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Will Doomsday Clock Require a Thirteenth Issue?

Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, published by DC Comics has a very particular design sense inspired by the original Watchmen design. Such as no ads, no house ads, every page being part of the Doomsday Clock reading experience and narrative. Including the front pages and back pages. Each issue's frontispieces and endpieces, when positioned next to each other, create a letter of DOOMSDAY CLOCK in order.

So, as noted by AlbinoFish on Reddit, issue 1 looks like this.

Issue 2 like this.

Issue 3 the same.

Issue 4.

Issue 5.

And back to the beginning with issue 6.

You get the idea. The thing is, Doomsday Clock is, like Watchmen, a 12 issue series. And there are thirteen letters in Doomsday Clock. Will they have to publish a thirteenth issue in order to accommodate the design? Or have they always been planning for the book to be thirteen issues in length, and will reveal a surprise thirteenth issue later down the line? Or will they be happy with the pages just spelling out DOOMSDAYCLOC?

We will discover at a later date.

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