Issue Description

The Man Who Robbed the Mint (Superman) -- 2. Elevator to Excitement (Zatara) -- 3. Witty Willy -- 4. The Elephant's Graveyard (Congo Bill) -- 5. The Theft of a Very Loud Noise (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. Popp Gunn Rides Again (Vigilante).

Cover: Superman watches as giant gold coins with arms and legs and Superman's portrait close in on the Prankster. It seems the Man of Steel is also the Man of Gold! 

Superman: The Prankster is back and has invented a gas which makes the ink on paper money become invisible. As reports of blank money come in from all over the country, the nation faces an economic crisis. When Superman visits the U.S. Mint, he can find nothing wrong with their production system, so he tells them to replace all the paper currency with gold coins. However, there isn't enough gold in reserve to make the coins, and the mint couldn't produce them fast enough. So Superman builds a giant refinery and mines gold from meteors outside Earth's atmosphere, managing to produce millions of coins in a matter of hours. However, the problem of the disappearing ink hasn't been solved yet.
After most of Prankster's blank money has been replaced with gold, Prankster puts into effect the second part of his plan. He gets the nation's main crime lords to "invest" millions in his scheme, which is to buy all the blank money for 1 cent per bill, claiming that he can restore the invisible ink and make the money worth its original value again. Publicly, he claims he is merely buying up the blank money since he suspects it will become valuable as collector's items.
When Superman sees Prankster buying up the money, he investigates and discovers the Prankster's plan. So he visits the Mint again and makes up a special die for some new money. Once printed, the money fades as all the others have done, so Superman sells millions of these new bills to Prankster.
When Prankster has accumulated as much blank money as he wants, he saturates the bills with the gas that is supposed to restore the ink and, sure enough, the images reappear. However, the images on the bills are those made up by Superman, and show the Prankster in various humiliating poses. Prankster is now hounded by the mob for wasting millions of their money, and begs Superman to put him back in jail where he will be safe.

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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