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"Superboy: "Gravity Girl of Smallville!"": Professor Lang arrives in Smallville with a collection of interesting artifacts from his latest expedition. Among the relics he obtains is a small belt that gives Lana Lang the ability to fly when she puts it on. The belt not only allows her to fly it

Quote1 Me not ashamed of you no more, son! Keep up bad work and some day you will be worst student on whole planet!!! What a honor!!! Quote2
Bizarro No. 1

Adventure Comics #285 is an issue of the series Adventure Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1961.

Synopsis for Superboy: "Gravity Girl of Smallville!"

Professor Lang arrives in Smallville with a collection of interesting artifacts from his latest expedition. Among the relics he obtains is a small belt that gives Lana Lang the ability to fly when she puts it on. The belt not only allows her to fly it also gives her super strength and makes her invulnerable to bullets. She uses her new found powers to stop a robbery on a deserted street and leaves the thief dangling from the antenna of a clock tower. She convinces her parents to let her use the belt to allow her to continue using her powers to help the police. She fashions a costume that includes a lead mask to prevent Superboy from discovering her secret identity. She calls herself Gravity Girl and she begins to assist Superboy in different ways when the situation arises. Before long the people of Smallville become curious about Gravity Girls identity including Clark Kent. He begins to follow Lana around much to her annoyance because it make it harder for her to change into her Gravity Girl identity. As time goes on it is revealed that Gravity Girl is vulnerable to fire, rock and wood. Superboy decides that she has too many weaknesses and he must discover he identity to put an end to her super heroics before she is injured. Superboy then tricks Gravity Girl into discovering his identity when he scratches his name on a two ton steel ball. He then compresses the ball with his super strength and challenges Gravity Girl to read the microscopic writing on it. Gravity Girl jumps at the chance and takes the pea sized ball home so she can examine it with her microscope. She arrives home and places the metal ball on a table and it falls through the floor through the earths crust. Even thought the ball was small, it still weighs two tons. Superboy hears that crash and arrives at Lana’s house confirming that she really is Gravity Girl. He retrieves the metal ball and repairs Lana’s floor. He convinces Lana and Professor Lang that the belt only gives her anti-gravitational powers but it also does not protect her from many vulnerabilities. They then come to the decision that it would be a wise idea to destroy the belt.

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Synopsis for Bizarro: "The Shame of the Bizarro Family!"

Bizarro-Jr. No. 1 gets in trouble at school for giving the correct answers on exam questions, but sleep-carves a Mount Rushmore-style monument to famous movie monsters of Earth, flunks his art test with highest honors, and redeems the pride of the first Bizarro family. (Superboy and Krypto also time-travels to the Bizarro World, and there Krypto is duplicated via Duplicator ray, originating a Bizarro Krypto.)

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