Issue Description

The Professional Baseball Player (Superman) -- 2. Major Thomas H.J. Trapnell (Supermen of the U.S. Army) -- 3. Laffs -- 4. The Man Who Came Back (Vigilante) -- 5. The Island Where Time Stood Still (Three Aces) -- 6. Blackmail (Mr. America) -- 7. Sky Challenge -- 8. Rollin' Stone -- 9. The Man of a Thousand Lives (Congo Bill) -- 10. Silly Willy -- 11. Chief Hot Foot -- 12. The Case of the Man who Could Not Die (Zatara) Superman: As Lois and Clark are on their way to Lauderville, Florida, to cover the Metropolis baseball team in training, they stop off at a small town and watch an amateur game in which farmboy Stan Doborak displays stunning pitching skills. They try to convince him to go professional but he says he can't as he is needed on his parents' farm.
As Superman, Clark visits the farm and does all the year's planting in a few minutes. Stan then agrees to enter the training camp in Lauderville.
However, Clark writes up a damaging article in the Planet in which he reports a brawl involving one of the players, and the coach throws him out of the camp. When Stan shows up to enrol, he too is thrown out because he is friends with Clark.
Superman takes Stan back into the camp by avoiding the guards. When the coach sees that Stan has come back despite being told to stay away, he decides to humiliate him by having him pitch against his star batters. Stan, however, strikes out all the batters and is then accepted into the camp.
Later, Lois and Clark discover that Stan has let his success go to his head, and he has become stuck up. When Superman investigates, he finds that Stan is going out with a blonde woman, Mabel Dawson, and that Mabel works for gangster Mike Caputo. Caputo's plan is to get Stan to rig games that the gangsters bet on. Superman forces Caputo to confess, and Stan sees the error of his ways.

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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