Issue Description

Cover by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson."Attack of the Micro-Murderer" written by Cary Bates, penciled by Curt Swan and inked by Murphy Anderson."The Man with the X-Ray Mind" written by Geoff Brown, penciled by Curt Swan and inked by Murphy Anderson. "A Secret Chapter in the Life of Clark Kent""The Impossible Legend" "A Demand Classic" "reprinted by readers' requests" that is reprinted from Action Comics #176."When Krypto was Superboy's Master!" "A Demand Classic" reprinted from Adventure Comics #310.

1. "Attack of the Micro-Murderer" When Superman chases a bank robber fleeing in a helicopter, the chopper crashes and he discovers that the thief's body is inhabited by a Zohtt, a magical alien being. The Zohtt threatens to summon Superman to the future for another encounter. Later, Superman does indeed get summoned to the year 3486, where the Zohtt manages to infect him with a super-virus. In an attempt to rid himself of the virus, Back in 1971, Superman enlists the aid of the people of Metropolis in getting vast quantities of blood for a transfusion. When this fails to work, Superman goes to a distant, lifeless world so that when he dies, the Zohtt will have no other body to inhabit so it will die too. However, Superman has tricked the Zohtt into entering an android, where it is trapped.

2. "The Man with the X-Ray Mind" In Clark Kent's college days, he meets the residence janitor, Mr. Lundgren, who has a skrying ability allowing him to foresee the future. A greedy psychology professor tries to use Lundgren's abilities for his own gain when he tries to steal a radioactive formula for transmuting metals to gold from the physics lab.

3. "The Impossible Legend" A Vigilante tale. Vigilante sets out to prove a legend about three disabled deputies, one of whom was deaf, another blind and the third dumb. He decides to capture some outlaws while having each disability in turn.

4. "When Krypto was Superboy's Master!" Professor Lang is accused of falsifying his work on some ancient artifacts. He translates the runes on a mysterious globe as saying that the globe will cause two minds to swap if two people stare at the globe while it is spinning. The curse seems to come true when Superboy and Krypto swap minds. It turns out later that Superboy and Krypto were faking the swap in order to boost Professor Lang's credibility.

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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