Comic Title: Suicide Squad #16
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1988
On Sale Date: May 3, 1988 Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #3

Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Newsstand Date May 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Copyright Date May 3, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756

Newsstand Date May 17, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756

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

Title: "Deathzone"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Luke McDonnell
Inker: Malcolm Jones III
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:The Nightshade Odyssey TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Rick Flag (last appearance in Suicide Squad #13; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #18)
• Deadshot (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #18)
• June Moone (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #21)
• Duchess (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #18)
• Nightshade (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Vixen (last appearance in Suicide Squad #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Captain Cold (last appearance in Manhunter #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Shade the Changing Man (first post-Crisis appearance; last appearance in Shade, the Changing Man #4; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Suicide Squad #14; next appearance in Suicide Squad #17)
• Flo Crowly (last appearance in Suicide Squad #14; next appearance in Deadshot #1)
• John Economos (last appearance in Suicide Squad #14; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)

Villain(s)

• Dr. Z.Z. and his henchmen (no further appearances)
• The zonal monsters (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Wizor and Leno (operatives at the Occult Research Center; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Batman (in flashback)
• Green Lantern (in flashback)
• President Olon (in flashback)

Comments:
The Nightshade Odyssey Part 3

This story is continued from Suicide Squad #15.

Synopsis:
When the Nightshade dimension erupts into chaos, Eve is able to use her powers to create a portal to blindly transport the Suicide Squad to another dimension. They arrive in the Zero Zone and find themselves surrounded by monsters. Eve slips into a coma and is unable to help them. With the Succubus removed, June Moone is also powerless.

The Squad is rescued by the appearance of Rac Shade, a hero from the Meta Zone who has been trapped in the Zero Zone since the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Using his M-Vest, Shade is able to link with the comatose Nightshade and return everyone to Earth. He then immediately makes to leave, but Waller demands that he stay and explain himself. Shade bows to her authority and joins the team.

Shade explains that a criminal from the Meta Zone named Dr. Z.Z. has taken over the Meta outpost on Earth, the Occult Research Center. The Suicide Squad and Shade track down Z.Z. and defeat him. Wizor, the head of the Occult Research Center, wants to take Shade into custody also since he is a wanted man in the Meta Zone. However, Shade elects to leave with the Suicide Squad instead of turning himself in.