Issue Description

There'll Always be a Superman (Superman) -- 2. The Crime Carnival (Vigilante) -- 3. The Loyal Traitor (Three Aces) -- 4. The Blitz Barge (Americommando) -- 5. Laffs -- 6. Island of Peril (Congo Bill) -- 7. Murder in the Dark -- 8. The Money Buyer (Zatara) Superman: In the year 2143, where war and crime are things of the past, an old man tells a tale of a Superman adventure 200 years earlier to his grandchildren. 
In 1943, Lois is on a fishing boat gathering material for an article on the fishing fleet when some men adrift in a dinghy are spotted. The fishermen bring them on board only to discover that one of the men is a German submarine officer, Admiral von Storff, with a gun, who takes over the boat and forces it to steer to a particular point in the ocean. Some mysterious force grabs the boat from underwater and forces it to sink. All passengers and crew, including Lois, are believed lost, although the captain, Zeb Storme, manages to escape and reach land. Clark hears the story of the presumed loss of the boat and Lois, so he changes to Superman and takes Captain Storme back out to the place where the boat was sunk. Diving beneath the surface, they discover a German base in an underwater cave, and find that the crew and Lois have been taken prisoner by the Germans and are to be forced to build Nazi weapons to be used in attacking America. 
As Superman tries to free the captives, the Germans set off an explosion which brings the cave's roof down. Superman manages to hold off the falling rock long enough for the captives to escape into an adjoining chamber, but is then buried.
Meanwhile, von Storff decides to shoot all his captives, but Superman manages to tunnel out just in time to prevent the murders and capture the Germans, who are taken to a coastal town where they in turn become captives of the Americans.
Back in 2143, the grandchildren loved the story but wish they could meet Superman. It turns out Superman is still alive and drops in for a visit...

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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