Issue Description

The Sabotage Ring (Superman) -- 2. Tuerto the Bandit (Pep Morgan) -- 3. The Albino Priestess (Black Pirate) -- 4. Chief Hot Foot -- 5. The Cleveland Air Races (Three Aces) -- 6. Little Lewie -- 7. Laffs -- 8. The Gold Bullion Theft (Mr. America) -- 9. Quick Thinking -- 10. Jungle Drums (Congo Bill) -- 11. Facts -- 12. Some Fun -- 13. The Rival Ranchers (Zatara) Superman: Clark and Lois are about to tour the Gargan Factory when Clark's X-ray vision spots a bomb hidden under the floor. Slipping away to change to Superman, he returns to remove the bomb. Due to the level of security at the factory, Clark deduces it must have been an inside job, so after seeing which workers were absent that day, he and Sergeant Casey visit each of them. 
The guilty party turns out to be worker Steve Grant, but because of his failure to destroy the factory, his boss makes repeated attempts to kill him, with Superman managing to save him every time. Finally, Superman convinces Grant to tell him what he knows, but this amounts only to the fact that some shadowy man is trying to destroy America's defence effort by sabotaging factories.
Superman puts Grant in jail, but he is broken out by members of the gang. Superman trails the gang to save Grant yet again, and discovers that the gang's next target is the Daily Planet. Rushing over to the Planet, Superman saves Lois from being blow up, and discovers that the leader of the gang is Ralph Cowan, a supposedly respectable man who has been hired by a "foreign power".

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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