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Watchmen

by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Hardcover, 436 pages, Vertigo, List Price: $39.99 |

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Title: Watchmen
Author: Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

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As former members of a disbanded group of superheroes called the Crimebusters start turning up dead, the remaining members of the group try to discover the identity of the murderer before they, too, are killed. A graphic novel.

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