Comic Title: Suicide Squad #43
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: July 1990
On Sale Date: June 5, 1990 Shipping Date June 5, 1990
Source: Previews, #15

Shipping Date June 5, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #179

Shipping Date June 7, 1990
Source: Advance Comics, #17

Copyright Date June 5, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Direct Market Date June 7, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #153

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

Title: "Black Queen's Mate"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Kim Yale
Artist: Geof Isherwood
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 #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #44)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #45)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #44)
• Poison Ivy (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #46)
• Ravan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #45)
• Vixen (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #45)

Guest Star(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Huntress #17)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #44)
• Count Vertigo (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #46)
• Deadshot (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; next appearance in Suicide Squad #44)
• Sarge Steel (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; next appearance in Checkmate #29)

Villain(s)

• Zastrow (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; no further appearances)
• Red Shadows (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; no further appearances)
• Bolshoi (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; no further appearances)
• Blue Trinity (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; no further appearances)
• Stalnoivolk (last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; no further appearances)
• General Kalagari (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; no further appearances)
• William Hell (identity revealed; last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; no further appearances)
• Colonel Stoneman (referred to as a General in this story; last appearance in Suicide Squad #41; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Colonel Kapek and a group of revolutionaries (last appearance in Suicide Squad #42; no further appearances)

Comments:
The Phoenix Gambit Part Four

This story is continued from Suicide Squad #42.

Synopsis:
Deadshot tries to kill Amanda Waller, but she pays him to switch sides. He reveals the name of his employer, William Heller, then returns to America to shoot him under Waller's orders. When he gets there Batman has already undercovered Stoneman as the leak in Steel's office. Stoneman gives up Heller, and Batman protects him from Deadshot, so that he can be prosecuted for his efforts to start a war with the Soviets.

Meanwhile the Suicide Squad continue their actions in Vlatava. Ivy subdues Count Vertigo who was being used as a figurehead by the revolutionary forces. Bronze Tiger and Vixen apprehend Stalnoivolk, so that he can stand justice for murder in Gothom. Boomerang has been captured impersonating Batman by Zastrow. Waller frees him and convinces Zastrow to abandon Vlatava. She has learned that he was there in hopes of embarrassing Gorbachev, so that a hardliner could replace him. Lastly, Ravan murders General Kaligari, the tyrant dictator running Vlatava.