Issue Description

The Worthless Gold Mine (Superman) -- 2. It's So -- 3. The Kidnapped Girl (Pep Morgan) -- 4. Curios -- 5. Fire on Board (Black Pirate) -- 6. 1 -- 7. Dinky -- 8. The South American Indians (Three Aces) -- 9. Travel Talk -- 10. The Spider (Mr. America) -- 11. Forty Minutes to Go -- 12. The Panama Canal (Clip Carson) -- 13. The Inheritance (Zatara) Superman: An elderly couple visit Lois at the Daily Planet seeking advice on their stocks in the Guybart gold mine. Although the stock is worthless, they were approached by a man wanting to buy it. Lois borrows the stock certificates so she can investigate, but while Lois is having lunch with Clark in a restaurant, a man bursts in and steals the stock from Lois's purse. Clark slips away and changes to Superman, chases the man in his car and recovers the stocks, but the man says he was hired by someone else to steal them. Lois decides to take a small plane up to the gold mine to investigate further, but en route the plane is attacked by another plane. Superman smashes the attacking plane to pieces, but the pilot says he too was hired by someone else to get the stocks from Lois. Resuming her flight, Lois arrives at the mine and is met by Brock Walters, owner of an adjacent mine, who drives Lois to the Guybart mine. Lois and Walters are attacked by two men in an armoured truck, but again Superman saves them. When Lois and Walters finally reach the mine, they enter to investigate, but Lois is trapped in a cave-in. As Superman saves her, he discovers that there are large deposits of gold in the mine so it appears not to be worthless after all. However, it turns out that Walters was the leader of a gang that was robbing other miners of their gold and was using the Guybart mine to store it. After a final showdown between Superman and the gang, the criminals are apprehended and Lois receives the reward for capturing them, which she donates to the elderly couple that got her started on the case.

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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