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Before They Were ‘Watchmen’: The Characters That Inspired Silk Spectre & The Comedian 
Splash Page | by Alan Kistler | Thu, Mar 5
As the story goes, Moore intended to write the characters’ swan song when DC bought the rights to Charlton heroes like “Peacemaker” and “Captain Atom” in 1983, but ended up creating a new team of characters based on Charlton’s roster for the story he had planned — a story that eventually be...
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