Editing Action Comics (section)

==Publication changes and special numbering==
''Action Comics'' is the longest-running DC Comics series by number of issues, followed 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 Steel'' limited series.<ref name="Standard"/> Publication was again suspended between issues #686 and #687 (February and June 1993) following the "Death of Superman" and "Funeral for a Friend" storylines, before ''Action Comics'' returned in June 1993 with the "Reign of the Supermen" arc.<ref name="Standard"/>

The series was published weekly from May 24, 1988, to March 14, 1989.<ref name="GCD-Weekly" /> (See detail in [[#The Modern Age|The Modern Age]] section above.)  The temporarily increased frequency of issues allowed ''Action Comics'' to further surpass the older ''Detective Comics'' in the number of individual issues published. It surpassed ''Detective Comics'' in the 1970s when that series was bimonthly for a number of years. This change lasted from issue #601 to issue #642. During this time, Superman appeared only in a two-page story per issue; he was still the only character to appear in every issue of the series.

An issue #0 (October 1994) was published between issues #703 and #704 as part of the [[Zero Hour: Crisis in Time#Zero Month|Zero Month]] after the "Zero Hour: Crisis in Time" crossover event. There was an issue #1,000,000 (November 1998) during the "[[DC One Million]]" crossover event in October 1998 between issues #748 and #749.

On June 1, 2011, it was announced that all series taking place within the shared [[DC Universe]] would be either canceled or relaunched with new #1 issues, after a new continuity was created in the wake of the ''[[Flashpoint (comics)|Flashpoint]]'' event. Although being DC's longest running series, having reached issue #904 at the end of its initial run, ''Action Comics'' was no exception, and the first issue of the new series was released on September 7, 2011.<ref name="ACvol2" />

In February 2016, it was announced that as part of the [[DC Rebirth]] relaunch, ''Action Comics'' would resume its original numbering system, starting with issue #957 (Aug. 2016) and ship on a twice-monthly schedule.<ref name="Comic Book Resources"/>