Issue Description

A Goof Named Tiny Rufe (Superman) -- 2. Capt. Hewitt T. "Shorty" Wheless (Supermen of the U.S. Army) -- 3. Bullets for Breakfast (Vigilante) -- 4. Aces of Fire (Three Aces) -- 5. The Clever Chinese -- 6. Escape from the Scaffold (Americommandos) -- 7. A Modern Robinson Crusoe (Congo Bill) -- 8. Crimes by Coincidence (Zatara)

Superman: A bit of satire at the expense of cartoonist Al Capp (who would have been well-known at the time as the author of Li'l Abner and his girlfriend Daisy Mae). Cartoonist Al Hatt, who writes a comic strip for the Daily Planet, is running out of inspiration, so Perry White suggests that he spend some time alone at his cabin in the backwoods. Inspiration still won't come, until one day a couple of hillbillies, Tiny Rufe and Maisie Day, wander past his cabin and get into a romantic argument. Over the next few days, Tiny and Maisie meet up regularly at the cabin, and Hatt eavesdrops on their relationship problems. Hatt decides to create a new comic strip based on the real-life story of Tiny Rufe and Maisie Day, and it is a smash hit, sweeping the country.

One day, however, disaster strikes when Tiny and Maisie work out their differences and decide to get married. Hatt realizes if he is to continue to use them as inspiration for his comic, he must prevent the marriage, so he stages several stunts to try to break them up. Each time, Superman intervenes to save their relationship, so Hatt must keep thinking of more and more outlandish schemes to break them up. Eventually Hatt gives up and Tiny and Maisie get married. Hatt decides to start a new comic strip: The Adventures of Superman.

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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