Comic Title: Action Comics #319
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1964
On Sale Date: October 29, 1964 Newsstand Date October 29, 1964
Source: House Ad, World's Finest Comics #146, Page 8

Copyright Date October 29, 1964
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1964

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "The Condemned Superman"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Klein

Reprinted In:
Best of DC #27 (1982)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #318; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #53)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Action Comics #318; next appearance in Superman #179)

Other Character(s)

• Ardora (last appearance in Action Comics #318; next appearance in Action Comics #332)
• Lar Than (last appearance in Action Comics #318; no further appearances)
• Vel Quennar and Garn Abu (last appearance in Action Comics #318; no further appearances)
• Citizens of planet Lexor (last appearance in Action Comics #318; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from the first story of Action Comics #318.

Synopsis:
Superman is put on trial for killing Lex Luthor. His defense attorney's Vel Quennar and Garn Abu try several strategies to free the Man of Steel, but they fail to convince the court of Superman's innocence.

Before the guilty verdict can be delivered, Superman escapes from jail and finds Luthor's secret laboratory. He learns that Luthor has invented a drug that induces a coma-like state. Suspecting that Luthor is not dead Superman attempts to revive his foe and succeeds.

The Lexorians are pleased that their hero still lives, but they refuse to believe he faked his death, so that Superman would be executed for the murder. Superman is cleared of the murder charge, then banished from Lexor.