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Characters
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Art and composition
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Publication and reception
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Adaptations
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Key facts & relationships
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- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Artist
- Dave Gibbons
- Colorist
- John Higgins
- Date
- 1986–1987
- Date of publication
- September 1986 – October 1987
- Editors
- Len Wein · Barbara Kesel
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Overview
- Comic book
- Limited series Limited series (comics)
- Alan Moore
- Dave Gibbons
- John Higgins John Higgins (comics)
- DC Comics
- Superhero
- Charlton Comics
- Dick Giordano
- Alternative history Alternate history
- Vietnam War
- Watergate scandal
- World War III
- Soviet Union
- Moral struggles Moral ambiguity
- Smiley face Smiley
- Nonlinear narrative
- Synchronicity
- Coincidence
- BBC
- Zack Snyder
- Watchmen Watchmen (2009 film)
- Before Watchmen
- Prequel
- Doomsday Clock Doomsday Clock (comics)
- Sequel
- DC Universe
- Rorschach Rorschach (comic book)
- Tom King Tom King (writer)
- Television continuation Watchmen (TV series)
Publication history
- Cover-dated Cover-date
- Trade paperback Trade paperback (comics)
- Warner Books
- Absolute Edition DC Comics Absolute Edition
- DC Universe: Rebirth Special DC Universe: Rebirth Special?action=edit&redlink=1
- Doctor Manhattan
- The Button The Button (comics)
- Flashpoint Flashpoint (comics)
Background and creation
- Miracleman Marvelman
- MLJ Comics
- Mighty Crusaders
- Shield Shield (Archie Comics)
- Peacemaker Peacemaker (character)
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- Len Wein
- Mad Mad (magazine)
- Superduperman
- Moby Dick Moby-Dick
- Rorschach Rorschach (character)
- Camelot 3000
- Neil Gaiman
- The Architects of Fear
- The Outer Limits The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)
Synopsis
- Point of divergence
- Richard Nixon
- Bob Woodward
- Carl Bernstein
- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Soviet–Afghan War
- Cold War
- Ozymandias Adrian Veidt
- Conspiracy theory
- Nuclear war
- Squid
- Prescient Precognition
- Tachyons Tachyon
Characters
- Steve Ditko
- Mr. A
- The Question Question (character)
- Ink blot tests Rorschach test
- Alexander the Great
- Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt
- Daniel Dreiberg / Nite Owl II Nite Owl
- Ted Kord
- Blue Beetle
- Batman
- Clark Kent
- Edward Blake / The Comedian Comedian (character)
- Marvel Comics
- Nick Fury
- Gordon Liddy G. Gordon Liddy
- Matter
- Captain Atom
- Nuclear physics
- Quantum physics
- Spock
- Star Trek
- Rogue Trooper
- Laurie Juspeczyk / Silk Spectre II Silk Spectre
- Nightshade Nightshade (DC Comics)
- Black Canary
- Phantom Lady
- University of Dayton
Art and composition
- To showcase the unique qualities of the comics medium Medium essentialism
- Macguffin
- Gimmick
- Surveyor Surveying
- Electric cars Electric car
- Fire hydrants Fire hydrant
- Airbrush
- Bhob Stewart
- The Comics Journal
- EC Comics
- John Severin
- Harvey Kurtzman
- The Amazing Spider-Man
- Doctor Strange
- Story within a story
- Bertolt Brecht
- Pirate Jenny
- Threepenny Opera The Threepenny Opera
- Subtext
- Joe Orlando
- Julius Schwartz
- William S. Burroughs
- The Unspeakable Mr. Hart Ah Pook Is Here
- Thierry Groensteen
- Doomsday Clock
- Behaviorism
- Craters Impact crater
- Galle crater Galle (Martian crater)
- Gordian Knot
Themes
- Roman Latin literature
- Juvenal
- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
- Harlan Ellison
- Reagans Ronald Reagan
- Thatchers Margaret Thatcher
- Reaganism
- Iain Thomson
- Nihilistic Nihilism
- Existentialism
- Frank Miller
- Kenosis
Publication and reception
- Amazing Heroes
- Howard Chaykin
- Mayfair Games
- Watchmen module Who Watches the Watchmen?
- DC Heroes
- Graphic novel
- Time Time (magazine)
- Sic
- Hugo Award
- Locus Award for Best Non-fiction
- Locus Awards
- Dave Langford David Langford
- White Dwarf White Dwarf (magazine)
- Work for hire
- San Diego Comic-Con
- Slurpee
- V for Vendetta
- David Lloyd David Lloyd (comics)
- DC Direct
- America's Best Comics
- WildStorm
- Imprint Imprint (trade name)
Prequel projects
Sequels
Adaptations
- Lawrence Gordon Lawrence Gordon (producer)
- Joel Silver
- 20th Century Fox
- Sam Hamm
- Turnaround Turnaround (filmmaking)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Terry Gilliam
- Charles McKeown
- Voice-over
- Unfilmable
- Miniseries
- Lloyd Levin
- Universal Studios Universal Pictures
- David Hayter
- Revolution Studios
- Paramount Pictures
- Darren Aronofsky
- The Fountain
- Paul Greengrass
- 300 300 (film)
- Alex Tse
- Storyboard
- Green screens
- Subplot
- Batman & Robin Batman & Robin (film)
- Paul Levitz
- Direct-to-video
- Warner Premiere
- Warner Bros. Animation
- Gerard Butler
Legacy
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Nodes253
Edges252
Triples403
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007905
Components1
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Watchmen
Top relations
related to Film adaptation · 41
Watchmen → After Warner Bros, Alan Moore, Aronofsky, Aronofsky's, Century Fox, Charles McKeown, Darren Aronofsky, David Hayter, Eric Watson, Fox, Gilliam, Gordon, Hamm, Hayter, Hayter's, In July, In October, Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon, Levin
related to Legacy · 35
Watchmen → Absolute Edition, Acme Novelty Library, Alan Moore, All-Time, An Aesthetic History, But, Chris Ware's, Comic Book, Dave Itzkoff, DNA, Edward Gorey, English-language, Entertainment Weekly, Gibbons, Graphic Novels, Greatest Novels, Grossman, In, In Art, Instead
related to Tales of the Black Freighter · 32
Watchmen → According, Adrian Veidt, Bernie, Bertolt Brecht, Black Freighter, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, DC, Dr, EC, Gibbons, He, In, Joe Orlando, Julius Schwartz, Just, Mainly, Manhattan's, Marooned, Mars, Moore
related to Ownership disputes · 31
Watchmen → America's Best Comics, Anniversary, As, Both Moore, Dave, David Lloyd, DC, DC Comics, DC Direct, DC's, Disagreements, Fair, For Watchmen, Gibbons, He, I'm, In, Moore, Not, On
related to Prequel projects · 28
Watchmen → Alan Moore, Comedian's Vietnam War, DC, DC Heroes, Deceased, Diary, Gibbons, Golden Age, Hopkirk, It, Minutemen, Moore, Nam, Neither, Nite Owl/Rorschach, Randall, Ray Winninger, Rorschach's Journal, Special, Taking Out
related to Themes · 28
Watchmen → America, Americanism, As, Before, Bradford Wright, Gibbons, Graffiti, Harlan Ellison, He, In, It's, Juvenal, Moore, Moore's, Putting, Quis, Reagan's America, Reaganism, Reagans, Roman
related to Setting · 25
Watchmen → Afghanistan, American, Another, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Cold War, Doctor Manhattan, Eventually, In, Keene Act, Nixon, October, Richard Nixon, Rorschach, Soviet Union, The, The Comedian, The Soviet, Their, United States
related to Publication and reception · 23
Watchmen → Amazing Heroes Preview, April, August, Comedian, Dave, DC, DC Comics, DC Heroes Role-playing Game, Further, Gibbons, Howard Chaykin, July, Len Wein, Marvel Comics, Mayfair Games, Moore, One, Speaking, Ten, The
related to Television series sequel · 22
Watchmen → Adrian Veidt, Among, Damon Lindelof, Doctor Manhattan, Don Johnson, Due, HBO, Jeremy Irons, Laurie Blake, Lindelof, October, Oklahoma, Ozymandias, President Robert Redford, Regina King, Rorschach, Silk Spectre, The, This, Tim Blake Nelson
related to Comic book sequels · 21
Watchmen → DC, DC Rebirth, DC Universe, Doctor Manhattan, Doomsday Clock, He, May, November, Ozymandias, Rebirth, Rebirth Special, Reginald Long, Rorschach, Russia, Superman, The, The Button, This, United States, Walter Kovacs
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watchmen | Artist | Dave Gibbons | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Colorist | John Higgins | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Date | 1986–1987 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Date of publication | September 1986 – October 1987 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Editors | Len Wein | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Editors | Barbara Kesel | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Issues | 12 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Published in | Watchmen | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Publisher | DC Comics | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | Writer | Alan Moore | 1.00 | infobox |
| Watchmen | is a | comic book limited series created by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore | 0.90 | text |
| Watchmen | is a | complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell | 0.90 | text |
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