Watchmen

Supercbbox| title = Watchmen | comic_color = background:#8080ff | image = 250px | caption = Cover art for the 1987 U.S. (left) and U.K. (right) collected editions of Watchmen, published by DC Comics and Titan Books. | schedule = Monthly | format = limited series | publisher = DC Comics | date = September 1986 – October 1987 | issues = Twelve | past_current_color = background:#ff9275 | main_char_team = Second Nite OwlDr. ManhattanRorschachSecond Silk SpectreOzymandiasComedian | writers = Alan Moore | artists = Dave Gibbons | pencillers = | inkers = | colorists = John Higgins | creative_team_month = | creative_team_year = | creators = Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Originally published by DC Comics as a monthly limited series from 1986 to 1987, it was later republished as a trade paperback. It was one of the first superhero comic books to present itself as serious literature, and it also popularized the more adult-oriented "graphic novel" format. Watchmen is the only graphic novel to have won a Hugo Award, and is also the ...