Action Comics #56
| Cover Credits |
| Artist: John Sikela |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #56
Publisher: DC
(Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1943
Approx. On Sale Date:
November 13, 1942 Copyright Date November 10, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1943
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: Jack Schiff
| Pages | Feature | Note |
| FC | Superman | John Sikela (a?) |
| IFC | Text Feature; Indicia | "Good Books Worth Reading"; Detective Comics Inc. |
| 1 | Superman | "Design for Doom" |
| 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 | Filler; House Ad | "Laffs" by Henry Boltinoff; Superman #20 |
| 17 | Vigilante | "Melody of Menace" by Morton Jr and 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; Filler | Eclipse Machine Division; "Clancy the Cop" by Henry Boltinoff |
| 30 | 3 Aces | "War Hawks of Greenland" |
| 31 | 3 Aces | |
| 32 | 3 Aces | |
| 33 | 3 Aces | |
| 34 | 3 Aces | |
| 35 | 3 Aces | |
| 36 | Americommando | "The Man the Whole World Feared" by Bernard Baily |
| 37 | Americommando | |
| 38 | Americommando | |
| 39 | Americommando | |
| 40 | Americommando | |
| 41 | Americommando | |
| 42 | Americommando | |
| 43 | Americommando | |
| 44 | Text Story | "The Traitor" by John Hilton |
| 45 | Text Story | |
| 46 | House Ad | Batman #14, Mutt and Jeff #6, Green Lantern #5, Wonder Woman #2, Leading #4, All-Star #14, All-Flash #8 |
| 47 | Congo Bill | "The Game for Life" |
| 48 | Congo Bill | |
| 49 | Congo Bill | |
| 50 | Congo Bill | |
| 51 | Congo Bill | |
| 52 | Congo Bill | |
| 53 | Filler; Ad | "Private Pete" by Henry Boltinoff; Lionel Trains |
| 54 | Text Feature | "Stamps" by Sidney M. Elias |
| 55 | Filler; House Ad | "Silly Willy" by Henry Boltinoff; World's Finest Comics #8 |
| 56 | Zatara | "The Case of the Phoney Funny Man" by Joseph Sulman |
| 57 | Zatara | |
| 58 | Zatara | |
| 59 | Zatara | |
| 60 | Zatara | |
| 61 | Zatara | |
| 62 | Zatara | |
| 63 | Zatara | |
| 64 | Zatara | |
| IBC | House Ad | Boy Commandos #1 - on sale Nov 11th |
| BC | Ad | Metro Publications |
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