Issue Description

The Man Who Hated Christmas! (Superman) -- 2. They Wanted Wings! (Zatara) -- 3. Captain Tootsie Saves the Sailplane -- 4. Operation Hippo! (Congo Bill) -- 5. The Vindictive Vixens! (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. Little Arthur -- 7. Truth Comes to Gila Gap! (Vigilante).

Cover: Superman tries to get Santa to fit through the chimney.

Superman: Millionaire Jasper Rasper hates Christmas and fires his janitor, Cartwright, just because he wishes him a Merry Christmas. Later, he concocts a plan to sabotage Christmas itself. He has his lab chemists devise a chemical that, when eaten, causes fatty tissue to multiply at an enormous rate. He coats a box of chocolates with the chemical and flies to the North Pole in a helicopter to give the chocolates to Santa Claus.

Meanwhile, because he has lost his job, Cartwright is unable to pay his rent, and his landlady, Mrs O'Malley takes Cartwright's story to the Planet as an entry in their "meanest deed I ever heard of" contest. Clark is given the job of investigating O'Malley's story and learns of Rasper's plan from his secretary.

Superman rushes to the North Pole, but is too late, as he finds Santa Claus asleep, with his waistline so big that he can't fit down chimneys. Superman gets Santa on a crash weight-reduction programme and manages to reduce his weight in time for Christmas Eve. However, they reckoned without Rasper's backup plan, and discover that he has drugged Santa's reindeer as well.

To save Christmas, Superman substitutes for the reindeer by flying Santa's sleigh around the world. On their journey, they discover Rasper and his helicopter stranded on an iceberg. When Superman rescues Rasper, Rasper sees the error of his ways over the years and, like Scrooge, becomes a kind and generous man, giving Cartwright his job back.

Action Comics (1938)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

In the early days of comics books, it was not the convention to name comics after specific characters. Rather comics bore generic names such as this one. Although this series featured Superman throughout, it thus bore this name, one which it has become famous for (and the name was kept after the launch of The New 52.) It was the fourth DC Comics title, and the first new one produced after Detective Comics spread beyond the one title (this was after it purchased More Fun Comics and New Adventure Comics.)

Starring: Lex Luthor (starting #890) until #900.

Second Feature: Captain Atom (#879-#889), Superboy (#892), Jimmy Olsen (#893-#896)

(Issues #601-642 are filed under Action Comics Weekly)

Collected EditionsSuperman: The Golden Age Omnibus vol. 1 (#1-31)Adventures of Superman: Gil Kane vol. 1 (#539-541, 545, 546 & #551-554)Superman vs. Darkseid (#586)They Saved Luthor's Brain (#600, #668, #670-673, #676-678 )Panic in the Sky (#674-675)Death of Superman (#683-684)World Without Superman (#685-686)Superman: Funeral For A Friend (#685-686)Superman: Reign of the Supermen (#687-688)The Trial of Superman (#716-717)Transformed! (#729 & 732)DC Comics Presents: Superman #4 (#768, #771-773)Superman: Emperor Joker (#769-770)President Lex (#773)Superman: Our Worlds At War, Book One (#780-781)Superman: Our Worlds At War, Book Two (#782)Superman: Ending Battle (#795-796)DC Comics Presents: Superman #2 (#798)Godfall (Action Comics #812- 813, Adventures of Superman #625- 626 and Superman #202- 203)Superman: The Wrath of Gog (#814-819; backups #812-813)Superman: Sacrifice (Action Comics #829, Superman #218-220, Adventures of Superman #642-643 and Wonder Woman #219-220)Superman: Up, Up and Away! (#837-840)Superman: Back In Action (#841-843, plus stories from DC Comics Presents #4, #17 and #24)Superman: Last Son (#844-846, #851 and Action Comics Annual #11)The Third Kryptonian (Superman #668-670, Action Comics #847, Superman Annual #13)Redemption (Superman #659&666, Action Comics #848-849)3-2-1 Action (Superman #665, Action Comics #852-854, Legends of the DC Universe #14)Superman: Escape From Bizarro World (#855-857)Superman And The Legion of Super-Heroes (#858-863)Superman: Brainiac (#866-870)Superman: New Krypton Vol. 1 (#871)Superman: New Krypton Vol. 2 (#872-873)Superman: Nightwing And Flamebird Vol. 1 (#875-879 and Action Comics Annual #12)Superman: Codename Patriot (#880)Superman: Nightwing And Flamebird Vol. 2 (#883-889, Superman #696 and Adventure Comics #8-10)Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 1 (#890-895)Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 2 (#896-900; Action Comics Annual #13; Secret Six #29)Secret Six: Caution To the Wind (#897)Superman: Reign of Doomsday (#900-904)For Post-Flashpoint refer to Action Comics (Vol. 2)

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