Popular wisdom has it that a big reason was DC executives, up to and including Publisher and President from 2002-09 Paul Levitz, who were said to have acted as a bulwark against encroachment into Moore and Gibbons' masterpiece. RELATED: Moore & Gibbons Originally Planned Lighter DCU Series After Watchmen But after the collapse of ABC, what stopped them? So there would be good reason for DC not to dip into the Watchmen well in order to keep their author happy and perhaps get the next grand literary epic out of him. There may have been both contractual and political reasons for this while the contractual aspect may remain a mystery, it's certainly clear that Moore would not have approved new Watchmen stories, except perhaps for his once-planned Minutemen series with Gibbons. While DC Comics owned Watchmen, the publisher did not attempt to spin off or cross over the characters for more than 25 years. Other acclaimed one-offs and shorts include "For the Man Who Has Everything" in Superman Annual #11 and "Mogo Doesn't Socialize" in Green Lantern #188, both illustrated by Moore's Watchmen partner Dave Gibbons, and the still-controversial Batman: The Killing Joke with Brian Bolland. He also provided a send-off for the pre- Crisis Superman with the two-part "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" which remains, by many accounts, one of the greatest Superman stories ever told. Moore had previously enjoyed a solid working relationship with DC, notably reinventing Swamp Thing as part of a celebrated run with the character and establishing, along with Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Peter Milligan's Shade the Changing Man, a "mature readers" niche at DC Comics that would later blossom into the Vertigo imprint. With the arrival of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Doomsday Clock #1 this week, which begins a twelve-part epic (mirroring in structure Moore and Dave Gibbons' original) that will see Superman face off directly against Manhattan and Ozymandias, it's time to review a grudge thirty years in the making. RELATED: Doomsday Clock: How Ozymandias’ Watchmen Plan Unraveled
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