Comic Title: Action Comics #43
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1941
Approx. On Sale Date: October 17, 1941 Copyright Date October 14, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
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: (Billy Gunn's Mine)
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Vigilante (Greg Sanders of Earth-2)

Writer: Mort Weisinger
Artist: Mort Meskin

Feature Character(s)

• Vigilante (last appearance in Action Comics #42; next appearance in Action Comics #44)

Supporting Character(s)

• Betty Stuart (last appearance in Action Comics #42; next appearance in Action Comics #44)
• Billy Gunn (next appearance in Action Comics #44)

Villain(s)

• The Shade (a spectral crime boss; next appearance in Action Comics #44)
• The Shade's gang (Slats and Trig named; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Greg Sanders meets an old cowboy named Billy Gunn at a show. Greg feels sorry for the old man because he wears tattered clothing. He then offers to switch outfits to avoid his fans. Billy accepts Greg's clothes, and Greg leaves the show dressed in Billy's. A gunman then mistakes Greg for the old man and shoots at him. Billy comes to Greg's aid, and they capture the gunman.

The would-be murderer won't talk for fear that his boss, the Shade, will kill him. When the killers strike again, Vigilante protects Billy. He then tracks the crooks to their hideout. However, Vigilante is captured. Billy is able to rescue the Vigilante, then they stop the Shade's men at a tungsten plant. The Shade escapes, but the Vigilante learns that he wanted to kill Billy because he inherited a mine out west.