Never Judge a Comic By Its Cover... Watchmen #1 Cover
Here is what we see on the cover of Watchmen #1: in the main image there is most of a smiley face badge, occupying nearly all of the bottom half of the image. The badge is bright yellow, with two long black oval eyes, and a smile with a smaller long oval shape at the end of it, signifying a crease at the corner of the mouth, also all in black. Across the right eye (on the left-hand side as we look at it) is a splash of blood. The badge is lying at an angle of about 45 degrees, so that the blood splash across the eye is very nearly vertical. Behind the badge, on the ground, we see a background of flowing diluted blood that is being washed from the sidewalk, a small portion of which we can see at the top right-hand corner of the image. Down the left-hand side of the cover is the title, and assorted pieces of relevant information, including issue number, date of publication, company logo. These are: the word WATCHMEN written vertically in a large blocky unornamented font, starting ...
