Watchmen #4-9 (1986-1987)

(Carry over from April 5, 2009 blog entry. Partially reposted here. See http://ytrek.blogspot.com/2009/04/watchmen-4-9-1986-1987.html for complete post.)

Watchmen #4-9 [Grand Comics Database links: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Comic Book Database: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
(December 1986, January through May 1987)
DC Comics
(Version read: Watchmen trade paperback edition (1987) [LibraryThing] [Amazon])

Credits:
Writer: Alan Moore
Penciller: Dave Gibbons
Inker: Dave Gibbons

Series Notes: Numbers 4-9 of a 12 issue limited series. Each issue has a primary story (#4: "Watchmaker", #5: "Fearful Symmetry", #6: "The Abyss Gazes Also", #7: "A Brother to Dragons", #8: "Old Ghosts", #9: "The Darkness of Mere Being") and secondary back up text features (#4: a supposed article or book introduction addressing Dr. Manhattan's impact on political events; #5: a faux history of the comic book, Tales of the Black Freighter, seen in the Watchmen lead stories; #6: Rorschach's police report; #7: an article supposedly written by Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl 2) for an ornithological society journal; #8: an editorial in the right wing New Frontiersman newspaper; #9: Sally Jupiter's (Silk Spectre 1) scrapbook).