Issue Description

Battle of the Redwoods (Superman) -- 2. Crime without Loot (Hayfoot Henry) -- 3. The Escape of Elephant Al (Vigilante) -- 4. Scuffy, the Tramp -- 5. Criminal's Return -- 6. Dead Man's Drum (Congo Bill) -- 7. Poor Dad -- 8. The Mental Marvel (Zatara)

Cover: Superman is karate chopping a tree down while a lumberjack looks on in surprise. 

Superman: Betty Wilder has inherited her father's lumber business, but the business is mired in debt. Betty is convinced that millionaire Bullwer Rylie used underhanded tactics to ruin her father's business and is now trying to do the same to her to get his hands on the business's one remaining asset: a patch of prime redwood timber, which Betty hopes can be harvested to pay off her debts. However, the lumbering operations have been plagued by mishaps which Betty is convinced are not accidental. 
Lois and Clark are visiting the lumber camp to gather material for a feature story when one of the "accidents" happens - a huge tree is about to fall on a building containin a lot of Betty's workmen. After switching to Superman to prevent the catastrophe, he has a word with Betty about her troubles and agrees to help. 
Singlehandedly, he cuts down 100 redwoods and chains them together to float them down-river to the sawmill in order to meet Betty's delivery deadline. Rylie gets word of Superman's intervention and tries to thwart his plans. He hires an accomplice to blow up part of the river bank to divert the river, and tries to dispose of Betty and Lois by shooting them. After saving Lois and Betty, Superman repairs the hole in the river bank, allowing the logs to reach the sawmill on time after all. 
He then catches Rylie's accomplice, who turns out to be Stan Caxton, the foreman of Betty's logging team, and someone she implicitly trusted. Caxton says that Rylie offered him too much money for him to refuse to betray her.

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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