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Checkmate vol. 2, #17 (October 2007) Valentina Vostok: N/A: White Queen: Checkmate vol. 2, #21 (December 2007) Apparently KIA in Final Crisis #4 attempting to retake Blüdhaven from Darkseid's forces. Bad Samaritan: Zviad Baazovi: White Queen's Bishop: Checkmate vol. 2 #22 (March 2008) A Georgian National. Rocket Red #1: Maks Chazov: White ...
Checkmate, a division of Task Force X, is a fictional covert operations agency appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The antihero team first appeared in Action Comics #598 (March 1988) and proceeded to have its own ongoing title in Checkmate! [ 1 ]
Sasha Bordeaux is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.The character was at first primarily associated with superhero Batman, and she has subsequently evolved an association with Checkmate in two of its incarnations.
Josephine Tautin, introduced in Checkmate Vol. 2 #5, uses the name in her capacity as the member of Checkmate known as the Black Queen's Knight. Relatively little has been revealed of Tautin's background as yet, save that she was the only Knight candidate able to pass Checkmate's admission tests by displaying sufficient cold-bloodedness.
Count Vertigo (Werner Zytle) is a supervillain created by Gerry Conway, Trevor Von Eeden and Vince Colletta as an enemy of Black Canary, Batman and later Green Arrow in the DC Comics Universe. Count Vertigo is the last descendant of the royal family that ruled the small eastern European country of Vlatava that was taken over by the Soviets and ...
The Black Dragon Society is based on a real World War II organization of the same name; this society was not nearly as sinister as its comic book counterparts. Three different comics companies used the Black Dragon Society as villains in the 1940s: National Comics (DC Comics), Fawcett Comics, and Quality Comics. DC Comics came to own the other ...
"The Janus Directive" is an eleven-part comic book crossover first published by DC Comics between May and June of 1989. Among the creators who contributed to the storyline were writers John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Paul Kupperberg, Cary Bates and Greg Weisman and artists John K. Snyder III, Rick Hoberg, Rafael Kayanan, Tom Mandrake and Pat Broderick.
Kobra Blackadders vs Checkmate Knight The Kobra organization survived Jeffrey Burr's death, and has been gaining converts. In Identity Crisis , it was revealed that DCU prisoners (such as Slipknot ) sometimes convert to the cult of Kobra, to the general disgust of the DC's supervillains.