Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #613
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: June 28, 1988 Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 30, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Copyright Date June 28, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

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

Title: "Can't Judge a Book..."
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Thomas Grindberg
Inker: Dennis Janke
Letterer: Robert M. Pinaha
Colorist: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)

Feature Character(s)

• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #614)

Supporting Character(s)

• Bruce Gordon (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Ah Puch (a Mayan death god; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #614)

Other Character(s)

• Daniel Gleason (a fiction writer; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #614)
• Two victims of Ah Puch (both die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Action Comics Weekly #614.

Synopsis:
The Phantom Stranger hears of two mysterious deaths in which the victims rapidly aged in minutes. He is then paid a visit by fiction writer Daniel Gleason who explains that there have been even more deaths, and each of the victims was reading his latest book.

The Phantom Stranger senses evil within the book. Gleason tells him it includes a Mayan chant. When the writer speaks the chant aloud, the Mayan death god Ah Puch manifests and takes Gleason as its host. Unprepared for the arrival, the Phantom Stranger falls victim to Ah Puch who begins to feed on him.