Action Comics #55
| Cover Credits |
| Artist: Jack Burnley |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #55
Publisher: DC
(Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1942
Approx. On Sale Date:
October 16, 1942 Copyright Date October 13, 1942
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
| Pages | Feature | Note |
| FC | Superman | Jack Burnley (a?) |
| IFC | Ad; Indicia | Charles Atlas; Detective Comics Inc. |
| 1 | Superman | "A Goof Named Tiny Rufe" |
| 2 | Superman | |
| 3 | Superman | |
| 4 | Superman | |
| 5 | Superman | |
| 6 | Superman | |
| 7 | Superman | |
| 8 | Superman | |
| 9 | Superman | |
| 10 | Superman | |
| 11 | Superman | |
| 12 | Superman | |
| 13 | Superman | |
| 14 | Text Feature | Supermen of America |
| 15 | Fact Feature | "Supermen of the U.S. Army" |
| 16 | House Ad | Superman #20 on sale Nov 4th, World's Finest #8 on sale Oct 30th |
| 17 | Vigilante | "Bullets for Breakfast" by Mort Morton Jr. and Inky Roussos |
| 18 | Vigilante | |
| 19 | Vigilante | |
| 20 | Vigilante | |
| 21 | Vigilante | |
| 22 | Vigilante | |
| 23 | Vigilante | |
| 24 | Vigilante | |
| 25 | Vigilante | |
| 26 | Vigilante | |
| 27 | Vigilante | |
| 28 | Vigilante | |
| 29 | Ad | Baby Ruth |
| 30 | Text Story | "The Clever Chinese" by Paul Evans |
| 31 | Text Story | |
| 32 | Ad | Ralston Cereal |
| 33 | Ad | |
| 34 | 3 Aces | "Aces of Fire" |
| 35 | 3 Aces | |
| 36 | 3 Aces | |
| 37 | 3 Aces | |
| 38 | 3 Aces | |
| 39 | 3 Aces | |
| 40 | Americommando | "Escape from the Scaffold" by Bernard Baily |
| 41 | Americommando | |
| 42 | Americommando | |
| 43 | Americommando | |
| 44 | Americommando | |
| 45 | Americommando | |
| 46 | Americommando | |
| 47 | Americommando | |
| 48 | Text Feature | "Stamps" by Sidney M. Elias |
| 49 | Congo Bill | "A Modern Robinson Crusoe" |
| 50 | Congo Bill | |
| 51 | Congo Bill | |
| 52 | Congo Bill | |
| 53 | Congo Bill | |
| 54 | Congo Bill | |
| 55 | House Ad; Ad | Adventure Comics #81 on sale the 23rd of each month; Jim Thayer |
| 56 | Zatara | "Crimes by Coincidence" by Joseph Sulman |
| 57 | Zatara | |
| 58 | Zatara | |
| 59 | Zatara | |
| 60 | Zatara | |
| 61 | Zatara | |
| 62 | Zatara | |
| 63 | Zatara | |
| 64 | Zatara | |
| IBC | Ad | National Radio Institute |
| BC | House Ad | Batman #14, Mutt and Jeff #6, Green Lantern #5, Wonder Woman #2, Leading, All-Star, All-Flash |
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