Suicide Squad #50

Celebrating fifty issues with a double-sized milestone, Suicide Squad #50 arrives in February 1991 with a cover by penciler Geof Isherwood and inker Karl Kesel that sets a genuinely unsettling tone — a procession of zombified figures advances through a darkened, gnarled landscape, with a green-skinned woman in a purple jacket and a decayed figure in a blue-and-white costume leading the grim march, while a red-suited hero and other haunted forms emerge from the murk behind them. The story title "Family Reunion" blazes across the bottom, hinting that this gathering of the dead and the living carries some serious weight. Written by John Ostrander and Kim Yale with interior art from a full creative team, this is the kind of anniversary issue that earns its extra pages.