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DC Finest: Suicide Squad: Trial by Fire

Part of DC Finest

Illustrated by Luke McDonnell
They’re putting their lives on the line for the safety of the world…but they’re anything but heroes! Experience the thrilling first incarnation of The Suicide Squad, reprinted here as part of the DC Finest line for the first time!

DC Finest continues, a major publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!8 villains, 1 ultimatum. The Suicide Squad offers criminals a chance at “redemption,” if they’re willing to put it all on the line – play by the rules of the devious Amanda Waller and accomplish near-impossible missions or pay the ultimate price: Their own lives! Read the stories that started the phenomena and changed the DC Universe forever.

This volume collects Suicide Squad #1-10; Secret Origins #14; Detective Comics #582; The Fury of Firestorm #62-64; Firestorm: The Nuclear Man Annual #5; Legends #1-6; Millennium #4.
John Ostrander is a comics writer who co-created the science fiction series Grimjack with artist Timothy Truman. With his late wife, Kim Yale, he wrote DC's Suicide Squad and Martian Manhunter. With artist Tom Mandrake, he wrote a lengthy run of DC's The Spectre. Ostrander has also written for Marvel Comics and Warp Graphics' Elfquest series. View titles by John Ostrander

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They’re putting their lives on the line for the safety of the world…but they’re anything but heroes! Experience the thrilling first incarnation of The Suicide Squad, reprinted here as part of the DC Finest line for the first time!

DC Finest continues, a major publishing initiative presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!8 villains, 1 ultimatum. The Suicide Squad offers criminals a chance at “redemption,” if they’re willing to put it all on the line – play by the rules of the devious Amanda Waller and accomplish near-impossible missions or pay the ultimate price: Their own lives! Read the stories that started the phenomena and changed the DC Universe forever.

This volume collects Suicide Squad #1-10; Secret Origins #14; Detective Comics #582; The Fury of Firestorm #62-64; Firestorm: The Nuclear Man Annual #5; Legends #1-6; Millennium #4.

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John Ostrander is a comics writer who co-created the science fiction series Grimjack with artist Timothy Truman. With his late wife, Kim Yale, he wrote DC's Suicide Squad and Martian Manhunter. With artist Tom Mandrake, he wrote a lengthy run of DC's The Spectre. Ostrander has also written for Marvel Comics and Warp Graphics' Elfquest series. View titles by John Ostrander

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