Suicide Squad #5 [Newsstand]
(September 1987)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-06-23
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893120209
Editing
Robert Greenberger (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #40.
This issue is a variant of Suicide Squad (DC, 1987 series) #5 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Mission to Moscow (Table of Contents)

Suicide Squad / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Luke McDonnell (signed)
Inks
Bob Lewis (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Suicide Squad [Rick Flag; Bronze Tiger; Enchantress; Deadshot; Penguin]
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The Flight of the Firebird (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
John Ostrander
Pencils
Luke McDonnell
Inks
Bob Lewis
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
Todd Klein
Job Number
G-3139
Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Amanda Waller; Suicide Squad [Rick Flag; Bronze Tiger [Ben Turner]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Nemesis [Tom Tresser]; Nightshade [Eve Eden]; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]]; George Harkness [Captain Boomerang; also as Digger]; Simon LaGrieve; Premier Mikhail Gorbachev; Zoya Trigorin (first appearance); Urt (first appearance); Spassky (first appearance): Major Zastrow
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Indexer Notes

Part 1 of 3.

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

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

Script
Robert Greenberger
Pencils
Luke McDonnell (cover preview, signed)
Inks
Bob Lewis (signed) (cover preview)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2833

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Charles D. Brown, Robert T. Jeschonek, Sal Portaro, Dale Coe, Ashley Howarth, Jonathan Gilbert, Mark R. Grooms, Tony Becker, Stephen Cade, R.J. Van Santen, Jody R. Martin, and Bob Felker - and responses from Bob Greenberger. Preview of cover to SUICIDE SQUAD #6.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Mission to Moscow
    Suicide Squad
  2. 1. The Flight of the Firebird
    Suicide Squad
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Suicide Notes
This issue was modified by
  • Ruben Cortes
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Van Dore
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