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 Gorrah's Blackmail Racket)
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Tex Thomson

Writer/Artist: Bernard Baily

Feature Character(s)

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

Supporting Character(s)

• Bob Daley (last appearance in Action Comics #27; next appearance in Action Comics #29)
• D.A. Maloney (last appearance in Action Comics #27; next appearance in Action Comics #30)

Villain(s)

• The Gorrah (last appearance in Action Comics #27; next appearance in Action Comics #38)
• Nicky Blair (no further appearances)
• The Dawson Gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Miss Van Stryke (an heiress; no further appearances)
• Red Karns and his son (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Tex Thomson and Bob Daley are asked to help the heiress Miss Van Stryke who has recently been blackmailed. When they arrive at her house, they prevent some men from harming her. The men escape, but they leave clues behind which tie them to the Dawson Gang.

Tex and Bob go undercover. Tex saves the son of Red Karns from being hit by a speeding car. Karns is one of the gang and invites them to join. When they are brought to the gang's hideout, they learn that the Gorrah is in charge. He sees through their disguises and leaves them to be killed. Red helps them escape to pay them back for saving his son.