Comic Title: Millennium Edition:Action Comics 1 (#1)
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 2000
On Sale Date: December 1, 1999 Direct Market Date December 1, 1999
Source: Previews, Vol. 9 #10 (#130)

Direct Market Date December 1, 1999
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 1, 1999

Direct Market Date December 1, 1999
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: December 1

Copyright Date November 26, 1999
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1999

Cover Price: $3.95
Page Count: 64
Editor: Dale Crain

Title: (Murder in England)
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Tex Thomson

Writer/Artist: Bernard Baily

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #1 (1938)

Feature Character(s)

• Tex Thomson (first appearance; next appearance in Action Comics #2)

Villain(s)

• An English gang (Sonja and Monk named; the leader dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Bob and Betty (two English teenagers; no further appearances)
• The Sheriff and Sergeant Smith (no further appearances)
• An unnamed dead man (no further appearances)

Comments:
This is the first appearance of Tex Thomson, oil tycoon. Tex becomes Mr. America in the fifth story of Action Comics #33.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Tex Thomson visits England and stumbles upon a murdered man in the country. Sonja, a nearby girl accuses Tex of the murder, forcing the cowboy to run from the sheriff. He learns that Sonja is working with the gang of killers and has captured Bob, a boy who can prove Tex’s innocence.

Tex frees Bob and sends him for help, but Tex is captured. Bob returns in time to free Tex, but both men are still in danger until the sheriff arrives to round up the gang.