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Oct 15, 2023 · Drawing inspiration from Charlton Comics characters, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons combined that with their own clever ideas to create Watchmen.
Thus, much of the cast of Watchmen have their origins in Charlton Comics. The Comedian, whose murder kicks off the events of the DC maxiseries, is based on the Silver Age Peacemaker, who ironically uses a vast array of non-lethal weapons, unlike his violent Watchmen counterpart.
In the Tom King-penned DC Black Label 2020-2021 limited series Rorschach, Charlton Comics in the Watchmen universe not only survived well into the 21st century, but also became a highly successful film and television studio called Charlton Studios; essentially serving as this world's version of both Marvel Studios and DC Studios.
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.
Charlton Comics was an American comic-book publishing company that existed from 1945 to 1986, having begun under a different name: T. W. O. Charles Company, in 1940. It was based in Derby, Connecticut.
Dec 28, 2017 · 8 Watchmen Characters Based On Charlton Comics. Find out which classic Charlton's Comics characters inspired Alan Moore's masterpiece.
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Sep 5, 2023 · Moore and Gibbons famously based Watchmen's cast of heroes and villains on the Charlton Comics heroes that DC Comics bought at the time and the many classic literary and pulp characters they grew up with.
