Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #627
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: October 4, 1988 Shipping Date October 4, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #9

Shipping Date October 6, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #149

Copyright Date October 4, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Distractions"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Nightwing (Post-Crisis)
Speedy (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Plotter: Cherie Wilkerson
Artist: Thomas Mandrake
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Nightwing:Old Friends, New Enemies TPB (2013)

Feature Character(s)

• Nightwing (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #627; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #631)
• Speedy (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #627; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #628)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lian Harper (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #627; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #628)

Villain(s)

• Two drug smugglers (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #627; no further appearances)
• Several gunmen (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #627; no further appearances)
• Jonathan Sepulveda (in flashback; a CBI chief; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #633)

Other Character(s)

• Mrs. Sebastian (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #627; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #631)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Roy Harper (Roy Harper is dismssed from the CBI; last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #618; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #627)

Comments:
"Rocks and Hard Places Chapter Two"

This story is continued from Action Comics Weekly #627 and continues in Action Comics Weekly #628.

Synopsis:
Speedy diverts a speed boat full of gunmen intent on running down Nightwing. He then pulls his friend from the water, but the crooks escape with the coffin full of drugs. Once they are safely back aboard the ferry, Roy tells Dick how he discovered a link between the CBI and drugs being shipped into Ireland. Soon after reporting the information to his superiors, he was nearly killed, then fired.

After the ferry docks, Roy and Dick stroll the streets with Lian. Roy explains that he had come to Ireland in search of his roots. Dick notices they are being followed and gets them to safety when armed men try to kill them. Dick decides to return home to investigate the CBI, while Roy stays in Ireland.