Suicide Squad #4 [Direct]
(August 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
1987-05-05
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
Robert Greenberger (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

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

Who Brought a City to Its Knees? (Table of Contents)

Suicide Squad / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Luke McDonnell (signed as McDonnell)
Inks
Bob Lewis (signed as LEWIS)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Suicide Squad: Bronze Tiger [Benjamin Turner]; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Rick Flag
William Hell [William Heller]
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Cover Thumbnail for Suicide Squad (DC, 1987 series) #4 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Suicide Squad (1987 series) #4 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Suicide Squad (1987 series) #4 [Canadian]
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William Hell's Overture (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
John Ostrander (credited)
Pencils
Luke McDonnell (credited)
Inks
Bob Lewis (credited)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
Todd Klein (credited)
Job Number
G-3117
Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Suicide Squad: Black Orchid; Bronze Tiger [Benjamin Turner]; Captain Boomerang [Digger Harkness]; Chronos [David Clinton]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; The Enchantress [June Moone]; Rick Flag; Nightshade
Karin Grace; William Hell [William Heller] (villain); Amanda Waller; Marta Williams (reporter, first appearance); James Heller (first appearance; flashback, villain); Stevens (chauffeur, first appearance); The Aryan Empire (villains)
Synopsis
The Squad is sent in to discredit a white supremacist.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

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

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

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

Suicide Notes / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Robert Greenberger (credited as Bob Greenberger)
Pencils
Luke McDonnell (cover preview, signed)
Inks
Bob Lewis (signed) (cover preview)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Before we look in your mail for Secret Origins #14…
Feature Logo
Suicide Notes

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Anthony R. Cardno, T.E. Pouncey, Wayne Allen Sallee, Delmo Waters Jr., Kiril Kundurazieff, Carol A. Strickland, Joseph M. Kucharski III, and David G. Thometz - and responses from Bob Greenberger. Preview of cover to SUICIDE SQUAD #5. Publisher credits.
On last interior page.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Who Brought a City to Its Knees?
    Suicide Squad
  2. 1. William Hell's Overture
    Suicide Squad
  3. 2. ["Everybody talks about terrorism…"]
    Wild Dog
  4. 3. ["Yesterday he starred in film fantasies…"]
    Silverblade
  5. 4. ["Before we look in your mail for Secret Origins #14…"]
    Suicide Notes
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Ruben Cortes
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Morbus Iff
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Douglas Sederberg
  • Jim Van Dore
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