Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #623
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: September 6, 1988 Shipping Date September 6, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #147

Copyright Date September 6, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "The Devil Was a Baby"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Phantom Stranger (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Artist: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Letterer: Dan McKinnon
Colorist: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Spectre #21)

Villain(s)

• A demon baby (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Father Davis and Sister Camille (no further appearances)
• Several parishioners (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A baby is found on the doorstep of a church. He is taken inside by Father Davis who soon discovers that the baby is possessed by a demon. The demon takes power over the church's parishioners and Sister Camille. The Phantom Stranger tries to fight the demon, but it is protected by a pentagram. While the Stranger tries to resist the minions of the demon, Father Davis is able to expel the demon with the power of the cross and his faith. When the demon is banished, the controlled followers return to normal.