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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published January 1987
Cover Price 0.75
Pages 36
Editing Mike Gold

Cover Details

Pencils John Byrne
Reprinted in Legends: The Collection (DC, 1993 series) #nn; in Justice League [Lega della Giustizia] (Play Press, 1990 series) #2

22 page story "Send for ... the Suicide Squad"

Characters Flash [Wally West]; Changeling [Garfield Logan]; Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Phantom Stranger; Batman; Robin [Jason Todd]; Superman; Suicide Squad (Captain Boomerang [George Harkness]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Enchantress [June Moon]; Blockbuster [Mark Desmond] (deceased); Bronze Tiger); Darkseid; Desaad; Glorious Godfrey [G. Gordon Godfrey]; Brimstone; Dr Bedlam; Warhounds; Sarge Steel; Amanda Waller; Colonel Rick Flag; President Ronald Wilson Reagan; Lisa Sutton; Lisa Sutton's parents
Genre Superhero
Script John Ostrander (plot); Len Wein (script)
Pencils John Byrne
Inks Karl Kesel
Colors Tom Ziuko
Letters Steve Haynie
Notes The new Suicide Squad goes into action 1st. Character information from Thom Jacobson via the Error List (November, 2008).
Reprinted in Legends: The Collection (DC, 1993 series) #nn; in Justice League [Lega della Giustizia] (Play Press, 1990 series) #2