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'Watchmen'

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Before it became fashionable to psychoanalyze our superheroes, there was " Watchmen," a DC Comics series whose masked avengers ranged from flawed to half-insane. First published in 1986, "Watchmen" helped bring the clean-cut superhero into the age of moral relativism, and its impact has stretched beyond comics into Hollywood. You can feel it in " Spider-Man," "Hulk," "Hellboy" and others.

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