Action Comics Weekly, #640

Published: February 28, 1989

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Issue Contents:

Story Featuring Wild Dog

"Wild Dog"

Credits
Exiles [Part] V

Story Featuring Speedy

"Look at him. I'll bet he votes Republican, pays his taxes and thinks of himself as a regular, law abiding guy."

Storyline

Speedy helps quell a riot at an AIDS hospice, as his client reconciles with his brother.

Story 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.

Abandon Hope

Story Featuring The Demon

"The stone that lives! Morgan Le Fay returns to seek her evil way. He resurrectors are the ones she rives..."

Storyline

Morgan LeFay captures Etrigan as Glenda and Randu enter Asteroth's domain.

Story Notes

Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #639; continues in Action Comics Weekly #641.

Where There's Smoke...

Story Featuring Superman

"This is terrible! If only I'd hadn't been tied up in California, maybe I could've done something about... eh?"

Storyline

Superman rescues a man from a burning building and searches for the arsonists.

Credits
Story Notes

Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #639; continues in Action Comics Weekly #641. "Special Thanks" credit to Tom Peyer.

Lady of the House

Story Featuring Phantom Lady

"One! Two! Three! Go!"

Storyline

Phantom Lady appears to kill Gronk while stealing the information that Mr. Guerrehart was using to blackmail her father.

Story Notes

Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #639; continues in Action Comics Weekly #641.

Crack Up, Chapter 5: 'Tween a Rock and a Hard Place

Story Featuring Wild Dog

"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..."

Storyline

Wild Dog continues his investigation of a crack ring, killing two more members.

Credits
Story Notes

Story continues from Action Comics Weekly #639; continues in Action Comics Weekly #641.

"Mike, The only disappointment of issue #629 was the lack of a letters page."

Credits
Story Notes

Letters from Ray Rizer, Chad Swofford, Stan Johnson, Charles J. Sperling, John Q. Gerdes, Esq, and Mark Karcher, with replies from Mike Gold.

Two Ways to Win in the Ring...
Characters
Other
Story Notes

Back cover.

"The odyssey had ended... now the battle begins."

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Exiled in Space
Credits
Write Right Now!

"The law of the jungle doesn't apply to the 29th century"

Credits

"A night of murder... a lifetime of revenge"

10 Reason to Buy Suicide Squad in 1989!
Comic Book Conventions!

"The best conventions are Great Eastern Conventions!!"

Characters
Other
Credits
Story Notes

Above the Suicide Squad promo.

Quickshot for Hotshots New Infrared Wizmaster

"Quckshot's new infrared remote controller for Nintendo entertaiment systems features..."

John Elway's Quarterback Kicks Off in Home Across America

"The story so far..."

"Nintendo gamers, he biggest hit of the decade is back -- just for you!"

Story Notes

Inside front cover.