Suicide Squad #3 [Direct]
(July 1987)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-04-07
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Robert Greenberger (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Suicide Squad / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Luke McDonnell (signed as Luke)
Inks
Karl Kesel (signed as Karl)
Colors
?
Letters
?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
An all-out assault on Belle Reve! Here comes the Female Furies!
Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Female Furies: Bernadeth; Lashina; Mad Harriet; Stompa
Suicide Squad: Bronze Tiger [Benjamin Turner]; Rick Flag; Nemesis [Tom Tresser]; Nightshade
Reprints

Jailbreak (Table of Contents: 1)

Suicide Squad / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
John Ostrander (credited)
Pencils
Luke McDonnell (credited)
Inks
Karl Kesel (credited)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
Todd Klein (credited)

Job Number
G-3015
Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Female Furies: Bernadeth (villain); Lashina (villain); Mad Harriet (villain); Stompa (villain)
Suicide Squad: Bronze Tiger [Benjamin Turner]; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; The Enchantress [June Moone]; Rick Flag; Nemesis [Tom Tresser] (also flashback); Nightshade; Plastique [Bette Sans Souci]
Chronos [David Clinton] (cameo); Flo Crawley; Darkseid (villain); DeSaad (villain); John Economos; Glorious Godfrey (villain); Karin Grace; Doctor Moon; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (cameo); Amanda Waller
Synopsis
Darkseid sends the Female Furies to Belle Reve prison to retrieve Glorious Godfrey, whom Darkseid wants to punish for failing in his last mission. The Suicide Squad has no idea what they are dealing with when they go up against them.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

The Shadow / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Green Arrow / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

‘Mazing Man / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Annual 1987 (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Doom Patrol; Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Suicide Notes / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Greenberger (uncredited)
Pencils
Luke McDonnell (signed) (cover preview)
Inks
Bob Lewis (signed) (cover preview)
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-2752
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Wow, sorry it’s taken me so long to respond.

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Chris Romano, Neil Ahlquist, David Roy, and T.M. Maple - and responses from Bob Greenberger. Preview of cover to SUICIDE SQUAD #4. Also publisher credits.
On last interior page.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["An all-out assault on Belle Reve! Here comes the Female Furies!"]
    Suicide Squad
  2. 1. Jailbreak
    Suicide Squad
  3. 2. ["Who knows what evil lurks"]
    The Shadow
  4. 3. ["Today is the first day of the rest of his life…"]
    Green Arrow
  5. 4. ["Venture into the 21st century!"]
  6. 5. ["Help find ‘Mazing Man or we may never see him again!"]
    ‘Mazing Man
  7. 6. Annual 1987
    Doom Patrol; Superman
  8. 7. ["Who’s new in the DC universe?"]
  9. 8. ["2 free months of DC comics!"]
  10. 9. ["Wow, sorry it’s taken me so long to respond."]
    Suicide Notes
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Morbus Iff
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Jim Van Dore