(Detective Comics v1 056, 1941)
The Stone Idol is a bit of a weird one: a miner living in the ghost town of Ghost Gulch City discovers silver on town land and recruits an unscrupulous group of circus performers to aid him in driving out the town's remaining inhabitants so as to have all the silver for themselves. The actual Stone Idol is the circus strongman disguised as a local Native American statue in order to play on the local superstitions but really it's a group effort.
Sadly for Mad Mack the prospector and his circus of crime, the Stone Idol's push to take over the town coincides with Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson's stay in a local hotel and the entire group of them die in a mine collapse while fighting Batman and Robin. Perils of living in a comic book world, I guess.
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