Comic Title: Adventure Comics #183
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1952
Approx. On Sale Date: October 29, 1952 Copyright Date October 27, 1952
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1952
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Superboy and Cleopatra"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Superboy (of Earth-1)

Artist: John Sikela

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #23; next appearance in Adventure Comics #184)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #23; next appearance in Superboy #24)

Other Character(s)

• Joe Renfrew (a reporter; no further appearances)
• Jed Evans (a fisherman; no further appearances)
• Rutherford (Lana's uncle; aka Professor Osborne; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When Superboy notices that all the local girls are fawning over him, he decides to convince them to stop. To do so, he claims that he is in love with Cleopatra. Within days, Professor Osborne appears with a time machine and brings Cleopatra to Smallville.

Unable to reveal that his love for Cleopatra was made up, Superboy is forced to feign affection for her. However, Cleopatra is really Lana Lang in disguise. When it comes time for Cleopatra to return home, she intends to reveal her trick, but instead Superboy takes her back to ancient Egypt himself. Lana is upset and confesses her plot. Superboy then admits that he knew she was Lana the whole time. He tricked her to teach her a lesson. Lana then returns to Smallville, humiliated.