Comic Title: Checkmate #14
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1989
On Sale Date: February 14, 1989 Shipping Date February 14, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #13

Copyright Date February 14, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Shipping Date January 17, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #12

Direct Market Date January 19, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #82

Shipping Date January 19, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #156

Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Jonathan Peterson

Title: "Neighborhood Watch"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Checkmate

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Artist: Tod Smith
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Feature Character(s)

• Checkmate (no appearance)

Guest Star(s)

• Black Thorn (last appearance in Checkmate #8; next appearance in Checkmate #14)

Villain(s)

• Mr. Hagen (a crime boss; no further appearances)
• Members of Hagen's organization (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mr. and Mrs. Tockman (shop keepers; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story stars Black Thorn in a solo adventure. Checkmate does not appear in this story.

Synopsis:
Black Thorn stops a group of thugs who are threatening a New York City shopkeeper. She lets them escape in order to set up a meeting with their boss, Hagen. At the meeting, Hagen tries to use the shopkeeper and his wife as hostages. Black Thorn detonates a bomb as a distraction. She then rescues the hostages, defeats the gang, and uses another bomb to finish off Hagen. When she returns home for the night, Black Thorn discovers that her own apartment has been burglarized.