Dates
- Cover date
- October 2012
- On sale
- August 15, 2012
- In stores
- August 15, 2012
- Pages
- 36
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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: Before Watchmen
This is part 11 of 35. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
- Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1
- Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #1
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
- Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
- Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #2
- Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
- Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
- Before Watchmen: Comedian #3
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
- Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #3
- Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
- Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4
- Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #4
- Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
- Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
- Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6
- Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1
- Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #5
- Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
- Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
- Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
- Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #6
- Before Watchmen: Comedian #6
Creators
pencils: Lee Bermejo, John Higginsinks: Lee Bermejo, John Higginscolors: Lee Bermejo, Barbara Ciardo, John Higginsscript: Brian Azzarello, Len Wein, John Higginsletters: Rob Leigh, Sal Ciprianoediting: Wil Moss, Mark Chiarello, Camilla Zhang
Stories
- Damntown · 24 pages
- The Evil That Men Do...! Part One · 2 pages
Publisher’s description
New York City. 1977. Dirty. Hot. Dangerous. This town is going to the dogs, and only one man has the guts to clean it up--Rorschach. But with a serial killer on the loose and a new drug lord looking to increase his territory, one man might not be enough.
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)