Dates
- Cover date
- October 2012
- On sale
- August 22, 2012
- In stores
- August 22, 2012
- Pages
- 36
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 17. 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: Dr. Manhattan #1
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3
- Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
- Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
- Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4
- Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
Creators
pencils: Adam Hughes, John Higginsinks: Adam Hughes, John Higginscolors: Adam Hughes, Laura Martin, John Higginsscript: J. Michael Straczynski, John Higginsletters: Steve Wands, Sal Ciprianoediting: Wil Moss, Camilla Zhang, Mark Chiarello
Stories
- What's in the Box? · 23 pages
- The Evil That Men Do...! Part Two · 2 pages
Publisher’s description
For Dr. Manhattan, past, present, and future are one and the same. But as he observes the events of his life, do they remain the same? Or are they changed? The very fact of his existence may have altered the nature of what will or will not be...
Reprinted in
Before Watchmen Omnibus (2019), Before Watchmen: Nite Owl / Dr. Manhattan (2013), Before Watchmen: Ozymandias / Crimson Corsair (2013), Before Watchmen: Nite Owl / Dr. Manhattan (2014), Before Watchmen: Ozymandias / Crimson Corsair (2014)