Issue Description

A Summer Snow -- 2. The "Fred Norman" Jinx -- 3. Ghosts -- 4. The Attack -- 5. Elagabalus, Monkeys, Footprint, Toothpicks, Gentleman Jim -- 6. The Headhunters and the Incan Treasure -- 7. Dr. Mixxo's Protection Racket -- 8. Tall Timber -- 9. Death on the Set! -- 10. Mottled Death. Superman: Metropolis is blanketed by snow in the middle of summer. While Clark is visiting a weatherman to see if he knows what is happening, he hears a message on the radio from a Laura Vogel, asking Superman to meet her so she can explain what's going on. However, while Vogel and a friend are on their  way to the meeting, their car gets stuck in the snow, and Vogel's friend tries to get to the meeting place on foot. However, she is attacked by 3 men in Arab dress who release a strange glowing sphere towards her. Just as Superman arrives, he sees the woman vapourized by the sphere.
Lois had also arrived on the scene and she too is attacked by a glowing sphere. Superman leaps to the rescue, but the Arabs have taken Laura Vogel hostage. Superman whisks Lois away and returns to trail the Arabs and their captive in a car.
Meanwhile, in the Sahara desert, Laura Vogel's brother Carlton has discovered Ulonda, the Lost City. Just as they are about to enter it, however, they too are attacked by a band of Arabs who release a horde of blazing spheres at them, and they are all vapourized.
Back in Metropolis, Superman see Vogel being forced aboard a strange sky-vessel. As he tries to save her, he is attacked by a glowing sphere which knocks him unconscious. He is taken captive aboard the skyship where Laura tells him that an evil mastermind named Zolar is behind the bizarre weather and glowing spheres, both of which he has constructed using vast stores of radium. 
During this time, the skyship has taken Superman and Laura to Ulonda and Zolar's headquarters. Superman breaks free and battles Zolar's skyships and glowing spheres, eventually forcing Zolar to surrender.

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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