"The Suicide Squad was revived in the Legends
miniseries, with writer John Ostrander at the helm.[5]
The renewed concept involved the government
employing a group of supervillains to perform
missions that were almost certainly suicide runs, a
concept popular enough for an ongoing series titled
simply Suicide Squad. The Squad was often paired
together with DC's other government agency,
..."
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