Most fans of the Watchmen series are aware that Moore used classic heroes as inspiration for his band of misfits. Alan wanted to use characters that DC recently acquired from Charlton Comics ...

A suggestion was made to alter the characters into analogues of the Charlton heroes. So, along with artist Dave Gibbons, Moore turned the Sentinels and their colleagues into the cast of Watchmen.

And given that Watchmen also used its Charlton-based characters to echo DC’s bravest and boldest, well ... Many folks looked at this upcoming variant cover of Doomsday Clock #5 and assumed that ...

Originally titled "Who Killed the Peacemaker?" from the Charlton Comics character that inspired The Comedian, "Watchmen" is constructed as a murder mystery. Yet the plot is merely a vehicle to ...

Watchmen was originally meant to star Charlton superheroes such as the Question, Blue Beetle, and Peacemaker before Moore and Gibbons decided to create original characters based on those classics.

Who is he? Edward Blake, the Watchmen universe’s analogue to Nick Fury and Charlton Comics character Peacemaker. Getting his start as a costumed hero at the age of 16, Blake was driven by greed ...

“Who watches the watchmen?” Understandably, DC didn’t want to subject its newly acquired Charlton characters to a grim saga which would leave half of them either disillusioned or ...

In 1986, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons released Watchmen, a DC Comics series designed to deconstruct the superhero genre using ...

not to mention The Charlton characters upon whom his Watchmen characters are based.… So am I not allowed to do the same? No. I am not. I am not allowed. And yet… I am compelled.” That ...

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Dr. Manhattan is hands down the most powerful being in the Watchmen universe. He is a godlike character, who got his abilities when he, Jon Osterman, was accidently locked in a scientific test ...