Action Comics 1 result, the "Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide" has, since the 1970s, published a warning advising that attempts have been made to pass off the reprint, stripped of its "Famous First Edition" cardboard cover, as an actual #1. However, the Guide does not cite any actual instances of this. DC reprinted "Action Comics" #1 in 1988 as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Superman that year. This edition reprinted only the Superman story, with a 50¢ U.S.A. cover price. The complete issue was reprinted in 1998 with an additional half-cover featuring the Superman stamp from the U.S. Postal Service's "Celebrate
Action of 6 May 1801 to defend his ship. Cochrane obliged, with the equivocal wording that he had 'conducted himself like a true Spaniard'. "El Gamo" was subsequently sold to the ruler of Algiers as a merchantman. This battle inspired Patrick O'Brian in the novel "Master and Commander", where, in a very similar manner, the brig HMS Sophie escapes from, then lures and captures the Spanish Xebeque-frigate Cacafuego, as the first major battle of his main character Jack Aubrey. Action of 6 May 1801 The Action of 6 May 1801 was a minor naval engagement between the 32-gun xebec-frigate "El Gamo" of the Spanish Navy