WATCHMEN Collected Edition Alan Moore Dave Gibbons TITAN BOOKS Paperback

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Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! Check out my other items ! Sign up for my email newsletters by adding my eBay Shop to your favourites WATCHMEN Alan Moore Dave Gibbons TITAN BOOKS Paperback Very Good Condition-light wear/creasing to cover , inner pages excellent Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore , artist Dave Gibbons , and colorist 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 country is edging towards a nuclear war with the Soviet Union , freelance costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and most former superheroes are in retirement or working for the government. The story focuses on the personal development and struggles of the protagonists as an investigation into the murder of a government sponsored superhero pulls them out of retirement, and eventually leads them to confront a plot that would stave off nuclear war by killing millions of people.Creatively, the focus of Watchmen is on its structure. Gibbons used a nine-panel grid layout throughout the series and added recurring symbols such as a blood-stained smiley face . All but the last issue feature supplemental fictional documents that add to the series' backstory, and the narrative is intertwined with that of another story, a fictional pirate comic titled Tales of the Black Freighter , which one of the characters reads. Structured as a nonlinear narrative , the story skips through space, time and plot. Watchmen has received critical acclaim both in the comics and mainstream press, and is regarded by critics as a seminal text of the comics medium. After a number of attempts to adapt the series into a feature film, director Zack Snyder 's Watchmen was released in 2009. PLEASE NOTE-I will only ship to the following countries, if the buyer pays for INTERNATIONAL RECORDED DELIVERY on top of postage (PLEASE ASK FOR QUOTE) -: Aruba, Angola, Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, United Arab Emirates, Antigua and Barbuda, Burundi, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bahrain, Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Botswana, Central African Republic, Cote d Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Comoros, Cape Verde Islands, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Western Sahara, Ethiopia, Gabon Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Guadeloupe, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Saint Lucia, Lesotho, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Montserrat, Martinique, Mauritius, Malawi, Mayotte, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, El Salvador, Somalia, Swaziland, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Tanzania, Uganda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Yemen, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa, Central America and Caribbean, Middle East read more

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