The original Suicide Squad featured in The Brave and the Bold consisted of Rick Flag, Jr., his girlfriend Karin Grace, Dr. Hugh Evans, and Jess Bright.

Writer John Ostrander did not shy away from killing off some of the Squad's principal characters, most notably Rick Flag, Jr. -- who was eliminated at the end of the book's second year.

The story focused on the return of Rick Flag, Jr., and the formation of a new Squad for the purpose of attacking a corporation responsible for the development of a deadly bio-weapon.

Though this early incarnation of the team ( created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Ross Andru ) did not have the espionage trappings of later Squads, it laid much of the groundwork for Squad field leader Rick Flag, Jr .' s personal history.

* Rick Flag, Jr.

Rick Flag, Jr. and Karin Grace split up, and Flag eventually joins the Forgotten Heroes.

* Rick Flag, Sr.

In the midst of Darkseid's attempt to turn humanity against Earth's superheroes via his minion Glorious Godfrey, Amanda Waller assigns Col. Rick Flag, Jr. leadership of a reformed Task Force X, composed of Bronze Tiger, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Blockbuster, and Enchantress.

Several such teams existed, but their history in comics is only scarcely recorded before Rick Flag, Sr. becomes the leader of the team ( and even then, only a few adventures of this Squad are shown ).

After his father's death, Rick Flag, Jr. goes on to lead the group that is featured in The Brave and the Bold ( vol.

Another classic version of the Squad ( Rick Flag, Karen Grace, Jess Bright, and Dr. Hugh Evans ) appears in the non-canon 2004 mini-series DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke.

To prevent members escaping in the field, the prisoners are shackled with an explosive bracelet that will detonate a certain distance from the field leader, who was typically Rick Flag, who wore a remote control that could detonate or disengage the bracelets as desired.

The deadly martial artist called the Bronze Tiger acts as a backup disciplinary measure, and later, with the death of Rick Flag, as field leader of the team.

* Rick Flag, Jr.

Elements from this first story arc return over the series, such as: the death of Mindboggler, Captain Boomerang's cowardly and treacherous nature, Nightshade's attraction to Rick Flag, Jr., a rivalry between Rustam and Rick Flag, Jr., and Ravan's defeat at the hands of the Bronze Tiger.

In this story arc, building on subplots from previous issues, Rick Flag goes after Senator Cray in order to assassinate him.

* Rick Flag, Jr.

Later, as World War III rages, Waller informs Bronze Tiger that Rick Flag, Jr. is alive.

After Bronze Tiger finds Rick Flag, Jr. alive, Amanda Waller ( now the White Queen of Checkmate ) taps the pair to track down a rogue Squad that's out to expose her off-the-books activities.

Squad members seen rounding up villains include Rick Flag, Jr., Bronze Tiger, Captain Boomerang, Count Vertigo, the General, King Faraday, Multiplex, Nightshade, Plastique, Bane, Deadshot, and Chemo ( the latter three are betrayed by the Squad and sent to the prison planet with the other villains ).

Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe.

He travels alone to the Library of Skulls, where he sees that Rick has been chained in the Nursery as food for the Sleestak hatchlings.

Throughout the course of the series, Rick matures and gains experience as the SDF-1 slowly travels back towards Earth while under constant attack from Zentraedi forces, such as learning to eagerly concede that Sterling is far and away the superior pilot compared to himself ( and thus a prized wingman ).

The Walking Dead is a monthly black-and-white comic book series chronicling the travels of Rick Grimes, his family, and other survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

Whitney travels to the hotel and catches Rick as he's exiting.

Rick Flag, Jr. is revealed to be alive, having been transported to the dinosaur-infested island of Skartaris by his enemy Rustam after Flag's apparent death beneath Jotunheim.

Rick Flag is revealed to have survived the events at Jotunheim and was returned to Waller, who revealed to him Rick Flag, Jr. was never anything but an alias, and that he was in reality a brainwashed soldier remade into Flag to serve Eiling's ends.

According to Greg Rucka, Rick Flag's subsequent re-appearance had nothing to do with Infinite Crisis, and John Ostrander has stated that he knew how Rick Flag could survive the explosion at Jotunheim when he first wrote it.

* 2006 Texas Governor Election ( a real-life example where incumbent Rick Perry won re-election despite gaining less than 40 percent of the vote )

In January 2003, a 95-year old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the Rick McKay documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, where she was also honored with a " Legend in Film " award.

The novel is a day in the life of bounty hunter Rick Deckard, January 3 / 1992, as he tracks down renegade androids who have assumed human identities in a post-apocalyptic world where animals a rare and the human population have largely migrated off-world.

From here the River Axe rises up from a deep sump where progressive depth records for cave diving in the British Isles have been set: firstly by Farr () in 1977, then Rob Parker () in 1985, and finally by John Volanthen and Rick Stanton () in 2004.

* Hestia appears in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians during the fifth book of the series, The Last Olympian, where Hestia is the last Olympian.

The Maenads appear in Rick Riordan's " The Demigod Diaries ", where they are the principle enemies in the story " Leo Valdez and the quest for Buford ".

* Antaeus appears in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series where he appeared in Battle of the Labyrinth.

Dream originally began as a mainstream DC character able to interact with DC superheroes, and Gaiman's versions of Dream have appeared in DC superhero titles written by Keith Giffen and by Grant Morrison, as well as in Gaiman's own The Books of Magic series and in a Rick Veitch-authored issue of Swamp Thing ( where he meets Matthew Cable ).

Roberta's boyfriend Rick ( David Morris ) and his teammates join Roberta and Pat in the showers where they have group sex.

Pilot Rank, however, told a different story: Rank said that he was checking on the passengers when he noticed smoke in the middle of the cabin, where Rick Nelson and Helen Blair were sitting.

* Rick Mercer-Mercer appeared on Air Farce in a sketch where Ferguson, as Seamus O ' Toole, parodied his trademark " Screener " sketch from This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series ( based on Greek mythology in modern-day life ) by Rick Riordan, Hyperion is shown in the last book The Last Olympian and is ordered by a resurrected Kronos to help in the Battle of Manhattan where he leads an army through Central Park to get to the Empire State Building ( the modernized version of Mount Olympus ).

All tracks were written by James Todd Smith and Rick Rubin, except where noted.

In 1961 she married David Harter, a barrister, and began raising three sons, Joe, Paul, and Rick, in Islington, North London, where she lives.

A full album, On Avery Island, followed, this time recorded in Denver, Colorado on a four-track reel-to-reel tape machine, where Mangum was backed by the album's producer Robert Schneider of The Apples in Stereo, Rick Benjamin of The Perry Weissman 3 and Lisa Janssen of Secret Square.

Amuro is the first known Newtype pilot in the Earth Federation due to his piloting of the RX-78-2 Gundam and the televising of one of his battles in Side 6 space, where he shoots down 9 Rick Doms in a matter of merely 3 minutes.

The book of Thoth appears in Rick Riordan's The Serpent's Shadow book, where it is used by Carter and Sadie Kane to banish Apophis from the world.

By late 1978-early 1979, Buddy Rose talked Piper into leaving the California promotions for even more fame in Don Owen ’ s Pacific Northwest Territory where he teamed with Killer Tim Brooks, Rick Martel, and Mike Popovich to win the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship.

All songs by Rick Nielsen, except where noted

He led the Squires into the Eastern Division Finals, where they lost to the Rick Barry-led New York Nets in seven games.

One notable episode is the Las Vegas episode in 2003, where amongst other places, Dave visits Rick Harrison at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, roughly six years before the debut of Rick's program, Pawn Stars.

Nash, Sid, and Rick Steiner then feuded with Hogan, Sting, and a returning Goldberg until Road Wild, where Hogan defeated Nash in a " retirement " match.

The Masters attacked the Avengers after Captain America had been taken to 1760 the Tower of London where Rick Jones was imprisoned.

In the sci-fi reboot to the Planet of the Apes franchise, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, written by screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, the cold opening leads to the title shown over a large African jungle where a troop of chimpanzees are being capture and killed by poachers.