Watchmen

Hardcover, 464 pages

English language

Published March 5, 2005 by DC Comics.

ISBN:
978-1-4012-0713-7
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"This book examines each of the series' twelve issues in unprecedented detail, moving page by page and panel by panel to reveal the hidden foundations of this milestone in modern storytelling. Edited with notes by Leslie S. Klinger, this new edition draws upon critical and scholastic commentary, in-depth interviews with Dave Gibbons, and previously unseen original source material. Klinger provides the reader with a unique and comprehensive view of Watchmen as both a singular artistic achievement and a transformative event in the history of comics as a medium. Set in a world in which history has been forever altered by the existence of superheroes, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' monumental graphic novel Watchmen is one of the most influential comic book series of all time. Following two generations of masked crime-fighters from the end of World War II to the height of the Cold War, this compelling tale unfolds from …

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  • Graphic Novels
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Fantasy
  • Graphic Novels - General
  • Fiction / General
  • Fiction - General
  • Graphic Novels - Superheroes
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