Adventure Comics #389

Adventure Comics #389 (On Sale: December 23, 1969) has a cover by Murphy Anderson.

This issue begins with Supergirl in "The Mystery Magician" by Robert Kanigher, Winslow Mortimer and Bob Oksner. I don't even know where to begin with this one: for Father's Day the girl's of Stanhope College create special gifts for their fathers. One of Linda's friends, Harriet is afraid her father will not show up. He is a magician who retired ten years earlier when his wife died. Supergirl tricks him with super-ventriloquism into coming out of retirement for the day and uses her powers to make him appear to be doing real magic. Nasty co-ed Vera suspects that Linda is Supergirl and locks her in a lead-lined room to prove she is the one helping Harriet's father and is surprised when he continues to amaze the girls even when Linda is locked away, It ends up she used her super-ventriloquism to call her father in Kandor and it was he who helped the aged magician succeed. Snooze.

The back-up Supergirl story is our cover story, "Supergirl's Jilted Boy Friends"is by Cary Bates and Kurt Schaffenberger. Supergirl falls for transfer student Kim O'Ryan, not realizing he is a robot sent by Brainiac to destroy her. He plans on making his robot pretend to kill itself and make Supergirl think she was to blame, but she figures out what is going on and turns the tables on Brainiac. Her plan involves a fake space dragon with a fake garden on old Supergirl beaus turned into stone, which gives us the cover scene. Sigh,

Edited by Mort Weisinger.