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: "Trial by Ice"
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Artist: Jan Duursema
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Feature Character(s)

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

Supporting Character(s)

• Lady Chian (last appearance in Warlord #55; next appearance in Warlord #57)
• Wyynde (a lieutenant in the royal guard; first appearance; last appearance in Arion, Lord of Atlantis #5; next appearance in Warlord #57)

Villain(s)

• A shaman (next appearance in Warlord #57)
• A tribe of sub-men (next appearance in Warlord #57)

Comments:
This story continues in the second story of Warlord #57.

Synopsis:
Arion embarks on a quest to find his former teacher, Caculha. He is joined by Lady Chian and Wyynde of the royal guard. The journey begins to the south in the fallen city of Taja. The party soon falls under attack from a tribe of sub-men. When Arion's spells fail him, he is overrun and captured. Chian and Wyynde follow the sub-men to a underground cathedral where Arion is about to be sacrificed by a shaman.