Issue Description

In deep space, Brainiac sits in his ship...

At the Fortress of Solitude, Superman and Supergirl analyze the remains of Brainiac.  Superman tells her that Brainiac has always appeared in a different form.  He says he's an alien from the planet Colu.  Supergirl tells him that what they're looking at is not Brainiac but rather one of his probes.  She says no one has actually seen Brainiac. 

Visibley frightened, Superman asks why.  She tells him that months before she left Krypton, Brainiac invaded the city of Kandor.  Hundreds of these types of probes were sent in and people were killed.  Then a barrier went up and Kandor was gone.  Some say it was disintigrated and others say they were all abducted.

At the Kent farm, Clark talks about searching for the other Kryptonians with his parents.  Martha isn't too crazy about the idea.  Clark decides that he has to go and find Brainiac before Brainiac finds him.   He also doesn't want Kara to know until after he's gone.  In a Kryptonian ship, Superman searches while watching some history crystals. 

Soon Superman finds a world being invaded by the Brainiac probes.  He goes and tears through them in the hopes of gaining the true Brainiac's attention.  Seeing the mother ship, Superman flies toward it only to get batted away.  A barrier goes up around the alien city and Superman is unable to penetrate it.  He notices a projectile launched from the mother ship toward the sun.  The sun explodes and destroys the planet.  Superman is left unconscious floating in space.  The Brainiac ship detects a Kryptonian and brings him aboard.

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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