Comic Title: Action Comics #30
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: September 24, 1940 Copyright Date September 20, 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 Mottled Death"
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Joseph Sulman

Feature Character(s)

• Zatara (last appearance in Action Comics #29; next appearance in Action Comics #31)

Villain(s)

• Tigress (last appearance in Action Comics #25; next appearance in Action Comics #35)
• An unnamed magician, two hired thugs, and some South American natives (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Regan (a police detective; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Zatara is asked to help the police solve a series of murders in which the victims die from the mottled death. Zatara traces the source of the disease to a South American insect planted by the Tigress and her new magician partner. Zatara trails them back to South America where he captures them and sends them to prison.