Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #616
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: July 19, 1988 Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 21, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Copyright Date July 19, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

Newsstand Date August 2, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

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

Title: "Dead Men Tell No Tales"
Pages: 2

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roger Stern
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Murphy Anderson
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Colorist: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Power Within TPB (2015)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #615; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617)

Villain(s)

• A would-be assassin (as a corpse; last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #615; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A female doctor (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #615; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617)
• A security guard (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #615; no further appearances)
• A male doctor (next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617)

Comments:
This story is continued from Action Comics Weekly #615 and continues in Action Comics Weekly #617.

Synopsis:
Superman is accused of killing a would-be assassin. However, his x-ray vision shows a transmitter implanted in the head of the victim. Doctors confirm that a signal from the device killed the assassin. The device then detonates, destroying the body and all links to the assassin's employers.