Comic Title: Suicide Squad #23
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: January 1989
On Sale Date: December 6, 1988 Shipping Date December 6, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #11

Shipping Date December 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #153

Direct Market Date December 8, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #75, #76

Copyright Date December 6, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Weird War Tales"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Kim Yale
Penciller: Luke McDonnell
Inker: Karl Kesel
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:Rogues TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Invasion #3)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Duchess (in flashback to the alien invasion; last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Vixen (in flashback to the alien invasion; last appearance in Suicide Squad #22; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Nemesis (last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Invasion #3)
• Nightshade (last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Invasion #3)
• Captain Boomerang (in flashback to the alien invasion; last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Invasion #3)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Captain Atom #25; next appearance in Invasion #3)
• John Economos (last appearance in Suicide Squad #22; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Flo Crowly (last appearance in Suicide Squad #22; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Oracle (first appearance as Oracle; mostly behind-the-scenes; true identity not revealed in this story; last appearance in Batman #428; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Simon LaGrieve (last appearance in Suicide Squad #22; next appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #82)
• Marnie Herrs (last appearance in Deadshot #4; next appearance in Suicide Squad #26)

Villain(s)

• The Thanagarians (in flashback to the alien invasion; last appearance in Invasion #2; no further appearances)
• Warlords of Okaara (in flashback to the alien invasion; last appearance in Invasion #2; no further appearances)
• Khunds (in flashback to the alien invasion; last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Wonder Woman #27)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Rocket Red Brigade (in flashback to the alien invasion; last appearance in Invasion #2; next appearance in Invasion #3)

Other Character(s)

• Leonard Twilliby (last appearance in Suicide Squad #6; no further appearances)
• Boris Dmitravich Razumihin (last appearance in Suicide Squad #14; no further appearances)
• Several Australian citizens (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• New Guardians (in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Extrano (in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Gloss (in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Jet (in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Ram (in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Rick Flag (in Waller's hallucinations)
• Deadshot (in Waller's hallucinations)
• Warren Eden (in Waller's hallucinations)
• Soyuz (in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Firebird (in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Feodor Piotrovich (Vikhor; in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Ilya Trepliov (Perun; in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Mashenka Medviedenko (Rusalka; in flashback to the alien invasion)
• Igor Medviedenko (Morozko; in flashback to the alien invasion)

Comments:
This issue is not officially an Invasion tie-in, but does contain flashbacks to the alien invasion of Earth.

The final page of this story depicts the detonation of the gene bomb and leads into Invasion #3.

Synopsis:
John Economos meets with the Bronze Tiger to discuss his recent mission to Russia during the alien invasion. He, Vixen, and the Duchess battled the Thanagarians and Okaarans alongside the Rocket Red Brigade. The New Guardians and Soyuz were also involved in the battle.

Nemesis pays a visit to Nightshade. He tells her about his mission to Australia to battle the Khunds. On the return trip Captain Boomerang was thrown off a boat by several Australians. He is considered an embarrassment in his homeland.

Elsewhere in Belle Reve, Simon LaGrieve and Marnie Herrs evaluate potential candidates for the team. Marnie announces that she is quitting. Flo receives a mysterious communication from someone named Oracle. Nemesis becomes the latest victim of a pie in the face just after seeing a mysterious black light flash in the sky.