Comic Title: Action Comics #31
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: October 24, 1940 Copyright Date October 23, 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 Fake-Accident Racket)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Tex Thomson

Writer/Artist: Bernard Baily

Feature Character(s)

• Tex Thomson (last appearance in Action Comics #30; next appearance in Action Comics #32)

Supporting Character(s)

• Bob Daley (last appearance in Action Comics #30; next appearance in Action Comics #32)
• D.A. Maloney (last appearance in Action Comics #30; next appearance in Action Comics #33)

Villain(s)

• Simmons (an insurance company manager; no further appearances)
• A gang of racketeers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• James Thorne (an insurance company executive; no further appearances)
• Tim Waldron (a chauffeur; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Tex Thomson answers a call for assistance from an insurance company that has paid out a large number of recent claims. James Thorne, the owner, suspects a racket but he cannot prove it. Tex takes out a large insurance policy, then rents an expensive car. While Tex is driving, a man jumps in front of the car claiming to be hurt. Tex points out that he added rubber padding to the bumper and the injury is fake.

The police arrest the racketeer, but Tex asks them for custody. He then tries to get the man to implicate the rest of his gang. The gang then captures Tex and Bob and plans to kill them. They are rescued by a chauffeur who was an earlier victim of the fraudulent accidents. Tex then apprehends the gang leader, Simmons, who worked as a manager at the insurance company.