Comic Title: Action Comics #33
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: December 24, 1940 Copyright Date December 20, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (The Platinum Idol)
Pages: 9

Feature(s):
Zatara (of Earth-2)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joseph Sulman

Feature Character(s)

• Zatara (last appearance in Action Comics #32; next appearance in Action Comics #34)

Villain(s)

• Fred Hart (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Henri and Nana Rinaldo (an explorer and his daughter; no further appearances)
• A tribe of dwarp people (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Henri Rinaldo has discovered a platinum idol while exploring the jungles of Brazil. He hides the idol and returns to America. His partner Fred Hart wants the idol for himself. He kidnaps Fred, then tries to murder his daughter Nana.

Zatara saves Nana's life, then follows Hart and Rinaldo to Brazil. The explorers are attacked by a tribe of dwarf people who are upset about their stolen idol. Zatara saves Rinaldo, but Hart finds the idol first. Zatara turns the crook into platinum, then returns the idol to the natives. The dwarf people reward Zatara and Rinaldo with platinum bracelets which they take home with them.