Before Watchmen: Comedian #1

Dates

Cover date

August 2012

On sale

June 20, 2012

In stores

June 20, 2012

Pages

36

Editions and covers (4)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Original edition

  Barcode 76194130978100111

  This edition’s page
• Eduardo Risso Cover

  Barcode 76194130978100121

  Source ↗
• Combo-Pack

  Barcode 76194130978100141

  This edition’s page
• Jim Lee / Scott Williams Cover

  Barcode 76194130978100131

  This edition’s page

Story arc: The Devil in the Deep

This is part 3 of 8. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

1. Before Watchmen: Minutemen (2012) #1
2. Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre (2012) #1
3. Before Watchmen: Comedian (2012) #1
4. Before Watchmen: Nite Owl (2012) #1
5. Before Watchmen: Minutemen (2012) #2
6. Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre (2012) #2
7. Before Watchmen: Comedian (2012) #2
8. Before Watchmen: Nite Owl (2012) #2

Creators

Publisher’s description

What happens when you find out the whole world is a joke? You become the Comedian. Writer Brian Azzarello teams with artist J.G. Jones to explore the mad mind of one of WATCHMEN's darkest characters.

Reprinted in

Before Watchmen Omnibus (2019), Before Watchmen: Comedian / Rorschach (2013), Before Watchmen: Ozymandias / Crimson Corsair (2013), Before Watchmen: Ozymandias / Crimson Corsair (2014), Before Watchmen: Comedian / Rorschach (2014)