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Issue: Checkmate #1
Publication Date: April 1988
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Issues: #1 of 33 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/08/1987
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.75 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.25 USD
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Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Mike Gold; Jonathan Peterson; Dick Giordano (executive)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #47, confirmed from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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He Doesn't Fight The Criminal Element... ..He Terminates It!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Kerry Gammill (signed)
Inker(s): Karl Kesel (Signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; Todd Klein (logo design)
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Feature(s): Checkmate
Character(s): Knight [Gary Washington]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Logo design credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.
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Deluxe Apr Checklist

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Checklist for DC's April 1988 books.
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside Front Cover, first column.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Dick Giordano
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Meanwhile
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Pages: 0.66
Disclose Notes: Inside Front Cover, columns 2 and 3.
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Opening Gambit!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Kupperberg
Penciller(s): Steve Erwin
Inker(s): Al Vey
Colorist(s): Julianna Ferriter
Letterer(s): Janice Chiang
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Feature(s): Checkmate
Character(s): Black Thorn [Elizabeth Thorne]; Harvey Bullock; Harry Stein; Amanda Waller; William Cross (Death); Grace Guinness; Kevin Maxwell; Kramer; Jameson; Gilroy; O'Connor (Undercover Fed Agent); Pawn One [John Reed]; Knight [Gary Washington]
Synopsis: Checkmate gets their first official case and a Knight is sent to infiltrate a Neo-Nazi organization.
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Pages: 24
Job Number: G-3367
Disclose Notes: Continued from Vigilante (DC, 1983 series) #50.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Mike Gold
Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Checkmate!
Synopsis: No letters. Contains a discussion of how Checkmate came about and it's ties to the DC universe.
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Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2973

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