Issue Description

The Boy Who Came Back (Superman) -- 2. The Sword of Destiny (Vigilante) -- 3. Vitamin Vic -- 4. The Talking Trees (Congo Bill) -- 5. Private Pete -- 6. Burma Remembers (Americommando) -- 7. Quiz Quix -- 8. Mission of Danger -- 9. Circus Daze (Zatara) Superman: Blind millionaire John Barnett dotes on his 5 year old grandson Jackie, but one day while they are out for a walk beside the river, Jackie falls in and is swept over a waterfall. As his body is never found, Barnett refuses to give up hope that his grandson is still alive. He offers a million dollars as a reward to anyone who can find the boy.
Four years pass, and then one day a 9 year old boy shows up and claims to be Jackie. Lois and Clark go to Barnett's house to cover the story, but while there, Clark's X-ray vision spots some criminals loading guns onto a boat in Barnett's boathouse. Changing to Superman, he tries to stop them, but the thugs tell Superman that the boy isn't the real Jackie, and that unless Superman leaves them alone, they will tell Barnett, probably causing him to die from shock as a result of learning that his grandson is still missing.
Unknown to all of them, the boy overhears the conversation and upon discovering that he's not the real Jackie, decides to run away. While running beside the river, he too falls in and is swept away. This time, however, Superman hears his cries for help and discovers that part of the waterfall goes into an underground cavern, which is where the original Jackie was swept. Since the underground channel goes out to sea, this explains why his body was never found.
After saving the boy, Superman takes him back to Barnett's house and the family doctor is called. The doctor discovers that the boy is not Jackie, since he doesn't have a scar from an operation the doctor performed years earlier. The doctor tells Barnett, but Barnett says he already knew since he felt for the scar the same day the boy showed up. However, Barnett is happy to adopt the boy anyway.
With the family situation solved, Superman is now free to nab the crooks.

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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