Comic Title: Action Comics #26
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: May 23, 1940 Copyright Date May 22, 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: (Introducing Miss X)
Pages: 10

Feature(s):
Tex Thomson

Writer/Artist: Bernard Baily

Feature Character(s)

• Tex Thomson (last appearance in Action Comics #25; next appearance in Action Comics #27)

Supporting Character(s)

• Bob Daley (last appearance in Action Comics #25; next appearance in Action Comics #27)
• Miss X (Peggy Maloney; see comment below; next appearance in Action Comics #27)
• D.A. Maloney (title given as Special Prosecutor in this story; next appearance in Action Comics #27)

Villain(s)

• J. Vander Wallace and a gang of car thieves (Weasel named; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

D.A. Maloney's daughter is named Janice in this story, but in subsequent appearances her first name is given as Peggy.

This story reveals that Gargantua T. Potts has joined the French Army and is no longer Tex's servant.

Synopsis:
Tex and Bob are recruited by Special Prosecutor Maloney to assist in rounding up a gang of car thieves. One of the thieves tries to plant a bomb in Tex’s car, but the scheme is foiled by a warning from Miss X, a mysterious woman.

Tex then goes undercover to the gang’s shop where the cars are taken. The gang boss realizes Tex is working with the police and has him taken prisoner. The police find him, again with the assistance of Miss X. Tex uncovers the gang boss, as J. Vander Wallace, a public spokesman and rounds up the gang.