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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #615
Publication Date: August 1988
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Issues: #615 of 42 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/14/1988
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
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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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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Wild Dog Breaks Loose!

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
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Free with Proofs of Purchase M&M's Painter's Cap

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First Line: Also available: M&M's custom designed shirt
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Freaks!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Veronica Hawkes; Ollie; Castle [Dr. Castle] (first name given as both Roger and Max); Siphon; Runaround Sue
First Line: It's the latest, ladies and gentlemen.
Synopsis: Some superpowered crooks trap Hal Jordan at a location Arisia is modeling at.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3767
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
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That Was No Lady...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Natalie Reed; Steve Claiborne [also as Leslie Richardson]
First Line: Singapore. June 1947.
Synopsis: Blackhawk escapes from some smugglers and hires Natalie Reed.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4061
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616. Story references and begins some months after Action Comics Weekly #608.
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[untitled]

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Fatal Distraction, Chapter One: Night Patrol

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wild Pup [Daniel Crown]; Lt. Andy Flint; Lou Godder; Detective Calloway; unnamed female serial killer
First Line: Three killings so far.
Synopsis: A female serial killer stalks the Quad Cities and Wild Dog begins a search for her, while attracting the attention of a protegee.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4140
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
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12 Hot Hits for a Cool Penny

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First Line: Plus a chance to get 2 more free!
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Someone Will Die Because the Joker Wants Revenge.

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First Line: Batman 426 and 427. Both on sale in September.
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Fatal Flaw?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Charles Culpepper
First Line: Arriving at a California burn center to question a man about an attempted murder, the Man of Steel finds that his suspect is about to become another victim...
Synopsis: Superman saves Charles Culpepper but may have killed his assailant.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-4084
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
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Write Right Now!

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[The Cheshire Contract] Chapter Three: Tracks of a Killer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Garrison Peebles (dies); Lord Lawrence Hill; Wen Chen Cheng; Raymond Weist
First Line: London... the oncoming lights remind him he's driving on the wrong side of the street as he speeds past the British Museum toward his meeting at Parliament...
Synopsis: Nightwing is suspicious of Speedy's motives. Cheshire kills another ambasador.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3964
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616. References New Teen Titans #48-49.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Dear Action, Question: How do you take a fantastic hero, and my favorite, Blackhawk, and transform him from a commercial failure to a success?
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Andrew M. Kaplan, Hurricane Heeran, Malcolm Bourne, Steven J. Hanna and Jim Burke (a.k.a. T.M. Maple), with replies from Brian Augustyn. Burke was a prolific letter writer under the pseudonyms "The Mad Maple" and "T.M. Maple" and revealed his real name here for the first time in a DC comic.
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Bitter Fruit, Part 7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Doug Vallines; Barry Neiman; William B. MacDonald; Vincent Scales; Ellen Waverly (dies)
First Line: Hi Doug -- just your brother Jim. How were things in California? Give me a buzz when you're a Seattle resident again.
Synopsis: Black Canary meets Doug Vallines and his private detective and tracks Vincent Scales, while his hired assassin deals with an INS employee.
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In Content Item: FlagGreen Arrow #7 published November 1989
as Fruto amargo (7ª parte) [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-4040
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
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Gobble the Power Pellets or Get Gobbled by Ghosts!

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First Line: Yes, the ever-loveable, ever-ravenous Pac-Man is back!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Welcome to the 25th Century!

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First Line: Buck Rogers, the super hero of cosmic comat, blasts off with all new adventure books and a board game from TSR.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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