Issue Description

50 Ways to Kill Superman (Superman) -- 2. Volcano Vandals (Congo Bill) -- 3. World of Wishes (Zatara) -- 4. Jerry Jitterbug -- 5. The Stolen Beaver (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. The Color Wheel of Crime (Vigilante)

Cover: Superman relaxes on the ocean while crooks throw harpoons at him, to no avail. Don't try this at home! 

 Fifty of Metropolis's crime kings have arranged a rendezvous out at sea to discuss ways of dealing with Superman. As luck would have it, while they are there a volcanic eruption causes a new island to emerge from the sea right beside them. The crooks claim the island as their own and use it as their headquarters.
To choose a leader for the island, the crooks arrange a contest to see who can find a way of killing Superman. They set up a board with 50 possible ways and each crook in turn must choose one of the methods and try it.
Superman investigates the island and overhears their plans, but decides to actually help them in their attempts, although he puts a mysterious ring on his finger before doing so. Naturally, all physical attacks on Superman fail, but the last attempt is to make Superman die of a broken heart, by killing Lois.
Lois is kidnapped and taken to the island outside US jurisdiction, but of course just as the crooks are about to kill her, Superman saves her. Finally he apprehends all the crooks on the island and then carries the entire island back to Lake Erie so they are within the US.
The crooks still think they are safe since Superman has no evidence that they tried to kill him, but then he reveals that his ring contains a miniature camera and all their attempts are recorded on film.

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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