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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published April 1990
Cover Price 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Dan Raspler

Cover Details - "The Phoenix Gambit, Part 1 of 4"

Characters Amanda Waller; Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Genre Superhero; Spy
Pencils Geof Isherwood (signed)
Inks Geof Isherwood (signed)

22 page Suicide Squad story "The Phoenix Gambit, Part One: Ashes"

Characters Amanda Waller; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Count Vertigo [Werner Vertigo]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Sarge Steel; General Stoneman; Nikolas Varga (deceased); Anya Kolchak; VILLAINS: W. James Heller; Steel Wolf [Stalnoivolk; Ivan Illyich Gort]
Synopsis Sarge Steel offers to get Amanda out of jail if she'll start up the Suicide Squad again.
Genre Superhero; Spy
Script John Ostrander; Kim Yale
Pencils Geof Isherwood
Inks Geof Isherwood
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters Todd Klein
Notes This story takes place one year after SUICIDE SQUAD #39.

1 page Suicide Notes letters page "Suicide Notes"

Script Bob Greenberger
Letters typeset
Notes Letters from readers - David J. Harrington, Robert Knuist, Melissa Page, Mark Lucas, Steve Zwanger, Edward Little and Neil Ahlquist - and responses from Bob Greenberger.

Suicide Squad insert or dust jacket "Suicide Squad Poster"

Characters Steel Wolf; Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Pamela Isley [Poison Ivy]; Ravan; Ben Turner [Bronze Tiger]; Mari McCabe [Vixen]; George Harkness [Captain Boomerang; also as Digger]]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Genre Superhero; Spy
Pencils Geof Isherwood (signed)
Inks Geof Isherwood (signed)
Colors Tom Ziuko (signed)
Notes Pull-out Suicide Squad poster.