| Issue | #5 |
| Published | September 1987 |
| Cover Price | 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Robert Greenberger |
| Characters | Suicide Squad [Rick Flag; Bronze Tiger; Enchantress; Deadshot; Penguin] |
| Genre | Superhero; Spy |
| Pencils | Luke McDonnell (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Lewis (signed) |
| Characters | Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Rick Flag; Bronze Tiger [Ben Turner]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Nemesis [Tom Tresser]; Nightshade [Eve Eden]; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]]; George Harkness [Captain Boomerang; also as Digger]; Simon LaGrieve; Premier Mikhail Gorbachev; Zoya Trigorin (first appearance); Urt (first appearance); Spassky (first appearance): Major Zastrow |
| Synopsis | The Squad is sent into Russia to bring back a now-famous dissident. To get in and around the USSR is no easy deal, especially when they will have a wanted prisoner with them so they need some extra-special planning. Amanda produces the one person who can do it with cunning and an understanding of the Russian winter - The Penguin. [per next issue box] |
| Genre | Superhero; Spy |
| Script | John Ostrander |
| Pencils | Luke McDonnell |
| Inks | Bob Lewis |
| Colors | Carl Gafford |
| Letters | Todd Klein |
| Notes | Part 1 of 3. |
| Script | Bob Greenberger |
| Pencils | Luke McDonnell (signed) |
| Inks | Bob Lewis (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Letters from readers - Charles D. Brown, Robert T. Jeschonek, Sal Portaro, Dale Coe, Ashley Howarth, Jonathan Gilbert, Mark R. Grooms, Tony Becker, Stephen Cade, R.J. Van Santen, Jody R. Martin and Bob Felker - and responses from Bob Greenberger. Preview of cover to SUICIDE SQUAD #6. |