Watchmen Poster #1 FRAMED Watchmen # 1 Cover (1986) Dave Gibbons / Alan Moore Cl

You are purchasing the item pictured, framed.  Priority mail, tracking and 50 insurance is included with purchase.  Item will be bagged to protect from dust, packed in packing peanuts and boxed.  Just open box and hang it on the wall...makes a perfect gift!
When Watchmen # 1 hit the direct sales racks in the summer of 1986, it not only jolted DC sales and set the world of super-hero comicc on its ear.  It also reintroduced a venerable feel-good logo-the smiley face- to pop cultural prominence.  Initially popularized in the 1960s by Harvey R. Ball, a graphic designer working for the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America, the grinning day-glo icon quickly became grist for parody in the hands of the nation's comic book artists.
In 1972, MAD magazine published a smiley cover with Alfred E. Neuman at its center.  DC's own Prez, a short-lived series about America's first teen president, had given the face a sinister twist in the form of Boss Smiley, a corrupt politician with a bi