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September 1986 – October 1987. 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.
- 1986–1987
- Dave Gibbons
- Watchmen
- DC Comics
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- 1955
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- 1971
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- 1979
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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The series' premiere date, October 20, 2019, was announced on September 3, 2019. [33] The show's credits identify the work as based on characters co-created by Dave Gibbons, who along with Alan Moore created the Watchmen comic.
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Dec 16, 2019 · Watchmen Timeline Explained. We've made a complete and chronological timeline of the events of Watchmen, from the original book to the HBO show. It...wasn't easy. By Mike Cecchini | December 16...
Oct 18, 2019 · In 1986, Watchmen skewered the way we love superheroes. It’s still as relevant as ever. Why we keep coming back to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen. By Alex Abad-Santos alex@vox.com Oct 18,...
May 10, 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.
