Comic Title: Best of DC #27
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1982
On Sale Date: May 6, 1982 Newsstand Date May 6, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #201

Newsstand Date May 6, 1982
Source: Comics Journal, #72

Newsstand Date May 6, 1982
Source: Amazing Heroes, #11

Copyright Date April 13, 1982
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1982
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.95
Page Count: 96
Editor: Julius Schwartz

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Condemned Superman"
Pages: 12

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

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

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #319 (1964)

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.