Issue Description

The Hand of Morpheus -- 2. The Unconscious Tip-Off -- 3. Escape from the Mine -- 4. The Hidden City of Death -- 5. The fake Accident Racket -- 6. Vengeance Trail -- 7. The Missing Archaeologist -- 8. European War. Superman: Clark drives Lois to the town of Brentville for a holiday, but upon arriving they find all the inhabitants asleep due to the effects of a strange gas. Lois also succumbs but Clark is immune, so he obtains a couple of gas masks at a fire station, then drives to a house on the outskirts of the town. The house is owned by Professor Hunter and his assistant Kolb. When Clark phones the sheriff of a neighbouring town for help, Kolb tries to knock him out, but Clark manages to get Lois and himself out of the house. As they are driving back to Brentville, they spot another car with four men wearing gas masks. Following the car, they observe the four men rob a bank. Superman captures the robbers, but when the police arrive they believe that Clark and Lois are part of the gang and arrest them. Clark persuades the police to drive to Hunter's house so he can confirm he called the sheriff from there, but on arrival they find only Kolb, who denies ever seeing them.  The police lock Lois and Clark up in the house.
Changing to Superman, Clark breaks out and discovers that Kolb has been hired by a foreign spy, Baron Munsdorf, to obtain the formula for the sleep gas (which was invented by Hunter), and that they have Hunter tied up in the basement. Superman frees Hunter, then confronts Munsdorf who attacks him with a death-ray invented by Hunter. After Superman defeats Munsdorf, Hunter vows to turn over all his work to the US government.

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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