Issue Description

"The Face of Adonis!" (Siegal/Citron) featuring Superman -Fading film star James Trevor becomes depressed and is about to commit suicide when he receives a visit from a plastic surgeon who claims he can restore Trevor's handsome features. After the bandages come off, Dr. Menace reveals that he has made him hideously ugly, but if Trevor agrees to obey Menace's every command for a month, he will fulfill his promise of restoring Trevor's looks.

Menace orders Trevor to commit several thefts under the ironic identity of Adonis. His first target is a director whose party Lois and Clark have been invited to, where Adonis steals a priceless ruby. At another party, Adonis breaks into a secret vault under an actor's pool. When Superman shows up to prevent the robbery, Adonis locks the actor in the vault and makes good his escape while Superman rescues him.

The next evening, Lois and Clark attend yet another party at the estate of film star Philip Minton. Minton's estate contains an amusement park, and while Lois and Clark are on the ferris wheel, Adonis steals a Rembrandt painting from Minton's house. Pretending to fall out of the Ferris wheel, Clark changes to Superman in an attempt to catch Adonis, but Dr Menace shows up and rigs the Ferris wheel so it spins out of control. Superman is forced to save people from the ride. When Superman is finally able to pursue the thief, Menace shoots Adonis to prevent him from revealing Menace's part in the plot. However, Adonis lives long enough to strangle Menace before dying from his wounds.

"The Dummy and the Dumbbell" (Cameron/Meskin/Paris) featuring the Vigilante"Double-X for the Axis" (Fox/Cazeneuve) featuring the Three Aces"The Brigade of the Biting Rabbit!" (Greene/Baily) featuring the Americommando [Tex Thomson]"The Full-Dress Rebellion!" (Smalle) featuring Congo Bill"The Seven Year Itch!" (Fox/Sulman) featuring Zatara

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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