Comic Title: Action Comics #21
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: December 27, 1939 Copyright Date December 24, 1939
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 Deaths on the Moor"
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 #20; next appearance in Action Comics #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tong (last appearance in Action Comics #20; next appearance in Action Comics #26)

Villain(s)

• A coroner, a sheriff, and their henchmen (Sark named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Lord Ralway (an Englishman; no further appearances)
• Two dead men (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While visiting his friend Lord Ralway in England, Zatara discovers a dead body. He brings the body to the sheriff, but then he is arrested. Zatara escapes his cell and learns that the sheriff and the coroner are working on a plot against Lord Ralway. Zatara and Tong then defend Ralway from his attackers. With his magic, Zatara defeats the crooks who planned to steal Ralway's fortune with the aid of a look-a-like.