About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 123. Chapters: 1980 in comics, 1981 in comics, 1982 in comics, 1983 in comics, 1984 in comics, 1985 in comics, 1986 in comics, 1987 in comics, 1988 in comics, 1989 in comics, Manga of the 1980s, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, Secret Wars, Batman: Year One, Democracy, The Dark Phoenix Saga, Batman: A Death in the Family, Days of Future Past, The Death of Jean DeWolff, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Invasion!, Gods and Mortals, The Great Darkness Saga, Creator's Bill of Rights, Armor Wars, Inferno, Jaspers' Warp, Heroes for Hope, The Greatest Hero of Them All, The Evolutionary War, Fall of the Mutants, The Exaggerated Death of Ultra Boy, Legends, Born Again, The Dead Man, The Wedding!, Acts of Vengeance, For the Man Who Has Everything, Mutant Massacre, Challenge of the Gods, Batman: Year Two, The Son of the Sun, Atlantis Attacks, City of the Damned, Bialya, Bad Company, The Universo Project, Kraven's Last Hunt, Shiroi Senshi Yamato, Who Is Sensor Girl?, Janus Directive, The Man Who Falls, Apocalypse War, Millennium, Doomquest, 1980s in comics, Oz, Judge Child, The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man, Oolated Luck, One Big Happy, Return to Plain Awful, Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut!, His Majesty, McDuck, Block Mania, Cash Flow, Nobody's Business, Violent Cases, Batman: Year Three. Excerpt: Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form. 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 the w...