Watchmen is an American comic book maxiseries by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. It was published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987, and collected in a single volume edition in 1987. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced Moore to create original characters instead. Moore used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties and to deconstruct and satirize the superhero concept. Watchmen depicts an alternate history in which superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s and their presence changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was never exposed.
| Date | 1986–1987 |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Writer | Alan Moore |
| Artist | Dave Gibbons |
| Editors | Len Wein, Barbara Kesel |
| Published in | Watchmen |
| Issues | 12 |
| Date of publication | September 1986 – October 1987 |
About Watchmen
Based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1986–87 DC Comics limited series of the same name, a group of mostly retired superheroes investigate the murder of one of their own and uncover a deadly conspiracy.
Achievement of Watchmen
The film was stranded in development limbo from October 1987 until October 2005. It was directed by Zack Snyder, but previously had names like Darren Aronofsky and Paul Greengrass attached.
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