Cover: Curt Swan & George Klein

Action Comics #318

Nov 1964 · DC · 0.12 USD

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“The Death of Luthor!”

This striking 1964 cover by Curt Swan and George Klein sets up a wonderfully sinister premise: Lex Luthor lies motionless in a transparent casket while a crowd of alien mourners — including a disguised Brainiac among other colorful extraterrestrial criminals — secretly schemes to frame Superman for his death. A chained Superman stands among them, his thought bubble revealing he's been set up but fears no one will believe his innocence, making the cover's tension immediate and compelling. With Leo Dorfman writing and Jim Mooney on interior art, this is Silver Age DC storytelling at its most delightfully devious.

writer Leo Dorfman · artist, inker Jim Mooney · letterer Milt Snapinn · cover Curt Swan, George Klein

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Full credits

writer Leo Dorfman

artist, inker Jim Mooney

letterer Milt Snapinn

cover pencils Curt Swan

cover inks George Klein

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Linda graduates from high school and receives a scholarship to Stanhope College. She is asked to join the Alpha Lambda sorority, but the prosident imposes several embarrassing initiation tests that may expose Linda's Supergirl identity.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).