Issue Description

Superman and the Super-Movers (Superman) -- 2. Private Pete -- 3. The Guns of Killer Haines (Vigilante) -- 4. The Perfect Double (Super Sleuth McFooey) -- 5. Be A Magician! Turn Waste Paper Into War Weapons (Superman) -- 6. Choose Your Weapon (Congo Bill) -- 7. Out of Nowhere -- 8. Cargoes of Death (Americommando) -- 9. Magic Knights (Zatara) Superman: Super-movers is a new business in Metropolis which specializes in large moving jobs. Lois and Clark are assigned to cover one of their jobs, but while the movers are installing a large dryer into a sugar refinery, a rope snaps and the 30-ton dryer is about to fall on bystanders. Clark manages to switch to Superman in time to save the day, but Lois notices that it wasn't an accident - one of the ropes had been eaten through with acid. 
Superman reveals one of the movers to be a German spy, but the spy claims he didn't get a chance to do anything before Superman intervened. It turns out that Mr Squiggle, a crooked businessman, is trying to buy the moving company and he paid someone to sabotage the rope. Squiggle tries again by sabotaging two more jobs, but Superman manages to set things right each time. 
Finally, Squiggle tries diverting Superman to a fake emergency while he uses the moving equipment to hijack some vaults from a bank. Superman manages to return from his diversion in time to prevent the robbery and capture 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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