When Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons first sat down to flesh out the world of Watchmen , which Time magazine recently named one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, the creative team discovered that they had both been influenced by the same comic-book story from the April-May 1953 issue of Mad magazine—"Superduperman!" ''We wanted to take Superduperman 180 degrees—dramatic, instead of comedic,'' said Moore in Watchmen: An Oral History . Without "Superduperman," which inspired ...