Adventure Comics #387

This December 1969 issue of Adventure Comics puts Supergirl front and center in a genuinely clever cover standoff: a grinning, bald Lex Luthor grips the bars of a flying jail cell, taunting her with the claim that his super-powered nephew has carried him beyond U.S. territorial limits — and that smirking young nephew hovers nearby, shooing Supergirl away with cheerful loyalty to his uncle. The cover, penciled by Curt Swan and inked by Murphy Anderson, captures that wonderfully absurd Silver Age spirit where even escaping prison comes with its own legal loophole. Inside, writer E. Nelson Bridwell and artist Kurt Schaffenberger take the lead with "The Wolf-Girl of Stanhope!" — a fine reason to add this one to your collection.