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

Shipping Date January 19, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #1

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

Title: "Hot Property"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Checkmate

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Artist: Eduardo Barreto
Letterer: Bob Lappan
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Feature Character(s)

• Checkmate (last appearance in Checkmate #14; next appearance in Checkmate #15)
• John Reed (last appearance in Checkmate #14; next appearance in Checkmate #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Black Thorn (last appearance in Checkmate #14; next appearance in Checkmate #16)

Villain(s)

• Pickett (a fence; no further appearances)
• Pickett's men (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Knight John Reed locates Black Thorn. He helps her raid a warehouse belonging to an underworld fence. Black Thorn is trying to retrieve something stolen from her apartment. After the warehouse, Black Thorn and Reed break into the fence's house. They are briefly caught, but in the end, they stop the thugs who try to kill them. Black Thorn questions Pickett, the fence, and learns where her items are being stored. She finds them and retrieves the urn which holds the ashes of Adrian Chase, the Vigilante.