Comic Title: Action Comics #1 [US Postal Service Premium]
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1998
Approx. On Sale Date: September 10, 1998 Direct Market Date September 29, 1999
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: September 29
Direct Market release

Cover Price: $7.95
Page Count: 64

Title: "The Mystery of the Freight Train Robberies"
Pages: 12

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

Writer/Artist: Fred B. Guardineer

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #1 (1938)

Feature Character(s)

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

Supporting Character(s)

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

Villain(s)

• Tigress (a female crook; first appearance; next appearance in Action Comics #3)
• A group of unnamed train robbers (no further appearances)
• Babcock (a train inspector; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Brady (a police friend of Zatara; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Detective Brown, Captain Kennedy, and other police officers (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Master Magician Zatara and his assistant Tong assist their friend Detective Brady in guarding a freight train from their arch-enemy the Tigress. When the train passes through a tunnel, Brady is captured and killed. The crooks then lure the other police and Zatara into a trap. Zatara saves them, but the crooks escape, and Brady is blamed.

Zatara suspects train inspector Babcock is working with the thieves, and he catches them red-handed. However, Tigress surprised him and tries to kill the magician in a fire. Again Zatara escapes and stops another train robbery. Tigress escapes, but the thieves and Babcock are apprehended.