Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #608
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: May 24, 1988 Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #4

Shipping Date May 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #139

Copyright Date May 24, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 24, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 7, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Gala Reception"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Deadman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mike Baron
Penciller: Dan Jurgens
Inker: Tony DeZuniga
Letterer: Steve Haynie
Colorist: Liz Berube

Feature Character(s)

• Deadman (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #607; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #609)

Villain(s)

• Stan Kriptman (last name revealed; last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #605; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #609)
• Major Grace Kasaba (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #605; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)

Other Character(s)

• Lynn Smyth (next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #609)
• Several CIA guards and a scientist (Barnes named; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Action Comics Weekly #607 and continues in Action Comics Weekly #609.

Synopsis:
Deadman escapes from Hell and emerges from the urn through which he entered. Unfortunately the demon who claims to be the devil has also escaped and killed several guards. Deadman takes possession of CIA director Stan Kriptman and leaves the building along with one of the alien weapons. He visits Kriptman's home where he finds out that Stan's wife has left him. He then begins his attempt to track down the demon starting at a gala reception hosting the Soviet premier. At the party, Deadman is introduced to Lynn Smyth, a woman with which Stan is apparently having an affair.