Bloody shards of glass in a broken window high up in a skyscraper.
Twenty-seventh printing available November 6, 2013 (per comiclist.com).
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #124.
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Frontispiece: first 2 pages spell "WATC", with first page on inside front cover. Third page is solid black.
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Title pages, listing credits and publishing information.
"With special thanks to Neil Gaiman, Mike Lake, Pat Mills, and Joe Orlando."
"Chapter I" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if excerpts from a book, "Under The Hood", by Hollis Mason [Nite Owl].
Picture of a clock at 11:49, on otherwise black page.
"Chapter II" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if excerpts from a book, "Under The Hood", by Hollis Mason [Nite Owl].
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"Chapter III" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if excerpts from a book, "Under The Hood", by Hollis Mason [Nite Owl].
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"Chapter IV" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if an article by Prof. Milton Glass.
Picture of a clock at 11:52, with some blood running from top of page, on otherwise black page.
"Chapter V" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if a Chapter 5 excerpted from a book, "Treasure Island Treasury of Comics."
Picture of a clock at 11:53, with some blood running from top of page, on otherwise black page.
"Chapter VI" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if the arrest report for Rorschach, along with various supporting documents.
Picture of a clock at 11:54, with blood running from top down about 1/4 of the page, on otherwise black page.
"Chapter VII" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if a magazine article by Daniel Dreiberg [Nite Owl].
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"Chapter VIII" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if a printer's paste-up copy of an issue of "New Frontiersman" newspaper.
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"Chapter IX" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if items in a scrapbook kept by Sally Juspeczyk [Sally Jupiter].
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"Chapter X" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if several internal memos and letters of the Veidt companies.
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"Chapter XI" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Text with illustrations. Written as if an article in magazine "Nova Express" by Doug Roth. Includes "ad" for Nostalgia cologne.
Picture of a clock at 11:59, with blood running from top down to the clock, covering the remainder of page.
"Chapter XII" replaces "Watchmen" from original cover.
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Picture of a clock at 12:00, with blood nearly covering clock and page.
in Watchmen (DC, 1987 series) (1987)
in Watchmen (DC, 2013 series) ([July] 2013)
in Watchmen (New Edition) (DC, 2014 series) ([July] 2014)
in Watchmen (DC Modern Classics Edition) (DC, 2019 series) (2018 [May 2019])
in Watchmen (New Edition) (DC, 2019 series) ([October] 2019)
in Watchmen: DC Compact Comics Edition (DC, 2024 series) ([August] 2024)Quote from Juvenal's "Satires": "Who watches the Watchmen?"
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Last 2 pages spell "HMEN", with final page on inside back cover.