Issue Description

"The Enchanted Mountain" (Superman) reprinted in Superman #272 & The Best of DC #3."Mysterious Marauder" (Congo Bill)"Orient of the Occident" (Vigilante)"In the Cards""The Pyrotechnician" (Hayfoot Henry)"Crime -- Off the Record" (Zatara)Jasper.

Cover: Superman buries a Japanese military man with 7th War Loans sponsored by the American people - obviously done in World War 2.

Superman:

Some time in the past, the villagers in the town of Morabia in southeastern Europe are celebrating their harvest festival when news arrives that the evil wizard Wokit has returned after an absence of many years. His magical castle has appeared atop Wokit mountain.

Within the castle, the wizard casts a spell that makes him appear as a giant falcon, and he swoops down on the village, capturing a small boy who he takes back to his castle to transform him into a statue on the castle walls.

Meanwhile, Superman hears the rumours of the wizard's return and decides to visit Morabia to see for himself. Upon arrival, he is hailed as the champion who will rescue the boy and rid the town of the wizard.

When the wizard sights Superman, he attacks in his giant falcon form, but Superman fights him off. The wizard tries a few more spells, eventually managing to hold Superman powerless in his grasp. However, Superman realizes that the wizard is nothing more than an illusionist and his magic relies on people believing in what they see, so he uses his mental strength to dispel the illusions. As Superman is about to capture the wizard, Wokit casts an illusion of flaming meteors crashing into the town, so Superman is diverted to save the townspeople.

He gathers the village together and convinces them that if they refuse to believe in the illusions, their effects will vanish, and when the villagers try disbelieving, they find that the little boy was never taken by the falcon at all, and he reappears in the village.

To complete his mission, Superman demolishes Wokit mountain so the wizard's castle will have no base on which to rest, and upon doing this, the castle vanishes into thin air.

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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