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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published May 1987
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Robert Greenberger

Cover Details

Characters Suicide Squad [Enchantress; Captain Boomerang; Bronze Tiger; Nightshade; Deadshot; Plastique; Rick Flag; Mindboggler]
Genre Superhero; Spy
Pencils Howard Chaykin (signed)
Inks Howard Chaykin (signed)

22 page Suicide Squad story "Trial by Blood"

Characters Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Rick Flag; Bronze Tiger [Ben Turner]; Captain Boomerang [George Harkness; also as Digger]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Mindboggler; Plastique [Bette Sans Souci]; Nemesis [Tom Tresser; undercover as Colonel Mushtaq]; Nightshade [Eve Eden; undercover as Chimera]]; Karin Grace; Briscoe (first appearance); Flo Crawley (first appearance); John Economos (first appearance; the warden at Belle Reve); Simon LaGrieve (first appearance; a psychiatrist); Marnie Herrs; Vicki Vale; VILLAINS: Jihad [Djinn (first appearance); Jaculi (first appearance); Manticore (first appearance); Ravan (first appearance); Rustam (team leader; first appearance)]; President Marlo of Quarac; Parasite [Rudy Jones]
Synopsis Amanda Waller organizes a mission to take down the Jihad before they can attack the U.S.
Genre Superhero; Spy
Script John Ostrander
Pencils Luke McDonnell
Inks Karl Kesel
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters Todd Klein

2 page Suicide Squad text article "Suicide Squad"

Characters Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Enchantress; Captain Boomerang; Bronze Tiger; Deadshot; Rick Flag]
Genre Superhero; Spy
Script Bob Greenberger
Pencils Luke McDonnell
Inks Karl Kesel ?
Colors Carl Gafford ?
Letters typeset
Notes Bob Greenberger talks about how this series was developed.