Green Arrow #14 – “Moving Target” – Mike Grell/Dan Jurgens/Dick Giordano, Frank McLaughlin
This one starts with Oliver (Green Arrow) Queen and Dinah (Black Canary) Lance attending a production of Cats. As they’re coming out of the theatre, a sniper on a roof across the street takes a shot at Oliver. He’s saved by dumb luck, just like at the end of last issue, but finally realizes someone is gunning for him. When he and Dinah find the sniper’s spent cartridges on the roof, Oliver
figures it’s a professional and suspects the CIA. He changes to Green Arrow and goes to see Eddie Fyres, the freelance assassin he’s run into before. Eddie insists he hasn’t been hired to kill Oliver (and says he’d have gotten him with the first shot), and mentions that the crooked CIA agent Osborne beat the federal charges for trying to overthrow the Philippine government, but was killed by the yakuza. Fyres points out a news story about a local businessman (James Alexander) who was married to a Congresswoman and whose car ended up going off a bridge. Eddie says Alexander was an alcoholic, a liar, and a wife-beater 
and admits that’s the sort of assassination he’d pull, something that looks like an accident. Oliver believes Fyres, so he heads home to discuss things with Dinah. She suggests the yakuza, but Oliver doesn’t think hiring a sniper is their style, so he tries to think of people who might have a grudge against him lately. We get some vignettes as Green Arrow goes through the good deeds he did last issue, looking for loose ends. The gang he beat up didn’t hire the sniper, so he checks out the girl whose cat he rescued. Turns out she stole the cat from a lab where it was being experimented on to cure cancer. She admits taking the cat, but insists she didn’t hire the sniper; Arrow tells her to go public about the animal abuse at the lab. He checks out the Navy officer who was beating his wife, but he seems to have found religion and become a better man thanks to Green Arrow. He finally figures out who’s behind the assassin, but it’s too late … the assassin is hiding in the back of Oliver’s van and forces him to drive out to the bridge to be killed and dumped.
Green Arrow gets the better of him and his causes his accomplice (in another car) to crash; it’s Congresswoman Alexander, who’s also the woman with the flat tire he tried to help. The Congresswoman killed her husband (because he was an abusive drunk) and got her friend to help get rid of the body, but when she got the flat she had no spare (since her husband’s corpse was in the trunk), so her pal pretended to be a good
Samaritan and give her his spare until she could find a garage. But Arrow noticed the mismatched spare still on James Alexander’s car when it was pulled from the bay. Congresswoman Alexander figured Oliver recognized her when he stopped to help, so she got her accomplice to try and kill him. Ironically, Oliver had no clue who she was and wouldn’t have put everything together if she hadn’t been trying to waste him. She pulls a gun, but the bridge was weakened when her car crashed and gives way, taking her and her car into the bay.
Young All-Stars #22 – “The Allies” – Roy and Dann Thomas/Ron Harris/Bob Downs
This one starts with Fury heading to the White House to see the President. After running into Dyna-Mite and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (and walking in on Tigress putting the moves on Iron Munro again), Fury and the others hear voices speaking German from the Oval Office and think the President is under attack. They bust in and get into a fight with some other costumed types until FDR breaks it up and tells them these are superheroes from other countries sent to help. The new heroes introduce themselves and we get some background on each of them: Percy Sheldrake (The Squire), a British lad who’s been training with Shining
Knight since his parents were killed; Phantasmo, a French hero who’s descended from an elemental; Fireball, a Russian who got her powers because her parents investigated the Tunguska meteor strike; and Kuei, a Chinese guy who changed into a demon to gain vengeance on the invading Japanese. (It was Fireball speaking Russian that Munro mistook for someone speaking German; I guess he needs to take some language courses.) Roosevelt asks the Young All-Stars and the new heroes to go on another war bond tour. The All-Stars are disappointed to be put back on publicity duty, but Roosevelt tells Munro, 
Tigress, and Dyna-Mite that their teammates (Flying Fox, Tsunami, and Neptune Perkins) found out that the Nazis were trying to sabotage the nuclear bomb project (code-named Tube Alloys). Roosevelt says he has information that a “non-American” ally is working with the Nazis. He suspects it’s probably one of the four new heroes, but warns the All-Stars that it might be Fury. They don’t believe that, but promise to keep an eye on the others so they can’t go after any of the scientists involved in the nuclear program. In Mexico, Baron Blitzkrieg has captured a British scientist to get info about the American nuclear program from him. The scientist tries to escape in an autogyro, but he’s recaptured by Axis Amerika and Sumo (who we saw join
Blitzkrieg last issue) uses his mind-reading powers to get the names and locations of top nuclear scientists from his mind. Axis Amerika aren’t happy about going after scientists, but get more enthusiastic when they find out the scientists will be guarded by the Young All-Stars. Axis Amerika leaves and Blitzkrieg tells Sumo that Germany and Japan will soon be able to construct an atomic bomb.
Suicide Squad #23 – “Weird War Tales” – John Ostrander, Kim Yale/Luke McDonnell/Karl Kesel
This one starts with Amanda Waller out for a drive. She’s feeling guilty about some of her actions lately, which manifests as conversations with various (imaginary) people, like Rick Flag, Deadshot, and Senator Eden (who’s leading a Congressional investigation into the Suicide Squad … and just happens to be Nightshade’s father). Waller realizes most of her current problems are due to her not wanting to share power and let others in on her plans, but knowing that doesn’t really help solve the problems. At Belle Rêve, Bronze Tiger is telling John Economos about his
recent mission in Moscow with Duchess and Vixen. They were sent to help repel the alien invasion and ended up in a huge fight with Okaarans and Thanagarians (aided by Rocket Reds, Soyuz, and even Stalnoivolk). Duchess really got into the fight, but was surprised at how tough the aliens were (and Bronze Tiger reports that a third of the population of Moscow may have been killed by the aliens). John asks Bronze Tiger about his relationship with Vixen, reminding him that Flo is still hot for him, but Bronze Tiger tells him to mind his own business. We see Flo feeling miserable about her unrequited interest in 
Bronze Tiger when she gets a message over the computer from someone called Oracle. Yes, that Oracle. Dr. Lagrieve and Marnie review possible new recruits to the Squad (Dr. Light, Count Vertigo, Punch and Jewelee), but Marnie’s had enough of working with criminals (and having her opinions of them ignored) and wants to quit. Nemesis stops in to see Nightshade (who’s still recovering from a gunshot wound) and tells her about his recent time fighting aliens in Australia with Captain Boomerang. Boomerang is Australian and took the invasion of Australia personally, so when the aliens were defeated, he was pretty proud of himself and figured his fellow Aussies would laud him
as a hero. But they were actually embarrassed to have a criminal like him associated with their country, so they tossed him of a boat. As Nemesis leaves, the sky turns black from the aliens’ Gene Bomb (and someone tosses a pie in Nemesis’s face).