Action Comics became the new creative team on the series with issue #25 (Jan. 2014). This series concluded with issue #52 (July 2016), which was part of the "Final Days of Superman" storyline which depicted the death of the "New 52" version of Superman. As part of DC Comics' DC Rebirth relaunch in June 2016, "Action Comics" reverted to its original numbering beginning with "Action Comics" #957, with the series shipping twice-monthly. The series, written by Dan Jurgens, serves as a continuation of the comic book series, "Superman: Lois and Clark", which featured the pre-"Flashpoint" Superman alongside his wife, Lois Lane, and
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),