengthen his own life-span.  With the help of Jan's empathic abilities, Supergirl fights and defeats
Don Romero, rescues Shari, and sets Jan free of her horrific visions.  Later, Shari applies for a job teaching at New Athens, and Linda writes a recommendation for her.

Superman Family No. 169
February-March 1975
Story:  "The Anti-Supergirl Plot"  (from Action Comics #350)

Superman Family No. 170
April-May 1975
Story:  "The Green Sun Supergirl"  (from Action Comics #337)

Superman Family No. 171
June-July 1975
Cover:  Supergirl, Batgirl, Lilibet Windsor (as Cleopatra), Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, Elongated Man, Black Canary  //Mike Grell? / Ernie Chua?
Story:  "Cleopatra, Queen of America"  (25 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Elliot S! Maggin
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (between issues #168 / 174)
GS:  Batman (between DETECTIVE COMICS #448 / BRAVE AND THE BOLD #120), Black Canary, Elongated Man (both between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #119 / 120), Flash, Green Lantern (both between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #119 / THE FLASH #235),  Superman (the Justice League of America), Batgirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #279; next appears in BATMAN FAMILY #1)
GA: Carter Hall (Hawkman; in flashback; between JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #119 / 121), President Gerald Ford (of Earth-One)
Supporting Characters: Martin Hamilton (between issues #165 / 180), Benjamin Pierce (between issues #165 / 204), Shari Jones (between issues #168 / 204)
Intro: Danny (only appearance)
Villains: Cleopatra (in flashback), Lilibet Windsor (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Lilibet Windsor, a Britisher who is a direct descendant of Cleopatra, visits New Athens Experimental School on an exchange program.  At the school's art museum, the scepter of
Cleopatra smashes through its glass case and places itself in her hand.  The scepter has magic powers, including the ability to mentally dominate anyone the holder wishes.  Moreover, the spirit
of Cleopatra begins to take over Lilibet.  As the new Cleopatra, she takes over the United States by psychic command.  Supergirl and Batgirl, the latter on a visit to the campus as Barbara Gordon, are two of the few to escape her control.  They attempt to fight her, but Lilibet uses her power to make the Justice League battle Supergirl and defeat her.  Later, Batgirl and Supergirl use a ruse to make Lilibet willingly give up the scepter, and Supergirl throws it into the sun.  America wakens from its spell, and Lilibet gratefully gives up her Cleopatra identity.

Superman Family No. 172
August-September 1975
Story:  "The Kiss of Death"  (from Action Comics #364)

Superman Family No. 173
October-November 1975
Story:  "The Villain Who Married Supergirl"  (from Action Comics #338)

Superman Family No. 174
December 1975 / January 1976
Cover:  Supergirl vs. dragon  //Kurt Schaffenberger
Story:  "Eyes of the Serpent"  (20 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Elliot S! Maggin
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (between issues #171 / 177)
Supporting Character: Betsy Lyman (between issues #165 / 182)
Other Character:  Davy Tenzer (last seen in ACTION COMICS #452; last appearance)
Villains:  Beriak and other Serpent Men (first and only appearance for all)
Synopsis:  The Serpent Men of another planet send their agent Beriak to conquer the Earth.  He assumes the identity of Harry Vernon and goes to New Athens Experimental School, where he
hypnotizes several administrators into letting him become a counselor.  Later, he revives a sea dragon from suspended animation and lets Supergirl fight and defeat it to gauge her power.  Finally, he puts Supergirl under his mental control and instructs her to dig up the Eden Rock beneath one of the trees in an orange grove, to give him power to rule over Earth.  But Davy,
the "immortal singer", plays his harp to remove Supergirl from her hypnotic trance.  She destroys the Eden Rock and defeats Beriak, who is drawn back to his homeworld by his race for his
failure.

Superman Family No. 175
February-March 1976
Story:  "Supergirl's Big Brother"  (from Action Comics #303)

Superman Family No. 176
April-May 1976
Story:  "Linda Danvers--Movie Star"  (from Action Comics #372)

Superman Family No. 177, June-July 1976
Cover:  Unconscious Supergirl in Ranar's arms; vignettes of Superman, Lana Lang, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Lucy Lane   //Kurt Schaffenberger (signed)
Story:  "Bride of the Stars"  (18 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Elliot S! Maggin
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in issue #174; next appears in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #132)
Supporting Characters:  Zor-El, Allura (both between issues #165 / 185)
GS: Kandorians
Intro:  Sarina and her husband (Ranar's parents), the Wise Starwatcher (only appearance for all)
Cameo:  Kurt Schaffenberger (page 13, panel 2)
Villain: Ranar (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Ranar, a super-powered alien of the Hakawee, was born at the same instant as Supergirl.  Throughout his life, he has searched for the woman the astrologer has told him will make him not only a perfect wife, but whose powers, siphoned into his body, will enable him to rule the universe.  He finally catches up to Supergirl on Earth, who battles him for a time until she
realizes his powers could devastate Earth.  Supergirl pretends to yield to him, but leaves briefly and, with a meteor, eclipses one of the stars by which Ranar makes astrological decisions.  Since
the stars appear to be against their marriage, Ranar calls the wedding off.

Justice League of America No. 132
July 1976
Cover:  Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Green Lantern, and Black Canary vs. intelligent animals  //Ernie Chua (signed)
Story:  "The Beasts Who Fought Like Men"   (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Gerry Conway
Penciller:  Dick Dillin
Inker:  Frank McLaughlin
Letterer:  Milt Snapinn
Feature Characters:  Aquaman, Atom, Batman, Black Canary, Elongated Man, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Superman, and Wonder Woman  (the Justice League of America)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN FAMILY #177)
Villains:  Sonar, Queen Bee (last appearance for both in last issue)
Comment:  This story continues from the last issue (which does not feature Supergirl) and continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl helps the Justice League defeat Sonar and the Queen Bee, and then seeks their help in finding a missing Superman.

Justice League of America No. 133
August 1976
Cover:  Despero vs. Superman, Flash, Black Canary, Aquaman, Supergirl, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman //Ernie Chua (signed)
Story:  "Missing:  One Man of Steel"  (1 page)
 Chapter One:  "All the World's a Stage"  (6 pages)
 Chapter Two:  "When Heroes Fall"  (10 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Gerry Conway
Penciller:  Dick Dillin
Inker:  Frank McLaughlin
Letterer:  Ben Oda
Feature Characters:  Aquaman, Atom, Batman, Black Canary, Elongated Man, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Superman, and Wonder Woman (the Justice League of America)
GS:  Supergirl
Intro:  Director Eragon, Gov. Kwim, and actresses portraying Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman (only appearance for all)
Villain:  Despero (last appearance in issue #26)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  While Supergirl and the Justice League search for Superman, the Man of Steel tries and fails to help the people of planet Sirkus resist Despero.

Justice League of America No. 134
Sept. 1976
Cover:  Giant hand enclosing Supergirl, Elongated Man, Hawkman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman fighting Despero  //Ernie Chua (signed)
Story: "The Battle At the Edge of Forever" (1 page)
 Part 1: "The Enemy Unknown" (8 pages)
 Part 2: "The War Which Wouldn't End" (8 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Gerry Conway
Penciller:  Dick Dillin
Inker:  Frank McLaughlin
Letterer:  Milt Snapinn
Feature Characters:  Atom, Batman, Elongated Man, Hawkman, Superman, Wonder Woman (the Justice League of America)
GS:  Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #180)
Villains:  Despero (next appears in issue #177), Albon, Nordon (first and only apppearance for both)
Synopsis:  Supergirl and the Justice League are transported (with the help of two manipulative aliens) to rescue Superman and defeat Despero.

Superman Family No. 178
Aug.-Sept. 1976
Story:  "The Three Magic Wishes"  (from Action Comics #257)

Superman Family No. 179
October 1976
Story:  "Supergirl Visits the 21st Century"  (from Action Comics #255)

Superman Family No. 180
November 1976
Cover:  Supergirl smashing Supergirl statue on campus  //Ernie Chua? / Vince Colletta
Story:  "The Secret of the Spell-Bound Supergirl"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Cary Bates
Artist:  Kurt Schaffenberger
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #134; next appears in SUPERMAN #307)
Supporting Character:  Martin Hamilton (last appearance in issue #171; last appearance)
Intro:  Todd Baxter,  Mr. Taylor, Bobby and his mother, Sen. Buxley (only appearance for all)
Villain: Travis Baxter (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  Todd Baxter finds a Galactic Urn on a field trip in a cave, whose magic powers can confer mental domination over an alien being.  Since Supergirl is flying overhead, she falls under
the spell of the Urn.  Todd uses her for good deeds, but, unknown to him, his twin brother Travis, a petty criminal, uses her for vandalism and mischief.  Supergirl, who has no knowledge of what
happens to her when manipulated, uses a remote control camera to reveal to her what she has been doing.  Todd and Travis end up fighting over the Urn in the cave where it was found.  With some help from Supergirl, Todd wins, but a cave-in buries the Urn again.  Todd and Travis are rescued by Supergirl.

Superman Family No. 181
January 1977
Story:  "Jimmy Olsen Marries Supergirl"  (from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #57)

Superman No. 307
January 1977
Cover:  Supergirl (from waist down) smashing bottle-city of Kandor as Superman watches in anguish  //Neal Adams (signed)
Story:  "Krypton--No More"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Gerry Conway
Penciller:  Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Inker:  Frank Springer
Feature Character:  Superman (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #243)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN FAMILY #180)
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane (last appearance in SUPERMAN FAMILY #181), Terri Cross
Intro:  Milton Slotvik (only apperance)
Cameo:  Jor-El, Lara, Jonathan and Martha Kent, Fred Danvers
Villains:  The Protector (first appearance), Morton Kalmbach (first and only appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Fearing pollution could destroy the Earth, and unwilling to lose another home planet, Superman goes on a rampage, destroying supertankers, which can (and sometimes do) leak
huge amounts of oil and endanger sea life.  In the process, he has to fight and defeat the Protector, a mutant whose powers are fuelled by pollution.  But Supergirl comes to the Fortress of Solitude, smashes statues of Jor-El and Lara, destroys a fake bottle city of Kandor, and tells him that his memories of Krypton were all a lie.  Krypton, she says, never existed, and both she
and he are only powerful human mutants who were born on Earth.

Superman No. 308
Feb. 1977
Cover:  Superman vs. Radion  //Neal Adams (signed)
Story:  "This Planet Is Mine"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Gerry Conway
Penciller:  Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Inker:  Frank Springer
Feature Character:  Superman
GS:  Supergirl
GA: Kandorians
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Prof. Pepperwinkle, Frank
Cameo:  Jonathan and Martha Kent
Villains:  Radion (first and only appearance),  the Protector (last appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  The Protector escapes the Fortress of Solitude while Superman is sorrowing over the loss of his heritage.  Later, Superman catches up to the Protector and his master / partner
Radion, another mutant whose powers were caused by a nuclear accident at an atomic power plant.  He tricks both of them into defeating each other.

Superman No. 309
March 1977
Cover:  Superman and Supergirl vs. J'ai warrior  //Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez / Ernie Chan?
Story:  "Blind Hero's Bluff"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Gerry Conway
Penciller:  Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Inker:  Frank Springer
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #182)
GS:  Supergirl (next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #182), Krypto (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #467; next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #182), Kandorians
Supporting Characters: Lois Lane, Terri Cross, Steve Lombard
Intro: Xonnians, Cyrotor (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Samuel Simeon and his gang, J'ai warriors (first and only appearance for all)
Comment:  This story continues from the last issue.
Synopsis:  Superman at first concerns himself only with local crime, and, when Supergirl asks him to undertake a space mission with her, he refuses.  She slaps him and goes ahead herself.  Later,
when Superman uses his telescopic vision to see her and Krypto in space being beaten by an invading armada on the planet Zonn, he reconsiders and joins her.  The orange sun of Zonn reduces the Kryptonians' powers and blinds them and they are captured.  While in captivity, Supergirl tells Superman what he has already deduced:  that they are Kryptonians indeed and she has been lying to him.  The Kandorians and she were concerned over his mental health, due to his attacks on supertankers.  They decided to convince him that Krypton had never existed, and therefore could never have died.  Superman says that he guessed their duplicity from several clues, including the presence of his superdog Krypto and her calling him "cousin" even though Fred Danvers and Jonathan Kent were not related.  Superman breaks out of prison and defeats the
J'ai invaders of Zonn with a sonic pulse.  Later, he returns to Earth with Supergirl and Krypto, and tells her he is proud of his obsession with Earth, his true home.

Superman Family No. 182
March-April 1977
Cover:  Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Supergirl, and Krypto in space  //Curt Swan / Neal Adams (signed)
Story:  "The Deadly Treasure of Mars"  (16 pages)
Editor:  Denny O'Neil
Writer:  Jack C. Harris
Penciller:  Mike Vosburg
Inker:  Al Milgrom
Feature Character: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN #309)
Supporting Character: Betsy Lyman (last appearance in issue #174; misspelled "Layman" in this story)
Cameo:  Jack Adler, Joe Orlando, and Jennette Kahn (page 2, panel 3)
Villains:  Lex Luthor (last appearance in DC SUPER-STARS #10; next appears in SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER-VILLAINS #6), Kolpan (first and only appearance)
Synopsis:  By planting fake Kryptonite on the surface of Mars and letting it be picked up by a Viking I photo, Supergirl and scientists at NASA smoke out a conspirator of Lex Luthor's and
get Luthor to show them where a hidden rocket of his was hidden.  Luthor scapes, uses the rocket to go to Mars, and tries to steal the "Kryptonite", only to be recaptured by Supergirl.

Superman Family No. 183
May-June 1977
Story:  "Shadows of Phantoms"  (16 pages)
Editor:  Denny O'Neil
Writer:  Jack C. Harris
Penciller:  Bob Brown
Inker:  Vince Colletta
Feature Character: Supergirl (next appears in SUPER-TEAM FAMILY #11)
Supporting Characters:  Jor-El (in flashback), Betsy Lyman
Intro: Jackson, Sally Klohr, John Butler, Dewey Bensenhaver (only appearance for all)
Villains:  Shyla Kor-Onn (first appearance; last name revealed in issue #188, her next appearance), Jax-Ur, Kru-El, General Zod (in flashback; last appearance for all in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #199)
Synopsis:  Shyla Kor-Onn, a Kryptonian scientist, was rejected from the space program for insufficient strength.  She built a ray to siphon life-energy and strength from others and add it to
her own, but accidentally killed a man and was sentenced to the Phantom Zone.  Now, in the present, she telepathically manipulates a jet pilot into creating a vibration with his plane that opens a warp-portal to Earth long enough for her to escape the Zone.  Posing as sleep-scientist "Sylvia Shadow", Shyla siphons off the strength of several students on the New Athens campus, and then lures Linda Danvers into her clutches and takes some power from her.  The power soon fades, and, after a brief battle at the Fortress of Solitude, Supergirl tricks Shyla into knocking herself into the path of a Phantom Zone projector ray.  She is returned to the Zone.

Super-Team Family No. 11
June-July 1977
Cover:  Supergirl, Flash, and Atom vs. T. O. Morrow  //Alan Weiss / Joe Rubinstein (signed)
Story:  "The Other Side of Doomsday"  (Chapter One; 11 pages)
 Chapter Two:  "World Without Time"  (5 pages)
 Chapter Three:  "Gateway To Nowhere"  (5 pages)
 Chapter Four:  "Tomorrow Dead or Alive"  (13 pages)
Editor:  Paul Levitz
Writer:  Gerry Conway
Penciller:  Alan Weiss
Inker:  Joe Rubinstein
Letterer:  Bill Morse
Colorist:  Jerry Serpe
Feature Characters:  Supergirl (last appearance in SUPERMAN FAMILY #183; next appears in ADVENTURE COMICS #451), the Flash, the Atom
Supporting Characters: Iris West Allen, Jean Loring
Intro:  A moderator (resembles Jenette Kahn), a living planet (only appearance for both)
Villains:  T. O. Morrow (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #106; next appears in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #267), the Wind Pirates (first appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue, but Supergirl does not appear in it.
Synopsis:  T. O. Morrow has turned up on a living planet which obeys his will, and, to lure Flash and Atom into his clutches for revenge, he uses parts of the planet (as humanoids) to abduct
Iris West Allen and Jean Loring from a women's career symposium at Ivy University, and gets Linda (Supergirl) Danvers as an unexpected bonus.  Supergirl, Flash, and Atom eventually defeat
Morrow by "knocking out" the living planet.  However, Iris has bad news for the Atom.  Jean Loring had another nervous breakdown while there, and, empathically hurt by her madness, the living planet threw her into another dimensional world.

Adventure Comics No. 450
March-April 1977
Story: "Return To Destiny" (6 pages)
Editor: Paul Levitz
Writer: Denny O'Neil
Penciller, colorist: Mike Nasser
Inker: Terry Austin
Feature Character: J'onn J'onzz, Manhunter From Mars
GS: Supergirl (last appearance in SUPER-TEAM FAMILY #11; next appears in ACTION COMICS #473)
Villain: N'or Cott
Cameo: R'es Eda (in flashback)
Synopsis: Just after J'onn J'onzz breaches Earth's atmosphere, his ship is blasted by N'or Cott, destroying it, dazing him, and drawing the attention of Supergirl.  The Girl of Steel is mistakenly drawn into battle against the Martian Manhunter until she brings him back to his senses.  When N'or Cott releases two more torpedoes, Supergirl intercepts and destroys them.  J'onn stops her from pursuing Cott, saying that their attacker "is merely doing his duty."  But he tells her that somewhere on Earth is R'es Eda's murderer, and he is bound to bring him to justice.

Action Comics No. 473
July 1977
Cover:  Superman vs. Faora Hu-Ul, Kru-El, Jax-Ur, Prof. Vakox, and General Zod  //Curt Swan / Neal Adams (signed)
Story:  "The Great Phantom Peril"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Cary Bates
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Tex Blaisdell
Colorist:  Jerry Serpe
Feature Character:  Superman (next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #184)
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #450; next appears in SUPERMAN #311), Batman (last appearance in Steve Lombard story in last issue; next appears in BATMAN #289), Green Lantern (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #144; next appears in SUPERMAN #311), a Superman robot (destroyed in this story)
Suppporting Characters: Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen (next appearance for both in SUPERMAN FAMILY #184), Steve Lombard (next appears in SUPERMAN #311)
Other Character:  Jackson Porter (last appearance)
Villains:  Faora Hu-Ul (next appears in ?), Jax-Ur, General Zod, Kru-El (last appearance of all in Supergirl story in SUPERMAN FAMILY #183), Prof. Vakox (last appearance in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #199), Phantom Zone villains (last appearance in ADVENTURE COMICS #400)
Comment:  This story continues from the last issue, in which Supergirl did not appear.
Synopsis:  The people of Earth exchange places with the prisoners of the Phantom Zone, who run rampant over the planet.  But Superman engineers another switch which returns the Kryptonian
criminals, including their ringleader Faora Hu-Ul, to the Zone and restores Earth's people to their own planet.

Superman No. 312
June 1977
Cover:  Superman vs. Amalak, "electro-surrogate" vs. Supergirl  //Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez / Bob Oskner (signed)
Story:  "Today the City, Tomorrow the World"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Marty Pasko
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Frank Springer
Colorist:  Jerry Serpe
Feature Character:  Superman
GS:  Supergirl (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #473), Flash, Green Lantern
Supporting Characters:  Morgan Edge (last appearance in SUPERMAN FAMILY #184), Samuel Tanner
Intro:  Dan Reed, Norman Lewis
Villains:  Nam-Ek, Amalak, Jevik (as Jamie's dog)
Comment:  This story continues from last issue, which did not include Supergirl, and continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl joins Superman in their quest to find a cure for "journalist's disease" and to help the dying Flash.  Superman discovers that Nam-Ek, whom he thought he had accidentally
killed, is alive and now is an ally of their enemy Amalak.  Superman battles Nam-Ek, hoping to use the healing energies of his Rondor horn to save the disease victims.  Supergirl fights an
"electro-surrogate" force-being controlled by Amalak and defeats it, but is temporarily blinded by the flash of its destruction and is rendered unconscious by Amalak.  Threatening Supergirl's
life with a "star-cannon", Amalak allows Superman to take Nam-Ek to Earth while he holds Supergirl prisoner.  Minutes later, Amalak tells Supergirl that he created "journalist's disease",
and he is now going to kill her.

Superman No. 313
July 1977
Cover:  Superman, Jamie, and Jevik  //Dick Dillin / Neal Adams (signed)
Story:  "The Only Way You'll Save the Earth Is Over My Dead Body"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Martin Pasko
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Dan Adkins
Feature Character:  Superman
GS:  Supergirl
Supporting Character: Jaime Lombard
Cameo:  Flash, Lois Lane, Steve Lombard, Iris West Allen
Villains:  Amalak,  Jevik, Nam-Ek (next appears in issue #315)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Supergirl has seen Superman melt the interior of Amalak's gun barrel with his heat-vision, so, after Amalak reveals to her his plan of destroying Superman psychologically, she gets up and bashes him.  Amalak retaliates by using his "electro-surrogate" to fight her while he shields himself with a force-field.  Superman cures the journalists with Nam-Ek's Rondor horn,
then discovers that the plague is really spread through Jamie's "dog", actually an alien named Jevik who conceals his true form through hypnosis.  When Superman battles Jevik, Jamie sees the Man of Steel as abusing his dog, and interposes himself between Jevik and Superman, refusing to let the battle go on.

Superman No. 314
August 1977
Cover:  Amalak vs. Superman, Green Lantern, and Flash  //Curt Swan / Neal Adams (signed)
Story:  "Before This Night Is Over, Superman Will Kill"  (17 pages)
Editor:  Julius Schwartz
Writer:  Martin Pasko
Penciller:  Curt Swan
Inker:  Dan Adkins
Feature Character:  Superman
GS:  Supergirl, Flash (next appears in FLASH #253), Green Lantern (next appears in DC SPECIAL SERIES #1)
Supporting Characters:   Lois Lane (next appears in SUPERMAN FAMILY #185), Steve Lombard (next appears in ACTION COMICS #474), Jamie Lombard
Cameo:  Nam-Ek
Villains:  Amalak (dies in this story), Jevik (last appearance)
Comment:  This story continues in the next issue.
Synopsis:  Jamie Lombard collapses suddenly from "journalist's disease".  Superman is about to destroy Jevik, which is in its non-living phase.  Amalak, by remote control, causes Jevik to shift into living phase, and Superman stops just before he would have killed it.  After a short battle, he subdues Jevik.  Then Superman goes to the Justice League satellite, where he battles Amalak and defeats him by striking Kanjar Ro's gamma gong.  Later, Amalak kills himself, trying to make Superman think he has hurt Amalak fatally