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

Title: "Escape from the Scaffold"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Mr. America (of Earth-2)

Writer: Joseph Greene
Artist: Bernard Baily

Feature Character(s)

• Americommando (last appearance in Action Comics #54; next appearance in Action Comics #56)

Villain(s)

• Various Gestapo members (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Gunther and Ada (an underground leader and his daughter; no further appearances)
• Gunther's followers (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Americommando begins a secret mission to Berlin. He meets with the underground resistance leaders and diguises himself as Gestapo Captain Otto Riker. The resistance leader Gunther is captured by the Gestapo and Americommando is forced to maintain his cover and allow Gunther to be sentenced to death. However, he interrupts the execution as Americommando and rescues Gunther, returning him to the underground.