Comic Title: Deadshot #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1988
On Sale Date: July 19, 1988 Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #757, Page 26

Shipping Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

Copyright Date July 19, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 21, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Newsstand Date August 13, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #144

Newsstand Date August 2, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Die But Once"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Deadshot (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Kim Yale
Artist: Luke McDonnell
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Reprinted In:
Deadshot:Beginnings TPB (2013)

Feature Character(s)

• Deadshot (last appearance in Suicide Squad #18; next appearance in Deadshot #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Susan Lawton (Floyd's ex-wife; next appearance in Deadshot #2)

Villain(s)

• El Jefe (a drug lord; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Ariosto and El Jefe's gang (die in this story; no further appearances)
• Silas (a member of Deadshot's old gang; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #18; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Rick Flag (last appearance in Suicide Squad #18; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Black Orchid (last appearance in Suicide Squad #12; next appearance in Suicide Squad #22)
• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Checkmate #8; next appearance in Deadshot #4)
• Sarge Steel (last appearance in Millennium #8; next appearance in Captain Atom Annual #2)
• Marnie Herrs (last appearance in Suicide Squad #14; next appearance in Deadshot #2)
• Simon LaGrieve (last appearance in Suicide Squad #8; next appearance in Deadshot #4)
• Flo Crowly (last appearance in Suicide Squad #16; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)

Other Character(s)

• A building superintendent (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Batman (in flashback)

Comments:
This story continues in part in Deadshot #2.

Synopsis:
Deadshot undertakes a mission as part of the Suicide Squad. He meets a former member of his old gang who is connected to the crime lord El Jefe. Deadshot earns a place in the organization by killing another member who had betrayed them. He is then taken on board an airplane and introduced to El Jefe. Despite being in the air, Deadshot opens fire. He kills El Jefe and the rest of the gang. The plane is damaged and starts to go down. Deadshot bails out without a parachute, but he is rescued by the Black Orchid.

When he returns to Belle Reve, he receives a letter from his ex-wife. After reading the letter, he tells Waller and Flag that he is leaving to attend to personal business.