Issue Description

The Headline Hoax (Superman) -- 2. The Punctured Picture (Hayfoot Henry) -- 3. The Rainbow Man sees Red (Vigilante) -- 4. Clancy the Cop -- 5. The Leaping Leopard (Congo Bill) -- 6. Terror's Victim -- 7. The Pranks of Pan (Zatara) Superman: The Prankster is back and is looking for some easy money. While in Planet Square in Metropolis, he spots crooked share dealer Amos Amster, and strikes a deal with him. The Prankster takes over a news stand and prints up special editions of the Planet to sell to particular customers. The paper he sells to Thomas Todd runs a story, supposedly by Clark Kent, that Todd's steel mill has been destroyed by an earthquake. Believing himself ruined, Todd agrees to sell the mill to Amster for a bargain price. 
Next, the Prankster sells steamship magnate Milton Marsden a paper with a story under Lois Lane's name saying his newest liner has sunk. Again, Marsden agrees to sell his steamship line to Amster. 
Finally, the Prankster sells Killer Kronk a paper saying the police are closing in on him for a murder and jewel robbery. The Prankster follows Kronk and discovers the location of the jewels. 
When Todd and Marsden call the Planet threatening to sue over the fake stories, Superman investigates. When he visits Amster, he discovers that the Prankster has double-crossed him and now demands that Amster sign the steel mill and steamship line over to him. The Prankster then plans to sell the mill and line back to Todd and Marsden for inflated prices. 
Superman decides to use the Prankster's own methods to trap him. 
First, he moves Todd's steel mill to a remote location, then he finds Marsden's prize liner in the Atlantic and evacuates all the passengers, towing them to port in lifeboats. He then gets the Planet to print fake stories claiming that the steel mill has been destroyed and that the liner has been destroyed in a storm. When the Prankster sees the headlines, he believes himself ruined, but tries to save himself by selling Kronk's jewels to Todd and Marsden. Superman captures him as he tries to complete the deal.

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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