Suicide Squad #19

This November 1988 issue takes a deep dive into the Squad's dossiers with a "Personal Files 1988" cover that spreads character portraits across the page like a classified briefing folder. Luke McDonnell and Karl Kesel pack the cover with a striking array of Squad members — a masked woman in black, a priest, a gun-toting figure in green, a man in a yellow jacket, and several others rendered with the gritty confidence that defined DC's late-'80s output. John Ostrander, Luke McDonnell, and Bob Lewis are credited right on the cover, a fitting touch for an issue that puts the team itself front and center.