Issue Description

Clark Kent, Police Commissioner (Superman) -- 2. Quiz -- 3. The Playboy's Gambling Ring (Pep Morgan) -- 4. False Alarms -- 5. Oddities -- 6. Facts -- 7. The Lost City of Atlantis (Three Aces) -- 8. True-isms -- 9. The Spy B-7 (Mr. America) -- 10. In the Nick of Time -- 11. The Italian Officer (Congo Bill) -- 12. [Untitled] -- 13. The Baseball Fixers (Zatara) Superman:  A crime wave has hit Metropolis, and criminals are either not arrested or else if they are, they get out of jail almost immediately. After public pressure, the mayor fires the police commissioner, but the new commissioner is murdered within hours of his appointment. When the next two commissioners are murdered just as rapidly, the mayor finds it impossible to find anyone to take the job, until he and Lois talk Clark into becoming commissioner.
In order to make Clark look tough in the job, Lois arranges for ex-con Butch Moran to fake an assault on Clark which Clark will be able to fight off. Things go wrong, however, when Clark is attacked by a real assassin who he thinks is Butch. 
After Clark manages to defeat the would-be killer by surreptitiously using his super powers, he foils a plot to kill the mayor by fire-bombing his office. Later, Clark gets a tip off that a gang plans to rob the jewelry exchange, and as Superman foils the robbery he unmasks the leader of the gang who turns out to be the fired police commissioner, who had been using his position to arrange for criminals to get out of jail.

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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