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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #603
Publication Date: June 1988
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Issues: #603 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: 04/19/1988
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: 15 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: No cover date. Cover date backed off later issues. Contains 6 stories. The letters column is letters about the Wild Dog mini-series of 1987.
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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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Genres: adventure, war
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First Line: Tengen puts the biggest arcade hits on the Nintendo Entertainment System!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Retribution!

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Genres: superhero
First Line: This just in... ain Air Force F-14 jet crash laned in downtown Coast City mere moments ago.
Synopsis: Authorities believe that John Stewart crashed the F-14 into Coast City. Hal Jordan and Star Sapphire battle.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3859
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #602; continues in Action Comics Weekly #604. Spelling "Zamorans" is used in this story.
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Spread Your Broken Wings and Learn to Fly

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Melanie Sommers
First Line: June 7. 2:59 a.m. A remote area in Northen California.
Synopsis: The new Secret Six receives their orders and begins action, while the death of the old Secret Six is discovered.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3632
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #602; continues in Action Comics Weekly #604.
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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 you're building, you want it to look the best.
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Hot Comics

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Chapter Three Talaoc's Tale!

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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Major Grace Kasaba; Professor Fulgencio Flores; Talaoc; Mr. Combs; Mr. Currier
First Line: In the Yucatan I came across a gang of C.I.A. spooks staging rebel action out of an ancient Mayan temple.
Synopsis: Deadman questions Talaoc while the C.I.A. discovers weapons in the pyramid Talaoc was entombed in.
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Job Number: G-3746
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #602; continues in Action Comics Weekly #604.
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Bigger Than You Figure.

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More Powerful Than a Locomotive!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Charles Culpepper
First Line: While trying to escape from Superman, a hired gunman has been thrown from a getaway car... and into a deadly situation!
Synopsis: Superman chases Bob Galt's would-be assassins, one kills another and two are captured.
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Job Number: G-3701
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #602; continues in Action Comics Weekly #604.
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Infocom Presents Lane Mastodon or Infocomics

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First Line: Hi, I'm Lane Mastodon, all-around hero. But more on that later... I'm here to tell you about Infocomics!
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Moral Stand, Chapter Three: Censored

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lt. Andy Flint; B. Lyle Layman (villain); Lou Godder; Susan King; Helen Scournt; Legion of Morality (villains)
First Line: What in hell... was that a sonic boom?
Synopsis: The police begin an investigation into the destruction of Readworld, and Lt. Flint proposes that Jack Wheeler go undercover in the Legion of Morality, which is establishing a new office in the Quad Cities.
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Job Number: G-3714
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #602; continues in Action Comics Weekly #604.
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First Line: Last year's Wild Dog mini-series proved to be one of the most successful mini-series published by anybody in 1987...
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Steven Craig Horn, Robert MacFarlane, Mike Wekenmann, Red Devil, Malcolm Bourne, Lane Miller, Jeff Gelb, Jamie S. Rich, and Robert T. Jeschonek.
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Another Fine War, Chapter 3

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Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Cynthia Hastings
First Line: See that we're not disturbed.
Synopsis: Cynthia Hastings helps outfit Blackhawk for the job.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3828
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #602; continues in Action Comics Weekly #604. Should be labeled as Part 3, not Chapter 3 to match other parts.
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First Line: What's the next step with the cyborg warrior we develope?
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Think or Swim.

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First Line: Skulking deep beneath the ice waters of the North Atlantic lies the menace of the advanced Soviet nuclear submarine.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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