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The Suicide Squad is an antihero/supervillain team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. 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 (comics), Legends'' #3 (January 1987). 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 of Comic Books, Silver Age to its modern-day Post-''Crisis on Infinite Earths, Crisis'' reimagining, to the current version that was introduced in 2016. The current incarnation of the team appears in the sixth volume of the ''Suicide Squad'' comic series, and the recurring members include Enchantress (DC Comics), Enchantress, Katana (comics), Katana, Killer Croc, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot and Harley Quinn. Background and creation The original Suicide Squad appeared in six issues of ''The Bra ...
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List Of Suicide Squad Members
The Suicide Squad's roster has always been one of reformed and/or incarcerated Felony, felons promised commuted sentences in return for participation in high-risk missions. The Squad's lineup has changed many times over the years, since its creation in 1959,''The Brave and the Bold'' (vol. 1) #25 and this list groups membership by the team's various eras and incarnations. Bolded names indicate current Suicide Squad members. First appearance is the issue where the character first appeared as a member of a particular Suicide Squad incarnation. It is not necessarily the first appearance of the character in print, nor the story depicting how the character joined the Squad. The Squad was made up by five members. World War II Era (Star Spangled War Stories #110-111) *Skipper Allan *The Professor (Star Spangled War Stories #116-118, 120) *Vic Morgan *Andy (Barry) Mace *Baby Dino (first appears in #117) *Caveboy (first appears in #120) (Star Spangled War Stories #119) *Wild One *The She ...
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DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with their first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its publications take place within the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Cyborg. It is widely known for some of the most famous and recognizable teams including the Justice League, the Justice Society of America, the Suicide Squad, and the Teen Titans. The universe also features a large number of well-known supervillains such as the Joker, Lex Luthor, the Cheetah, the Reverse-Flash, Black Manta, Sinestro, and Darkseid. The company has published non-DC Universe-related material, including ''Watchmen'', '' V for Vendetta'', '' Fables'' and ...
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Grant Miehm
Grant Miehm is a Canadian illustrator who has worked for a number of different American comics publishers. Career Miehm's work began appearing in the mid-1980s, in various titles produced by independent publishers, beginning with '' Elementals'' #15 (July 1987) from Comico: The Comic Company. Miehm cites various artists as influences but notes that: "I also think any creative person is influenced by everything around them --- so aside from artists whose work I admire, life itself imprints upon the psyche of the artist". After drawing '' The American'' for Dark Horse Comics, Miehm worked for DC Comics from approximately 1988 to 1993, drawing for numerous titles including ''The Flash'', ''Justice Society'', ''Green Arrow'', and ''Suicide Squad''. He was both artist and plotter on Impact Comics' '' Legend of the Shield'' with dialogue by Mark Waid. Miehm has also worked on several Marvel Comics characters (Quasar, Namor: The Sub-Mariner and others) and '' The Avengers''. He has dra ...
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John Kalisz
John Kalisz is an American comics artist who has worked as a colorist in the comics industry. He has been recognized for his work with nominations for the Comics Buyer's Guide Favorite Colorist Award in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. In August 1997, Kalisz worked on the official movie adaptation comic of Steel, which was released by DC Entertainment/Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California, and a subsidiary of Warner Bros. D ... Shaquille O'neal starred as Steel in the movie. References American comics artists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-comics-creator-stub ...
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Carl Gafford
Carl Gafford (born November 23, 1953) is a colorist (and occasional editor) who has worked for several decades in the comics industry. His career has spanned several publishers, including Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Topps Comics. Biography Early life and education Carl Gafford was a member of comics fandom as a teen, writing and drawing his own ditto machine fanzine ''Minotaur'' from 1968 to 1972, as well as contributing art and writing to other fanzines and the amateur press alliance CAPA-alpha ("K-a") beginning in December 1970. In c. 1968, he created Blue Plaque Publications, the first minicomic co-op, a cooperative of minicomic creators that traded and promoted small press comics and fanzines, that exists to this day. Gafford had an itinerant path through higher education, attending Western Connecticut State University for two years, the University of Massachusetts Boston for one year, and San Francisco State University for one year. He earned his B.A. in history from the ...
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Todd Klein
Todd Klein (born January 28, 1951) is an American comic book letterer, logo designer, and occasional writer, primarily for DC Comics. Biography Early career Todd Klein broke into comics in the summer of 1977, hired by DC Comics as a staff production worker. This job entailed pasting together text pages (such as letter columns), putting logos, display lettering, and type on covers, and doing art and lettering corrections on comics pages. Other staffers included colorists Bob LeRose and Anthony Tollin, writer Bob Rozakis, inker Steve Mitchell, and letterer John Workman. Over the next months and years, Klein tried his hand at all those things, but found lettering suited him best. Workman helped Klein get started with the basic tools and techniques, and Klein studied the work of Gaspar Saladino, Workman, Ben Oda, and John Costanza; as well as Marvel Comics letterers Tom Orzechowski, Jim Novak, and Joe Rosen. Klein landed his first freelance lettering job in the fall of 1977, and ...
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Wayne Faucher
Wayne Faucher is an American comic book inker. He is known mostly for his ink work on the Batman family of comics for DC Comics and for Spider-Man titles for Marvel Comics. Career Raised in Rhode Island and a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he worked for years as a graphic designer in New York City and Boston before setting his sights on working in comics. He started in the industry in 1995, with the DC Comics series Impulse. Since then, Faucher has worked on dozens of titles for a variety of publishers. Pencillers with whom he's frequently paired include: Humberto Ramos, Alex Maleev, Mark Buckingham, Dick Giordano, Mike Deodato, Chad Hardin, Alberto Ponticelli and others. Selected works DC Comics * Arqueiro Verde e Canário Negro (2007) * Impulse * Batman: Shadow of the Bat * Catwoman * Detective Comics * Wonder Woman * Countdown * Trinity * Titans * Legion * Mr. Terrific * Frankenstein Agent of S.H.A.D.E. * Red Hood and the Outlaws Marvel Comics * Peter P ...
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Sandu Florea
Sandu Florea (; born 28 June 1946) is a Romanian-American comic book and comic strip creator, also known as an inker and book illustrator. A trained architect and a presence on the science fiction scene during the 1970s, he became a professional in the comics genre with albums such as ''Galbar'', and was allegedly the only artist to have obtained a steady income in this way during the communist period. A prolific contributor to Romanian children's magazines, Florea had his activity curbed by communist censorship when he first publicized his intention of emigrating to the United States. He eventually left the country shortly after the 1989 Revolution, and soon after began collaborating with Marvel, DC Comics and other leading enterprises in the field of comic book publishing. He became especially noted for his activities as an inker, with contributions on series such as '' Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', '' The Executioner'', '' X-Men: The End'', '' Batman R.I.P.'' and '' Batman: B ...
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Karl Kesel
Karl Kesel (born January 7, 1959, Victor, New York) is an American comics writer and inker whose works have primarily been under contract for DC Comics. He is a member of Periscope Studio and is best known for his collaborations with fellow artist Tom Grummett on '' The Adventures of Superman'', ''Superboy'', and ''Section Zero''. Biography DC Comics After a friend at college complimented his inking, Karl Kesel began submitting his portfolio to Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Kesel's first work for DC Comics appeared in ''New Talent Showcase'' #4 (April 1984). He soon became the inker on '' Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes'' — so soon, in fact, that he suspected that he was assigned ''New Talent Showcase'' #8 as a test run to see how well he jelled with ''Tales of the Legion'' penciller Terry Shoemaker. Kesel was discouraged that inks which looked smooth and clear on his original pages appeared clunky in the printed comics, and with some guidance from Dick Giordano he studied ho ...
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Rick Leonardi
Rick Leonardi (born August 9, 1957) is an American comics artist who has worked on various series for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including ''Cloak and Dagger'', ''The Uncanny X-Men'', ''The New Mutants'', ''Spider-Man 2099'', ''Nightwing'', ''Batgirl'', ''Green Lantern Versus Aliens'' and ''Superman''. He has worked on feature film tie-in comics such as ''Star Wars: General Grievous'' and ''Superman Returns Prequel'' #3. Early life Rick Leonardi was born August 9, 1957 in Philadelphia, and grew up in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Leonardi's interest in becoming an artist was inspired by the work of Joe Kubert, which he discovered in the second grade when he read '' Star Spangled War Stories'' #139 (July 1968). Leonardi commented in a 2017 interview, "Top of page 8 is still one of the best-designed panels I've ever seen." Leonardi graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979, and started drawing for Marvel Comics the following year. Career Rick Leonardi's first published comics ar ...
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Patrick Zircher
Patrick Zircher () is an American comic book artist and penciller. Career Zircher's early career as an illustrator began with production of several completed works for '' Villains and Vigilantes'', ''Champions'' and other pen-and-paper role-playing games, as well as work for independent comic book publishers. He illustrated a number of projects for Caliber Comics including ''Dragon Star II'', ''Jason and the Argonauts'' (under the Tome Press banner), and his own creator owned series, ''Samurai 7'' (released under Caliber's Gauntlet imprint). Following this he went on to work largely for Marvel Comics on titles including '' Iron Man'', '' Thunderbolts'' and ''New Warriors''. He also did a considerable amount of work for DC, primarily on '' Nightwing'' and on '' Shadowman'' for Valiant Comics. Bibliography DC Comics *''Action Comics'' #957–958, 963–964, 969–970, 973–974, 979–980, 984 (2016–2017) *''Birds of Prey'' #13 (along with Greg Land) (2000) *''Darkstars'' # ...
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Clayton Henry
Clayton Henry is a comic book artist, known mostly for his work for Marvel Comics. His first known works were providing the art on ''Nine Rings Of Wu-Tang'' and ''Area 52'', and has since worked on such series as '' Exiles'', ''Alpha Flight'', '' New X-Men: Hellions'', '' X-Men: Apocalypse vs. Dracula'', and currently ''Uncanny X-Men''. Early life Born in Mandeville, Jamaica, Henry moved to the U.S. when he was three. His father, an artist himself amazed Clayton with a picture of a car he saw him draw. He began drawing at 4 and at age 9 he was drawn into the world of comics with a copy of ''Uncanny X-Men'' #201. He attended art schools from 4th grade through 12th grade and much of college. Career After a brief stint in independent comics with the aforementioned Wu-Tang and '' Area 52'' comics Henry spent his time making ends meet. After several rejection letters Clayton shopped his work around the convention circuit where he was hired by Marvel Comics. Soon he was given a spot ...
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