Suicide Squad
#4 - Earthlings on Fire
(2017 [February 2018])
DC,
2017 Series
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- 14.99 USD; 19.99 CAD
- Pages
- 132
- On-sale Date
- 2017-12-13
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [circle and serifs]
- ISBN
-
978-1-4012-7539-6
- Barcode
- 9781401275396 51499
- Editing
- Andy Khouri (editor - original series); Harvey Richards (associate editor - original series); Jeb Woodard (group editor - collected editions); Scott Nybakken (editor - collected edtions)
Issue Notes
Collects Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #16-20.
[Title Page]
Suicide Squad / credits, title page / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; General Zod]
Indexer Notes
Title page with illustration from Suicide Squad #18.
[Title and Credits]
Suicide Squad / credits, title page / 2 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- General Zod
Indexer Notes
Title pages with creator credits, includes illustration from Suicide Squad #17.
[no title indexed]
Suicide Squad / credits, title page / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Colonel Rick Flag; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; General Zod]
Indexer Notes
Indicia and publisher information, includes illustration from Suicide Squad #17.
[Suicide Squad #16]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]]
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #16 - black and white cover reprint]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]]
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Black and white art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
Heroes and Villains
Suicide Squad / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lex Luthor; Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Colonel Rick Flag; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]]; unnamed LexCorp security guards; experimental Bizarro clones; General Zod; unnamed Task Force X doctors
- Synopsis
- Amanda meets with Lex Luthor in an attempt to distract him while the Squad breaks into his building to steal a specific item from his vault that is needed for an upcoming mission.
- Reprints
-
from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #16 (June 2017)
-
- Keywords
- Belle Reve Penitentiary; Kryptonite
[Suicide Squad #17]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [General Zod; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #17 [Tony S. Daniel / Sandu Florea Cover] (Early July 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #17 - black and white cover reprint]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [General Zod; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #17 [Tony S. Daniel / Sandu Florea Cover] (Early July 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Black and white art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
Blowing Up
Suicide Squad / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Rob Williams
- Pencils
- Tony S. Daniel
- Inks
- Sandu Florea; LeBeau Underwood
- Colors
- Tomeu Morey
- Letters
- Pat Brosseau
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Colonel Rick Flag; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; General Zod; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]]; Amanda Waller; Emelia Harcourt (death); Annihilation Brigade [Tunguska; Cosmonut; Tankograd]; unnamed Task Force X IT staff (deaths); Zimbabwe meta-human prison inmates; unknown Black Vault inhabitants
- Synopsis
- Controlled by a Kryptonite brain bomb, General Zod joins the Squad on a mission to Zimbabwe to track down the Annihilation Brigade. There they find a secret prison where the People have been experimenting on meta-humans to build their own Suicide Squad. Back at Belle Reve, Harcourt is revealed as an agent of the People and betrays Waller, but Waller of course was expecting this and had prepared accordingly. Harcourt is killed before she can reveal who killed Hack.
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #17 (Early July 2017)
-
- Keywords
- Belle Reve Penitentiary; Black Vault; Kryptonite; Zimbabwe
[Suicide Squad #18]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [General Zod; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Colonel Rick Flag]
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #18 - black and white cover reprint]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [General Zod; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Colonel Rick Flag]
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Black and white art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
Your Future Is Dead
Suicide Squad / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Colonel Rick Flag; General Zod; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]]; unnamed Task Force X staff (some die); Amanda Waller; Zoe Lawton (image in photograph); Cosmonut; Cyborg Superman [Hank Henshaw]; Eradicator
- Synopsis
- Zod performs heat vision surgery on himself to remove the Kryptonite brain bomb implanted by Waller to control him. Freed from Waller's control Zod wants revenge, leading to a confrontation with the Squad.
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #18 (July 2017)
-
- Keywords
- Belle Reve Penitentiary; Black Vault; Kryptonite; Phantom Zone
Indexer Notes
Story ties in to Action Comics #980, which shows Cyborg Superman and the Eradicator arrive at Belle Reve to in an attempt to free General Zod.
[Suicide Squad #19]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Enchantress [June Moone]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Colonel Rick Flag; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]]; Cyborg Superman [Hank Henshaw]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #19 [Tony S. Daniel Cover] (Early August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #19 - black and white cover reprint]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Enchantress [June Moone]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Colonel Rick Flag; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]]; Cyborg Superman [Hank Henshaw]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #19 [Tony S. Daniel Cover] (Early August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Black and white art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
Alone
Suicide Squad / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Colonel Rick Flag (apparent death); Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]]; Amanda Waller; Cyborg Superman [Hank Henshaw]; Eradicator; General Zod; Cosmonut; Phantom Zone wraiths; Phantom Zone prisoners
- Synopsis
- Cyborg Superman and Eradicator arrive to free Zod to recruit him for their Superman revenge squad. However, Zod refuses, as he is trying to free all the prisoners in the Phantom Zone to create his own army to rule the world. The Squad is caught in the middle of the battle of the Kryptonian villains.
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #19 (Early August 2017)
-
- Keywords
- Belle Reve Penitentiary; Black Vault; Kryptonite; Phantom Zone
Indexer Notes
Story ties in to Action Comics #980, which shows Cyborg Superman and the Eradicator arrive at Belle Reve to in an attempt to free General Zod, and Action Comics #981 which shows what happens to the Kryptonian trio after the events of this issue.
Rick Flag is lost in the Phantom Zone and believed to be dead. However, he is next seen in the Zone in issue #30 and escapes from the Zone in issue #31.
[Suicide Squad #20]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #20 [Otto Schmidt Cover] (August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #20 - black and white cover reprint]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #20 [Otto Schmidt Cover] (August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Black and white art from issue cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
Managing People
Suicide Squad / comic story / 20 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]]; The Flash (image on poster only); unnamed Belle Reve guards; Joker (image in Harley's mind); unnamed citizens (scared of Killer Croc); unnamed police officer; unnamed citizens (afraid of Enchantress); Cosmonut; Eric Bowser (magazine editor); Gulag (of the Annihilation Brigade); Direktor Karla (intro, Director of the Annihilation Brigade)
- Synopsis
- Waller must choose a new leader for the Suicide Squad to replace Flag. Croc and June enjoy some personal time in New York.
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #20 (August 2017)
-
- Keywords
- Belle Reve Penitentiary
Indexer Notes
Direktor Karla was first mentioned in issue #3 as the one who gives the Annihilation Brigade their orders, but this is the first time he is shown.
Suicide Squad Variant Cover Gallery
Suicide Squad / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]] Cyborg Superman; Eradicator
Indexer Notes
Introduction to cover gallery of variant covers, includes illustration from the variant cover of Suicide Squad #19.
[Suicide Squad #16 Variant Cover]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Lex Luthor
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #16 [Lee Bermejo Variant Cover] (June 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue variant cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #17 Variant Cover]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [General Zod; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #17 [Whilce Portacio Variant Cover] (Early July 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue variant cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #18 Variant Cover]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [General Zod; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #18 [Whilce Portacio Variant Cover] (July 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue variant cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #19 Variant Cover]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Suicide Squad [Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]] Cyborg Superman; Eradicator
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #19 [Whilce Portacio Variant Cover] (Early August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue variant cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
[Suicide Squad #20 Variant Cover]
Suicide Squad / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]
- Reprints
- from Suicide Squad (DC, 2016 series) #20 [Whilce Portacio Variant Cover] (August 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Color art from issue variant cover with no logos, numbers, and pricing.
Red Sons Rising
illustration / 7 pages
- Pencils
- Tony S. Daniel
Indexer Notes
Original pencil art by Tony S. Daniel of select pages from issues #16-18.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Suicide Squad -
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[Title Page]
Suicide Squad -
2.
[Title and Credits]
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[no title indexed]
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[Suicide Squad #16]
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[Suicide Squad #16 - black and white cover reprint]
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Heroes and Villains
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[Suicide Squad #17]
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[Suicide Squad #17 - black and white cover reprint]
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Blowing Up
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[Suicide Squad #18]
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[Suicide Squad #18 - black and white cover reprint]
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Your Future Is Dead
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[Suicide Squad #19]
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[Suicide Squad #19 - black and white cover reprint]
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15.
Alone
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[Suicide Squad #20]
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[Suicide Squad #20 - black and white cover reprint]
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18.
Managing People
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19.
Suicide Squad Variant Cover Gallery
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[Suicide Squad #16 Variant Cover]
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21.
[Suicide Squad #17 Variant Cover]
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[Suicide Squad #18 Variant Cover]
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[Suicide Squad #19 Variant Cover]
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[Suicide Squad #20 Variant Cover]
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Red Sons Rising
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26.
[no title indexed]
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27.
Squad vs. Zod!
Suicide Squad
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