Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan (2012) #3

"Ego Sum"

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Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan Vol 1 #3

Ego Sum

Wide Were His Dragon Wings: Part Nine

Letterers

Sal Cipriano

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I am legion.

— Doctor Manhattan

Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan #3 is an issue of the series Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 2013. It was published on December 12, 2012.

Synopsis for "Ego Sum"

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Appearing in "Ego Sum"

Featured Characters:

Doctor Manhattan/"The Quantum Observer" (Jon Osterman) (Flashback and main story) (Also in a vision)

Supporting Characters:

Inge Osterman (Real name revealed) (First full appearance) (Dies in flashback) (Also in photo)
Janey Slater (Flashback only) (Also in a vision) (Also in photo)
Jon Osterman's Hypertime selves
- Doctor Manhattan (Alternate 1966)
- Jon Osterman (Alternate 1938) (Single appearance) (Dies in a vision) (Cameo)
- Jon Osterman (Alternate 1945) (Single appearance) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Jon Osterman (Alternate 1985) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Jon Osterman (Alternate 1958) (Mentioned only)
Josef Osterman (Flashback only) (Also in a vision)

Antagonists:

Nazis (First full appearance) (Flashback only)
- Wehrmacht
  - Sigmund (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

Brooklyn Dodgers (Single appearance) (In a vision) (Cameo)
Crimebusters (Flashback only)
- Captain Metropolis
- The Comedian (Also in a vision)
- Nite Owl (Dan Dreiberg)
- Ozymandias
- Rorschach
- Silk Spectre (Also in a vision)
Crimebusters (Alternate 1966) (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Rorschach
Edward Blake's Vietnamese lover (Unnamed) (Dies in a vision) (Cameo)
Hank Meadows (First appearance) (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Flashback only) (Cameo)
Hank Meadows (Alternate 1958) (Single appearance) (In a vision) (Cameo)
Janey Slater-Osterman (Alternate 1985) (Cameo)
Josef Osterman (Alternate 1945) (Single appearance) (In a vision) (Cameo)
Wally Weaver (Flashback only) (Cameo)
United States Air Force (In a vision) (Cameo)
God (Mentioned only)
Josef Osterman's mother (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)

Locations:

Hypertime (Unnamed)
- Timestream
- Watchmen Universe (Unnamed)
  - 1939
    - Germany (Flashback only)
      - Osterman House
    - United States of America
      - New York City (Flashback only)
  - 1945
    - United States of America
      - New York City (Flashback only)
        Osterman House
    - Japan
      - Hiroshima (Destroyed) (Mentioned only)
  - 1958
    - United States of America
      - Arizona
        Gila Flats
        Bestiary Bar
  - 1959
    - United States of America
      - Arizona
        Gila Flats (In a vision) (Cameo)
      - Palisandes Amusement Park
  - 1966
    - United States of America
      - New York City
        Nelson Gardner's Mansion
  - 1971
    - Vietnam (In a vision)
      - Saigon (In a vision)
  - 1985
    - Mars
- Alternate Watchmen Timeline (Josef Osterman never pushed Jon to become a scientist, so he never became Doctor Manhattan) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  - 1945
    - United States of America
      - New York City
        Ebbets Field (In a vision) (Cameo)
    - Japan
      - Hiroshima (Destroyed) (Mentioned only)
- Alternate Watchmen Timeline (Doctor Manhattan partners with Rorshach) (Unnamed)
  - 1966
    - United States of America
      - New York City
        Nelson Gardner's Mansion (Cameo)
      - Washington, D.C. (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Alternate Watchmen Timeline (Hank Meadows never died of cancer, so Jon Osterman was not employed in Gila Flats and never become Doctor Manhattan)
  - 1958
    - United States of America
      - Arizona
        Gila Flats (Cameo)
      - New Jersey
        Princeton
        Princeton University (Mentioned only)
- Alternate Watchmen Timeline (Jon Osterman is killed by Nazis in 1938) (Single appearance) (Unnamed)
  - 1938
    - Germany (In a vision) (Cameo)
- Alternate Watchmen Timeline (The Subtractor does not activate so Jon Osterman never becomes Doctor Manhattan)
  - 1959
    - United States of America
      - Arizona
        Gila Flats (In a vision) (Cameo)
  - 1985
    - United States of America
      - Washington, D.C.
        Georgetown
        Osterman House (In a vision) (Cameo)

Items:

Beer
Intrinsic Field Chamber
Janey Slater & Jon Osterman's Photo
Janey Slater's Watch
New York Gazette
Rorschach's Mask

Events:

Intrinsic Field Incident
Vietnam War (In a vision)
World War II (Flashback only)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (In a vision)

Concepts:

Connective Energy (Unnamed)
"Quantum Realities"
- Alternate Timelines
Time Travel

Synopsis for "Wide Were His Dragon Wings: Part Nine"

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Appearing in "Wide Were His Dragon Wings: Part Nine"

Featured Characters:

Gordon McClachlan

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Snakehead

Other Characters:

Satan (Mentioned only)

Locations:

1771
- Mexico (Unnamed)

Items:

"The Curse of the Crimson Corsair" (Behind the scenes)

Concepts:

Magic

Notes

"Wide Were His Dragon Wings" continues from Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5 and is concluded in Before Watchmen: Moloch #2.
"Ego Sum" is reprinted in Before Watchmen: Nite Owl/Dr. Manhattan.
"Wide Were His Dragon Wings, Part Nine" is reprinted in Before Watchmen: Ozymandias/Crimson Corsair.

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