Dates
- Cover date
- December 2016
- On sale
- October 26, 2016
- In stores
- October 26, 2016
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #5 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07099233085005
This edition’s page
Story arc: Going Sane
This is part 5 of 8. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
Creators
Stories
- Going Sane Part One: Shock Treatment · 12 pages
With the Squad having brought the Black Vault sphere containing General Zod back to Belle Reve, Waller has her scientists studying it in the hopes that she can gain control of Zod and make him a member of the team. Flag does not believe this is a good idea. Hack joins the Squad, and Harcourt seeks the data from the Russian base that Hack has downloaded into her brain.
- Prisons · Hack · 8 pages
Waller debriefs Hack, and learns the story of how she and her brother grew up in a poor African neighborhood. Her brother joined a local gang and died as a result. When Zalika gained her ability to transform herself or others into pure data, she was inspired by the example of Harley Quinn to become a super-villain and to seek revenge on those responsible for her brother's death.
Publisher’s description
Amanda Waller needs Kryptonite, and only Lex Luthor has it! But for the Metropolis mastermind, a deal like this won’t be cheap—or easy. It’s a war on two fronts as Waller leads a smoldering charm offensive in the Lexcorp penthouse while the Suicide Squad attacks the most heavily guarded subbasement on the entire planet.
Reprinted in
Suicide Squad (2017), Suicide Squad: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition (2017), Suicide Squad by Jim Lee Unwrapped (2018)