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Action Comics Weekly 636

ACTION COMICS WEEKLY #636

Cover Date: January 24 1989
Cover Price: $1.50

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Cover Credits:
Art: Dick Giordano


Story: "Exiles" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMark Verheiden
PencilsLewis Williams
InksFrank McLaughlin
LetteringTim Harkins
ColorsJulianna Ferriter
EditingRobert Greenberger

Feature Character(s):

Speedy I (last in New Titans #52)

Supporting Character(s):

Lian Harper
Owen Burley (first appearance; a private investigator and Speedy's boss)

Comment(s):

Speedy is now based in Los Angeles, CA.
This story is continued into next issue.


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Second Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlan Grant
PencilsMark Pacella
InksBill Wray
LetteringJohn Costanza
ColorsTatjana Wood
EditingDan Raspler

Feature Character(s):

Etrigan (last in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #98)
Jason Blood (last in Detective Comics #603)

Supporting Character(s):

Glenda Mark (last in Demon Vol. 2 #4)
Randu Singh (last in Detective Comics #603)

Villain(s):

Malefik (first appearance; a demon that possessed a boy; destroyed)

Other Character(s):

Jack (first appearance; a demon-possessed boy)

Comment(s):

This story is continued into next issue.


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Third Story: "All That Jazz" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Kupperberg
ArtAndy Kubert
LetteringTim Harkins
ColorsAdam Kubert
EditingRenee Witterstaetter

Feature Character(s):

Phantom Stranger (last in issue #634/2; next in Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #83)

Other Character(s):

"Lowblow" Jones (first appearance; a disgruntled old jazzman)
Ezra Griffith (first appearance; son of the man who recorded Jones' music)
Esther Griffith (first appearance; Ezra's wife)


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Fourth Story: "The Face and the Voice" (2 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRoger Stern
PencilsCurt Swan
InksMurphy Anderson
LetteringBill Oakley
ColorsTom Ziuko
EditingMike Carlin

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Villain(s):

Darkseid (last in Action Comics #600)

Other Character(s):

Bob Galt


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Fifth Story: "Daddy's Girl" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLen Strazewski
PencilsChuck Austen
InksGary Martin
LetteringJohn Costanza
ColorsGlenn Whitmore
EditingMark Waid

Feature Character(s):

Dee Tyler (first appearance; a Washington DC debutante trained in combat techniques)

Supporting Character(s):

Albert A. Tyler (first appearance; Dee Tyler's father and Assistant US Attorney General)
Roger Richter (first appearance; Al Tyler's assistant)
Sarah (first appearance; Dee's childhood friend and roommate)

Villain(s):

Edwin Guerrhart (first appearance; a Washington DC lobbyist)
Gronk (first appearance; Guerrhart's bodyguard)

Other Character(s):

Dean Knight (last, as Phantom Lady, in flashback in Birds of Prey Vol. 2 #15; next in Starman Vol. 2 #73)
Mrs. Peel (gives commencement address at Dee Tyler's graduation)
Marie (first appearance; Dee's classmate)

Location(s):

L'Université Notra Dame des Ombres (Our Lady of the Shadows University; first appearance)


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Sixth Story: "Crack Up Chapter One: Wrong Turn" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMax Allan Collins
PencilsTerry Beatty
InksJohn Nyberg
LetteringTim Harkins
ColorsCarl Gafford
EditingBrian Augustyn

Feature Character(s):

Wild Dog (last in Invasion! #2)

Supporting Character(s):

Lou Goddard

Villain(s):

Willie (first appearance; a low-level drug dealer)

Other Character(s):

Georgie Washington (first appearance)

Comment(s):

This story is continued into next issue.


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