Dates
- Cover date
- August-September 1964
- On sale
- June 18, 1964
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Suicide Squad! · 14.33 pages
Morgan and Mace, in snowsuits, trek the Arctic to find a hidden missile base. They run into dinosaurs. But Morgan hates Mace and threatens to shoot him for cowardice... Mace was an Olympic bob-sledder, his partner Morgan's brother, Bill. Bill died in a sled crash, and Vic Morgan blames Mace... In flashback, Morgan picks Mace from the ranks of a special Suicide Squad... They fight and sled and dodge dinosaurs through "frozen wasteland" and find the missile base and blow it up. Mace keeps rescuing Morgan without thanks. In future missions, Morgan will ride hard on Mace.
- Baker's Dozen! · 9.67 pages
The GIs of Baker Company is superstitious and all carry good luck charms. A new recruit is seen as a jinx because he's Number 13 joining on Friday the 13th, and he carries a dynamite satchel. The CO calls him a "baker's dozen", twelve plus 1. He attracts a black cat, shoots a mirror, and keeps getting pushed aside. But when the team is pinned down in town, he plants the charge in a car and rams the tank to save the day. "We'll let the enemy worry about the number 13!"
Reprinted in
Weird War Tales (1971), Showcase Presents: The War That Time Forgot (2007), Showcase Presents: Weird War Tales (2012), Suicide Squad: The Silver Age Omnibus (2016), Suicide Squad: The Silver Age (2018)