Issue Description

Superman Takes a Holiday (Superman) -- 2. A Challenge from the Pyramids (Vigilante) -- 3. A High Velocity Yarn (Vitamin Vic) -- 4. The Forest Primeval (Congo Bill) -- 5. Words are Weapons (Americommando) -- 6. The Fugitive -- 7. Clouds of Crime (Zatara) Superman:  The Thinker stages a bank robbery and is about to escape in an armoured car when Superman shows up and captures his henchmen. The Thinker escapes by having previously kidnapped Lois, and now dropping her from a balloon, so that Superman has to rescue her.
Superman decides to try a new strategy to defeat The Thinker - he goes on 'holiday' so that the rest will give him some new ideas. In his absence, he suggests that Clark can fill in for him. Lois, of course, thinks the idea is crazy... 
The Thinker's next job is a theft of classic paintings from an art gallery. True to his word, Clark shows up and, through a series of distractions, manages to use his powers to thwart the robbery without revealing his identity, but the Thinker escapes yet again.
The next day, Lois gets a phone call from the Thinker asking Clark to show up for an interview. Lois insists on coming along, and as Clark and Lois are being taken in a boat to the Thinker's headquarters, a henchman pulls a gun on them and takes them captive. The Thinker informs them that he intends to kill anyone who interferes with his plans, and orders his henchmen to take them in a sea-cave and drown them. Again, by using distractions, Clark uses his powers to overcome the thugs, capture the Thinker and save Lois.

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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