New Suicide Squad was launched in July 2014. This series concluded in 2014, with issue #30. Amanda Waller once again directs the group from behind the scenes Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark feature prominently in this version of the Squad. The relaunched book was written by Adam Glass, with art by Federico Dallocchio and Ransom Getty. 4) debuted as part of DC Comics' line-wide New 52 continuity reboot in 2011. and the formation of a new Squad to attack a corporation responsible for developing a deadly bio-weapon. The story focused on the return of Rick Flag Jr. It featured the return of writer John Ostrander with art by Javier Pina. 3) (initially subtitled Raise the Flag in DC's solicitations ) was an eight-issue miniseries published in 2007. Rock, who is by now written into the role of squad leader, to recruit new members-many of whom die during the missions. Though the series' first issue featured a Squad composed entirely of Giffen's Injustice League members, the roster was promptly slaughtered, save for Major Disaster and Multi-Man. 2) was published in 2001, written by Keith Giffen, with art by Paco Medina. After the series' cancellation in 1992, the Squad went on to make several guest appearances in titles such as Superboy, Hawk & Dove, Chase, and The Adventures of Superman. 1) lasted 66 issues, along with one Annual and one special ( Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad Special #1). The team's very name, Suicide Squad, relates to the idea that this group of characters is sent on dangerous and difficult suicide missions. Ostrander remarked on how Squad stories sometimes purposefully brought in characters to be killed off. While the Squad is often depicted as succeeding on their missions, they did fail some as well. The squad was often paired together with DC's other government agency, Checkmate, culminating in the Janus Directive crossover. The renewed concept involved the government employing a group of supervillains to perform extremely dangerous missions as deniable and expendable assets, a concept popular enough for an ongoing series titled simply Suicide Squad. The Suicide Squad was revived in the Legends miniseries with writer John Ostrander at the helm. The team's administrator Amanda Waller was introduced in the Legends miniseries, with the original Silver Age Squad's backstory fleshed out further in Secret Origins (vol. Although this early incarnation of the team (created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru) did not have the espionage trappings of later Squads, it laid much of the groundwork for squad field leader Rick Flag Jr.'s personal history. The original Suicide Squad appeared in six issues of The Brave and the Bold. The current incarnation of the team appears in the sixth volume of the Suicide Squad comic series, and the recurring members include Enchantress, Katana, Killer Croc, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot and Harley Quinn. Various incarnations of the Suicide Squad have existed throughout the years as depicted in several self-titled comic book series, from its origins in the Silver Age to its modern-day Post- Crisis re-imagining, to the current version that was introduced in 2016. The first version of the Suicide Squad debuted in The Brave and the Bold #25 (September 1959) and the second and modern version, created by John Ostrander, debuted in Legends #3 (January 1987). The Suicide Squad is a fictional antihero/ supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The Brave and the Bold #25 (September 1959) 5) #33 (March 2018)Īrt by Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Adriano Lucas and Mason Fox
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