Premise: Watchmen is an American comic-book limited series published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987 , and collected in 1987 . Watchmen depicts an alternate history where superheroes emerged in the 1940s and 1960s and their presence changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was never exposed . After a number of attempts to adapt the series into a feature film , director Zack Snyder 's Watchmen was released in 2009 . In 2012 , DC Comics published Before Watchmen , a comic-book series acting as a prequel to the original Watchmen series , without Moore and Gibbons ' involvement .
Hypothesis: Watchmen is a division of the Boston police department.
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