Issue Description

Just An Ordinary Guy (Superman) -- 2. The Man Who Was Always Late! (Zatara) -- 3. Skulduggery in the Subway! (Congo Bill) -- 4. Willy -- 5. The Too-Fragrant Vagrant! (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. Gold Rush--1947! (Vigilante)

Cover; The crowd seems humored that Superman can't even lift 100 pounds, he must have normal strength! 

Superman: The Planet is running a feature in which they interview "average" men to see if they would like to be Superman. Naturally, most people say they would jump at the chance, but the reporter himself figures he would be bored silly as Superman since there would be no challenges to overcome. This sets Clark wondering what it would be like being an ordinary man, so at home he hypnotizes himself into believing he has lost his powers for a day.
When he goes out into the rain, he catches a cold, and then spots some burglars robbing a house. Without his powers he is unable to stop them, so when the police arrive, the thieves pretend that they caught someone impersonating Superman and robbing the house. The police, seeing that Superman has no powers, put him in jail.
Superman manages to trick a guard into believing he has removed a bar from his cell window, so when the guard comes in to investigate, Superman trips him up and escapes through the open cell door.
Meanwhile, the thieves have decided to return to the scene of their original crime and try the robbery again. This time, they use a fake permit to pretend they are there to demolish the house, and start battering the house with a wrecking ball. Superman jumps in to try to stop them but without his powers he doesn't get very far, until he spots the real reason why the thieves are breaking into the house: a stash of jewels hidden in the walls.
With their true identities revealed, the thieves try to escape by throwing a stick of dynamite at the pursuing cops, and by instinct, Superman shields them from the blast with his body. Fortunately for him, the 24 hours of powerlessness expire just as the dynamite explodes. With his powers back, Superman rounds up the thieves.

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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