Issue Description

The Life Insurance Scam -- 2. Summer Vacation in Cambodia -- 3. The Red Raiders -- 4. The Missionary and the Cannibals -- 5. The Washington Spy Ring -- 6. The Puppet Murder Case -- 7. The Crooked Cop -- 8. Captain Kidd's Treasure. Superman: Clark goes to pick up Lois for a relaxing afternoon in the park, but Lois insists on going to see a crippled old lady, Mrs Davis, whose sister has recently died. Mrs Davis tells them that she is the beneficiary of a cheap insurance policy she bought from a Mr Fullerton. Mrs Grady, her neighbour, believes that Fullerton is a con artist. While talking to the two old ladies, Lois develops a headache and is about to take some of Mrs Davis's aspirin when Clark detects that it is actually a slow-acting poison.
When Lois and Clark visit the drugstore where the aspirin was bought, they witness Mrs Grady being hit by a car and killed. Tom Bruce, a thug in the pay of political boss Martin, whips up a mob by telling them that the drugstore owner caused Grady's death. Superman shows up in time to prevent the mob from storming the drugstore, but Martin shows up and tells the police to let Bruce go. 
Lois goes to Fullerton's office but is thrown out by Fullerton. Undeterred, she comes back later and breaks into his private office, but is captured by Bruce and another thug. Superman arrives just in time to save Lois from being murdered by the thugs, but again Martin gets the thugs freed from police custody. 
Lois returns to Fullerton to bluff him into confessing by claiming she has proof of his insurance racket, but Fullerton forces Lois to go with him to Martin's home. There, we discover that Martin was behind the insurance scam, and was killing off the policy-holders to collect their premiums without Fullerton's knowledge. Martin shoots Fullerton to keep him quiet and is about to kill Lois when Superman shows up to save her yet again. This time they collect evidence of Martin's guilt and put an end to the scam.

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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