Action Comics by "Detective Comics". A departure from a strict monthly schedule was four giant-size Supergirl reprint issues published as a 13th issue annually: issues #334 (March 1966), #347 (March–April 1967), #360 (March–April 1968), and #373 (March–April 1969). "Action Comics" has not had an uninterrupted run, having been on a three-month hiatus on two separate occasions. The first of these occurred during the summer of 1986, with issue #583 bearing a cover date of September, and issue #584 listing January 1987. The regular Superman titles were suspended during this period to allow for the publication of John Byrne's six-issue "The Man of
Action (comics) the title, with Mills, Wagner, and Steve MacManus contributing stories. The team evaluated several names, including "Boots" and "Dr Martens". The comic was briefly to have been called "Action 76", with the title incrementing each year, until it was named simply "Action". Many of the stories in "Action" were what Mills called "dead cribs", essentially rip-offs of popular films, books, and comic heroes. Rather than being a straight copy, the "cribs" in "Action" had their own slant on the idea. "Hook Jaw", for example, combined environmental issues with the graphic gore and shark anti-hero of Steven Spielberg's film "Jaws" (1975),