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ACTION COMICS #56
Cover Date: January 1943
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-11-10
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Cover Credits:
Art: John Sikela
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Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | John Sikela |
| Inks | George Roussos |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Emil Loring (first appearance; a brilliant architect but physically very short; builds the world's largest building in Africa, then attempts to destroy all other great structures; dies)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC
- Mount Rushmore, SD
- New York City, NY
- Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
- Africa
- Metropolis
Comment(s):
- Dobrotka and Roussos credited as Joe Shuster.
- The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The Action Comics Archives #4 (2005)
- Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #3 (2016)
- Superman: The Golden Age #5 (2020)
Credits:
| Art | Mort Meskin |
| Lettering | George Roussos |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Vigilante (next, behind the scenes, in Young All-Stars #25)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Biff Balder and his gang (first appearance of all)
- Pete Sanger (first appearance; an unscrupulous music agent)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Louis Cazenueve |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Nazis
Location(s):
- Greenland
Credits:
| Story | Joseph Greene |
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Americommando (also as Captain Otto Riker; cover identity discovered)
Villain(s):
- Adolf Hitler
- Doctor Ito (first appearance; a very short master spy and murderer; of both Japanese and Prussian ancestry)
Location(s):
- Berlin, Germany
Credits:
| Pencils | Ed Smalle |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Bullet and his gang (first appearance of all; escaping criminals who take over a tribe using a crooked baseball game)
Location(s):
- An unnamed island in the South Atlantic
Credits:
| Art | Joseph Sulman |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Jack Schiff |
Feature Character(s):
- Zatara (next in World's Finest Comics #8/2)
Villain(s):
- Laughing Boy and his gang (first appearance of all; a gangster who thinks he is funnier than a vaudeville comedian)