Also, things at DC were pretty busy that twelve plus months that Watchmen was coming out. Crisis on Infinite Earths had just finished and the birth of the new post-Crisis "DC Universe" were just beginning.
Here's a look at selected DC titles, month-to-month (thanks to Mike's Amazing World of DC website's "Time Machine"):
June 1986 (cover date "September 1986): Watchmen #1; also, the last issue of DC Comics Presents (#97), the "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" two-parter in Superman #423 and Action Comics #583, the last issue of the Batman: The Dark Knight mini-series (#4); others: http://dcindexes.com/
July 1986 (cover date: "October 1986"): Watchmen #2; also, Batman #400, John Byrne's Man of Steel begins (#1 and 2); others: http://dcindexes.com/
August 1986 (cover date: "November 1986"): Watchmen #3; also, Men of Steel #3 and 4, Legends mini-series begins (#1) and Legends crossovers in many of DC other titles; others: http://dcindexes.com/
September 1986 (cover date: "December 1986") : Watchmen #4; also, Man of Steel #5 and 6, Legends #2, DC's Star Trek title celebrated the 20th anniversary of the original television series in its 33rd issue, DC spun Cosmic Boy off into his own mini-series (Cosmic Boy #1), Alan Davis was drawing Detective Comics (#569); others: http://dcindexes.com/
October 1986 (cover date: "January 1987"): Watchmen #5; also, Legends #3, the Superman "revamp" titles all began (Superman #1, Adventures of Superman #424, Action Comics #584), the History of the DC Universe two-part mini-series began (#1); also, http://dcindexes.com/
November 1986 (cover date: "February 1987"): Watchmen #6; also, Legends #4, Perez's Wonder Woman revamp begins (#1), "Batman: Year One" begins in Batman (#404), History of the DC Universe #2, Denny O'Neil and Denys Cowan's The Question series begins (#1; only bought a couple issues of this one, though); also, http://dcindexes.com/
(I'm going to have to split this into two entries as Blogger is saying that I can't put as many labels as I want to here ("1986-09 (Comics)", "1986-10 (Comics)", etc.).)
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