Checkmate #1 [1st Printing]
(June 2006)

DC, 2006 Series
| Next Issue >
Price
2.99 USD; 4.00 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2006-04-26
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [swirl]
Barcode
761941253275 00111
Editing
Joan Hilty (editor); Rachel Gluckstern (Assistant)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Checkmate / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Lee Bermejo
Inks
Lee Bermejo
Colors
Trish Mulvihill
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Sasha Bordeaux; Alan Scott [Green Lantern]; Amanda Waller; Fire
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Checkmate (DC, 2006 series) #1 [1st Printing] Cover Thumbnail for Checkmate (2006 series) #1 [2nd Printing]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

The Game of Kings Part #1 (Table of Contents: 1)

Checkmate / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Greg Rucka
Pencils
Jesús Saiz
Inks
Jesús Saiz
Colors
Tanya Horie; Richard Horie
Letters
Travis Lanham
Genre
superhero
Characters
Amanda Waller; Alan Scott [Green Lantern]; Sasha Bordeaux; Fire [Beatriz da Costa]; Jessica Midnight; Mr. Terrific [Michael Holt]; Jonah McCarthy; Ambassador Shi; Kobra; Count Vertigo (cameo); King Faraday (cameo); Shen Li Po (cameo); Taleb Beni Khalid (cameo); Thomas Jagger (cameo)
Synopsis
Sasha Bordeaux, Fire, and Jonah McCarthy infiltrate a Kobra base to find the source of a biotoxin. Alan Scott and Amanda Waller attend a meeting of Checkmate's UN oversite committee reviewing the organization's mandate.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

First appearances of: Ambassador Shi; Jonah McCarthy; Shen Li Po; Taleb Beni Khalid; and Thomas Jagger. Also, the death of Jonah McCarthy.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

DC Nation / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[Various] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

advertisement / 12 pages (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Checkmate
  2. 1. The Game of Kings Part #1
    Checkmate
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    DC Nation
  4. 3. [Various]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Gregory Fischer
  • John Greb
  • Katy Hayhurst
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Bob Hughes
  • Dave Marchand
  • Darrel McCann
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.