Action Comics Weekly
#615
(August 30, 1988)
DC,
1988 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- weekly with the exception of the last week of the year
- On-sale Date
- 1988-07-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Mike Gold (editor); Brian Augustyn (associate editor)
Issue Notes
Contains 6 stories.
Wild Dog Breaks Loose!
Wild Dog / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Barry Crain (signed)
- Inks
- Rick Magyar (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Robert Greenberger (cover editor)
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Wild Dog [Jack Wheeler]
Freaks!
Green Lantern / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Peter David; Richard Howell (co-plotter)
- Pencils
- Richard Howell
- Inks
- Arne Starr
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (editor)
- Job Number
- G-3767
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Arisia; Veronica Hawkes; Ollie; Castle [Dr. Castle] (first name given as both Roger and Max); Siphon; Runaround Sue
- Synopsis
- Some superpowered crooks trap Hal Jordan at a location Arisia is modeling at.
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
That Was No Lady...
Blackhawk / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Martin Pasko
- Pencils
- Rick Burchett
- Inks
- Rick Burchett
- Colors
- Tom Ziuko
- Letters
- Steven Haynie
- Editing
- Mike Gold (editor)
- Job Number
- G-4061
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Janos Prohaska]; Natalie Reed; Steve Claiborne [also as Leslie Richardson]
- Synopsis
- Blackhawk escapes from some smugglers and hires Natalie Reed.
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616. Story references and begins some months after Action Comics Weekly #608.
Fatal Distraction, Chapter One: Night Patrol
Wild Dog / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Max Allan Collins
- Pencils
- Terry Beatty
- Inks
- John Nyberg
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- Tim Harkins
- Editing
- Brian Augustyn (editor)
- Job Number
- G-4140
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Wild Dog [Jack Wheeler]; Wild Pup [Daniel Crown]; Lt. Andy Flint; Lou Godder; Detective Calloway; unnamed female serial killer
- Synopsis
- A female serial killer stalks the Quad Cities and Wild Dog begins a search for her, while attracting the attention of a protegee.
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
Fatal Flaw?
Superman / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Roger Stern
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- Tom Ziuko
- Letters
- Bill Oakley
- Editing
- Mike Carlin (editor)
- Job Number
- G-4084
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Kal-El; Clark Kent]; Charles Culpepper
- Synopsis
- Superman saves Charles Culpepper but may have killed his assailant.
- Reprints
-
in Superman: The Power Within (DC, 2015 series) ([March] 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
[The Cheshire Contract] Chapter Three: Tracks of a Killer!
Nightwing / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Marv Wolfman
- Pencils
- Chuck Patton
- Inks
- Tom Poston
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- Albert DeGuzman
- Editing
- Barbara Kesel (editor)
- Job Number
- G-3964
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Cheshire [Jade]; Garrison Peebles (dies); Lord Lawrence Hill; Wen Chen Cheng; Raymond Weist; Changeling [Garfield Logan]; Starfire [Koriand'r]; Danny Chase
- Synopsis
- Nightwing is suspicious of Speedy's motives. Cheshire kills another ambasador.
- Reprints
-
in Os Novos Titãs (Editora Abril, 1986 series) #50 (Maio 1990) - in Nightwing: Old Friends, New Enemies (DC, 2013 series) ([October] 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616. References New Teen Titans #48-49.
Bitter Fruit, Part 7
Black Canary / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Sharon Wright
- Pencils
- Randy DuBurke
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- Steven Haynie
- Editing
- Mike Gold (editor)
- Job Number
- G-4040
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Black Canary [Dinah Lance; also as Bonnie Cardinal]; Doug Vallines; Barry Neiman; William B. MacDonald; Vincent Scales; Ellen Waverly (dies); Eddie Fyers
- Synopsis
- Black Canary meets Doug Vallines and his private detective and tracks Vincent Scales, while his hired assassin deals with an INS employee.
- Reprints
-
in Green Arrow (Zinco, 1989 series) #7 (November 1989)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Wild Dog Breaks Loose!
Wild Dog -
1.
Freaks!
Green Lantern -
2.
That Was No Lady...
Blackhawk -
3.
Fatal Distraction, Chapter One: Night Patrol
Wild Dog -
4.
Fatal Flaw?
Superman -
5.
[The Cheshire Contract] Chapter Three: Tracks of a Killer!
Nightwing -
6.
[no title indexed]
Action Comics Weekly -
7.
Bitter Fruit, Part 7
Black Canary
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