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Action Comics Weekly, #623

Published: October 25, 1988

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Story Featuring Superman

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Priest

Story Featuring Green Lantern

"Every twenty-four hours Green Lantern must recharge his power ring with this Lantern battery."

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Hal Jordan tracks the beam that destroyed his power battery to another planet, where the being who caused it gets Hal to intervene in an interplanetary war.

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Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #622; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.

My Week in Valhalla Chapter One

Story Featuring Captain Marvel / Shazam!

"Want to see the way my day starts?"

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After Captain Marvel accidentally kills a man, Billy Batson tries to make amends with the family.

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Series continues from Shazam: The New Beginning (DC, 1987 series). Story continues in Action Comics Weekly #624. Elvira Thickert was called Emily Thickert in Shazam: The New Beginning.

[Grave Doings, Part 5] Seventeen

Story Featuring Deadman

"Like there were these twins, see? And they were pawns in a war to control New Orleans' zombis. Only they became possessed by two other twins, Stella and Delia Peckshaw and now they're the voodoo queens of New Orlens."

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Deadman and Madame Waxahachie track the spirits of the Peckshaw twins who have assembled their army of zombies.

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Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #621; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.

Revelations

Story Featuring Superman

"Here, gentlemen, is evidence of how far the Consortium has come in just a year. Together, pooling our separate companies' resources in secret --"

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The Consortium details its reasons for desiring to destroy Superman.

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Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #622; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.

Standard Allowable Abductions

Story Featuring Secret Six

"July 9. 3:16 a.m. -- Crandall Stadium on the campus of Jefferson University."

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Members of the Secret Six escape from "the Agency" with Steve Traeger.

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Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #622; continues in Action Comics Weekly #624.

The Devil Was a Baby

Story Featuring The Phantom Stranger

"Father Davis! Come here -- quickly!"

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A priest dispatches Satan after he holds the Phantom Stranger at bay.

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Letter Column Featuring Action Comics Weekly

"Dear DC, After reading the first dozen or so issues of your new Action Comics Weekly, I finally feel compelled to write to give you my two cents' worth (give or take a buck fourty eight)."

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Letters from Jack Slack, J. Alexander Hall, David Metz, John Britt, Alan C. Carroll, and Bruce Parrello, with responses from Brian Augustyn.

No More "Bored" Games!

"Take to the skies with TSR's new action-packed adventure boardgames."

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Back cover.

Make a Power Play in Mindscape's Instant Win Game.

"Win Grand Prize -- Ful Size Atari 720° Arcade Game"

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Inside back cover.

Write Right Now!
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Twenty ads for various products.

Bigger Than You Figure.
Body Builder

"Maybe it's a truck body. Maybe a racing car body. But whatever model you're building, you want it to look the best."

Someone Will Die Because the Joker Wants Revenge. But You Can Prevent It.

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

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Gobble the Power Pellets or Get Gobbled by Ghosts!

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