Comic Title: Checkmate #3
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1988
On Sale Date: February 9, 1988 Shipping Date February 9, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date February 9, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #136

Copyright Date February 9, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date February 16, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #1
Listing dates were out of sequence

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Jonathan Peterson

Title: "State of the Union"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Checkmate

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Steve Erwin
Inker: Al Vey
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Feature Character(s)

• Checkmate (Tilson named; last appearance in Checkmate #2; next appearance in Checkmate #4)
• Harry Stein (last appearance in Checkmate #2; next appearance in Checkmate #5)
• Harvey Bullock (last appearance in Checkmate #2; next appearance in Batman:The Killing Joke #1)
• Gary Washington (last appearance in Checkmate #2; next appearance in Checkmate #10)
• Grace Guiness (last appearance in Checkmate #2; next appearance in Checkmate #12)
• Philip Kramer (last appearance in Checkmate #1; next appearance in Checkmate #6)

Supporting Character(s)

• John Reed (last appearance in Checkmate #2; next appearance in Checkmate #4)
• B.J. (last appearance in Checkmate #1; next appearance in Checkmate #5)

Villain(s)

• Kevin Maxwell (last appearance in Checkmate #2; no further appearances)
• Members of the American Supremacist Party (Fred, Barney Sachs, Barry, Ben, and Charlie named; last appearance in Checkmate #2; no further appearances)
• Mr. Rizzoli (last appearance in Checkmate #2; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Checkmate #2.

Synopsis:
Checkmate Knight Gary Washington fails to stop a group of American Supremacist Party operatives from receiving a shipment of explosives in Chicago. Reed follows them, while Washington places a tracker on one of the ASP members. While the Chicago operatives try to locate the explosives and the intended target, other members of Checkmate assault the ASP operations in Wyoming. Washington eventually tracks down, ASP leader Kevin Maxwell and fights him in the streets near the Sears Tower where the terrorists have planted their bomb. Checkmate wins the day, shutting down the Wyoming compound, killing Maxwell, and disarming the bomb.