Checkmate #15

Dates

Cover date

May 1989

On sale

March 16, 1989

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Story arc: The Janus Directive

This is part 1 of 9. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Checkmate (1988) #15
2. Suicide Squad (1987) #27
3. Checkmate (1988) #16
4. Suicide Squad (1987) #28
5. Checkmate (1988) #17
6. Firestorm the Nuclear Man (1987) #86
7. Manhunter (1988) #14
8. Suicide Squad (1987) #29
9. Checkmate #18

Creators

Stories

• The Janus Directive, Part 1: Knight Kill · 24 pages

  Ray is impersonating a mob contact who is involved in a plot to kill a political figure when he is attacked by an armored assassin who calls himself Bishop. Bishop handily beats the Checkmate Knight and blows up his target (or thinks he does, not realizing it was Ray in disguise). After a short breather, Ray goes out as Warwick again to confront the man who tried to have him killed. Once again, Bishop attacks, but this time Ray is ready for him with a souped up suit of Checkmate armor. Waller shows up at Checkmate with reinforcements for a war that is about to rock the intelligence community.

Publisher’s description

While a Knight faces the armored might of the mysterious assassin known as the Bishop, Amanda Waller sets in motion forces that could destroy Checkmate and the rest of America's intelligence community.

Reprinted in

Suicide Squad (2011)