Action Comics Weekly
#616
(September 6, 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
- 1988-07-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Mike Gold (editor); Robert Greenberger (associate editor); Brian Augustyn (associate editor)
Issue Notes
Contains 6 stories.
Safe at Home
Green Lantern / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Peter David
- Pencils
- Richard Howell
- Inks
- Arne Starr
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- Helen Vesik
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (editor); Dan Raspler (assistant editor)
- Job Number
- G-3809
- 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; Lillian Hawkes; Lt. Burt Rensaleer; Mrs. Rensaleer
- Synopsis
- Hal Jordan escapes from a trap and begins to hunt the criminals.
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #615; continued in Action Comics Weekly #617.
Mission: Implausible
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-4062
- Genre
- adventure; war; aviation; military; science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Blackhawk [Janos Prohaska]; Natalie Reed; Marcia Rossiter [also as Alice Richardson]; Steve Claiborne [also as Leslie Richardson]; Andre Blanc-Dumont; Chuck Sirianni; Weng Chan; Johannes Van Der Houten; Mr. Kustarto
- Synopsis
- Blackhawk and his men take a search job from Steve Claiborne [aka. Leslie Richardson].
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #615; continues in Action Comics Weekly #617.
Fatal Distraction, Chapter Two: Battle Gear
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-4203
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Wild Dog [Jack Wheeler]; Wild Pup [Daniel Crown]; Lt. Andy Flint; Susan King; Mrs. Crown; Harry; unnamed wife of Harry
- Synopsis
- Wild Pup puts together his own set of battle gear, while Wild Dog arrives in a bar to break up a domestic quarrel.
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #615; continues in Action Comics Weekly #617.
[no title indexed]
Action Comics Weekly / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Mike Gold
- Pencils
- Dean Motter (cover preview)
- Inks
- Dean Motter (cover preview)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-3346
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Superman / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Roger Stern
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- Petra Goldberg
- Letters
- Bill Oakley
- Editing
- Mike Carlin (editor)
- Job Number
- G-4085
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Kal-El; Clark Kent]
- Synopsis
- Superman enlists the aid of 2 doctors to get closer to finding the source of the assassins.
- Reprints
-
in Superman: The Power Within (DC, 2015 series) ([March] 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #615; continues in Action Comics Weekly #617.
The Cheshire Contract, Chapter Four: Counterpoint
Nightwing / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Marv Wolfman
- Pencils
- Chuck Patton
- Inks
- Tom Poston
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- Albert DeGuzman
- Editing
- Barbara Kesel (editor)
- Job Number
- G-3843
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Cheshire [Jade]; Wen Chen Cheng; Raymond Weist (dies)
- Synopsis
- Speedy and Nightwing search separately for Cheshire. Speedy is defeated by Wen Cheng and Nightwing fights Cheshire.
- 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 #615; continues in Action Comics Weekly #617.
Bitter Fruit, Conclusion [Part 8]
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-4041
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dinah Lance [also as Bonnie Cardinal]; Doug Vallines; Barry Neiman; William B. MacDonald; Vincent Scales; Hector Librado (dies); Gary DeMott
- Synopsis
- Black Canary finds Vincent Scales and convinces him to stop his efforts against Doug Vallines and the Librado family.
- Reprints
-
in Green Arrow (Zinco, 1989 series) #8 (December 1989)
-
Indexer Notes
Story concludes from Action Comics Weekly #615. Should be labeled Chapter 8 to match other chapters.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Blackhawk -
1.
Safe at Home
Green Lantern -
2.
Mission: Implausible
Blackhawk -
3.
Fatal Distraction, Chapter Two: Battle Gear
Wild Dog -
4.
[no title indexed]
Action Comics Weekly -
5.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Superman -
6.
The Cheshire Contract, Chapter Four: Counterpoint
Nightwing -
7.
Bitter Fruit, Conclusion [Part 8]
Black Canary
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