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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #622
Publication Date: October 1988
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Issues: #622 of 42 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/01/1988
Volume:
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.00 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.50 USD
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Content Items: 18 (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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Green Lantern Cleans Up!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): common crooks
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Pages: 1
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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 front cover.
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The Edge of Forever

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Dex; Hawk; Chip; Al
First Line: Los Angeles. Mid afternoon.
Synopsis: Hal Jordan tracks the yellow beam that destroyed his power battery to the edge of Sector 2814.
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In Content Item: FlagJustice League [Lega della Giustizia] #4 published July 1990
as Il Confine Dell'Eternità [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #621; continues in Action Comics Weekly #623. Contains a scene which is a flashback to Green Lantern Special #1.
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Fatal Distraction, Chapter Eight: To Help a Child

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wild Pup [Daniel Crown]; Lt. Andy Flint; Susan King; Len (Susan King's camerman); unnamed female serial killer
First Line: No!
Synopsis: The serial killer turns herself in to the police after wounding Wild Pup.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4225
Disclose Notes: Story concludes from Action Comics Weekly #621.
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We Don't Need the Super-Hero

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): unnamed villain in a S.T.A.R. Labs armored suit; Vincent Garvey; Don
First Line: ...45 minutes after the hour, and we're talking with Vincent Garvey, the author of a new book with the rather provocative title of We Don't Need the Super-Hero.
Synopsis: Starman defeats someone in a S.T.A.R. Labs armored suit.
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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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Seeds of Doubt

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bob Galt; John Hodges; Mr. Billings
First Line: It's a good thing I found you whe I did, Bob... looks like you took quite a beating!
Synopsis: Clark Kent and Bob Galt leave some muggers behind, while the Consortium decides to destroy Superman.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-4337
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #621; continues in Action Comics Weekly #623.
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Bigger Than You Figure.

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[untitled]

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Someone Will Die Because the Joker Wants Revenge. But You Can Prevent It.

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First Line: Batman 426 and 427. Both on sale in September.
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Dead Man on Campus

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Billy Abrahams; Shelley; Steve Traeger; Gus Markesson; Lurene; Mr. Drake; Walter Fenady; Mikhail (flashback)
First Line: July 8. 7:44 p.m.
Synopsis: The Agency continues to track the Secret Six, and Ladonna learns some of August Durant's background.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #621; continues in Action Comics Weekly #623.
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Write Right Now!

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[untitled]

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First Line: Dear Mr. Gold, First, I would like to congratulate DC Comics on thier first weekly series, Action Comics Weekly.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-3384
Disclose Notes: Letters from Joe Casacchia, Andrew Gwin, Jay Roe, Alice Lin, Charles J. Sperling and Nick Damon, with responses from Mike Gold.
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[untitled]

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First Line: DC goes to great lengths to bring you the original stretchable super-hero --
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The Big Blowoff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Chuck Sirianni; Olaf Friedriksen; Weng Chan; Marcia Rossiter [also as Alice Richardson] (dies); Steve Claiborne [also as Leslie Richardson]; Johannes Van Der Houten (may die); Johannes Van Der Houten's army; Mr. K
First Line: Kustarto! The Japanese plane -- the one carrying the generator -- Toba and I found it!
Synopsis: The Blackhawks escape from Van Der Houten, but Marcia Rossiter (Alice Richardson) dies.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-3384
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #621; continues in Action Comics Weekly #628.
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Invisible! Invincible! Invulnerable! Expendable!

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First Line: A twelve-issue maxi-series in DC's New Format. Beginning in October.
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Make a Power Play in Mindscape's Instant Win Game.

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First Line: Win Grand Prize -- Ful Size Atari 720° Arcade Game
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No More "Bored" Games!

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First Line: Take to the skies with TSR's new action-packed adventure boardgames.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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