Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, V for Vendetta, Marvelman, Promethea, Lost Girls, Top 10, Alan Moore bibliography, Captain Britain, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Tom Strong, Batman: The Killing Joke, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, American Flagg , Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One, Jaspers' Warp, Albion, 1963, The Bojeffries Saga, For the Man Who Has Everything, Top 10: The Forty-Niners, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Twilight of the Superheroes, The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, Smax, Neonomicon, Alan Moore's The Courtyard, Big Numbers, Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths, Terra Obscura, Warpsmith, Future Shocks, DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, Tomorrow Stories, A Disease of Language, A Small Killing, Judgment Day, Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard, Skizz, Spawn/WildC.A.T.S., Alan Moore's Magic Words, Maxwell the Magic Cat. Excerpt: Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore's proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced the writer to create original characters instead. Moore used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties and to critique the superhero concept. Watchmen depicts an alternate history where superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s, helping the United States to win the Vietnam War. The cou...