Action Comics Weekly, #615

Published: August 30, 1988

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Issue Contents:
Wild Dog Breaks Loose!
Freaks!

Story Featuring Green Lantern

"It's the latest, ladies and gentlemen."

Storyline

Some superpowered crooks trap Hal Jordan at a location Arisia is modeling at.

Story Notes

Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.

That Was No Lady...

Story Featuring Blackhawk

"Singapore. June 1947."

Storyline

Blackhawk escapes from some smugglers and hires Natalie Reed.

Story 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

Story Featuring Wild Dog

"Three killings so far."

Storyline

A female serial killer stalks the Quad Cities and Wild Dog begins a search for her, while attracting the attention of a protegee.

Credits
Story Notes

Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.

Fatal Flaw?

Story Featuring Superman

"Arriving at a California burn center to question a man about an attempted murder, the Man of Steel finds that his suspect is about to become another victim..."

Storyline

Superman saves Charles Culpepper but may have killed his assailant.

Credits
Story Notes

Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.

[The Cheshire Contract] Chapter Three: Tracks of a Killer!

Story Featuring Nightwing

"London... the oncoming lights remind him he's driving on the wrong side of the street as he speeds past the British Museum toward his meeting at Parliament..."

Storyline

Nightwing is suspicious of Speedy's motives. Cheshire kills another ambasador.

Story Notes

Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616. References New Teen Titans #48-49.

Bitter Fruit, Part 7

Story Featuring Black Canary

"Hi Doug -- just your brother Jim. How were things in California? Give me a buzz when you're a Seattle resident again."

Storyline

Black Canary meets Doug Vallines and his private detective and tracks Vincent Scales, while his hired assassin deals with an INS employee.

Story Notes

Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #614; continues in Action Comics Weekly #616.

"Dear Action, Question: How do you take a fantastic hero, and my favorite, Blackhawk, and transform him from a commercial failure to a success?"

Credits
Story Notes

Letters from Andrew M. Kaplan, Hurricane Heeran, Malcolm Bourne, Steven J. Hanna and Jim Burke (a.k.a. T.M. Maple), with replies from Brian Augustyn. Burke was a prolific letter writer under the pseudonyms "The Mad Maple" and "T.M. Maple" and revealed his real name here for the first time in a DC comic.

Welcome to the 25th Century!

"Buck Rogers, the super hero of cosmic comat, blasts off with all new adventure books and a board game from TSR."

Story Notes

Back cover.

Gobble the Power Pellets or Get Gobbled by Ghosts!

"Yes, the ever-loveable, ever-ravenous Pac-Man is back!"

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Write Right Now!
Story Notes

Twenty ads for various products.

Someone Will Die Because the Joker Wants Revenge.

"Batman 426 and 427. Both on sale in September."

Credits
12 Hot Hits for a Cool Penny

"Plus a chance to get 2 more free!"

Free with Proofs of Purchase M&M's Painter's Cap

"Also available: M&M's custom designed shirt"

Story Notes

Inside front cover.