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Issue: Suicide Squad #1
Publication Date: May 1987
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Issues: #1 of 67 Issues (115 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/03/1987
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 CAD
£0.40 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Robert Greenberger
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #36.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Howard Chaykin (signed)
Inker(s): Howard Chaykin (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset; Todd Klein (logo design)
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Feature(s): Suicide Squad
Character(s): Suicide Squad [Enchantress; Captain Boomerang; Bronze Tiger; Nightshade; Deadshot; Plastique; Rick Flag; Mindboggler]
First Line: These 8 people will put their lives on the line for our country. One of them won't be coming home!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLegends: The Collection #[nn] [First Printing] published July 1993
as Cover reprints [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Logo design credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.
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Trial by Blood

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Ostrander
Penciller(s): Luke McDonnell
Inker(s): Karl Kesel
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford
Letterer(s): Todd Klein
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Feature(s): Suicide Squad
Character(s): 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.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Job Number: G-2939
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Suicide Squad

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Greenberger
Penciller(s): Luke McDonnell
Inker(s): Karl Kesel ?
Colorist(s): Carl Gafford ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage, superhero
Character(s): Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Enchantress; Captain Boomerang; Bronze Tiger; Deadshot; Rick Flag]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2683
Disclose Notes: Bob Greenberger talks about how this series was developed.

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