Comic Title: Suicide Squad #31
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1989
On Sale Date: June 6, 1989 Shipping Date June 8, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #166

Shipping Date June 6, 1989
Source: Previews, #3

Shipping Date June 8, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #5

Direct Market Date June 8, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #102

Copyright Date June 6, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dan Raspler

Title: "Acts of Contrition"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Kim Yale
Artist: John K. Snyder III
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:Apokolips Now TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #87; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Secret Origins #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• Count Vertigo (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Suicide Squad #33)
• Doctor Light (last appearance in Suicide Squad #30; next appearance in Suicide Squad #33)
• Duchess (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #87; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• Major Victory (last appearance in Suicide Squad #30; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• Punch (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #87; next appearance in Suicide Squad #33)
• Jewelee (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #87; next appearance in Suicide Squad #33)
• Ravan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #30; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Captain Atom #30; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• Richard Craemer (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• J. Daniel Murphy (last appearance in Suicide Squad #30; next appearance in Suicide Squad #33)
• Sarge Steel (last appearance in Suicide Squad #30; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• John Economos (last appearance in Manhunter #15; next appearance in Suicide Squad #32)
• Mitch Sekofsky (last appearance in Suicide Squad #21; no further appearances)
• Dr. Mary White (revealed to be Waller's sister; last appearance in Suicide Squad #21; next appearance in Suicide Squad #37)

Villain(s)

• An informant (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Father Craemer meets with various members of the Suicide Squad. A fight breaks out in the cafeteria when Major Victory attacks Doctor Light whom he blames for the death of one of the Force of July. The fight is defused by Jewelee, who has been hit in the face with a pie. Feeling left out, Doctor Light gives himself a pie in the face.

Craemer is also called to offer spiritual help to a suspect with knowledge of the voodoo cult called the Loa. The informant is the victim of spontaneous combustion.

After a meeting between Craemer and Waller's sister Mary White, the reverend councils Amanda to ensure that she doesn't continue making the mistakes which led to the Janus Directive.