Comic Title: Action Comics Weekly #618
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 20, 1988
On Sale Date: August 2, 1988 Shipping Date August 2, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #7

Shipping Date August 4, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #146

Copyright Date August 2, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Frequency: Weekly with the exception of the last week of the year
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "First Encounter"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan Post-Crisis)

Writer: Peter A. David
Penciller: Richard Howell
Inker: Arne Starr
Letterer: Helen Vesik
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Feature Character(s)

• Green Lantern (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)

Supporting Character(s)

• Arisia (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)

Villain(s)

• The Freak Show (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)
• Siphon and Castle (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)
• Incinderella (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)
• Runaround Sue (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)
• Stasis (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)
• Lillian Hawkes (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #617; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)

Other Character(s)

• Veronica Hawkes (last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #616; next appearance in Action Comics Weekly #619)
• Cynthia Gresham (on the telephone; last appearance in Action Comics Weekly #613; no further appearances)
• Helene (a secretary; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Action Comics Weekly #617 and continues in Action Comics Weekly #619.

Synopsis:
Green Lantern battles a group of super-villains who call themselves the Freak Show. He gains the upper hand in the fight, but then he is teleported away by Castle. After the crooks escape, Green Lantern heads to Hawkes Industries where Siphon and Castle were previously employed. He meets the sisters who run the company Veronica and Lillian Hawkes.