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Frank Quitely, Dan Mora & Clay Mann Draw Watchmen For 40th Anniversary

Frank Quitely, Dan Mora, Clay Mann, Nicola Scott, Rafael Grampa, Chris Bachalo, Mikel Janin, and more draw Watchmen for 40th Anniversary

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  • DC Comics launches Watchmen 40th Anniversary variant covers in November 2026 across Batman, Nightwing, Superman and more.
  • Frank Quitely, Dan Mora and Clay Mann lead a stacked Watchmen 40th Anniversary artist lineup for DC’s new variants.
  • Nicola Scott, Rafael Grampa, Chris Bachalo, Mikel Janin and others join the Watchmen 40th Anniversary cover event.
  • DC also begins monthly Watchmen facsimile editions, plus an oversized WIP edition of Watchmen #1 by Dave Gibbons.

DC Comics will be running 40th Anniversary Watchmen variant covers as seen in their November 2026 solicits and solicitations. We have the ones from Frank Quitely, Dan Mora and Clay Mann, with Nicola Scott, Rafael Grampa, Chris Bachalo, Mahmud Asrar, Gerald Parel, Jorge Fornes, Mikel Janin, Rafael Albuquerque and Dan Hipp.

  • LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #3 CVR F RAFAEL GRAMPA
  • BATMAN #15 CVR F FRANK QUITELY
  • NIGHTWING #144 CVR D NICOLA SCOTT
  • DETECTIVE COMICS #1115 CVR D DAN MORA
  • SUPERMAN #44 CVR E CHRIS BACHALO
  • ACTION COMICS #1104 CVR D MAHMUD ASRAR
  • SUPERGIRL #19 CVR E GERALD PAREL
  • WONDER WOMAN #39 CVR E JORGE FORNES
  • EMPEROR AQUAMAN #23 CVR D MIKEL JANIN
  • JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #25 CVR F CLAY MANN
  • FLASH #39 CVR D RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
  • GREEN LANTERN #41 CVR D DAN HIPP

Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins was first published by DC Comics with Watchmen #1 in May 1986 and ran through October 1987. It remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award andwas also in Time Magazine's list of the 100 best novels. DC Comics is now publishing monthly facsimile editions of the 12 original issues, beginning with Watchmen #1 next month. A WIP edition of Watchmen #1 will also appear, presenting Dave Gibbons's original artwork at oversized 11″ × 17″ size, complete with a new introduction by the artist. Ostensibly a creator-owned work, Alan Moore has disowned the work a long time ago, after DC Comics refused to renegotiate the deal which has allowed them to own it by keeping it in print perpetually, as well as adaptations in other media and to publish prequels, sequels and spinoffs, without his agreement or authorisation, including the Watchmen movie, motion comic, animated series, live action TV series, the Before Watchmen comics, the Doomsday Clock unauthorised sequel, appearances in Death Metal and DC Rebirth. Though he did like Harry Partridge's Saturday Morning Watchmen…

 

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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