Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #603
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: April 19, 1988 Shipping Date April 19, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #3

Shipping Date April 19, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

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

Newsstand Date May 3, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752, #754

Shipping Date April 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #752, #754

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

Title: "Talaoc's Tale"
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 #602; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #604)

Villain(s)

• Major Grace Kasaba (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #602; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #604)
• Talaoc (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #602; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #604)
• Several soldiers (Combs named; last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #602; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #604)

Other Character(s)

• Fulgencio Flores (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #602; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #604)
• Currier (a CIA operative; behind-the-scenes; first appearance; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #604)

Comments:
This story is continued from Action Comics Weekly #602 and continues in Action Comics Weekly #604.

Synopsis:
Talaoc, a Mayan spirit, exits the body of Major Kasaba and begins fighting Deadman. During the fight, Talaoc boasts that he will kill the spirit. Deadman informs him that both of them are already dead. Confused, the Mayan stops fighting.

Deadman helps Talaoc to remember his old life which was interrupted by aliens who turned him into a spirit. Talaoc claims that the alien weapons are buried under the temple. Kasaba and the rebel soldiers find them and plans to make use of them including a weapon Deadman has seen before which can affect him in spirit form.