Comic Title: Suicide Squad #20
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1988
On Sale Date: September 6, 1988 Shipping Date September 6, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #147

Newsstand Date October 1, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #147

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

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

Title: "Practice to Deceive"
Pages: 22

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 Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #21)
• Rick Flag (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #21)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #21)
• Duchess (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #22)
• Nemesis (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #22)
• Nightshade (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #21)
• Vixen (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #22)
• Shade the Changing Man (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #22)
• Bronze Tiger (disguised as Bocor; last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #21)

Guest Star(s)

• Manhunter (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Manhunter #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Manhunter #7)
• Flo Crowly (last appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #21)

Villain(s)

• Damballah (head of a criminal organization; next appearance in Suicide Squad #37)
• Bocor (Damballah's lieutenant; next appearance in Suicide Squad #37)

Other Character(s)

• Two undercover cops (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Captain Boomerang has assumed the identity of the Mirror Master to commit crimes in New Orleans. While he is trying to rob two undercover cops, he is captured by Manhunter and taken to Belle Reve. Boomerang thinks Amanda Waller will catch on to double life, but instead of unmasking him, she makes the Mirror Master an offer to join the Suicide Squad on their latest mission.

During the mission, Captain Boomerang is forced to change back and forth between identities to maintain his secret. The mission to stop a group of zombie gangsters begins to go awry when the entire team except for Boomerang are turned into zombies. He is trapped and begins begging for his life.

Then Amanda Waller appears. She was aware of Boomerang's double life the entire time. The mission was only a setup to scare him. Waller threatens to send Boomerang back to prison. He promises to get back in line, but he secretly will be waiting for another chance to get free of Waller's control.