Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #609
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: May 31, 1988 Shipping Date May 31, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #4

Shipping Date June 2, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #140

Copyright Date May 31, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 31, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 14, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760

Newsstand Date June 13, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #756

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

Title: "Faux Pas"
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 #608; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)

Villain(s)

• Yakin (posing as the Devil; last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #606; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)
• Stan Kriptman (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #608; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #14; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)
• Nancy Reagan (last appearance in Millennium #5; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (last appearance in Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)
• Raisa Gorbachev (first appearance; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #610)

Other Character(s)

• Lynn Smyth (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #608; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Action Comics Weekly #608 and continues in Action Comics Weekly #610.

Synopsis:
Deadman, in possession of the body of CIA director Stan Kriptman, attends a gala reception. After causing trouble for Stan with his mistress Lynn Smyth, Deadman begins searching the room for the demon spirit who claims to be the devil. He finds the spirit in the body of Mikhail Gorbachev, so Deadman takes control of President Reagan. The two spirits trade barbs, then swap bodies. They move into the bodies of the first ladies and begin a catfight. Deadman in the body of Raisa Gorbachev leaves the room, then returns carrying an alien weapon which he took from CIA headquarters.