CATALOG RECORD
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
first appearance of Gordon McClachlan and Crimson Corsair
WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Gordon McClachlan (Curse of Crimson Corsair) — introduction
- Crimson Corsair (Watchmen) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- August 2012
- On sale
- June 6, 2012
- In stores
- June 6, 2012
- Pages
- 36
Values
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Editions and covers (6)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
Story arc: The Devil in the Deep
This is part 1 of 8. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen (2012) #1
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre (2012) #1
- Before Watchmen: Comedian (2012) #1
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl (2012) #1
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen (2012) #2
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre (2012) #2
- Before Watchmen: Comedian (2012) #2
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl (2012) #2
Also part of: The Minute of Truth, Before Watchmen
Creators
Stories
- The Minute of Truth, Chapter One: Eight Minutes · 26 pages
Hollis Mason, the retired Nite Owl, reviews the early "masks" and how they came to be members of the Minutemen.
- The Devil in the Deep... Part One · 2 pages
Publisher’s description
Darwyn Cooke brings readers the tale of the Minutemen. Formed in 1939 by Captain Metropolis and Sally Jupiter, the team brought together some of the most well known crime-fighters of the era. But public glitz and glamour only hide the grim and gritty reality behind the masks.
Characters
Reprinted in
Before Watchmen Omnibus (2019), Before Watchmen: Minutemen / Silk Spectre (2013), Before Watchmen: Ozymandias / Crimson Corsair (2013), Before Watchmen: Minutemen / Silk Spectre (2014), Before Watchmen: Ozymandias / Crimson Corsair (2014)