DC's executive editor at the time, SEC Ordordano, loved the field ... Except for the weeks. Giordano began his career as a comic book artist in Charlton, so he had a "father -in -law" for those characters, according to Moore.

"(Orordordano) really didn't want to give his babies to butchers and not to sin, that's what it would be," Moore told the comics magazine. Plus, if the "guards" played Charlton's characters, it would limit what DC could do with them in later stories. Giordano asked Moore and Gibbons to create original characters instead, and in retrospect Moore thought the "guards" worked better. At the time, however, he argued that the original characters could be distracted from the book's nostalgia and "resonance".

"In the end, I realized that if I wrote the characters for replacement well enough, so that (...) certain aspects of them returned a kind of generic resonance to a superhero or closeness to the reader, then it can work," Moore explained to the artist with comics.

Moore and Gibbons still used Charlton's characters as plans for "guards". Rorschah is the question: a paranoid detective with Fedora and Mask. The face of the question is an empty skin color mask, while Rorschah is ink; He (like the Lensistist Ditko) sees the world in black and white. Nite-Howl is a blue beetle, an inventor with floating animals. There were two blue bugs (Ted Cord planted the original Dan Garrett), and so did two nor: Dan Dreyberg and the old original nor-olo, Hollis Mason.

Doctor Manhattan is based on Captain Atom with nuclear power, and the smartest man in the world, Osimandias, is Peter Canon Aka Thunderbolt (who could use unused parts of his brain). Svilk Specter replaced the night night as a female lead, but Moore certainly attracted more to the black canaring in the DC heroine.

Finally, the murdered superhero evolved from Christopher Smith/peacemaker in Edward Blake/comedian.