You're wasting time, Marshall-- I'll catch you no matter what you do-- or where-- or when you go! 
Superman Family #197 is an issue of the series Superman Family (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1979.
Synopsis for Superboy: "Superboy's Split Personality"
Klaxxu, an alien exiled to Earth for attempting to overthrow the government of his planet, poses as a high-school teacher and uses a mind-melder to plant the suggestion in Superboy's mind that he is really Bovra, an ally to Klaxxu and a native of his planet.
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Synopsis for Private Life of Clark Kent: "Clark Kent's Mynah Dilemma"
Clark Kent gets a gift of a Mynah bird from May Marigold, and it promply repeats the phrase, "Clark Kent is Superman."
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Synopsis for Lois Lane: "The Daughter Who Came C.O.D."
Lois Lane unearths a gang who kidnaps runaway girls and uses them to extort money from their parents.
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Synopsis for Jimmy Olsen: "The Ghost Writer Riddle!"
A self-typing typewriter leads Jimmy Olsen to a plot to murder everyone in the WGBS building.
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Synopsis for Supergirl: "The Man with the Eternity Hands!"
Linda Danvers and several of her New Athens Experimental School co-workers are invited by Peter Barton on a tour of the Santa Augusta Theater, which has been closed during one century -due to a supposed haunting- and Burton intends to reopen.
All of sudden, a ghost appears. Supergirl confronts him, but she passes through it. Before vanishing, the ghost declares he will permit no play to be performed until his murderer has been punished. Supergirl still believes the ghost to be a trick but she asks Peter about the legend. Peter explains one hundred years ago, Hector Mandala was selected to be the lead in a murder mystery drama called "The Displaced Dagger". His rejected rival Thomas Marshall warned Hector would never complete a single performance, and Hector was murdered buring the premiere when someone switched a prop dagger for a real one. However, Marshall couldn't be the culprit because he died several days before the opening.
Supergirl decides to investigate the case and goes back in time to the night of the murder. Linda attends the play wearing a disguise and sees in the crowd a man wearing a wristwatch, an item which had not been invented yet in 1879. Supergirl pursues him and discovers he is Thomas Marshall's grandson Theodore whose family became impoverished after his grandfather failed to get the role. Theodore was robbing a research lab when a strange ray changed his wristwatch into a time-machine. Theodore thought he could change history so his grandfather got the role, but when it proved impossible, he decided to make history happen.
Theodore jumps to different eras to escape from Supergirl, but she follows him through. Though, the same ray that changed Theodore's wristwatch also gave his hands power to change things to their past or future states. Theodore's powers fail to stop Supergirl, though, and she melts his wristwatch during a chronal jump. Theodore's body is irradiated by his destroyed time-machine chronal energy, and Supergirl hurries to pull him out of the Timestream.
Theodore Marshall has been turned into a baby by his device's energies, though. Supergirl takes him to Midvale Orphanage and returns to Santa Augusta, satisfied that Mandala has been avenged and confident that Peter Barton can safely open the theater.
Appearing in Supergirl: "The Man with the Eternity Hands!"
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- Peter Barton (First appearance)
- Valerie Myles
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- Theodore Marshall
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- Hector Mandala (Ghost) (Flashback only)
- Thomas Marshall (Flashback only)
- Shari Jones (Mentioned only)
- Miss Hart
- Annie Oakley (Mentioned only)
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- 20th Century
- Santa Augusta
- New Athens Experimental School (Mentioned only)
- Midvale
- Midvale Orphanage
- Santa Augusta Theater
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- Timestream
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- Santa Augusta
- New York City (Mentioned only)
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