Adventure Comics #387

Adventure Comics #387 (On Sale: October 30, 1969) has a Supergirl cover by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson.

We begin with Supergirl in "The Wolf-Girl of Stanhope" by Cary Bates and Kurt Schaffenberger. Dr. Sanford creates a serum that she thinks will make Supergirl immune to Kryptonite. After drinking the serum, Dr. Sanford exposes Supergirl to Kryptonite and it no longer harms her as it did in the past. However the side-effect is that it turns her into a wolf-girl. She heads for the Fortress of Solitude to ask for Superman's help in reversing her condition, only to find Superman laying near death next to the fortress key, which is a phony made out of Kryptonite and just painted yellow. Being immune to the green rock, she tosses it away and revives her cousin.

While Superman goes in search of a cure, Supergirl takes over his duties in, but her wolf-girl appearance frightens people who think she may be an alien posing as Supergirl (sure, right). Back at Stanhope College, Linda Danvers watches the news. It seems she managed to make a mask that covers her face and hands (and legs). Meanwhile, Dr. Sanford has failed to find a cure and Superman is having no better luck in his search through the cosmos.

A failing rocket launch in Florida sends Supergirl to the rescue, this time using her new masks, but traveling at super-speed melts the mask and people are once again fearful of her. Superman returns to earth to tell his cousin of his failure, when he sees her flying towards him and is happy to see she has returned to normal, but that is because she is actually a Supergirl from another dimension where, you got it, everyone is a wolf-person. She too drank serum from a Dr. Sanford and the side-effect made her look human. She crossed dimensions looking for a cure and she and Superman both now have the same idea. Each Supergirl drinks the serum from the other's dimension and they are both reverted to their normal looks. They are also both now susceptible to Kryptonite's deadly radiation once again.

The back-up story is our cover story, "Lex Luthor's Outlaw Nephew" by Leo Dorfman, Winslow Mortimer and Jack Able. Val, the son of Luthor's sister, Lena, has developed psycho-kinetic powers. Lena, developed ESP when she was young after exposure to some sort of space-brain that Lex discovered and now Lex thinks that a space jewel he sent Val as an anonymous birthday present must have given him his powers. Sure, why not. After Val drops a car on Luthor's foot (I kid you not), Supergirl rescues him and take him back to prison.

Back in prison, Luthor attempts to escape, but is thwarted. Though he does not make it out of prison, he does make it to the evening news where young Val recognizes him as the nice man he met the other day, so he flies to the prison and breaks Luthor out. Supergirl tries to recapture Luthor, but he claims that since Val has flown him over international waters, she can't arrest him (hmmm, sounds very fishy to me). Luthor directs Val to fly him to a remote island where he has a secret base. Unfortunately, this story is continued next issue. Gah!

Edited by Mort Weisinger.