<P> Watchmen is a twelve - issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore , Dave Gibbons , and John Higgins , published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 . Watchmen focuses on six main characters : the Comedian , Doctor Manhattan , the Nite Owl , Ozymandias , Rorschach , and the Silk Spectre . These characters were originally based on the Mighty Crusaders and then reworked in an unsolicited proposal to fit superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early 1980s . Series writer Alan Moore created the main characters to present six `` radically opposing ways '' to perceive the world , and to give readers of the story the privilege of determining which one was most morally comprehensible . </P>
<P> Watchmen is a twelve - issue comic book limited series created by Alan Moore , Dave Gibbons , and John Higgins , published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 . Watchmen focuses on six main characters : the Comedian , Doctor Manhattan , the Nite Owl , Ozymandias , Rorschach , and the Silk Spectre . These characters were originally based on the Mighty Crusaders and then reworked in an unsolicited proposal to fit superhero properties DC had acquired from Charlton Comics in the early 1980s . Series writer Alan Moore created the main characters to present six `` radically opposing ways '' to perceive the world , and to give readers of the story the privilege of determining which one was most morally comprehensible . </P>
who are the watchmen characters based off of
who are the watchmen characters based off of
the Mighty Crusaders
the Mighty Crusaders