Comic Title: Action Comics #44
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: November 19, 1941 Copyright Date November 17, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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 Vanishing Airplanes)
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Congo Bill (of Earth-1)

Writer/Artist: Fred Ray

Feature Character(s)

• Congo Bill (last appearance in Action Comics #43; next appearance in Action Comics #45)

Supporting Character(s)

• Professor Joe Kent (last appearance in Action Comics #43; no further appearances)
• Sheila Hanlen (last appearance in Action Comics #43; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Colonel Kettz and his men (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Major Joyce (a British army officer; no further appearances)
• Dick McCarthy (a pilot; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Congo Bill is contacted by the British to help investigate the disappearance of several airplanes near Cairo. When Bill takes the next plane, he spots a crashed plane in the desert. He lands to help the pilot only to discover it is a German trap. Colonel Kettz, the head of the Germans, offers Bill a chance to join them. Bill pretends to go along and baits a trap for the next pilot. However, he had planned for trouble and knows that a squadron of fighters is trailing the next plane. Bill signals the British. Together they stop the Germans and rescue the captured pilots.