Comic Title: Suicide Squad #18
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1988
On Sale Date: July 5, 1988 Shipping Date July 5, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #6

Shipping Date July 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Newsstand Date July 30, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Copyright Date July 5, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date July 5, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 19, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #760, #762

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

Title: "Manhattan Massacre"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Luke McDonnell
Inker: Robert Lewis
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:Rogues TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Deadshot #1)
• Rick Flag (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Deadshot #1)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Suicide Squad #16; next appearance in Flash #19)
• Captain Cold (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Flash #19)
• Deadshot (last appearance in Suicide Squad #16; next appearance in Deadshot #1)
• Duchess (last appearance in Suicide Squad #16; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Nightshade (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Shade the Changing Man (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Vixen (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1)

Villain(s)

• Jihad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #26)
• Rustam (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #26)
• Ravan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #24)
• Agni (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; no further appearances)
• Badb (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; no further appearances)
• Jaculi (dies in this story; last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; no further appearances)
• Manticore (appears to die in this story; last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #26)
• Ifrit (revealed to be Mindboggler; last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Koshchei (last appearance in Suicide Squad #17; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The mayor of New York City (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Suicide Squad #17.

Synopsis:
Rick Flag leads the Suicide Squad to New York City where members of the Jihad are staging attacks. The team splits up to deal with the individual threats. Flag himself locates Rustam who is using his fire sword to snap the cables of a bridge leading into Manhattan. When the bridge gives way both Flag and Rustam fall into the river.

Vixen heads for Grand Central Station where a child named Badb has killed dozens of people by using her power to manipulate the emotions of others. Vixen herself falls victim to the attack, but the timely aid of Nightshade helps to subdue the child. A new female speedster named Jaculi is murdering people on fifth avenue. Deadshot is dispatched to kill her. The Duchess also kills a new version of Manticore near the Lincoln Tunnel.

The Bronze Tiger protects the mayor from Ravan who is using an exoskeleton after his back was broken during their first meeting. The Tiger destroys the power source of the exoskeleton, leaving Ravan immobile. He believes Ravan can be used in the Suicide Squad.

Elsewhere Captain Cold handles a fire thrower named Agni. He encases the terrorist in a block of solid ice. Shade battles a group of death people animated by Koshchei the Deathless. After destroying the devices turning the people into zombies, he wonders if Koshchei is also destroyed.

Finally, Captain Boomerang is dropped off atop the World Trade Center to fight an electronic djinn named Ifrit. He quickly discovers that the creature has the mind of the deceased Squad member Mindboggler. She blames Captain Cold for letting her die. Flag returns after losing Rustam in the river. He managed to get the control device from the Jihad leader to shut down Ifrit.