Comic Title: All-Star Squadron #56
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1986
On Sale Date: January 30, 1986 Newsstand Date January 30, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #85

Newsstand Date January 30, 1986
Source: House Ad, Detective Comics #561, Page 22

Shipping Date January 7, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #85

Shipping Date January 7, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #103

Copyright Date January 7, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date January 24, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #23

Shipping Date January 1, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #23

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Roy Thomas

Title: "The Sinister Secret of the Sixth Sense"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
All-Star Squadron (of Earth-2)

Crossover Event:
Crisis on Infinite Earths

Writer: Roy Thomas
Plotter: Danette Thomas
Penciller: Mike Clark
Inker: Vince Colletta
Penciller: Mike Harris
Inker: Tony DeZuniga
Letterer: David Cody Weiss
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Crisis on Infinite Earths Companion Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 HC (2019)
Crisis on Infinite Earths Box Set HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• All-Star Squadron (last appearance in All-Star Squadron #55; next appearance in All-Star Squadron #57)
• Seven Soldiers of Victory (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Shining Knight (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Green Arrow (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Speedy (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Star-Spangled Kid (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Stripesy (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Vigilante (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Crimson Avenger (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Wing (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Justice Society of America (last appearance in All-Star Comics #13; next appearance in All-Star Comics #13)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (last appearance in All-Star Comics #13; next appearance in All-Star Comics #13)

Villain(s)

• Sense-Master (Dr. Brett; last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Mickey Gordon, Fingers O’Fallon, Mr. Hound, Leo Palate, and Eagle-Eye Nelson (small-time crooks; last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Winged Victory (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Billy Gunn (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• John Pemberton (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Gloria Pemberton (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)

Other Character(s)

• Alice Howard (last appearance in Leading Comics #4; next appearance in Leading Comics #4)
• Hydara and his people (last appearance in All-Star Comics #13; next appearance in All-Star Comics #13)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Hawkman ()
• Wonder Woman ()
• Atom ()

Comments:
This is a Seven Soldiers of Victory story.

Pages 1-19 of this story retell the events from Leading Comics #4. Pages 20-24, subtitled Interlude 3: "Shanghaied into Hyperspace", adapt the Dr. Mid-Nite chapter from All-Star Comics #13.

Synopsis:
The Seven Soldiers of Victory track down some thieves with enhanced senses who are stealing gems. The gems are used by a villain known as the Sense-Master to create a lifestone with special powers. The Soldiers defeat the Sense-Master when he accidentally is turned to stone by the lifestone.

Meanwhile, Dr. Mid-Nite arrives on an alternate-dimension version of Neptune. Using his medical science, he is able to cure the inhabitants of harmful diseases. Afterwards, they give him a set of books containing advanced knowledge, and he returns to Earth.