Action Comics their son, Jonathan Kent. For the series' 1000th issue—released on April 18, 2018, the 80th anniversary of the premiere issue—DC returned Superman back to his traditional costume with the red trunks and yellow belt. "Action Comics" #1000 collects the regular cover, blank variant cover, eight covers spanning eight decades from the 1930s-2000s, nineteen other variant covers from variant artists, and a hardcover "Action Comics: 80 years of Superman Deluxe Edition". Brian Michael Bendis became the new writer for the "Action Comics" series starting with issue #1001. In number of issues, "Action Comics" is the longest running DC Comics series, followed
Action Comics 1 dubbed The New 52. This included ending the original 73-year run of "Action Comics" with issue #904, October 2011 (on sale August 24, 2011). The first issue of "Action Comics" volume 2, with a cover date of November 2011, went on sale September 7, 2011. The New 52 version of "Action Comics" #1 has gone through five printings. The fifth printing, which went on sale March 28, 2012, is cover-dated May 2012 in both the UPC box on the cover and the indicia, with no mention of its original November 2011 cover date. In 2016, as part of the Rebirth