![A panel from Adventure Comics #167, June 1951](https://www.codedread.com/comicbooks/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lana-dimwitted-supergirl.png)
In Adventure Comics #167 (June 1951), DC continues to play with the idea of a female super-powered adventurer in “Lana Lang, Super-Girl!”. Lana’s archaeologist father gives her a helmet that purportedly grants power to its wearer. When Superboy saves Lana from lightning using his super-speed, Lana makes the logical conclusion that he has super powers. She puts the helmet on Clark during a robbery and when Clark gets shot and repels the bullets, she is doubly convinced.
What commences is a bunch of “hilarious” escapades as Superboy is tasked with fooling Lana into thinking she has super powers so as to not give away his identity as Clark Kent.
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Was that really your only chance, Clark?
I’m not sure what irritates me more – the exhausting continued play-out of a girl trying to learn Clark’s secret or the inane ways in which Superboy figures out how to trick the clearly dim-witted Lana.