Issue Description

The Great Crasher! (Superman) -- 2. The Fight That Couldn't Be Won! (Congo Bill) -- 3. The Baker and the Jailbird! (Zatara) -- 4. Willy -- 5. The Triumph of Taffy! (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. The Town That Roared Again! (Vigilante).

On the cover: The Man of Steel protects a man by getting molten iron poured on him. 

Superman: Lois and Clark are visiting the circus when they witness a man calling himself The Great Crasher trying to get into the circus for free. The Crasher is about to be beaten up by the circus people when Clark feigns cowardice and slips away to change to Superman. He saves the Crasher from the circus people and tries to convince him to become honest and pay for admission, but the Crasher refuses.
Later, Clark and Lois discover that the Crasher did get into the circus for free after all, by disguising himself in an ape costume (although the Crasher says he rented the ape costume, which would surely have cost more than the circus admission, but anyway...) Clark interviews him and publishes an exclusive on the Crasher in the Planet.
The scene switches to the headquarters of Mugsy Maroon, where his gang is getting disgruntled with him as he has been unable to come up with a decent job for a while. Maroon then spots Clark's article and gets the idea of coercing the Crasher into getting him into rich mansions so he can steal paintings and jewellery. 
When the Crasher tries to get into a boxing match by hiding inside a trunk, Maroon's gang hijacks the trunk and takes the Crasher back to headquarters, where they "convince" him to work for them. His first job is to get the gang into Terry Gleason's mansion so they can steal a classic painting. The Crasher disguises Maroon's men as comic acrobats and while they are performing, Maroon manages to steal the painting.
Next day, the Crasher gets Maroon's gang into a wedding so they can steal a priceless necklace, but this time as they are escaping, they are intercepted by Superman. Maroon blames the failure of the job on the Crasher and gives him one more chance: to distract Superman while they steal a shipment of jewels that is being guarded at an army base. The Crasher gets one of Maroon's mob to pretend he's been shot so Superman has to rush him to hospital, and Superman pretends to fall for the ruse, but returns in time to foil the robbery and capture the remainder of Maroon's gang. The Crasher, meanwhile, promises to go straight from now on.

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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