Issue Description

Superman for a Day! (Superman) -- 2. Treasure Trove! (Congo Bill) -- 3. Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light (Captain Tootsie) -- 4. Concert for Crime! (Zatara) -- 5. Cabbie Casey -- 6. The Birthday That Backfired! (Vigilante) -- 7. Jerry Jitterbug.

Superman (as Clark Kent!) is getting hit by a car driven by a bunch of crooks. Note the glasses in front of Superman's cape. 

 Wounded war pilot Jim Banning (although his name is misspelled as 'Blanning' in the first two frames) has founded a helicopter delivery service to provide jobs for himself and other pilots wounded during the war. As Lois and Clark are covering the story, they see one of Banning's helicopters grab a jewellery truck and fly off with it.
Slipping away from Lois, Clark changes to Superman and forces the helicopter to release the truck, but while he is saving the truck, the crooks escape. Refusing to believe that Banning and his men are criminals, Clark vows to get to the bottom of the story. In order to be able to work freely as Superman, he tries to distract Lois with a story about a flood in another part of the country.
Lois, however, has other plans. She wants Clark to pose as Superman to lure the crooks into a trap where she will then phone the police. Clark has no choice but to go along with the ruse, and ends up 'pretending' to be Superman.
The crooks fall for Lois's story and show up at the expected location, and Clark uses some clever tricks to make Lois think he is faking Superman's powers but, naturally, the plan goes wrong and the crooks take Lois hostage in the helicopter and escape.
Tracking the helicopter to its base, Superman discovers that rival helicopter fleet owner Martin Grew has painted his machines with Banning's logo and staged crimes to try to get Banning arrested so he (Grew) can take over Banning's fleet at a knockdown price.
Superman manages to foil Grew's plans by infusing a cloud with paint remover. When Grew's disguised fleet flies through the cloud, their true identities are revealed, and the real Banning fleet uses their war piloting skills to capture them, with a bit of help from Superman, of course.

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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