Suicide Squad
With theSuicide Squadarguably more popular now than ever , most comical readers would be surprised to learn that the original adaptation of the team byDC Comicswas completely dissimilar than the one legions of fans have come to love . The team that took the name that inspired two DCEU movies — the latter of which being one of DC ’s most positively reviewed movies to date — put up little resemblance to the original Task Force X who predated the Justice League by two issue .
The original Suicide Squad made its debut in the pages of 1959’sThe Brave and the Bold # 25,with a report written byMetal Men , Sgt . Rock and Barry Allen co - creator Robert Kanigher and pencil by Ross Andru . Kanigher ’s Suicide Squad was made up of four member , Rick Flag , Jess Bright , Dr. Hugh Evans and Karin Grace , all of whom are the sole survivor of prior groups that were wiped out in World War II , bank to contain on for their fallen squad members . Each ofthis Suicide Squad ’s membersbelieves they have outlive something they should n’t have , and it is the only squad willing to take ostensibly fateful risks while carrying out government mission with world - end results should they go bad . The team is salute as a last resort , only tackle mission when all other options have been exhausted . This version of the team would only appear in six issues ofThe Brave and the Bold .
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In 1963 , a different Suicide Squad would be introduced inStar Spangled War Stories # 110 in a narration called"Suicide Squadron : Tunnel of Terror , " again written by Robert Kanigher and pencil by Ross Andru . This narrative congeal in World War II featured a building block with unknown characters fundamentally rule themselves inthe plot ofKing Kong , on a mysterious lose island with dinosaurs and a giant white imitator . The Suicide Squad tales that appeared inStar Spangled War Storieswere more in line with other comics from the title , being more of an anthology construct with different penis dwell the group in each story . The World War II Suicide Squad fought a lot of dinosaurs and a few robots . This concept fare a lilliputian good than the premature one and look in eleven issues ofStar Spangled War Stories .
In 1987’sSecret Origins # 14written by John Ostrander and pencil by Luke McDonell , Ostrander retconned the original Suicide Squad report fromThe Brave and the BoldandStar Spangled War Storiesin a mode that seamlessly bind the honest-to-goodness groups to his fresh concept : The marked-up twelve with supervillains . In Ostrander ’s repeat , he dissever Rick Flag into two persona , Rick Flag Sr . and Rick Flag Jr , with the elder masthead leading " The Suicide Squadron " fromStar Spangled War Stories , and Rick Flag Jr. leading the one fromThe Brave and the Bold . Rick Flag Sr . was give the tragical backstory fromThe Brave and the Boldwhere he was the only subsister of an air battle with Japanese planes . Ostrander also affect up the timeline ofThe Brave and the Boldstories to be closer to the ' 80s so Rick Flag Jr. could be the loss leader of his sword - new version of Suicide Squad .
The original Suicide Squad tarradiddle fromThe Brave and the BoldandStar Spangled War Storieswere often presented as classified file cabinet that the reader was key . This conceit was brilliantly used by Ostrander inSecret Origins # 14,which saw Amanda Waller give President Reganthe classified chronicle of the Suicide Squad to read before approving her version of the team made up of supervillains . While seldom acknowledged , the team that raven Ostrander ’s modern reading of the Suicide Squad are fun storey that are well deserving learn . With the room Ostrander was able-bodied to bring up the team while also folding in the history of the original groups , DC Comicscould very easily present newfangled write up from the originalSuicide Squadstoday , and maybe it should .
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