CHECKMATE Volume 2 #1-31 COMPLETE Set DC Comics 2006 VF

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Smoke free home All issues are in VF+ condition $75 Writer: Bruce Jones, Greg Rucka; Eric Trautmann, Judd Winick, Nunzio Defilippis; Christina Weir, Artists: Manuel Garcia, Chris Samnee, Joe Bennett, Joe Prado, Eddy Barrows, Cliff Richards; Steve Scott, Cover Artists: Manuel Garcia, Kalman Andrasofszky, Karl Kerschl, Matthew Clark, Jesus Saiz, Lee Bermejo, 1 – 22 page Checkmate story "The Game of Kings Part #1". Checkmate holds the line. Cross it ? and they'll take you off the board. Permanently. A different spy agency for a different world. Infinite Crisis has changed the DCU, and Checkmate has shaped its hard-learned lessons into a new game plan. In Checkmate, it's all about the balance of power. Between Black and White; between human and metahuman; and between the familiar faces who have become its new Kings and Queens. It's also about the propaganda wars, black ops combat, and political manuevering that fuel Checkmate's critical missions ? missions that take a grueling toll on the agents' day-to-day lives. First, however, they must prove their right to exist ? to the U.N. And they only have hours to do it in this breathtaking first issue! 2 – 22 page Checkmate story "The Game of Kings Part #2". The race is on to become the world's most super-powered nation ? and when that nation is China, the new Checkmate faces its biggest challenge ever! 3 – 22 page Checkmate story "The Game of Kings Part 3". It's White Bishop's move as Checkmate tries to crack Beijing's secret metahuman project! 4 – 22 page Checkmate story "The Game of Kings Part 4". A Kobra traitor is revealed and an international metahuman battle joined as "The Game of Kings" concludes! 5 – 22 page Checkmate story "Selection". Three candidates compete to become Black Queen's Knight in the sensational stand-alone tale "Selection." 6 – 22 page Checkmate story "Rogue Squad, Part One". The return of SUICIDE SQUAD! Rucka teams up with co-writers DeFilippis and Weir for a 2-part thriller that puts Amanda Waller's pet project back in action with a CHECKMATE twist! 7 – 22 page Checkmate story "Rogue Squad, Part Two". An original member of SUICIDE SQUAD returns! But there's more to it than meets the eye as this founding father's outnumbered by his own prey!8 – 22 page Checkmate story "Pawn 502: Part 1". Checkmate clashes with a rival agency on American soil! 9 – 22 page Checkmate story "Pawn 502: Part 2". The Black Queen deputizes the big guns in an all-out bid to keep Pawn 502's mission alive! 10 - 22 page Checkmate story "Pawn 502: Part 3: The End in Sight". 'Pawn 502' concludes! All spy agencies have special forces. Only Checkmate has Shadowpact - but even magic may not stop a survivor of Luthor's Everyman Project from blowing this op sky-high! 11 - 22 page Checkmate story "Corvalho Part One". Part 1 of the 2-part 'Corvalho' with guest art by SHADOWPACT'S Steve Scott! Fire, the Black King's Knight, tries to break free from Amanda Waller's blackmail in a move that will shake the agency from top to bottom! 12 - 22 page Checkmate story "Corvalho, Part Two". An INFINITE CRISIS score gets settled when Judomaster's son faces Bane, his father's murderer! Meanwhile, the Black King discovers the meaning of 'Corvalho' - a meaning long hidden by his own Knight, Fire! 13 - 22 page Checkmate; Outsiders story "Checkout Part 1". Checkout, part 1 They've just been waiting for the right opening gambit, and now's the time to make the first move as Checkmate hunts the Outsiders! Jump aboard for a 3-month crossover called 'Checkout,' continuing in May's OUTSIDERS #47, as the DCU's top spies throw down with the DCU's most troublemaking hero team! 14 - 22 page Checkmate; Outsiders story "Checkout Part 3". Part 3 of 'Checkout,' continued from OUTSIDERS #47! The agency's locked in a shotgun wedding with the Outsiders. The honeymoon's on Oolong Island, a mission that nobody else in the DCU will touch, and the combined strike force is about to find out why! 15 - 22 page Checkmate; Outsiders story "Checkout Part 5". Part 5 of 'Checkout,' continued from OUTSIDERS #48! They say politics makes for strange bedfellows, and as their mission with the Outsiders reaches the end stage, the Royals are about to discover how many different meanings that has... 16 - 22 page Checkmate story "Past Perfect". In a wrenching stand-alone story, the Black Queen and the White King wrestle with whether to resume their affair - as Checkmate welcomes her former torturer to the Royal Family! 17 - 22 page Checkmate story "Firewall". If Checkmate's powerful enough to have a takedown plan for every hero and villain on Earth, why isn't its Alpine headquarters under assault 24-7? Well, it is - which is why it needs a Master Jailer to keep it running, 18 - 22 page Checkmate story "Fall of the Wall, Part 1". Amanda Waller's unauthorized Black Ops game is exposed! 'The Fall of the Wall' begins here! 19 - 22 page Checkmate story "Fall of the Wall, Part 2". 'Fall of the Wall' Part 2! The White Queen turns to bare-knuckle blackmail to hang onto her job - and Amanda Waller knows everyone's secrets! 20 - 22 page Checkmate story "Fall of the Wall, Conclusion". 'The Fall of the Wall' concludes with a bang! Taskforce X marks the spot as the Royals force a showdown with Amanda Waller! 21 - 22 page Checkmate story "La Vie En Sang". The sensational 2-part story 'Mademoiselle Marie' begins! Long before World War II, a legendary French spy network was born - and now a kidnapping in Africa has turned the Mademoiselle Marie legacy against its latest standard-bearer, the Black Queen's Knight! 22 - 22 page Checkmate story "La Vie En Sang, Part Deux". 'Mademoiselle Marie' concludes! Will Black Queen's Knight get her target safely out of Bialya, or will she become the latest Mademoiselle Marie to be laid to eternal rest? 23 - 22 page Checkmate story "Castling, Part One". 'Castling' begins here! It's been over a year since Pawn 502 went deep undercover inside the cult of Kobra. Now he's resurfaced, warning of a plot that will cost hundreds of thousands of lives and ignite a holy war across the planet, a plot that the Royals may not be able to stop in time. But can Pawn 502 still be trusted? This 3-part epic lays bare the workings of the DC intelligence community worldwide - and threatens to destroy it altogether! 24 - 22 page Checkmate story "Castling, Part Two". As the edges of Kobra's plot are discovered, the scale and the stakes continue to rise, jeopardizing millions of innocent lives around the planet. But is this all cover for something far more terrifying - something that even the biggest powers of the DCU may be powerless to stop? 25 - 22 page Checkmate story "Castling, Finale". 'Castling' concludes! Taking down Kobra's mass attack - a bid to bring forth the apocalyptic era of Kali Yuga - requires Checkmate to use their ops team of last resort: The Rooks! 26 - 22 page Checkmate story "Chimera, Part One: Opening Move". Left for dead on a Middle East minefield, one soldier's only chance to survive is as a test subject of a dangerous-but-invaluable project run by the Black King. Both the King's wildest hopes and fears will be realized when the project takes a wrong turn, creating a fighter remarkably well-suited for supernatural battles! 27 - 22 page Checkmate story "Chimera, Part Two: Heart of Ice". Resurrected as the monstrous Chimera, PFC Adam Sharp is sent on a deadly mission to the loneliest corner of the world even as his bereaved fiancée vows to find him...and just as Whiteside's analysts belatedly realize the full extent of his new powers! 28 - 22 page Checkmate story "Chimera: Soul of Fire [Chimera, Part Three]". Checkmate struggles to contain a growing environmental disaster, and the Black King faces upheaval in his own ranks over it - even as the King's secret weapon, Chimera, is exposed to the memory of his previous life! 29 - 22 page Checkmate story "Chimera: Will of Iron [Chimera, Part Four]". The Royals send an increasingly erratic Chimera up against an imminent apocalypse! Good thing the Global Guardians are there to back him up! 30 - 22 page Checkmate story "Chimera: Will of Iron [Chimera, Part Five]". Chimera and Chloe are finally reunited, but all hell's breaking loose around them, especially when August General in Iron defies the Black King's orders and returns to China. 31 - 22 page Checkmate story "Chimera: Prophet of Death [Chimera, Part 6]". FINAL ISSUE - All the pieces on the Checkmate board have converged on China. Is it the end of the world as we know it in this series finale issue? Or will Chimera save the day? I ship out on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Most Saturdays. I will combine shipping on multiple auction wins for saving to the buyer. International Bidders: I only ship internationally with the Global shipping program PAYMENT Payment is expected within 7 days of the ending of the auction. If you need more time YOU MUST CONTACT ME. On the 8th day I will file a non payment with Ebay.

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