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From ACTION COMICS #267 "The Three Super-Heroes!":

From ACTION COMICS #334 "The Three Super-Heroes!":

From Superboy #98:

From Superboy #147:

That's so cool! I knew about how the original Supergirl/Legion story made the then-common time travel mistake of thinking that since time had advanced in the present (Superboy's time to Superman/Supergirl's time) then the time in the future also had to advance leading to the children of the originals bit, and how that backstory was quickly dropped, but I hadn't realised that it was changed in the first reprint 6 years later.

I also hadn't realised that they rewrote that line from Jo that he was restricted to just his visions powers.

Phew, good thing they didn't restrict him to only discover Superboy's secret identity only using his ultra-invulnerability...

(I mean, gosh, 'we are going to handicap you, by requiring you to only use the one power you have that would actually be useful at this?')

It's such a bizarre bit.

I mean... if you think there's a need to explain why he doesn't use any other powers here, then it seems like you would want to explain why he only uses vision powers for his first several appearances, which this doesn't do at all.

But yeah, it becomes the most bizarrely nonsensical condition on an initiation test ever. Maybe they used the Planetary Chance Machine to decide which powers he could use, and he lucked out?


Oh, and I know it's been talked about plenty of time before, but Marla really does seem like an aging super-hero here.

Honestly, I can see the bottom blurb in the yellow box has been rewritten (and the pages recoloured!), but I can't actually read the earlier page as-posted here.

I mean, it's up against some pretty stiff competition...