Adventure Comics #388

Adventure Comics #388 (On Sale: November 26, 1969) has a cover by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson.

We begin with Supergirl in "The Kindergarten Criminal" by Leo Dorfman, Winslow Mortimer and Jack Abel. Continuing this atrocity from last issue, Supergirl heads out to Luthor's private island in search of his nephew Val, who has psycho-kinetic powers. However, Val has found Luther's stash of Kryptonite blocks and is playing with them as Supergirl nears the island. Weakened, she reverts to her Linda Danvers identity and pretends to be a castaway trapped on the island.

Slowly she becomes friends with Val. Eventually, with Supergirl's help, Val creates a number of beasts from around the cosmos and Supergirl only saves Luthor from them after he promises to give himself up. However, once saved he says that Supergirl has no authority over him since it is a private island and outside the 12 mile limit. In response, Supergirl picks up the island and moves it closer to shore so Luthor can be arrested. Val seems to have temporarily lost his powers and cannot help his uncle.

That is followed by the cover story, Supergirl in "The Romance Machine" by Cary Bates and Kurt Schaffenberger. Brainiac, just for the heck of it, decides to kill Supergirl and breaks notorious gigolo Kimor Dinn out of prison. After Brainiac uses a machine to extract Kimor's personality and infuse it into a Kimor robot he has created, he drugs Kimor and abandons him in space, then sends the Kimor robot to earth to work on Supergirl

Robot Kim enrolls in Stanhope College and heads for the Supergirl Fan Club, currently being run by Linda Danvers. Kim quickly asks her out on a date. At dinner Kim makes Linda pay for the check and when she complains he tells her to shut up and appreciate him more. When on their next date (why is there a next date with this POS?), Kim gets Linda drenched when he uses her body to shield himself from getting splashed by a passing car. She tells him to drop dead and then later as Supergirl when she ses him he says he is not interested in her and it drive Supergirl mad. Why? Don't know; we will unfortunately find out next issue.

Rereading comics edited by Weisinger is always a chore.

Edited by Mort Weisinger.