Comic Title: Suicide Squad #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1987
On Sale Date: March 26, 1987 Newsstand Date March 26, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Newsstand Date March 16, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #112
Date misprinted 3/16 instead of 3/26

Shipping Date March 3, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #37

Shipping Date March 3, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #112

Shipping Date March 3, 1987
Source: Comics Journal, #114

Copyright Date March 3, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date March 26, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Shipping Date March 3, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #692, #694, #696

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Trial by Fire"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Suicide Squad (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Luke McDonnell
Inker: Karl Kesel
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:Trial by Fire TPB (2011)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• Rick Flag (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• Deadshot (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• Enchantress (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #4)
• Plastique (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• Mindboggler (dies in this story; last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Nemesis (identity as Mushtaq revealed; last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• Nightshade (identity as Chimera revealed; last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Briscoe (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #7)
• Amanda Waller (as a voice; last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)

Villain(s)

• Jihad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Rustam (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Djinn (dies in this story; last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; no further appearances)
• Manticore (dies in this story; last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; no further appearances)
• Jaculi (dies in this story; last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; no further appearances)
• Ravan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• President Marlo (last appearance in Suicide Squad #1; next appearance in Checkmate #7)

Comments:
This story is continued from Suicide Squad #1.

Synopsis:
The Suicide Squad wait outside the compound where the Jihad are preparing a strike. Chimera, one of the Jihad, meets them and reveals that she is really Nightshade, an undercover operative. Nightshade is able to get the Squad members into the base to complete their individual missions.

Most of the members are sent to neutralize the Jihad. Captain Boomerang kills the speedster Jaculi. Deadshot kills Manticore. Bronze Tiger battles Ravan and cripples him. The Enchantress destroys the computers that contain the Djinn. Mindboggler uses her powers to disable to ordinary soldiers.

However, not all goes according to plan. Plastique was assigned to destroy the lab, but she turns traitor. She tells Mushtaq about the assault only to discover that he is another undercover operative, Nemesis. She then flees and prevents Nightshade from taking out President Marlo. Flag also fails to stop Rustam who then murders Mindboggler. Captain Boomerang could have saved her, but he elects not to do so. The surviving members then flee the base aboard a stolen jet.