In the early 1940s, a fashion of costumed adventurers struck the United States in which several individuals disguised themselves to do justice. Among them, the Comedian, the Hibou, the Soy Spectre, Captain Metropolis, Judge Masqué, the Insect Man, the Silhouette and Bill Dollar came together into an organization, the Minutemen, for better and especially worse.
Comics
2014
Action
Superhero
Before Watchmen
- Urban Comics Publisher
- Darwyn Cooke Writer
- Darwyn Cooke Artist
- Brian Azzarello Writer
- John Higgins Writer
- John Higgins Artist
- Joe Michaël Straczynski Writer
- Len Wein Writer
- Amanda Conner Writer
- Amanda Conner Artist
- Steve Rude Artist
- Lee Bermejo Artist
- Jeffrey G. Jones Artist
- Andy Kubert Artist
- Jae Lee Artist
- Adam Hughes Artist
- Eduardo Risso Artist
Details
- Type
- Comics
- Release
- 2014-01-24 — 2014
- Countries
- États-Unis
- Original language
- English
- Genres
- Action, Superhero
- Volumes
- 8
- Status
- Completed
- Information verified on
- 9 octobre 2026
Synopsis
Before Watchmen
Issues
Issues (8)
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Volume 1 — Minutemen
In the early 1940s, a fashion of costumed adventurers struck the United States in which several individuals disguised themselves to do justice. Among them, the Comedian, the Hibou, the Soy Spectre, Captain Metropolis, Judge Masqué, the Insect Man, the Silhouette and Bill Dollar came together into an organization, the Minutemen, for better and especially worse.
Volume 2 — Companion
How did Bill Brady, a young athlete from a Kansas university, become the super heroic mascot of a prestigious New York bank? What dark events surround the childhood of the impenetrable Moloch? What is the true story of the cursed pirate Gordon McLachlan? It's time to take a look at these mysterious characters.
Volume 3 — Rorschach
In the New York of the 1970s, the barons of organized crime reigned in control. Rorschach In the New-York of the 1970's, the gangs of organized crime ruled. Rorshach, for whom good and evil had no intermediary, fought tirelessly against the proliferation of illicit activities on the streets of his city. In doing so, he was quickly targeted by a criminal whose drug and prostitution were the livelihood. Focusing on him, Rorschash made the mistake of letting another one go unpunished...
Volume 4 — Soy Spectre
Laurie Jupiter is the daughter of the first Soyfly Spectre, a member of the 1940s Minutemen. When she was in the press to take over the torch and become a costumed vigilante, Laurie decides to run away with her boyfriend Greg for the San Francisco Flower Power. But the psychedelic road she takes will be swung at by all kinds of stumps for this stubborn young girl, and the transition to adulthood will not be without blows or wounds.
Volume 5 — Ozymandias
Adrian Veidt is an intellectual and physical prodigy that has experienced a staggering ascent as a self-made man of finance. Traumatized by the death of his companion Miranda St John, terrified by an overdose, he decided to wear a costume and mask, took the pseudonym of Ozymandias and cleared the streets of organized crime. Content: Before Watchmen: Ozymanmias #1-6
Volume 6 — The Owl
In the 1940s, Hollis Mason was the Hibou, but a final investigation and weight of years ended up pushing him to a deserved retirement. But shortly before this serious decision, Hollis made known to him an ingenious boy named Daniel Dreiberg, who knew how to break through the secret of his double identity. Taking him under his wing, Hollis entrusted him with all the secrets of the anti-crime struggle and trained him to make him not his partner, as he believed, but his successor.
Volume 7 — The Comedian
Heroes of the Pacific War, Eddie Blake, says the Comedian has forged friendship with a certain John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But his assassination in the 1960s resulted in the breaking up of the last vestiges of idealism left to him. Now, the Comedian had become uncontrollable and had only enjoyed one goal: show the world the extent of the cosmic farce that existence represented. Content: Before Watchmen: Comedian #1-6
Volume 8 — Dr. Manhattan
Jon Osterman, son of a watchmaker, has become a specialist in nuclear science. But an accident in a particle-cannon test chamber has transformed him forever. Now, Dr Manhattan, he is the same as a god. Able to restructure reality at his own discretion, he sees space-time as a finite thing: the counterpart is that it gradually desolidates itself from humanity. Contains: Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1-4