These powers I have seem to attract weirdoes and monsters... so I've stopped thinking of them as coincidences! 
Superman Family #174 is an issue of the series Superman Family (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1976.
Synopsis for Supergirl: "Eyes of the Serpent"
An alien race of Serpent Men is getting ready to conquer Earth. As a first step, they gather intelligence about Supergirl and send their agent Beriak to Earth. Beriak goes to New Athens Experimental School, posing as student advisor Harry Vernon. Simultaneously, a boy named Davy Tenzer forces his way into the campus, and at a nearby orange grove a man gets sick after taking a bite of an orange.
Beriak hypnotizes a staffer into believing he's the real Vernon and also attempts to mesmerize Linda Danvers. Given that Linda's strong will is resisting his mental manipulation, Beriak commands up a sea dragon to attack the place in order to get Supergirl tired and wear her will out. Supergirl fights and defeats the sea dragon and flies back to her workplace, thinking it cannot be coincidental she draws weird guys and monsters at once.
Beriak approaches Linda, and attempts to mind-control her again. His hypnotic suggestions seems to work and he walks Linda out of the building, without noticing Davy playing his harp around him. Beriak drives Linda to an orange orchard named "Garden of Eden" and he gets Linda eat one orange. Then Beriak reveals his true self, claiming Linda is completely under his control now.
Beriak instructs Supergirl to dig up the Eden Rock -his race's source of power- beneath one of the orange trees and activate her with her own life-energy so they can subjugate humanity. Supergirl then stops pretending she is under his control and attacks Beriak. Beriak tries to fight back, but he is distracted by a rock thrown by Davy. Supergirl takes advantage of it to blast the Eden Rock to pieces, and then she reveals Beriak gave himself away when he hypnotized Linda's co-worker in front of her. Beriak wants to keep fighting, but David Tenzer's music lessens his powers. Infuriated by his failure, Beriak's superiors teleport him back to his homeworld.
After the battle, David Tenzer doesn't want to explain how he knew about her secret identity or the serpent men, but he suggests her to ask Black Canary and Green Arrow before walking off. The next day, the real Harry Vernon arrives at the college.
Appearing in Supergirl: "Eyes of the Serpent"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Davy Tenzer
- Dean Elizabeth Lyman
Antagonists:
- Serpent Men (Single appearance)
- Beriak (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Harry Vernon (Single appearance)
- Justice League (Mentioned only)
- Black Canary (Mentioned only)
- Green Arrow (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Earth
- Homeworld of the Serpent Men (Single appearance)
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Lois Lane: "Through a Murderer's Eyes!"
This story is reprinted from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #88.
Lois is working on a story at the Metropolis Seeing Eye Institute when a hitman appears and attempts to murder her. Jimmy Olsen is able to subdue the killer before he can make a second attempt but Lois suffers an injury to her eyes when the bullet grazes her cornea. Her vision becomes blurred and Lois is taken to an eye doctor where Dr Wade determines that her condition might be permanent. Lois attempts to hide her situation from Superman and co-workers but Superman is able to see for himself that Lois is having difficulty with her vision. Lois is forced to confess that an attempt was made on her life to prevent her from testifying at a trial for mobster Nero Cary. At one point Lois is almost abducted by Nero's henchmen as she walks a dog down the sidewalk but Superman shows up and readily rescues her. Lois returns to Dr Wade and he determines that Lois is in need of a cornea transplant. He determines that with Supermans help, they can obtain a cornea donor from the local eye bank. Superman obtains the donors body and rushes it to the hospital for the transplant operation. Lois is shocked to learn that the doner is Gunner Stowe a trigger man for the underworld. He had recently been executed at the state pen and wanted to donate his body to science. The operation proceeds and Lois is able to see clearly but she soon starts to hallucinate. She begins to see the faces of people who seem to have a look of terror on them. Lois does some research and determines that the faces she has been seeing belong to victims who were killed by Gunner Stowe. Lois begins to wonder if she is experiencing these visions because she is using the killers corneas. Lois proceeds to testify at Neros trial. As she sits on the stand she begins to experience another vision. This time she views her own face that seems to have a look of terror on it. Lois confidently announces that she can explain her behavior to the court. She asks for a viewing screen and begins to explain that Dr Wade had implanted fake lenses in her eyes to make her think she was experiencing visions. Her blurry eyesight was only temporary but the lenses made her believe that she was looking at visions from a killers past. Superman then appears with a fake Dr Wade in tow and explains that the real Dr Wade was kidnapped and replaced with one of Nero's henchmen. The entire plot was created to discredit Lois from being a credible witness at Nero's trial. Lois had discovered the plot when she researched and found that Gunner Stowe always shot his victims in the back and it would not have been possible for him to see his victim's faces.
Appearing in Lois Lane: "Through a Murderer's Eyes!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Nero Cary (Single appearance)
- The Cary Gang (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Dr. Wade (An eye specialist) (Mentioned only)
- "Gunner" Stowe (Single appearance) (Appears only as a corpse)
- Professor Potter (Mentioned only)
- Queenie (A seeing-eye dog) (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Gotham City (Mentioned only)
- Gotham State Penitentiary (Mentioned only)
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet
- Seeing Eye Institute
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Jimmy Olsen: "The Million Dollar Question!"
This story is reprinted from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #9.
When a group of criminals plant one of their goons as a contestant on the television program "Million Dollar Question" they happen to be competing on a day where all the questions asked have to do with Superman. In order to insure that their man has a edge up they have given him a wire and have tricked Jimmy Olsen into coming to their hide out and are holding him hostage so that he gives them all the right answers.
Clark Kent, watching the show at home, believes that Jimmy must be in trouble when the crook on the show is able to answer a question that only Jimmy would know the answer too. Changing into Superman, the Man of Steel quickly finds Jimmy and saves him, and exposes the criminals plot and disqualifying them from the prize money. Afterwards, although Jimmy is glad that he got out of his predicament alive, wishes he could have competed for the million dollar prize money.
Appearing in Jimmy Olsen: "The Million Dollar Question!"
Featured Characters:
- Jimmy Olsen (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Superman/Clark Kent (Flashback and main story)
Antagonists:
- Barton Black (a.k.a. "Blacky" Barton) (Single appearance)
- Leonard "Lefty" Lake (Single appearance)
- Luthor (Flashback only)
- The Prankster (First appearance) (Flashback only)
- The Toyman (First appearance) (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- Metropolis Police Department (Flashback only)
Locations:
Items:
- Green Kryptonite (Flashback only)
- Jimmy Olsen's Signal Watch
Vehicles:
- Flying Newsroom (Flashback only)
Synopsis for Superman: "Superman for Sale"
This story is reprinted from Superman #102.
Perry White is summoned to a secret meeting in which he is invited to buy Shares in the Superman Stock Company. Henry Drebbin, Edward Jorgens and Paul Quillan are also at the meeting and invited to join. Their host named Barclay explains that Superman has created the company to reward model citizens. Barclay states that whenever Superman captures a criminal who has a price on his head, the reward money will be turned over to the company. The four men are suspicious especially Perry. Perry decides that he must contact Superman to find out if he is actually connected with the company. In the meantime, Superman is spotted apprehending criminals all over Metropolis but this time he is collecting the reward money. Perry meets with Superman to find out if the company is legitimate, but Superman offers no clues. Perry is forbidden to ask Superman directly about the company according to the rules set by Mr. Barclay. At one point a reward is offered for the first man to visit the moon. Superman flies to the moon and collects a $100,000 reward which he turns over to the company. The four men are elated that they will share in the reward money, and they collect their dividends from Barclay. Three of the men take their money and head towards a fake hollow statue in which they intend to hide their share of the cash. At that point, Superman suddenly shows up with Barclay in tow and they arrest the three men for tax evasion. Mr. Barclay was actually a representative from the Treasury Department. It was Superman's idea to set up the fake Superman company. The main purpose was to trap the three crooks who were masquerading as model citizens to trick them into revealing where they were hiding their money. Superman then meets with Perry to apologize for using him in the plot. Perry is grateful that at least he has a great story.
Appearing in Superman: "Superman for Sale"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Edward Jorgens (Single appearance)
- Henry Drebbin (Single appearance)
- Paul Quillan (Single appearance)
- Flip Wilson (Single appearance)
- "Trigger" Hyatt (Single appearance)
- Ace Hyatt (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- United States Treasury Department
- Barclay (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Earth
- Metropolis
- 84 Broad Street
- Daily Planet
- Metropolis
- Earth's Moon
Items:
Vehicles:
- Sailboat
Notes
- Black Canary and Green Arrow met David Tenzer in Action Comics #450–Action Comics #452
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