Issue Description

Make Way for Fate (Superman) -- 2. Private Pete -- 3. The Academy of Musical Crime (Vigilante) -- 4. The Very Weird and Eerie Case of Wealthy Tim Buck II (Super Sleuth McFooey) -- 5. Deep Water Detective (Congo Bill) -- 6. Clancy the Cop -- 7. The Secret of Shanghai Rose (Americommando) -- 8. Home for Christmas -- 9. Mardi Gras Marauders (Zatara) Superman: Lois is interviewing some army brass when he tells her that the army wants to create an officers' training school on four city blocks in Metropolis, but due to the manpower shortage because of the war, they can't get the job done in time. Lois says she will get Superman to help.
When Superman shows up at the army base, he discovers there is another problem: although most of the buildings on the four blocks are empty, there are three that are still occupied, and the owners refuse to move. Superman decides to pay them a visit.
The first house belongs to an old lady named Martha Hoskins, who tells him that 30 years ago she wanted to marry Samuel Rayburn, but they got into an argument over who had to give up their house to go live with the other. As they both swore they would never move, Hoskins and Rayburn (who lives two doors down the street) have remained single and feuding all that time. When Superman visits Rayburn, he hears much the same story, except that Rayburn has lost most of his possessions because he neglected his business while waiting for Hoskins to change her mind.
When Superman visits the third house, he is told that the occupant is a seriously ill man who cannot be moved without risking his death. However, this is just a cover for some crooks who are using the house to store burgled goods. Superman uncovers the deception and captures the crooks, for which the police give him a large reward. Superman uses the reward to buy back Rayburn's possessions. Then, one night, he moves both Hoskins' and Rayburn's houses to a different plot of land and joins them together. When Hoskins and Rayburn wake up the next morning, they discover they now live in the same house without either of them having had to move, so their feud is at an end and they get married.
Meanwhile, Superman demolishes the other buildings and builds the new army training centre at super speed.

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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