Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1956. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Heartbreak Hotel is released as a single. It will Elvis Presley's first chart topper & the best-selling single of 1956.

February: Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a 'cult of personality' at the 20th Soviet Party Conference.

March: My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews, begins a record breaking run on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

April: Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, a British frogman & MI6 diver, vanishes on a reconnaissance mission to a Soviet Union cruiser.

May: The first Eurovision Song Contest is broadcast from Lugano, Switzerland. The winning song is 'Refrain' sung by Lys Assia.

June: The Flag of the United States Army is officially adopted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Executive Order 10670.

July: After exactly 10 years together, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis perform their last show at New York City's Copacabana Club.

August: The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) is declared illegal. Despite surveillance, many of its members go underground.

September: Bell X-2, nicknamed 'Starbuster', becomes the first manned aircraft to reach Mach 3. Tragically the pilot 'Mel' Apt is killed.

October: The Ten Commandments, produced & directed by Cecil B. DeMille, one of the most financially successful films ever is released.

November: Aged 21, Floyd Patterson becomes the youngest ever undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, a record that still stands.

December: 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution land in Cuba in the boat 'Granma'. They include Fidel Castro, Raul Castro & Che Guevara.