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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #601
Publication Date: May 1988
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Issues: #601 of 42 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/05/1988
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.00 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.50 USD
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Content Items: 16 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: No cover date: contains a coupon which expires 4/10/88, and advertises comics on sale in March. Cover date backed off later issues. Contains 6 stories. Also contains a text article on the creation of Action Comics Weekly. No letter column.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
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[untitled]

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First Line: Fred tried to show Stan the refreshing fruit flavor in Jolly Rancher Stix by using props.
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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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...And the Pain Shall Leave My Heart

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Genres: superhero
First Line: I think he stole my heart the moment I first laid eyes on him.
Synopsis: Star Sapphire has gone mad after the loss of her Zamarons and kills Katma Tui when she comes looking for Hal Jordan.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3857
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #602.
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Moral Stand, Chapter One: Point of Order

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lt. Andy Flint; Detective Calloway; Captain Lange; Susan King; Len; Committee for Social Change (some die)
First Line: City council meetings in the middle western Quad Cities are generally rather ho-hum affairs.
Synopsis: The Committee for Social Change takes over a Davenport City Council meeting and Wild Dog charges in, killing several members of the group and freeing the hostages.
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Job Number: G-3667
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #602.
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Body Builder.

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First Line: Maybe it's a truck body. Maybe a racing car body. But whatever model you're building, you want it to look the best.
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Annual 88

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Disclose Notes: Includes images of the covers of Infinity Inc. Annual (DC, 1985 Series) #2), The Spectre Annual (DC, 1988 Series) #1 and Young All-Stars Annual (DC, 1988 Series) #1.
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Listening to the Mockingbird

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Rafael DiRienzi (introduction); Gus (introduction)
First Line: Gonna rain again. Geeze, I hope it's not as bad as last week. All that acid and junk -- Dad said the paint job on his --
Synopsis: Mockingbird calls his five-year reunion of the Secret Six, at the same time calling together a new group of recruits.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3641
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #602. Origin & 1st appearance of the second Secret Six.
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Games With Memories You Won't Forget

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Faster Than a Speeding Bullet!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bob Galt (introduction); Charles Culpepper (introduction, villain)
First Line: This is Metropolis. Eleven million people call it home...
Synopsis: Superman saves Bob Galt from an assassination.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-3699
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #602.
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Write Right Now!

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Disclose Notes: Above the Creation Comic Book Conventions ad.
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Comic Book and Star Trek Conventions

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First Line: Coming to these cities on these dates
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Disclose Notes: Below the Write Right Now! ads.
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[Chapter One] The Section Chief

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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Major Grace Kasaba (introduction); Professor Fulgencio Flores (introduction)
First Line: Rama wiped out... the entity wiped out... sensei free to run his criminal empire...
Synopsis: Deadman thwarts a C.I.A. drugs-for-guns run but discovers that the C.I.A. section chief can see him.
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Job Number: G-3668
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #602.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Action Comics Weekly
First Line: In the world of comic books, eras tended to come and go with alarming speed.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-3185
Disclose Notes: Article discusses the creation of Action Comics Weekly and future contents. No letters.
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Another Fine War

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Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Cynthia Hastings (introduction); Mr. Zalecki (introduction)
First Line: On August 9, 1945, a mechanical bird called the Enola Gay laid an atomic egg on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and everyone went home...
Synopsis: Blackhawk is attacked by a Mr. Zalecki he may owe money to, while Cynthia Hastings is looking for him.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3812
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #602.
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Great DC Deals!

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Feature(s): DC
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Terror on the Isles.

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First Line: Once again, the sinister forces of the supernatural cast the threat of destruction over the Moonshae Isles.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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