Comic Title: Adventure Comics #496
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1983
On Sale Date: November 4, 1982 Newsstand Date November 4, 1982
Source: House Ad, Fury of Firestorm #9, Page 32

Newsstand Date November 4, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #206

Newsstand Date November 4, 1982
Source: Comics Journal, #77

Shipping Date October 12, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #206

Newsstand Date November 4, 1982
Source: Amazing Heroes, #16

Copyright Date October 12, 1982
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1982
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 96
Editor: Carl Gafford

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "Superman's Super-Courtship"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Jim Mooney

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #289 (1962)

Feature Character(s)

• Supergirl (last appearance in Action Comics #288; next appearance in Superman #154)

Guest Star(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #289; next appearance in Justice League of America #12)
• Adult Legion of Super-Heroes (last appearance in Superman #147; next appearance in Adventure Comics #354)
• Cosmic Man (last appearance in Superman #147; next appearance in Superman #155)
• Saturn Woman (last appearance in Superman #147; next appearance in Superman #165)
• Lightning Man (last appearance in Superman #147; next appearance in Superman #155)
• Triplicate Woman (next appearance in Adventure Comics #354)
• Brainiac 5 (adult version; next appearance in Adventure Comics #354)
• Phantom Woman (next appearance in Adventure Comics #354)
• Chameleon Man (next appearance in Legion of Super-Heroes #300)
• Sun Man (next appearance in Superman #213)

Supporting Character(s)

• Fred Danvers (last appearance in Action Comics #288; next appearance in Action Comics #291)
• Edna Danvers (last appearance in Action Comics #288; next appearance in Action Comics #290)

Other Character(s)

• Helen of Troy (no further appearances)
• Rhondous and Patronius (a court advisor of King Tyndareus and an aide; no further appearances)
• A minotaur and a unicorn (no further appearances)
• Tthe people of ancient Troy (no further appearances)
• Luma Lynai (super-heroine of planet Staryl; resembles Supergirl as an adult; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Cupid (on Splash page only)
• An unnamed alien friend of Superman (as a character in Supergirl’s dream)
• Cleopatra (as a picture in a history book)

Comments:
Since the Adult Legion of Super-Heroes exists in an alternate future of the Legion’s timeline, it cannot be assumed that Triplicate Girl lost one of her bodies to Computo and became Duo Damsel in this reality; thus, although not named in this story, she may be assumed to be called Triplicate Woman as an adult.

Superman and Supergirl invent the Legion flying belts in this story to replace the jetpacks. The teenage Legion will also begin using the flying belts, although presumedly they were not created by Superman. In this alternate future, the Adult Legion never used flying rings.

Synopsis:
Supergirl embarks on a campaign to see Superman happily married. Travelling into the past, she unsuccessfully attempts to interest him in Helen of Troy. Her similar effort in the future era of the Legion of Super-Heroes also fails, when she learns that Saturn Woman, the adult Saturn Girl, is already married to Lightning Man, the adult Lightning Lad.

Finally, she locates Superman’s ideal mate on a distant world, where Luma Lynai, a superwoman who resembles Supergirl herself as an adult, falls in love with the Man of Steel. When it turns out that Luma Lynai cannot survive on Earth, however, the couple are focused to part, and Supergirl learns not to interfere in her cousin’s love life.