Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad is a fictional covert operations unit as well as a super-villain team featured in comic books published by DC Comics. The team was conceived by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru and first appeared as the cover feature to The Brave and the Bold, Volume #25 (September, 1959). The remained the cover feature until issue #27, with a slight reprise from issues #37-39. In 1986, the covert ops unit element of the team was supplanted with a team of costumed super-villains, which were re-introduced in issue #2 of the Legends mini-series. This was the jumping point to a Suicide Squad regular series, which began publication in May, 1987. This series ran for sixty-six issues before its cancellation in June, 1992. A second volume was published from November, 2001 to October, 2002, featuring a slightly different team and ran for twelve issues. A Suicide Squad limited series ran for eight issues from November, 2007 to June, 2008, which was written by volume one author John Ostrander, and reunited the team from Ostrander's run on the series. A fourth volume began publication in 2011 and was part of DC's "New 52" line-up, which was an alternate continuity from previous iterations of the group. This series ran for thirty issues and ended in July, 2014. A fifth series, titled The New Suicide Squad began publication in September, 2014. The Suicide Squad have also appeared in alternative media, including episodes of Justice League Unlimited (as Task Force X), Smallville, and Arrow. In 2016, a Suicide Squad feature film was produced by DC Entertainment starring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Adam Beach and Cara Delevingne.

Original unit

 * Rick Flag
 * Hugh Evans
 * Jess Bright
 * Karin Grace

Support staff

 * Amanda Waller
 * Briscoe
 * Flo Crawley
 * John Economos
 * Marnie Herrs
 * Simon LaGrieve

Founding members

 * Rick Flag
 * Blockbuster, Mark Desmond
 * Bronze Tiger, Benjamin Turner
 * Captain Boomerang, George "Digger" Harkness
 * Deadshot, Floyd Lawton
 * Enchantress, June Moon

Recruits

 * Atom, Adam Cray
 * Black Orchid, Susan Linden
 * Chronos, David Clinton
 * Count Vertigo, Werner Vertigo
 * Duchess
 * Mindboggler, Leah Wasserman
 * Nemesis, Tom Tresser
 * Nightshade, Eve Eden
 * Oracle, Barbara Gordon
 * Outlaw, John Henry Martin
 * Penquin, Oswald C. Cobblepot
 * Plastique, Bette Sans Souci
 * Poison Ivy, Pamela Isley
 * Shade the Changing Man, Rac Shade
 * Thinker, Cliff Carmichael

Support staff

 * Frank Rock
 * Havana, Odalys Valdez
 * Horace Canfield
 * Modem, Wesley Sloan

Field operatives

 * Big Sir, Dufus P. Ratchet
 * Blackstarr, Rachel Berkowitz
 * Bolt, Lawrence Boltinsky
 * Clock King, William Tockman
 * Cluemaster, Arthur Brown
 * Deadshot, Floyd Lawton
 * Killer Frost, Louis Lincoln
 * Larvanaut
 * Major Disaster, Paul Booker
 * Multi-Man, Duncan Pramble
 * Putty
 * Reactron, Benjamin Krullen

Support staff

 * Amanda Waller

Field operatives

 * Black Spider, Eric Needham
 * Captain Boomerang, George Harkness
 * Cheetah, Barbara Minerva
 * Deadshot, Floyd Lawton
 * El Diablo, Chato Santana
 * Harley Quinn, Harleen Quinzel
 * Iceberg, Charles Murray
 * James Gordon, Jr.
 * King Shark, Nanaue
 * Light
 * Lime
 * Power Girl, Kara Zor-El
 * Savant, Brian Durlin
 * Steel, John Henry Irons
 * Unknown Soldier
 * Voltaic
 * Warrant
 * Yo-Yo, Chang Jie-Ru

New Suicide Squad

 * Black Manta
 * Captain Boomerang, George Harkness
 * Deadshot, Floyd Lawton
 * Deathstroke, Slade Wilson
 * Harley Quinn, Harleen Quinzel
 * Joker's Daughter, Duela Dent
 * Man-Bat Commandos
 * Parasite, Joshua Michael Allen
 * Reverse Flash, Daniel West