Adventure Comics #384

Adventure Comics #384 (On Sale: July 31, 1969) has a cover by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson.

We begin with Supergirl in "The Heroine Haters" by Cary Bates, Winslow Mortimer and Jack Abel. After watching her roommates at Stanhope College get computer dates, Linda Danvers becomes Supergirl and uses a computer at the Fortress of Solitude to find her "perfect match." The computer picks a super-hero 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 home world.

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. Not a bad little Bates story.

That is followed by another new Supergirl story, "Supergirl's Greatest Failure" by Robert Kanigher and Kurt Schaffenberger. When Linda Danvers takes a summer job as a counselor at Camp Nokomis, she learns that someone has discovered her secret identity, and is trying to expose it. Eventually Supergirl learns that she has been exposed to Red Kryptonite, and it has resulted in Supergirl temporarily having a split personality. While she has been trying to conceal her double identity, her other self has been trying to expose it.

Edited by Mort Weisinger.