Issue Description

Cover by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye."Superman's Toughest Day!" written by Bill Finger, penciled and inked by Al Plastino."Shorty" gag strip by Henry Boltinoff."Sagebrush Sam" gag strip by Henry Boltinoff."Homer" gag strip by Henry Boltinoff."The Supergirl of Tomorrow!" written by Jerry Siegel, penciled and inked by Jim Mooney."Wanted: Safe Bus Riders!" Public Service ad."Little Pete" gag strip by Henry Boltinoff.

Note: Dick Wilson's name is changed to Dick Malverne after being adopted.

Considering all that Superman had been through up to this point in 1961, one might have a hard time believing THIS was his toughest day! A "Day in the Life" story that lets us see the more "mundane" aspects of Superman's typical day, its spiced up with a side story about Superman's Clark Kent robot getting itself in some hot water. The "typical" aspects of his day include things like checking the air composition in the bottle that is Kandor's home back at the Fortress of Solitude, and so on. But the cover's suspenseful "Uh-oh!" moments come when Lois and the Kent robot visit a factory. While on the tour the robot spills acid on his hands exposing the metal structure underneath. The writers come up with inventive ways to keep the robot from being revealed to Lois as the fake Clark. At one point, while walking around with his hands in his pockets, Clark is asked to check the time on his watch. Instead of pulling out his metallic hand, he uses his X-ray vision to look at a tower clock outside the building. Classic '60's Supe!

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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