Anyone know what issue of Action Comics this silver age Supergirl was in?

[williamtheday]

Supergirl was charged with murder by an alien race of super beings made it their mission to punish all those with super powers who killed, even if the "victims" were deadly germs. Supergirl had unknowingly killed some non sentient life forms during a mission. The aliens were going to turn her into some kind of zombie, I think.

[Jim Kelly]

I covered that story just recently in the All-Planets thread Post #584

ACTION COMICS 374 (March 1969)--2nd story, "No Mercy for Supergirl" by Leo Dorfman and Kurt Schaffenberger:

The Stanhope Sensation is captured by an alien who calls himself the Avenger. In another galaxy, on the planet Sarkon, his people follow a strict no-kill policy. Nothing that is alive may be killed not even plants or insects. Anyone who dares to kill is sentenced to the 5th Continuum--a realm more dreadful than the Phantom Zone. The Avenger and all his people are super-beings and they have decided to extend their no-kill law to every super-being in the universe.





Because the Avenger had observed Linda cutting a flower and preserving a butterfly, she has killed and therefore must be condemned to the 5th Continuum. Stalling for time, Kara asks the Avenger to accompany her to the Congo, to the abandoned lab of the late Dr. Carney, who was working for the W.H.O. to cure jungle fever. At the lab she asks the Avenger to light a candle. Then the Caped Kryptonian shows the alien that a test tube above the candle held deadly microbes which were all destroyed by the heat of the candle. Therefore the Avenger has committed murder.

As the Avenger holds himself to a higher standard, he does not condemn himself to the 5th Continuum and instead uses his self-destruct button, dissolving into a cloud of atomic particles.

[williamtheday]

Thanks for the info! This "5th continum" looks somewhat like Superman 1978 version of The Phantom Zone.

[Jim Kelly]

Thanks for the info! This "5th continum" looks somewhat like Superman 1978 version of The Phantom Zone.

Yeah, I noticed that, too.