A delicious vengeance! I cannot kill your cousin... For no matter what I do, he always manages to save himself! But I shall cripple him emotionally! You saw, Supergirl, how he reacted when he thought he had killed Nam-Ek? He was shattered-- Reduced to a stupid, sniveling wretch! By teleporting Nam-Ek here, I deluded Superman into thinking he had committed murder! For that is his Achilles' heel-- His obsessive concern with preserving life... And his lily-livered refusal to take it! I need only put him in a situation where he must kill-- To destroy him... Psychologically! 
- — Amalak
Superman #313 is an issue of the series Superman (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1977.
Synopsis for "The Only Way You'll Save the Earth... Is Over My Dead Body!"
On the deck of a space-craft, Supergirl has seen Superman melt the interior of Amalak's gun barrel with his heat-vision, so, after Amalak reveals to her his plan of destroying Superman psychologically, she gets up and bashes him. Amalak retaliates by using his "electro-surrogate" to fight her while he shields himself with a force-field.
On Earth, Superman cures the journalists with Nam-Ek's Rondor horn, then discovers that the plague is really spread through Jamie's "dog" Ralphie, actually an alien named Jevik who conceals his true form through hypnosis. When Superman battles Jevik, Jamie sees the Man of Steel as abusing his dog, and interposes himself between Jevik and Superman, refusing to let the battle go on.
Appearing in "The Only Way You'll Save the Earth... Is Over My Dead Body!"
Featured Characters:
- Superman (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Lois Lane (Flashback only)
- Steve Lombard (Flashback only)
- Jamie Lombard (Flashback and main story)
- Supergirl (Flashback and main story)
Antagonists:
- Amalak (Flashback and main story)
- Electro-Surrogate Warrior (Made of charged particles which behaves like a human)
- Jevik (also disguised as Ralphie)
- Nam-Ek (Flashback and main story)
Other Characters:
- World News Conference Attendees (Unnamed) (Flashback and main story)
- Flash (Flashback only)
- Iris Allen (Flashback only)
- Doctor (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Final appearance)
- Rondor (Mentioned only)
- Nurse (Unnamed) (Cameo)
- Sheridan Central Hotel Ski Patrol
- Richards (Flashback only)
- Partner (Unnamed) (Flashback only)
Locations:
- Space
- Intergalactic Penal Colony (Mentioned only)
- Mars (Mentioned only)
- Krypton (Mentioned only)
- Earth (Flashback and main story)
- Central City (Flashback and main story)
- Sheridan Central Hotel (Flashback and main story)
- Emergency Treatment Center (Flashback and main story)
- West Indies (Flashback only)
- Volcano (Flashback only)
- Central City (Flashback and main story)
Items:
- Journalists' Disease
- Star-Cannon (Flashback and main story) and (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- Amalak's Spacecraft disguised as an asteroid (Flashback and main story) and (Destroyed)
See Also