Comic Title: Adventure Comics #168
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1951
Approx. On Sale Date: July 20, 1951 Copyright Date July 18, 1951
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1951
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: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Boy Who Outsmarted Superboy"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: William Woolfolk
Artist: John Sikela

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Superboy #16; next appearance in Adventure Comics #169)

Supporting Character(s)

• Martha Kent (last appearance in Superboy #16; next appearance in Adventure Comics #169)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #16; next appearance in Superboy #17)

Other Character(s)

• Ronald Lang (Lana's younger brother; no further appearances)
• Mr. Brown (a store clerk; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Lana enlists the aid of her kid brother Ronald to help prove that Clark Kent is Superboy. Ronald sprays Clark with perfume. When Superboy appears smelling like the same perfume, Ronald believes he has proved his case.

Superboy then constructs three elaborate situations for Ronald which resemble stories from books. He tries to convince Ronald that the entire day was a dream. However, Ronald takes a diamond that Superboy has fabricated as proof that the situations really happened.

Ronald tells Lana about his evidence. Superboy manages to convince her that Ronald sprayed himself with the perfume and smelled it on himself. He explains that the dreamlike situations he created were done to get Ronald interested in books. The explanation works, causing Lana to disbelieve the evidence. Superboy's plan also gets Ronald interested in reading.