WATCHMEN #4 (of 12) 1986, DC Gibbons/Moore John F. Kennedy-app. VF-NM FREE Ship!

Description: WATCHMEN #4 (of 12) 1986, DC Gibbons/Moore John F. Kennedy-app. VF-NM FREE Shipping! Very Fine-Near Mint: (9.0, my estimate): Read Gently/Stored Safely/Always Bagged & Boarded/One Owner (Me) Complete, well-centered covers (a few light impressions); some minor wear, ticks to decent spine (see images...) Fast and FREE Economy Shipping! (USPS w/tracking) Click "Seller's Other Items" to see More Comics for Sale! (Watchmen #4)Basic Information: Published-December 1986 Comic Age-Copper Cover Price-1.50 Creators: Writer-Alan Moore Interior Artist-Dave Gibbons Cover Artist-Dave Gibbons Inker-Dave Gibbons Letterer-Dave Gibbons Colorist-John Higgins Editor-Len Wein Stories: Stories may contain spoilers WATCHMAKER * John F. Kennedy Appearance On Mars, Dr. Manhattan drops the photograph of himself and Janey Slater on the Martian soil and revisits various turning points in his life. In August 7th of 1945, a sixteen-year-old Jon Osterman is in the middle of assembling a watch when his father, a watch-maker, shows him the news of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Confronted with the undeniable facts of the theory of relativity, the elder Osterman declares his profession outdated and throws his son's watch-making parts out the windows, urging Jon to instead pursue a career studying nuclear physics. Jon does so in which he attends Princeton University in 1948, graduating with a PhD in atomic physics in 1958. By 1959, Jon is employed at Gila Flats in Arizona, where experiments are being performed concerning the 'intrinsic fields' of physical objects. He meets Professor Milton Glass, his colleague Wally Weaver, and his love interest Janey Slater. During a trip to New Jersey, Jon and Janey visit an amusement park. There, Janey's watchband breaks and is accidentally stepped on by a fat man. Jon decides to fix the watch and finally consummate his relationship with Janey. One month later, on August, shortly after his thirtieth birthday, Jon plans to give Janey the repaired watch, only to discover he has left it in his lab coat which is inside the intrinsic field experiment test chamber. When retrieving his coat inside the chamber, he is accidentally locked in. Once Professor Glass and the others find Jon, they are shocked and horrified. Glass tells John that the chamber door locked automatically and the generators have already begun warming up to begin an experiment: removing the intrinsic field from cell block fifteen. Jon is locked in and the door cannot be opened or overriden in the countdown. Jon could only accept death and examines the watch he has put back together while his colleagues - (except Janey, who cannot bear to see the last moment flees the room) - watch in horror as the countdown reaches zero. Jon is disintegrated in a flash of light. A month later, a series of strange events occur at Gila Flats involving the apparitions of a disembodied human circulatory nervous system and a muscled skeleton which last for several seconds. The residents believe the facility to be haunted until November 22nd, Jon returns as a tall, hairless, naked, blue-skinned man with incredible abilities. Jon returns to his life with Janey, but remains somewhat emotionless and distant among his peers. A year later, on February 1960, the American government recruited Jon as their military asset and touted him before the public as "Dr. Manhattan," the first super-hero. He is also provided with a costume which he begrudgingly accepts, though he refuses to accept the icon design which is provided for him (this being a stylized orbital model of the atom). Instead, Jon chooses as his emblem a representation of a hydrogen atom, whose simplicity he declares to be something that kindles his respect; Accordingly, he painlessly burns the mark into his forehead. Despite being considered America's greatest weapon, Jon wasn't able to prevent certain disasters such as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, even though he is aware it is going to happen, as he meets the President. By 1966, during the first and only meeting of the Crimebusters, Jon fell in love with the then sixteen-year-old Silk Spectre, Laurie Juspeczyk, and bitterly ends his marriage with Janey. By 1970, Jon's true name is revealed to the public as his father had passed away in 1969 and there is no reason to conceal it. In 1971, Jon is requested by President Richard Nixon to intervene in the Vietnam War alongside the Comedian. Within two months, the United States has won the war, forever tipping the balance of the Cold War in the West's favor. In 1975, Nixon proposed a new constitutional amendment that would allow the President to have an extended....

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