Comic Title: Action Comics #353
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1967
On Sale Date: June 29, 1967 Newsstand Date June 29, 1967
Source: Direct Currents, Superman #199, Page 29

Copyright Date June 29, 1967
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1967


Frequency: Monthly (semi-monthly, March)
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "The Cosmic Collectors"
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Otto Binder
Artist: Jim Mooney

Reprinted In:
Supergirl:The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Supergirl (last appearance in Superman #199; next appearance in Action Comics #354)

Villain(s)

• The living brains of Zorkia (next appearance in Action Comics #354)

Other Character(s)

• Joe Trent (A college student; no further appearances)
• Alice and Betty (Friends of Linda Danvers; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in the second story of Action Comics #354.

Synopsis:
Linda Danvers takes a part time job a the school library where she discovers Joe Trent checking out several science books. When he returns the next day for more books, Linda becomes suspicious. She watches him take the books to an alien spacecraft.

The following day, Linda intercepts Joe and takes the books to the ship as Supergirl. Inside the ship she finds a group of disembodied brains that form the Living Library of Zorkia. They are traveling the universe absorbing knowledge to take back to their home planet.

The brains then want to use Supergirl in their living library. When she refuses, the brains stun her with Kryptonite. They then force her super brain to absorb all the stored knowledge and take her to their homeworld. Supergirl is then forced to serve as a living library for the people of Zorkia.