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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #609
Publication Date: July 1988
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Issues: #609 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: 06/02/1988
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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; cover date backed off later issues.
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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, superhero
First Line: Black Canary premiering this week!
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Pages: 1
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First Line: What happens every time you bite into a Striped Chips Ahoy!?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Bitter Fruit, Part 1

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Hector Librado; Luis Librado; Rita Librado; William B. MacDonald; Jake
First Line: Another day Hector. How do you find your first season in the States?
Synopsis: Problems for an acquaintance of Dinah Lance involve crop dusting and immigration. Dinah burns the Black Canary costume with the large black collar. She no longer has the Canary Cry at this point in her life.
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In Content Item: FlagGreen Arrow #1 published May 1989
as Fruto amargo (1ª parte) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3853
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #610.
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Chapter Nine: Faux Pas

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Yakin; Stan Kriptman; Lynn Smyth; Raisa Gorbachev
First Line: Stan! How could you ignore me like that? Your wife's already left you! Do you expect me to act as if nothing's happened?
Synopsis: Deadman and Yakin battle in the bodies of President Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and their wives.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3780
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #608, continues in Action Comics Weekly #610.
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Games With Memories You Won't Forget

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Letterer(s): typeset
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"Up, Up and Awaaay!!!" Celebrate My 50th Birthday

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First Line: Get the official medallions!
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Canned in Boston

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hank Byner; Rafael di Rienzi; Melanie Sommers; Gary (Melanie Sommers husband); Phyllis (photographer working with Hank Byner)
First Line: "Vic"? She called you Vic?
Synopsis: Vic Sommers ends his previous life when he fights with his ex-wife's husband, Rafael di Rienzi is kidnapped by Mockingbird, and the Secret Six begins its 2nd assignment.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3652
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #608, continues in Action Comics Weekly #610.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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And There Will Be a Sign!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bob Galt
First Line: An interrogation at a Metropolis precinct house has just come to an end when...
Synopsis: Clark Kent questions Bob Galt for information on his attackers.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-3939
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #608; continues in Action Comics Weekly #610.
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Moral Stand, Chapter Nine: Red Pencil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lt. Andy Flint; B. Lyle Layman; Legion of Morality (some die); Helen Scournt; Ted Scournt (dies)
First Line: Secure all the exits!
Synopsis: Wild Dog captures B. Lyle Layman and thwarts his final terrorist act.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-4086
Disclose Notes: Story concludes from Action Comics Weekly #608.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: As we await your comments on ACW 601, we thought it might be interesting to present to you an entirely different type of letter column.
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Pages: 1.5
Job Number: L-3254
Disclose Notes: Letters column has editor replies and fan letters from current creators back before they were famous contained in the DC archives. They are from: Roy Thomas (from Flash #116, November 1960); Mark Evanier (from Superman #195, April 1967); Joe Staton (from Justice League of America #9, February 1962); Bob Rozakis (from Batman #168, December 1964); E. Nelson Bridwell (from Green Lantern #10, January 1962).

There is also a small write-up on what these people have done since their letter-writing days.
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Genres: superhero
First Line: Someone will live. Someone will die. You will decide.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On the bottom of the second page of the letters page. Promo ad for Batman #426 and 427.
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Cutting Remarks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Oprah Winfrey; Dr. Stephanie Cole; Morris Levine (controlled by Mind Games); Joan Hough; Joey Hough (dies)
First Line: Now that's definitely a top-of-the-line blade you got there.
Synopsis: Hal Jordan tries to explain his fearlessness on Oprah while the first victim of a mind ray goes on a killing rampage.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3748
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #608; continues in Action Comics Weekly #610.
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Bigger Than You Figure.

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Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Top Secrets/S.I. World...

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First Line: In the world of espionage, nothing to Top Secrets/S.I., the complete line of role-playing games and novels.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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