{"id":2781,"date":"2020-09-29T07:43:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2020-08-30T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T23:56:24","slug":"483-nope-not-supergirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/483-nope-not-supergirl\/","title":{"rendered":"483 &#8211; Nope, Not Supergirl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lana-dimwitted-supergirl.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #167, June 1951\" class=\"wp-image-2782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lana-dimwitted-supergirl.png 700w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lana-dimwitted-supergirl-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #167, June 1951<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Adventure Comics #167 (June 1951), DC continues to play with the idea of a female super-powered adventurer in &#8220;Lana Lang, Super-Girl!&#8221;.  Lana&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What commences is a bunch of &#8220;hilarious&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lana-supergirl.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lana-supergirl.png 994w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lana-supergirl-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lana-supergirl-768x493.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Adventure Comics #167, June 1951<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Was that really your only chance, Clark?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what irritates me more &#8211; the exhausting continued play-out of a girl trying to learn Clark&#8217;s secret or the inane ways in which Superboy figures out how to trick the clearly dim-witted Lana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Adventure Comics #167 (June 1951), DC continues to play with the idea of a female super-powered adventurer in &#8220;Lana Lang, Super-Girl!&#8221;. Lana&#8217;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. 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