Suicide Squad #5

The bold banner "Mission to Moscow" sets the Cold War stakes immediately on this September 1987 DC release, with two armed Soviet soldiers in the foreground while the Squad — including figures in distinctive costumes like Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, and the top-hat-wearing Enchantress — lurk on a stairway above them. McDonnell and Lewis deliver a tense, espionage-charged composition that makes the Squad feel genuinely out of their element, deep behind enemy lines. Writer John Ostrander's run was already staking out bold geopolitical territory, and this issue — "The Flight of the Firebird" — looks like exactly the kind of high-risk caper that made this series one of 1987's most compelling team books.