Issue Description

The Talisman of Trouble! (Superman) -- 2. Jinx Ranch! (Congo Bill) -- 3. Stumpy -- 4. The Moonstruck Girl (Hayfoot Henry) -- 5. Faces in the Future! (Zatara) -- 6. Backstage Hunch -- 7. Daffy & Doodle -- 8. The Tiger's Skin! (Vigilante).

Cover: Superman fills in as a golf tee. Good thing no one powerful is playing golf. 

Lois and Clark are walking along a street on Metropolis's waterfront, when Clark sees a turbaned man in a building sawing through the support for a heavy sign, causing it to fall on someone passing by below. After a save at super-speed, the same would-be victim is about to cross the street when he is nearly run down by a team of horses driven by another man in a turban. Again, Superman leaps to the rescue, but after yet another save, the unlucky fellow trips on a curb and falls, breaking his arm. Lois and Clark hail a taxi and take the man to a hospital. The man tells Lois and Clark that he is Burton Hayes, an archaeologist, and that his bad luck is due to a wooden Malayan doll that he wears around his neck. He asks Lois and Clark to get rid of it for him so he can be free of its jinx. 
Lois, thinking the idea of a 'curse' is nonsense, wears the doll herself, but then falls prey to a series of bizarre 'accidents'. After saving her several times, Superman takes the idol and wears it himself. Back on the docks, Superman is attacked by another turbaned man and, pretending not to notice the attack, he follows the man back to a house in the Eurasian quarter of the city. Inside, three turbaned men discuss why "Yurg" calls them to kill so many victims. After capturing the men, Superman discovers that their turbans contain small radio receivers, and that the doll contains a miniature transmitter. The doll is therefore being used to summon Yurg's followers to kill its wearer. 
Meanwhile, Lois is visiting Hayes in hospital when Hayes's partner Langwell arrives with a basket of fruit. Superman arrives in the nick of time to discover a bomb hidden in the fruit, and unmasks Langwell's plan to kill Hayes and lay claim to a fortune in gems that the two of them brought back from Malaya.

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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