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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #623
Publication Date: October 1988
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Issues: #623 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: 09/08/1988
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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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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Genres: superhero
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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
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Priest

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Priest
First Line: Every twenty-four hours Green Lantern must recharge his power ring with this Lantern battery.
Synopsis: Hal Jordan tracks the beam that destroyed his power battery to another planet, where the being who caused it gets Hal to intervene in an interplanetary war.
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In Content Item: FlagJustice League [Lega della Giustizia] #4 published July 1990
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-4263
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #622; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.
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My Week in Valhalla Chapter One

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Ralph Decker; Officer Randall; Elvira Thickert [Emily Thickert]; Joel; Zack McCullers (dies); Dawn McCullers; Duane McCullers (photo)
First Line: Want to see the way my day starts?
Synopsis: After Captain Marvel accidentally kills a man, Billy Batson tries to make amends with the family.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4207
Disclose Notes: Series continues from Shazam: The New Beginning (DC, 1987 series).

Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.

Elvira Thickert was called Emily Thickert in Shazam: The New Beginning.
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[Grave Doings, Part 5] Seventeen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Wellman Legros; zombies; Madame Waxahachie (first name given as both Molly and Mabel); Clara; Letrita Brogden; Lisa Brogden; spirit of Stella Peckshaw; spirit of Delia Peckshaw; Luke Estes
First Line: Like there were these twins, see? And they were pawns in a war to control New Orleans' zombis. Only they became possessed by two other twins, Stella and Delia Peckshaw and now they're the voodoo queens of New Orlens.
Synopsis: Deadman and Madame Waxahachie track the spirits of the Peckshaw twins who have assembled their army of zombies.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-4342
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #621; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.
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Revelations

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): John Hodges; Mr. Billings
First Line: Here, gentlemen, is evidence of how far the Consortium has come in just a year. Together, pooling our separate companies' resources in secret --
Synopsis: The Consortium details its reasons for desiring to destroy Superman.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-4374
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #622; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.
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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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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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Bigger Than You Figure.

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Standard Allowable Abductions

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Shelley; Steve Traeger; Mr. Drake
First Line: July 9. 3:16 a.m. -- Crandall Stadium on the campus of Jefferson University.
Synopsis: Members of the Secret Six escape from "the Agency" with Steve Traeger.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #622; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.
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First Line: Dear DC, After reading the first dozen or so issues of your new Action Comics Weekly, I finally feel compelled to write to give you my two cents' worth (give or take a buck fourty eight).
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-3385
Disclose Notes: Letters from Jack Slack, J. Alexander Hall, David Metz, John Britt, Alan C. Carroll, and Bruce Parrello, with responses from Brian Augustyn.
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
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Write Right Now!

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Disclose Notes: Twenty ads for various products.
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The Devil Was a Baby

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Sister Camille; Father Davis; Satan
First Line: Father Davis! Come here -- quickly!
Synopsis: A priest dispatches Satan after he holds the Phantom Stranger at bay.
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Pages: 8
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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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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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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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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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