Watchmen #10

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CGC records 692 graded copies for Watchmen #10 (1987). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

Two Riders Were Approaching

President Nixon (who is holding the nuclear football) and Vice President Ford head deep inside a government emergency bunker. The former learns that Russian tanks are massing along the East German border in response to "western alarmism". His advisers ponder on what to do next, and Nixon tells them that they stay at DEFCON Two—the next step to nuclear war—and wait.

Meanwhile, Dan and Kovacs have been in the Owlship hiding in New York Harbor. Before continuing their investigation, they head to Kovacs' old apartment to pick up his spare costume and journal. They run into Kovacs' landlady, Dolores Shairp, who is instantly afraid of Kovacs as she had besmirched him on television. Kovacs accosts her, but decides to leave Shairp alone upon taking silent pity on her children.

In Antarctica, Adrian Veidt arrives at his retreat. He informs his associates that the "delivery" was successful. He studies his wall of televisions and divulges from the broadcasts that everything he's seeing means that a war is inevitable.

Back in New York, Rorschach is back in his costume. He and Nite Owl argue whether they should be looking for a "mask" killer, or trying to uncover why somebody killed The Comedian because he found out the plot to get rid of Dr. Manhattan. Dan is very certain that the perpetrators are tied to Dimensional Developments, who employed Moloch and therefore may have bugged his home and learned about Edward Blake's involvement and Rorschach's investigations. After a few outbursts, Dan apologizes to Rorschach, saying that he shouldn't have said any of that. Rorschach then, to Dan's surprise exhibits a rare moment empathy offering his hand in apology for his actions. The two agree that either way, the next course of action is to interrogate some of the criminal element to try and uncover some leads.

The news vendor rambles about the inevitable war between America and the Soviets, but didn't expect to be this long to wait. He is then approached by two members of Jehovah's Witnesses who offer him *The Watchtower* about God's plan to end the world. The news vendor contemptuously declines.

Rorschach leads Nite Owl to Happy Harry's and demands the patrons for a man who is well acquainted with Roy Victor Chess, the man who attempted to assassinate Adrian Veidt. The people turn their attention to a Pyramid Industries employee. When the man refuses to cooperate, Rorschach interrogates him by firmly breaking the man's glass in his own hand. The man caves in, revealing that he had been paid by his boss, a freight coordinator, to hire Chess for a hit and gave him a brown envelope. But he protest that he didn't know Chess's target was Veidt. Furthermore, he is desperate for protection because all the other freight handlers, including his boss, that were involved are dead and he is certain that he would be next.

During Rorschach's interrogation, Nite-Owl approaches a knot-top, who apologetically tells that he has nothing to do with Hollis Mason's death. However, Nite-Owl begins strangling him, angrily demanding the identities of the people who murdered Hollis. The knot-top truthfully tells him that he doesn't know. Regardless, Nite-Owl threatens the man to tell his fellow gangs that he will come to kill them all. Rorschach intervenes and stops Nite-Owl from killing the knot-top in front of the patrons. The pair leave the bar before heading for Adrian Veidt's office to give him the news and convince him to help them.

Somewhere on the ocean, comic book writer Max Shea and painter Hira Manish are getting intimate in the hold of a ship. They are happy to be finally leaving the island and be done with the super-secret "movie" they were paid to work on with some other "missing" artists. Shea then notices something under a tarpaulin behind Hira and is horrified to see it is a huge bomb that will go off in seconds. When Hira asks what's wrong, Shea holds tightly to her, saying, "Nothing's wrong. Hold me." The bomb explodes, obliterating the ship and everyone on board.

Dan and Rorschach sneak into Veidt's penthouse office and learn that Veidt is gone. They find an appointment book which reads Veidt left for Karnak. On a hunch, Nite Owl hacks into Veidt's computer system and discovers that Veidt owns both Pyramid Deliveries and Dimensional Developments: he is the mastermind behind Manhattan's exile and The Comedian's death. Surprised by this discovery, Rorschach and Nite Owl head off to Karnak to confront Veidt. Before leaving, Rorschach makes one final journal entry detailing Veidt's role in the plot, and drops it into a mailbox to be deliver to the *New Frontiersman* newspaper office.

After Nite Owl and Rorschach land the Owlship in Antarctica, they head to Veidt's retreat via hoverbikes. Unknown to them, they are being monitored by Veidt's surveillance cameras.

| Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Nite Owl (Dan Dreiberg)) * Rorschach (Walter Kovacs))

**Supporting Characters:** * *New Frontiersman* ** Hector Godfrey) ** Seymour David)

**Antagonists:** * "Criminal Fraternity" ** Knot-Tops * New York City Police Department * Ozymandias/"Mask Killer" (Adrian Veidt)) ** Bubastis) ** Veidt Enterprises *** Dimensional Developments *** Pyramid Deliveries **** Pyramid Deliveries employee ** Unnamed monster) * Soviets ** Red Army

**Other Characters:** * Alexander the Great) * Bernard (News vendor)) * Bernie (Comic book reader)) * The Creative Team All die ** Hira Manish) ** James Trafford March ** Linette Paley ** Max Shea) ** Norman Leith * Dolores Shairp) ** Dolores Shairp's children * Harry (Bartender) * Jehovah's Witnesses ** José * Promethean Cab Co. ** Joey * President Richard Nixon) ** United States Government *** G. Gordon Liddy) *** Dr. Henry Kissinger) *** Vice President Gerald Ford) ** United States Air Force ** United States Army * Robert Deschaines) * United States Postal Service|U.S. postman * Dr. Whittaker Furnesse * The Mariner In a comic book only * Rambo * Aline (Joey's ex-girlfriend) * Anubis * CIA * Comedian (Eddie Blake)) * Doctor Manhattan) * Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ** Death ** Famine ** Pestilence ** War * God * Hollis Mason) * Jesus Christ * Krystalnacht band * Laurie Juspeczyk) * Moloch (Edgar Jacobi)) * Pale Horse band) * Ramesses II * Roy Victor Chess) Real name revealed * Underboss) * Walt Feinberg) * Pat Nixon * Son of Sam

**Locations:** * Watchmen Universe ** 1985 *** Afghanistan *** Antarctica **** Karnak) Real name revealed *** Pacific Ocean **** Adrian Veidt's Island *** Pakistan *** United States of America **** Colorado ***** Cheyenne Mountain ****** NORAD bunker **** New York ***** New York City ****** The Bronx ******* Happy Harry's ****** East River ****** Manhattan ******* 7th Avenue (Manhattan)|7th Avenue ******** Bernard's Newsstand ******** Institute for Extraspatial Studies ******** Promethean Cab Co. ******** Utopia Theater ******* 8th Avenue (Manhattan)|8th Avenue ******** New York Postal Office ******* Madison Square Garden ******* New Frontiersman ******* Twin Towers ******* Veidt Tower ******* Walter Kovacs' Apartment ****** New York Subway ***** Sing-Sing Prison **** East Germany **** Egypt ***** Thebes ****** Karnak * Hell

**Items:** * *New York Gazette* * Nuclear football * *Rorschach's Journal* * Rorschach's Mask * "*Tales of the Black Freighter*"

**Vehicles:** * Air Force One * Air Force Two * Archie * Pyramid Deliveries ship

**Events:** * Cold War

**Concepts:** * Halloween * World War III)

Creative credits

Writers: Alan Moore

Interior art: Dave Gibbons

Color: John Higgins

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