Comic Title: Suicide Squad Annual #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: August 16, 1988 Shipping Date August 16, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #7

Shipping Date August 18, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #147

Copyright Date August 16, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Ghosts and Shadows"
Pages: 30

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Penciller: Graham Nolan
Inker: Timothy Dzon
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted In:
Suicide Squad:Rogues TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Rick Flag (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Flash #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Duchess (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Nemesis (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Nightshade (last appearance in Captain Atom #22; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Shade the Changing Man (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)
• Vixen (last appearance in Suicide Squad #18; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)

Guest Star(s)

• Manhunter (last appearance in Manhunter #6; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Manhunter #6; next appearance in Suicide Squad Annual #1)
• Flo Crowly (last appearance in Suicide Squad #19; next appearance in Suicide Squad #20)

Villain(s)

• Anna-Marie Vere (last appearance in Manhunter #6; no further appearances)
• Agents of Kobra (no further appearances)
• Mr. Beemer (dean of Peterson State College; no further appearances)
• Agents of Argent (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Control (in flashback; last appearance in Blackhawk Special #1; no further appearances)
• William H. Martin (a CIA director; dies in flashback; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Justice Society of America (in flashback to disbanding)
• Hawkman (in flashback to the disbanding of the JSA)
• Flash (in flashback to the disbanding of the JSA)
• Green Lantern (in flashback to the disbanding of the JSA)
• Doctor Mid-Nite (in flashback to the disbanding of the JSA)
• Black Canary (in flashback to the disbanding of the JSA)
• Harry S. Truman (in flashback)
• Jeb Stuart (in flashback)
• Sportsmaster (in flashback)
• John F. Kennedy (in flashback to his assassination)

Synopsis:
Manhunter introduces the Suicide Squad to Anna-Marie Vere, the granddaughter of Argent founder Control. Vere claims that Argent operations are directed from Peterson State College, so Rick Flag leads a strike team there. While the team is away Argent agents infiltrate Belle Reve, take Vere with them, and attempt to kill Amanda Waller. Nemesis has taken Waller's place and survives the attack.

At the college, Flag's team encounters agents of Kobra. The attack was a setup in which the two enemies of Argent were pitted against each other. However, Waller has foreseen the double-cross. Nightshade follows Vere back to Argent's leadership, where they learn that Control has been dead for some time. Vere has been leading what remains of the group ever since.