COMICS • COLLECTOR GUIDES
DC team of incarcerated villains and antiheroes sent on dangerous covert missions. This page collects the live-action films in the watchlist in which the character or team has a principal role, making it easier to follow their screen appearances and connected movie series.
Start with the essential comics, follow the character through the movie library, then continue into related stories and live shop inventory.
Task Force X, better known as the Suicide Squad, is a covert government program that recruits imprisoned super-villains for missions considered too dangerous or politically sensitive for conventional agents. Amanda Waller controls the modern incarnation, offering reduced sentences while using severe measures to ensure compliance. The result is an unstable team in which self-interest, survival and occasional heroism constantly collide.
Important comic-book milestones for the character and why each issue or story matters.
Major key · 1959The Brave and the Bold #25Major key — first appearance of the original Suicide Squad.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1987Legends #3Major key — debut of the modern government Task Force X concept.Read collector guide →
Minor key · 2011Suicide Squad #1 (1987)Major key — launch of the defining John Ostrander ongoing series.Read collector guide →Minor key · 2011Suicide Squad #1 (2011)Minor key — New 52 relaunch featuring Harley Quinn and Deadshot.Read collector guide →Additional source-material touchpoints from the movie guides below. Essential character keys already shown above are not repeated here.
Imprisoned villains are recruited for a black-ops mission against a supernatural threat. Its comic connection is a synthesis: familiar characters and ideas are combined into a new cinematic…
A new Task Force X invades Corto Maltese and uncovers Project Starfish. In comic terms, its closest relationship is silver age mission plus ostrander-era team.
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