Issue Description

The Golden Fleece (Superman) -- 2. The Taming of the Tiger (Hayfoot Henry) -- 3. Birds of Ill Omen (Vigilante) -- 4. Chief Hot Foot -- 5. Kid Brother -- 6. High in the Andes (Congo Bill) -- 7. When Magic Fails (Zatara) Superman:  Swindler Wilbur Wolfingham is running a fake investment service, in which he relieves victims of their life savings, promising to invest the money so they will get rich quickly. In reality, of course, he pockets the cash and disappears. 
For his next scam, Wolfingham heads out west to sheep-farming country that has been suffering from drought. Because the land is drying up, the sheep farmers are willing to sell it to Wolfingham at drastically reduced prices. After buying their land, he plants some gold on the land to make it look like there are gold deposits there, so there is a gold rush where people pay inflated prices for the land, thus making Wolfingham rich. 
Superman examines the land by digging into it and verifies that there is no gold. He tells the farmers who have bought their land back that Wolfingham has swindled them, so they are about to lynch Wolfingham when he brings out some armed bodyguards to protect himself from the crowd. 
Meanwhile, Superman alters the weather pattern to bring some rain to the drought-stricken land. Next, he returns to Metropolis and brings the people that Wolfingham had swindled there with his fake investment agency out to the sheep country, where he forces Wolfingham to pay up. 
The sheep farmers, seeing Wolfingham giving cash to the city folk, are resentful that they seem to be out of pocket for having to buy back their land at inflated prices, but Superman reveals that although there is no gold in the land, there are rich deposits of silver. Thus everyone is happy, apart from Wolfingham who now has no money left due to paying back his city clients, and having sold back the land to the farmers.

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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