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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published June 1987
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Robert Greenberger

Cover Details

Characters Suicide Squad [Enchantress; Captain Boomerang; Bronze Tiger; Deadshot; Rick Flag; Mindboggler]
Genre Superhero; Spy
Pencils Luke McDonnell
Inks Karl Kesel

22 page Suicide Squad story "Trial by Fire"

Characters Suicide Squad [Rick Flag; Bronze Tiger [Ben Turner]; Captain Boomerang [George Harkness; also as Digger]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Mindboggler (dies); Plastique [Bette Sans Souci]; Nemesis [Tom Tresser; undercover as Colonel Mushtaq]; Nightshade [Eve Eden; undercover as Chimera]]; Briscoe; VILLAINS: Jihad [Djinn; Jaculi (dies); Manticore (dies); Ravan; Rustam]; President Marlo of Qurac
Synopsis The Squad goes to Qurac to put an end to the Jihad before they can go on their first mission. One of them doesn't come back.
Genre Superhero; Spy
Script John Ostrander
Pencils Luke McDonnell
Inks Karl Kesel
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters Todd Klein

2 page Suicide Squad letters page "Suicide Squad"

Script Bob Greenberger
Letters typeset
Notes Biographies for John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell and Karl Kesel. Letters from readers - Peter Barnett, Derrick Fannin, Charles D. Brown, Charles David Haskell and Jon Thomas - and responses from Bob Greenberger.