Secret Origins
#14
[Direct]
(May 1987)
DC,
1986 Series
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.75 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1987-01-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Robert Greenberger; Roy Thomas
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #36.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Legends Chapter 22
Suicide Squad; Suicide Squad [Task Force X] / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; war; adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Colonel Richard M. Flag; Suicide Squad [Rick Flag, Jr.; Bronze Tiger; Deadshot; Blockbuster; Captain Boomerang; Enchantress]
- Reprints
-
in Legends: The Collection (DC, 1993 series) ([July] 1993) - in Suicide Squad (DC, 2011 series) #1 [First Edition] - Trial by Fire ([April] 2011), #1 [New Edition] - Trial by Fire ([November] 2015)
- in The Suicide Squad Case Files (DC, 2021 series) #2 ([September] 2021)
- in Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire (DC, 2021 series) ([September] 2021)
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The Secret Origin of the Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad; Suicide Squad [Task Force X] / comic story / 38 pages
- Script
- John Ostrander
- Pencils
- Luke McDonnell
- Inks
- Dave Hunt
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- Albert DeGuzman
- Editing
- Robert Greenberger
- Job Number
- G-2803
- Genre
- superhero; war; adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Amanda Waller (origin); Colonel Richard M. Flag (flashback, introduction, dies); Mission X [Colonel Rick Flag, Jr. (origin); Karin Grace; Dr. Hugh Evans (dies); Dr. Jeff Bright] (flashback, origin); Suicide Squadron ["Bashful" Benjy (introduction); Lt. Carson (introduction)] (flashback); Sarge Steel; Sharon Race Flag (flashback, introduction, dies); Joseph Waller (flashback, introduction, dies); Joseph Waller, Jr. (flashback, introduction, dies); Damita Waller (flashback, introduction); Martin Waller (flashback, introduction); Jessie Waller (flashback, introduction); Coretta Waller (flashback, introduction); Control of the OSS (flashback); Ace Morgan (flashback); President Ronald Reagan; President Harry S. Truman (flashback); Justice Society of America [Atom; Black Canary; Green Lantern; Wonder Woman; Hawkman; Flash; Dr. Mid-Nite] (flashback, disbands); Steve (flashback, introduction, dies); Marvin Collins (introduction); Jeb Stuart (flashback); the Forgotten Heroes [Dolphin; Cave Carson; Congo Bill; Animal Man; Rick Flag, Jr.; Immortal Man](cameo flashback); Suicide Squad [Deadshot; Bronze Tiger; Rick Flag, Jr.; Blockbuster; Enchantress; Captain Boomerang] (cameo flashback, origin); War Wheel (flashback, villain); Candyman (flashback, introduction, villain, dies); The Sportsmaster (flashback, villain); Brimstone (flashback, villain)
- Synopsis
- A look at the history of the Suicide Squad and Task Force X. The JSA is shown to have disbanded in 1951.
- Reprints
- in Suicide Squad (DC, 2011 series) #1 [First Edition] - Trial by Fire ([April] 2011), #1 [First Edition] - Trial by Fire ([April] 2011), #1 [New Edition] - Trial by Fire ([November] 2015)
- in The Suicide Squad Case Files (DC, 2021 series) #2 ([September] 2021)
- in Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire (DC, 2021 series) ([September] 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
This story takes place after LEGENDS #6 and before SUICIDE SQUAD #1.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Robert Greenberger (credited as Bob Greenberger)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-2674
Indexer Notes
Letters from readers - T.E. Pouncey, Daryl S. Herrick, Anthony R. Cardno, Charles D. Brown, and Robert T. Jeschonek - and responses from Bob Greenberger.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Legends Chapter 22
Suicide Squad; Suicide Squad [Task Force X] -
1.
The Secret Origin of the Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad; Suicide Squad [Task Force X] -
2.
[no title indexed]
Secret Admirers
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Dan Creel
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Morbus Iff
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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