Comic Title: Warlord #56
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1982
On Sale Date: January 21, 1982 Newsstand Date January 21, 1982
Source: Comic Reader, #198

Newsstand Date January 21, 1982
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #62

Newsstand Date January 21, 1982
Source: Amazing Heroes, #8

Shipping Date December 29, 1981
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #62

Copyright Date December 29, 1981
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1981
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date January 28, 1982
Source: Comics Journal, #69

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.60
Page Count: 32
Editor: Laurie S. Sutton

Title: "Conspiracy"
Pages: 17

Feature(s):
Warlord (of Earth-1)

Writer: Mike Grell
Penciller: Mark Texeira
Inker: Pablo Marcos
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Feature Character(s)

• Warlord (last appearance in Warlord #55; next appearance in Warlord #57)

Supporting Character(s)

• Tara (last appearance in Warlord #55; next appearance in Warlord #57)
• Joshua Morgan (last appearance in Warlord #55; next appearance in Warlord #57)
• Graemore (a minstrel; first appearance; last appearance in Warlord #58; next appearance in Warlord #57)

Villain(s)

• Darvin (a master of thieves; next appearance in Warlord #57)
• Griff (first appearance; next appearance in Warlord #57)
• Praydor (a traitor councilman; next appearance in Warlord #57)
• An imposter (disguised as Travis Morgan; next appearance in Warlord #57)
• Griff's cohorts (a pack of young street youths; next appearance in Warlord #57)

Other Character(s)

• Remald (a messenger; no further appearances)
• Several councilmen (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Warlord #57.

Synopsis:
After the death of his foster family Joshua Morgan has become a street urchin in the city of Shamballah. He has taken the name Tinder and is harassed by a pack of young boys who want to take the watch he wears as an armband. A thief master named Darvin takes the boy under his wing, sensing that the armband has some greater importance.

In the palace, Travis Morgan finds himself out of place. He has put his fighting clothes away and begins a battle of a different kind, politics. After his new ideas are dismissed by the city council, he meets with the queen. When she receives a visitor in the form of a young minstrel, Morgan returns to his quarters. There, he is attacked by a traitor councilman and a man who is disguised to look like Morgan himself.