Work · Graphic novel · 1986–1987

Watchmen

Alan Moore, writer · Dave Gibbons, artist · John Higgins, colorist

Publisher: DC Comics
Units: 12 issues
isbn13: 9780930289232

Twelve issues, each nine panels to a page, set in a 1985 where costumed heroes were outlawed and a blue physicist tilted the Cold War. Includes the pirate comic within the comic and the prose back matter.

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Graphic novel 1986–1987 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationWatchmenThe twelve-issue spine survives almost intact; the machine that ends it is swapped from a squid to Doctor Manhattan.67composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine

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This work is not catalogued as an adaptation of anything.