Lana Lang is working hard on her project to prove that
Clark Kent is
Superboy...apparently with charts and graphs and Powerpoint. (If she were a certain hack "
explanatory journalism" site, she would bellow "
40 Maps That Explain Why Superboy Really IS Clark Kent!")
Her father, the normally mellow and somewhat befuddled
Professor Lang, isn't impressed:
It is interesting that his first reaction is to think of underworld figures ransacking the bedrooms of teenage girls, looking for their diaries or such...
Ah, but his delightfully
disproportionate reaction?
Geez louise!?!
Phew indeed. Still, my scan of that panel will end being posted on many a special-interest tumblr, I'd wager...
But Professor Lang has
other punishments at his disposal...
D'oh!!
(Note to modern readers: read as "
I'm taking away your MP3 collection.")
OK,
no dates and
no records. That will teach her good.
(Note to modern readers: read as "
I'm taking away your iPad.")
Fine. Surely she's punished enough
now, right?
Great--you're going to starve her. Overreact much?
Man, I can't wait to see how he punished when she did something that was actually, you know, bad. It's a wonder Lana survived to her teenage years...
From Superboy #93 (1961)