Dates
- Cover date
- June 1991
- On sale
- April 18, 1991
- In stores
- April 18, 1991
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #56 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07098930675206
This edition’s page
Story arc: Red Glass
This is part 1 of 3. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Superman #56
- Adventures of Superman #479
- Action Comics #666
Creators
Stories
- Red Glass, Part One: Breaking Up · 16 pages
Superman visits the "Museum of Dead Villains," exhibit on "Superman's Day of Wrath." He reads he killed all his opponents in 3 weeks starting April 15, 1998. A man explains that Superman left Earth after killing his enemies. As he leaves he meets Lois and attempting to scan her with his x-ray vision, Superman accidentally incinerates her with heat vision and people go nuts. He finds Luthor at Lexcorp, but his things are being moved out: Superman had bankrupted him. Luthor rips off a fake face to reveal Jimmy Olsen underneath, who opens a box of green kryptonite, aiming it directly at Superman.
- Charlie & Company · 5 pages
The Newsboy Legion celebrates the Guardian's recovery as Angry Charlie looks in from an air vent. Tom tells the Guardian that when he's well, they want him to find what's been raiding their supplies. Angry Charlie steals an end table and eats it. He looks at a photograph captioned "Tommy, Dabney & Me - My new (cloned) body!" He remembers Dabney Donovan injecting one of his monkey subjects with something and creating Angry Charlie. When Charlie awakens, he sees what he and the other monkeys have become: they destroy the lab. In the air vent, Angry Charlie continues to look at the photograph.
Publisher’s description
Superman suddenly finds himself in a world where all his arch villains have been slain--by him! Can the Man of Steel solve this mystery and find out what is happening before it's too late? Continued in Adventures of Superman #479.
Reprinted in
Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus (2024)