Comic Title: Suicide Squad #27
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: March 21, 1989 Shipping Date March 21, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #14

Copyright Date March 21, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date March 23, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #161

Shipping Date March 21, 1989
Source: Previews, #1

Direct Market Date March 23, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #91

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

Title: "Scattermove"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Kim Yale
Penciller: John K. Snyder III
Inker: Pablo Marcos
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:The Janus Directive TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Checkmate #15; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Checkmate #15; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Suicide Squad #26; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Count Vertigo (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Suicide Squad #28)
• Doctor Light (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Duchess (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Suicide Squad #28)
• Punch (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Jewelee (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Ravan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Shade the Changing Man (last appearance in Suicide Squad #26; next appearance in Suicide Squad #28)
• Vixen (last appearance in Animal Man #13; next appearance in Suicide Squad #28)

Guest Star(s)

• Checkmate (last appearance in Checkmate #15; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Peacemaker (last appearance in Blasters Special #1; next appearance in Checkmate #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Checkmate #15; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Flo Crowly (last appearance in Manhunter #13; next appearance in Suicide Squad #28)

Villain(s)

• Force of July (last appearance in Infinity Inc. Special #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Major Victory (last appearance in Infinity Inc. Special #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Lady Liberty (last appearance in Infinity Inc. Special #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Mayflower (dies in this story; last appearance in Infinity Inc. Special #1; no further appearances)
• Silent Majority (last appearance in Infinity Inc. Special #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #29)
• Sparkler (dies in this story; last appearance in Infinity Inc. Special #1; no further appearances)
• Abraham Lincoln Carlyle (dies in this story; last appearance in Infinity Inc. Special #1; no further appearances)
• A Babylon doppleganger (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Harry Stein (last appearance in Checkmate #15; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Harvey Bullock (last appearance in Checkmate #15; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Bridgette D'Abo (last appearance in Checkmate #15; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Wade Eiling (last appearance in Captain Atom #29; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Heinrich Megala (last appearance in Captain Atom #29; next appearance in Checkmate #16)
• Babylon (last appearance in Invasion #3; next appearance in Checkmate #18)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Captain Atom (on a monitor screen)
• Major Force (on a monitor screen)

Comments:
The Janus Directive (Part 2)

This story is continued from Checkmate #15 and continues in Checkmate #16.

Synopsis:
Amanda Waller holds a meeting with the leaders of Checkmate, the Suicide Squad, and Project Peacemaker. She reveals information concerning a conspiracy in the intelligence community called the Janus Directive. She then orders a preemptive strike against rival organizations. She dispatches the Suicide Squad to attack the Force of July. Meanwhile Checkmate and Peacemaker are to go after the leaders of the Captain Atom project.

The Suicide Squad heads to the California estate of Abraham Lincoln Carlyle to attack the Force of July. Punch and Jewelee are given a secondary task of obtaining the Medusa Mask that once belonged to the Psycho Pirate. Although the mission does not go according to plan, the team achieves its goals. Carlyle is killed, and the member of the Force of July are defeated.

Elsewhere, Checkmate captures Heinrich Megala and believes that Peacemaker has killed Wade Eiling during the abduction.