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.
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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).
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