Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #640
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1989
On Sale Date: January 10, 1989 Shipping Date January 10, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #12

Shipping Date January 12, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #155

Direct Market Date January 12, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #82

Copyright Date January 10, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: (Ready, Aim, Fire)
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Hero Hotline

Writer/Colorist: Bob Rozakis
Penciller: Stephen DeStefano
Inker: Kurt Schaffenberger
Letterer: Agustin Mas

Feature Character(s)

• Hero Hotline (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Mr. Muscle (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Diamondette (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #638; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Stretch (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Hotshot (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Private Eyes (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Voice-Over (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Soozie-Q (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Harry (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #638; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)
• Melanie Boulder (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #639; next appearance in Hero Hotline #1)

Villain(s)

• A man with a water pistol (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Roderick C. Broderick (an inventor; no further appearances)
• Astro (a dog; no further appearances)
• Lester Flytop (a promoter; no further appearances)
• A smoking woman (no further appearances)
• Mrs. Lefferts (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #637; next appearance in Hero Hotline #2)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled. The title used here is taken from the next issue blurb from the previous issue.

This story is continued from Action Comics Weekly #639.

Synopsis:
Inventor Roderick C. Broderick brings his dog into Hero Hotline headquarters after sealing him inside a cube of unbreakable plastic. Diamondette uses her fingers to slice through the glue holding the cube together. When the dog is free, it attacks its master.

Elsewhere, Stretch and Hotshot work together to disarm a man with a gasoline-filled water pistol which he is using to threaten a smoker in a subway tunnel.

Finally, back at headquarters, Melanie Boulder arrives to thank the man who rescued her from a meat locker. She brushes off Mr. Muscles and kisses Private Eyes. Her time in the meat locker has caused her to temporarily lose her voice, so Voice-Over agrees to fill in for her at a concert.