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Issue: Action Comics Weekly #640
Publication Date: February 1989
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Issues: #640 of 42 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/12/1989
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.85 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.50 USD
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Content Items: 21 (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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Genres: adventure
First Line: Wild Dog
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First Line: Nintendo gamers, he biggest hit of the decade is back -- just for you!
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Exiles [Part] V

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Sean Bauman [Phillip Lossner]; Donald Lossner; Dr. Fielding?; Luana; Owen Burley
First Line: Look at him. I'll bet he votes Republican, pays his taxes and thinks of himself as a regular, law abiding guy.
Synopsis: Speedy helps quell a riot at an AIDS hospice, as his client reconciles with his brother.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4389
Disclose Notes: Story concludes from Action Comics Weekly #639. The "supervising physician" may not be Dr. Fielding, as Dr. Fielding was a black woman and this is a white woman.
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John Elway's Quarterback Kicks Off in Home Across America

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First Line: The story so far...
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Abandon Hope

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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Glenda Mark; Randu; Asteroth; Lurgo
First Line: The stone that lives! Morgan Le Fay returns to seek her evil way. He resurrectors are the ones she rives...
Synopsis: Morgan LeFay captures Etrigan as Glenda and Randu enter Asteroth's domain.
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Job Number: G-4407
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Ready! Aim! Fire!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Irma Lefferts (Hotshot's mother); Roderick C. Broderick (introduction, master inventor); Astro (Broderick's dog); Lester Flytop (introduction, Melanie Boulder's agent); unnamed anti-smoking vigilante
First Line: Hero Hotline, good afternoon.
Synopsis: Hero Hotline rescues a dog and stops an anti-smoking nut in the subway.
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Job Number: G-4480
Disclose Notes: Story concludes from Action Comics Weekly #639. Feature continues in Hero Hotline (DC, 1989 series) #1 (April 1989).
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Where There's Smoke...

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lou
First Line: This is terrible! If only I'd hadn't been tied up in California, maybe I could've done something about... eh?
Synopsis: Superman rescues a man from a burning building and searches for the arsonists.
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Job Number: G-4560
Disclose Notes: Continued from Action Comics Weekly 639; continued in Action Comics Weekly 641.
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Quickshot for Hotshots New Infrared Wizmaster

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First Line: Quckshot's new infrared remote controller for Nintendo entertaiment systems features...
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First Line: Mike, The only disappointment of issue #629 was the lack of a letters page.
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Job Number: L-3573
Disclose Notes: Letters from Ray Rizer, Chad Swofford, Stan Johnson, Charles J. Sperling, John Q. Gerdes, Esq, and Mark Karcher, with replies from Mike Gold.
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Comic Book Conventions!

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First Line: The best conventions are Great Eastern Conventions!!
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Disclose Notes: Above the Suicide Squad promo.
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10 Reason to Buy Suicide Squad in 1989!

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First Line: Monthly by John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell and Karl Kesel
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First Line: A night of murder... a lifetime of revenge
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Lady of the House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Edwin Guerrehart; Gronk (dies); Sarah
First Line: One! Two! Three! Go!
Synopsis: Phantom Lady appears to kill Gronk while stealing the information that Mr. Guerrehart was using to blackmail her father.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4523
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First Line: The law of the jungle doesn't apply to the 29th century
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Write Right Now!

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Blackhawk Flies Again!

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First Line: A monthly series in DC's new format
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Crack Up, Chapter 5: 'Tween a Rock and a Hard Place

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lou Godder; Susan King; Lt. Andy Flint; Jimmy
First Line: The Quad Cities is the apparent site of a drug war between rival factions in that deadly business... as witness the charred remains of this "crack" or "rock" house...
Synopsis: Wild Dog continues his investigation of a crack ring, killing two more members.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: G-4546
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #639; continues in Action Comics Weekly #641.
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Exiled in Space

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First Line: The odyssey had ended... now the battle begins.
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Two Ways to Win in the Ring...

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