Comic Title: Suicide Squad #42
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: June 1990
On Sale Date: May 1, 1990 Shipping Date May 1, 1990
Source: Previews, #14

Copyright Date May 1, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Direct Market Date May 3, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #149

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

Title: "Firefight"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Kim Yale
Penciller: Geof Isherwood
Inker: Mark Badger
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:The Phoenix Gambit TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Poison Ivy (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Ravan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Vixen (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)

Guest Star(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Count Vertigo (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)

Villain(s)

• Zastrow (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Red Shadows (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Bolshoi (last appearance in Suicide Squad #7; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Blue Trinity (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• General Kaligari (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)
• Deadshot (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)

Other Character(s)

• Colonel Kapek and a group of revolutionaries (Heinrich named; last appearance in Manhunter #7; next appearance in Suicide Squad #43)

Comments:
The Phoenix Gambit Part Three

This story is continued from Suicide Squad #41 and continues in Suicide Squad #43.

Waller demonstrates knowledge that Kobra is alive after faking his death in Captain Atom #40.

Synopsis:
The newly reformed Suicide Squad travels to Vlatava where a revolution is underway. General Kaligari, the official currently in power, has been working with the Soviets and has ordered the execution of protestors. When Waller and her team arrive, they offer to work with Kaligari, but they are secretly working against him. Batman and members of the team seek out and confront the Soviet metahumans involved. While they are in the field, Waller stays behind. Deadshot bursts intp her room with orders to kill her.