Comic Title: Action Comics #42
Publisher: DC
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: September 24, 1941 Copyright Date September 19, 1941
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.

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

Title: (The Jungle Film)
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Congo Bill (of Earth-1)

Writer/Artist: Fred Ray

Feature Character(s)

• Congo Bill (last appearance in Action Comics #41; next appearance in Action Comics #43)

Supporting Character(s)

• Professor Joe Kent (last appearance in Action Comics #41; next appearance in Action Comics #43)
• Sheila Hanlen (last appearance in Action Comics #41; next appearance in Action Comics #43)

Villain(s)

• Tomkins (an actor; no further appearances)
• A group of natives (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Hugo Von Eller (a director; no further appearances)
• Winters (a member of a movie crew; no further appearances)

Comments:
Professor Kent's is introduced as James Kent in this story which contradicts Action Comics #37 which gave his first name as Joe.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Congo Bill and his friends discover a movie crew in the jungle filming a picture called Jungle Justice. The film has been plagued with accidents, so Sheila agrees to stand-in for the lead actress. When she is almost killed Bill suspects fowl play.

Bill reads the rest of the movie script and discovers that the final scene will be filmed in a cave containing an elephant graveyard. He sets a trap to expose the perpetrator, Tomkins, an actor. Tomkins hoped to shut down the movie and sell the elephant bones. Once his plan is exposed, the actor flees into the cave where he accidentally sets off an explosion which kills him and seals off the elephant graveyard.