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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #626
Publication Date: November 1988
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Issues: #626 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: 09/29/1988
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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Green Lantern Flies Free!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
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Pages: 1
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Your Body Is a Weapon.

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First Line: You are Rambo. Special weapons expert. Master of the martial arts. Dedicated fighting machine.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Bethel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): alien in form of Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]
First Line: It's taken Hal Joran, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814, nearly a week to get home.
Synopsis: Hal Jordan discovers an alien ship and sets it in the northern California forest for the inhabitant to repair, and the inhabitant destroys a café and kills several people.
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In Content Item: FlagJustice League [Lega della Giustizia] #7 published October 1990
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-4373
Disclose Notes: Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #627. Story occurs about a week after the story in Action Comics Weekly #625.
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Chapter Four: When Captains Clash

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Nazi [Lester Abernathy]; Ham Davis; Dr. Patterson; Ron; Jake; Sam; Duane McCullers
First Line: Wadda you mean, you don't want me in on the big cyanide spill?
Synopsis: Captain Marvel thwarts a poisoning plan, but Captain Nazi escapes.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story concludes from Action Comics Weekly #625. Title for previous issue's next issue block.

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Capitol Offenses

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Rafael DiRienzi; Walter Fenady; Mr. Drake; Mr. Giddens
First Line: July 10. 11:23 p.m. The skies over the Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington, Virginia.
Synopsis: Mitch and Tony rejoin the rest of the Secret Six and they discover the headquarters of "the Agency", while Luke escapes from them and Rafael DiRienzi confronts Mockingbird.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: G-3804
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #625; continues in Action Comics Weekly #627. Walter Fenady is shown with red hair instead of black in this issue.
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...Into the Fire!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bob Galt; John Hodges
First Line: In the secret lair of the Consortium
Synopsis: The Consortium attacks Superman.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: G-4412
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #625; continues in Action Comics Weekly #627.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Monthly from DC Comics
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Terrific News! Arcade Classics to Play at Home

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First Line: MagMax and Seicross -- super exciting, outerspace video games you can play at home for the first time ever!
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[untitled]

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First Line: You know my face... you know my name. Now get my tape and buy my game!
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[Grave Doings, Part 8] Finale

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Madame Waxahachie (first name given as both Molly and Mabel); Letrita Brogden; Lisa Brogden; spirit of Stella Pecksha; spirit of Delia Peckshaw; Luke Estes
First Line: Deadman, you've failed. Mah sister Delia an' I have taken the bodies of Madame Waxahachie and ol' Luke.
Synopsis: Deadman tricks and beats the spirits of the Peckshaw twins out of their hosts, and Madame Waxahachie rescues the Brogden twins.
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Job Number: G-4399
Disclose Notes: Story concludes from Action Comics Weekly #625.
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The Bat-Cave

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[untitled]

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First Line: Dear Respondent, Wild Dog is an excellent feature.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-3441
Disclose Notes: Letters from David Malcolm Porta, Mike "The Big M" Allen, Skippy La Plume, aka Jim Burke, aka "T.M. Maple," J.C. Andrews, and Charles J. Sperling, with replies from Mike Gold.
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Knock 'Em Dead, Part 3

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Deborah Tilden; Ken Glazier; Lt. Cameron; Karen Nalley; Bob; Vincent Scales (newspaper headline only)
First Line: Maid.
Synopsis: Black Canary begins to track the murderer of Walt Sarno.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4199
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #625; continues in Action Comics Weekly #627.
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Write Right Now!

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Ho! Ho! Ho! Ho-No!

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Feature(s): DC
First Line: The holidays are upon us! It's time, once again, to ask that dreaded yuletide question:
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Welcome to the 25th Century!

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First Line: Buck Rogers, the super hero of cosmic combat, blasts off with all-new adventure books and a board game from TSR.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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