(Action Comics I #11) - Zatara and Tong were on the S.S. Kansas City bound for San Francisco when Zatara was approached by a sea ghost of an English planter who'd committed suicide years earlier. He soon disappeared, and Zatara was approached by two passengers, intelligence men carrying plans for the Panama Canal that they had to keep out of enemy hands. Zatara foiled one gun-wielding spy by turning him into a door, and when an enemy put poison gas in the intelligence men's room he made the wall of their cabin disappear to dissipate the gas. To keep the plans safe Zatara turned them into a potted fern. Miss Kelly was impressed by Zatara's reputation, and asked him for a show. He rode several passengers on a flying carpet until the sea ghost reappeared. Zatara's magic proved useless against the specter, who soon vanished. The intelligence men reported being attacked by the sea ghost, and the fern was stolen. Zatara saw no wounds on them, and realised the ghost was an illusion. He teleported to the room where the fern was, and turned it to a watch so he could keep it on his person. The room belonged to Miss Kelly, who turned out to be another magician in addition to being a spy. When she crept into the intelligence men's room again Zatara had Tong, transformed into a mouse, waiting for her. She was horrified of mice, and eagerly confessed.

(Action Comics I #16) - Walking along a moonlit road Zatara and Tong witnessed a man being turned incorporeal by a cosmic ray from the sky, but Zatara used his magic to save him. He consulted with the scientist Djersinsky, who told him his colleague Harron's theory of matter being transformed into cosmic particles to be transformed faraway into space, and asked Zatara to find evidence that his friend was right. Zatara and Tong were shot at by a recluse, who revealed that he was being forced to serve Gorla, a being from Saturn. Gorla used his cosmic ray to transport Zatara in energy form to Saturn, where his body reassembled. He was taken by Prince Porra to see his father, Ool, ruler of Saturn. Saturn was an arid planet, but was once fertile until the sea dried up, and the men of Saturn were looking to migrate to Earth, and Gorla wanted to show them that Earthmen were weak. Gorla chose poorly when he made Zatara a representative of Earth, and he disturbed Porra by making Ool's city seemingly vanish. He pulled the same trick on king Ool to get him to listen, and used his magic to show how Saturn could be irrigated, allowing the Saturnians to stay on their home planet. He asked Ool for truce, but he was hotheaded and ordered his guard to kill Zatara. Zatara defeated the guard, and used his magic to shower Saturn with meteors. As a final act of power he had a huge arm grow from Earth and throw a mudball at Ool, who finally listened to reason. He said the Saturnians would stay put, and use irrigation to make their land prosperous again.

In the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths DCU Tong lived on Earth-2.

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