Comic Title: Action Comics #28
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: July 23, 1940 Copyright Date July 24, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940
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 Gringo Gang)
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Fred B. Guardineer

Feature Character(s)

• Zatara (last appearance in Action Comics #27; next appearance in Action Comics #29)

Villain(s)

• The Gringo Gang (train robbers; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Eldon Carmer (first name also given as Hank; no further appearances)
• Jane (Carmer's niece; no further appearances)
• Chief of the Kansas City Police Department (no further appearances)
• A bank manager (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Zatara takes a crosscountry train ride. A gang of bandits rob the train and take one of the passengers hostage. Zatara rescues the man and brings him to Kansas City. He learns that the Gringo Gang are responsible for the robbery and saves the chief of police.

When the crooks realize Zatara is responsible for saving the police chief and their kidnapped train passenger, they plan to kill him. They find out where he is staying and set a bomb to destroy the building. Zatara stops the crooks from blowing the building and stops a bank robbery. He then forces the gang members to sign confessions and turn themselves in to the police.