Comic Title: Adventure Comics #174
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1952
On Sale Date: January 16, 1952 Copyright Date January 14, 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.

Newsstand Date January 16, 1952
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V6 #11

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

Title: "The New Lana Lang"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: John Fischetti

Feature Character(s)

• Superboy (last appearance in Adventure Comics #173; next appearance in Superboy #19)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superboy #18; next appearance in Superboy #19)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Adventure Comics #173; next appearance in Superboy #19)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superboy #18; next appearance in Superboy #19)
• Mrs. Lang (last appearance in Superboy #18; next appearance in Superboy #19)

Other Character(s)

• Several Smallville teenagers (Ann, Sylvia, Ted, Chet, Bob, and Mona Henderson named; no further appearances)
• Miss Fulton (no further appearances)
• Several beauty contest judges (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Lana Lang begins to develop a conceited attitude which annoys her friends. Superboy decides to teach Lana some humility. He claims to be interested in dating humble girls who take losing well. Lana enters contests with the goal of losing. Superboy secretly helps her win anyway, then he lets Lana discover his involvement. When she brags that she has outwitted Superboy, her actions prove that she hasn't changed.

Lana finally learns her lesson. She decides not to enter an upcoming beauty contest because of her own discouragement. Superboy arranges for her to enter anyway. Lana then wins on her own merits. This time Lana accepts her victory with humble grace.