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Watchmen is a comic book limited series by the British creative team of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins. It was published monthly by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 before being collected in a single-volume edition in 1987.
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May 25, 1921: Director Oscar Micheaux’s Bass Reeves feature Trust in the Law! premieres at the Williams Dreamland Theater. June 1, 1921:June Abar and Will Williams—later, Will Reeves—are smuggled out of Tulsa during the Tulsa Massacre.
Jon Osterman and his father, Hans, flee Heidelberg for England, where they briefly stay in a manor whose owners are providing refugees a place to stay before traveling on to the United States. Nelson Gardner is honorably discharged from the Marines after serving under Smedley Butler in the Banana Wars.
March 26, 1938: Graduation ceremoniesfor the NYPD Police Academy Class of 1938. Will Reeves is one of the cadets; so is Hollis Mason. May 1938:Action Comics No. 1 hits newsstands. Fall 1938:Will Reeves arrests a businessman named Fred T. for firebombing a Jewish deli. Oct. 13, 1938:Will Reeves becomes Hooded Justice. Oct. 20, 1938 (one week after W...
Cyclops tests a curious new film projector at a screening of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in Harlem. Will Reeves, investigating, sees a projector loaded into a truck labeled “F.T. & Sons. W. Washington Market, New York, NY.” Reeves follows the truck, kills “F.T.” and everyone in his warehouse, steals their technology, and burns it to the ground....
Hooded Justice disappears. June 1, 1955:Sheriff Dale Dixon Crawford, Judd Crawford’s grandfather, is given a leadership position in Cyclops. June 2, 1955: John David Keene, who will later become Senator Keene, gives Dale Dixon Crawford Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship, a painting by George Catlin.
Adrian Veidt exposes a plot by right-wing extremists in the U.S. military to test biological weapons on the unsuspecting citizens of Nairobi. (In our timeline, the military conducted its biological weapons tests on the unsuspecting citizens of New York City, among other places.)
Edward Blake, aka the Comedian (and Laurie Blake’s father), burns down Bian My’s village in Vietnam. May 31, 1971:Nelson Gardner changes his will, naming Will Reeves his sole beneficiary. June 1971:VVN Day: The United States wins the Vietnam War.
Aug. 9, 1974:Nelson Gardner dies in a traffic accident in New York. He is decapitated after flying through the windshield, but his head is never found.
Angela Abar is born in Saigon. Judd Crawford marries Jane Lestley Alexander. Will Reeves buys the movie theater where he used to work.
Adrian Veidt builds the memory-erasing device. (Approximate date; in 2009, he says he built it “30 years ago.”)
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Sep 12, 2024 · Watchmen, graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, published as a 12-part series by DC Comics from September 1986 to October 1987. The complex characters and mature story line were unlike anything previously seen in the superhero genre.
- The graphic novel Watchmen was created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons.
- Watchmen was a deconstruction of classic comics and considered how real-life superheroes would affect the world around them and how everyday people...
- Watchmen was adapted as a live-action film by director Zack Snyder in 2009.
- Watchmen was adapted as a television miniseries in 2019, in which the Watchmen universe served as a backdrop that explored contemporary issues. The...
- The graphic novel Watchmen was published as a 12-part series from September 1986 to October 1987 by DC Comics.
Watchmen is set in 1985, in an alternate history United States where superheroes (more commonly known as costumed adventurers) are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union (the Doomsday Clock is at five minutes to midnight).
Plot. In 1985, a man living in a Manhattan apartment watches news about escalating Cold War tensions and the response from five-term President Richard Nixon when an unknown assailant attacks and hurls him to the street below.
Oct 21, 2019 · HBO's Watchmen moves its setting to 2019 Tulsa, Oklahoma, a place a thousand miles and three decades removed from when Ozymandias 'saved' the world, but still reeling from the aftermath of everything that came before (as well from as its own checkered local history).
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Watchmen is an American limited television series, based on the comic book limited series of the same name created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The series was created by Damon Lindelof, who also served as executive producer and writer. It premiered on October 20 and concluded on December 15, 2019 on HBO with a total of nine episodes.
