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) Action (comics) Action is a controversial weekly British anthology comic that was published by IPC Magazines, starting on 14 February 1976. Concerns over the comic's violent content saw it withdrawn from sale on 16 October 1976. It reappeared the following month, in toned-down form, and continued publication until 12 November 1977, at which point it was merged with "Battle Picture Weekly". Despite its short lifespan, "Action" was highly influential on the British comics scene, and was a direct forerunner of the long-running "2000 AD". The comic was devised in 1975 by freelance writer/editor Pat Mills, at the request of publishing