Issue Description

Mother Goose Crimes (Superman) -- 2. The King of the Gorillas (Congo Bill) -- 3. Danger is Where You Make It (Zatara) -- 4. Good-Natured Pop -- 5. Sleepyside's Meanest Thief (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. Daffy & Doodle -- 7. The Girl Sheriff of Benton City (Vigilante) -- 8. Daffy & Doodle Superman: In one of the weaker entries in the Action catalog, Lois is looking after her trouble-maker niece Susie again, and wants Clark to come along when she takes Susie to see a performance of Mother Goose's nursery rhymes at Thimble's department store.
At the store's "children's theater", the performance begins, and the audience watches the nursery rhymes being acted out on stage. After a while, Susie gets thirsty, so Lois sends her out on her own to get a drink. Searching for the drinks stand, Susie gets lost and ends up in the wings of the stage, where she spots Mother Goose bending over to pick up something from the floor. The sight of Mother Goose's ample rear end presents a tempting target for Susie's slingshot, so she takes aim and fires.
As Mother Goose jumps in surprise, Susie is shocked to see her wig fall off, revealing that Mother Goose is in fact the gangster Monk Malone. Susie takes another shot at him with her slingshot, angering Malone to the point where he takes out his gun and shoots at her. 
Clark, meanwhile, has become concerned that Susie hasn't returned so has a look backstage with his x-ray vision and spots Susie in trouble, so he slips away and changes into Superman in time to save her.
Back in the theater, the cast now reveals their true identity and produce guns so they can rob the rich women in the audience of their cash and jewels. Superman makes quick work of the gang, however.

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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