Comic Title: Superman Family #172
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Aug/Sep 1975
On Sale Date: May 13, 1975 Newsstand Date May 13, 1975
Source: Comic Reader, #118

Copyright Date May 15, 1975
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1975

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.50
Page Count: 64
Editor: Murray Boltinoff

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Kiss of Death"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Kurt Schaffenberger

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #364 (1968)

Feature Character(s)

• Supergirl (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #176; next appearance in Wonder Woman #177)

Villain(s)

• Prof. Vandarr, Dorah, and Jacquella (alien criminals; all die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Durkla (an alien executioner; no further appearances)
• Several Stanhope students (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Professor Vandarr, a teacher at Stanhope, gets married to Count Durkla. Linda Danvers attends the wedding and witnesses her die just after kissing the groom. The dead woman also has a strange tattoo which emits x-rays.

Supergirl later saves the life of Dorah, a stunt diver. She has the same tattoo and Vandarr and is scheduled to marry Colonel Durkla. Supergirl keeps an eye on the couple, but again the bride dies after kissing the groom.

Supergirl suspects Durkla's kiss is poisoned. She finds a third woman with the same tattoo, Miss Jacquella. Supergirl gets her a job at Stanhope to replace Prof. Vandarr, then takes her place. Durkla approaches her and proposes. Supergirl then discovers that her wedding ring was poisoned.

Supergirl survives, then Durkla tells her that the three girls were escaped alien criminals. He had been sent to Earth to execute them. Jacquella claims to be innocent, so Supergirl leaves her at the Fortress. When the girl tries to steal some gems, Supergirl knows that she is lying. Jacquella tries to flee from the Girl of Steel, but falls into a vat of liquid helium. Durkla then takes the three dead bodies back to his own world as proof that the criminals are dead.