Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins, published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. Watchmen focuses on six main characters: The Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, The Nite Owl II, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and The Silk Spectre II. These characters are primarily based on superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early 1980s. Series writer Alan Moore created the main cha...
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Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins, published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. Watchmen focuses on six main characters: The Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, The Nite Owl II, Ozymandias, Rorschach, and The Silk Spectre II. These characters are primarily based on superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early 1980s. Series writer Alan Moore created the main characters to present six "radically opposing ways" to perceive the world, and to give readers of the story the privilege of determining which one was most morally comprehensible.
With the exception of Doctor Manhattan, the Watchmen characters do not possess larger than life superpowers; they are rather costumed vigilantes and not superheroes but they mostly show above normal athletic prowess and fitness.
The Comedian is Edward Morgan Blake (which is a reference to Blake Edwards ), who began his vigilante career in the late 1930s as a teenager....
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