The interesting part about Watchmen is that DC duped Moore out of the rights to the comics (and later made some pretty bad prequel comics), which deteriorated t

The interesting part about Watchmen is that DC duped Moore out of the rights to the comics (and later made some pretty bad prequel comics), which deteriorated their relationship. You still hear him talk about it in interviews today. If I'm not mistaken a similar thing happened to the creator of batman. While public domain doesn't give Moore back his rights, I'm sure he'll rest a little easier knowing DC doesn't own his series anymore.