1172 - Superboy 220 - Dream Girl's Living Nightmare

Index Number – 1172 - 1.0
Issue – Superboy 220
Cover Date – October 1976
Title – Dream Girl’s Living Nightmare
Characters – Brainiac 5, Chameleon Boy, Dream Girl
Synopsis – Dream Girl forsees the assassination of the leader of Deimos II. Cham attempts to impersonate the Primor but is stopped by his security. A death-ray strikes and kills an opposition member who is also impersonating the Primor.
Writer – Cary Bates
Artist – Mike Grell / Bob Wiacek
Editor – Murray Boltinoff, Jack Harris
Reprinted – Legion of Super-Heroes Archive 12 – 2003
Comment – The Problem with Dream Girl: Dream Girl’s ability to accurately predict the future is problematic for the Legion. If she predicts a disaster, the Legionnaires immediately jump up and try to stop it, knowing that they can’t. The best they can hope for is an alternative interpretation of the dream. Or that damned self-fulfilling prophecy rears its ugly head and we discover that the event in question never would have happened if the Legion hadn’t shown up to cause it. That explains why there are so many people claiming to be their own grandparent.
The best handling of Dream Girl came years later when she learned to “dream on command” and became an excellent hand-to-hand fighter. She could predict her opponent’s punches and block them. All without mussing her hair.