Comic Title: Action Comics #43
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: October 17, 1941 Copyright Date October 14, 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.

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

Title: (The Golden Idol)
Pages: 6

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

Writer/Artist: Fred Ray

Feature Character(s)

• Congo Bill (last appearance in Action Comics #42; next appearance in Action Comics #44)

Supporting Character(s)

• Professor Joe Kent (last appearance in Action Comics #42; next appearance in Action Comics #44)
• Sheila Hanlen (last appearance in Action Comics #42; next appearance in Action Comics #44)

Villain(s)

• Rodney Fortescue (a spy; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Lester Drake (no further appearances)
• An unnamed man (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Congo Bill learns the legend of a giant gold idol with jewels for eyes. Whenever a person approaches the idol, the are struck dead. Congo Bill witnesses a man running toward the idol die. Rodney Fortescue who was fighting the man prior to his death explains that he was trying to save the man.

Congo Bill deduces that Fortescue is a spy using the idol to conceal telescope and a radio with which he reports positions of British vessels off the coast. The steps leading up to the idol are charged with electricity to kill intruders. Uncovered, Fortescue assaults Bill, then runs off into the jungle. However, he is carrying a canteen of poisoned water which Bill knows will kill him.