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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a two comic book limited series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published under the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics. As of 2005 it comprises twelve issues (published as two six-issue limited series, each collected as in graphic novel form, but forming a single ongoing story), as well as a film adaptation of the first six-issue limited series. There is also a prequel short story, "Allan and the Sundered Veil", included in the book form of the first limited series. The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from Victorian era adventure literature actually existed. The world the characters inhabit is one far more technologically advanced than our own was in the same year.

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Overview

The League is assembled by the British government to protect the empire from various menaces, including the criminal genius Fu Manchu (Vol. 1) and the Martians from H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (Vol. 2).

The individual members of the League are:

The League are recruited for the Government by one Campion Bond. Bond is an original creation likely an homage to Margery Allingham's Albert Campion and Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Campion Bond deserves special attention because he may be the only character in the series who is an original creation of Moore's, assuming that he is not an ancestor of James Bond, as has been suggested by fans. Every other character in the series, from the dominatrix/schoolmistress Rosa Coote to single-panel throwaway characters like Inspector Dick Donovan, is an established character from a previous work of fiction or an ancestor of a character from modern-day fiction. This has lent the series considerable popularity with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance. This book is also a crucial part of the Wold Newton universe.

Sherlock Holmes and Dracula are notably absent from the League's adventures, though the former appears in a flashback sequence and the latter's connections to Mina Murray do not go unnoticed. Holmes is still believed by the public to be deceased following the events of "The Final Problem". Moore has noted that he felt these two seminal characters would overwhelm the rest of the cast, thus making the book a lot less fun.

The Victorian setting allowed Moore and O'Neill to insert 'in-jokes' and cameos from many of the great works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes. (In the first issue, there is a half-finished bridge to link Britain and France, referencing problems constructing the real-world Channel Tunnel.)

The juxtaposition of characters from different sources in the same story is similar to science fiction writer Philip José Farmer's works centering around the Wold Newton family.

It has been shown that there have been previous leagues and implied there will be others subsequently. In particular Volume 1 features a portait of a previous league, the heroes in the portrait appear to be:

According to the New Traveller's Almanac, an appendix to the trade paperback collection of The League Vol.2, the earliest incarnation of the League was known as "Prospero's Men" and consisted of:

  • Prospero the Duke of Milan, the sorcerer protagonist of Shakespeare's 1611 play The Tempest.
  • Caliban, Prospero's malformed, treacherous servant, also from The Tempest.
  • Ariel, a sprite and air sprit, bound to serve Prospero, also from The Tempest.
  • Christian, a pilgrim Everyman, protagonist of John Bunyan's 1678 novel The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come.
  • Captain Robert Owe-Much, a British explorer and discoverer of the Floating Island called Scoti Moria or Summer Island, President of the Council of the Society of Owe-Much, and the title character from Richard Head’s 1673 book, The Floating Island or a new Discovery Relating the Strange Adventure on a late Voyage from Lamberthana to Villa Franca, Alias Ramallia, to the Eastward of Terra Del Templo: By three Ships, viz., the ‘Pay-naught,’ the ‘Excuse,’ and the ‘Least-in-Sight’ under the Conduct of Captain Robert Owe-much: Describing the Nature of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Laws and Customs (published under the pseudonym Frank Careless).

This league collapsed in 1690 when Christian found the "heavenly country" for which he was seeking, and thus left this world. Allegedly, Prospero later followed him, as hinted in the Almanac.

Moore has announced his intentions to write the adventures of other Leagues in different historical eras. One possible group of heroes is seen in a portrait dated 1787 seen in the League's headquarters in volume 1 of the comic. A slightly different version of the portrait can be seen in the film version.

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Inspiration

The title and concept may be inspired by The League of Gentlemen (the novel and subsequent film, not the unrelated comedic television series) as well as the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. It may also have a seed in the comic book superhero teams Justice League of America and the Justice Society.

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Second press run on issue 5

Issue #5 of Volume one contained an authentic vintage advertisement for a "Marvel"-brand douche, which caused DC executive Paul Levitz to order the entire print run destroyed and reprinted with the offensive advertisement edited. Marvel Comics is DC's chief rival within the industry and Moore had had a public dispute with Marvel, his former employer. Some copies of the pulped print run did escape destruction and may well be the rarest modern comic book existing.

In a later title, Moore creates a "Miracle Douche Recall" headline on a newspaper, which is not only a reference to this furor, but is also a reference to the Marvelman/Miracleman furor, when Marvel Comics had previously forced Marvelman, which was written by Alan Moore, to change its name to Miracleman despite the "Marvelman" having been around for 40 years.

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Synopsis

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Volume one

Volume one opens with Mina Murray recruited by Campion Bond to assemble the League. Bond dispatches Miss Murray to Egypt along with an unnamed "sea captain" (who later we discover to be Captain Nemo). Whilst in Cairo, Murray finds Allan Quatermain, who has become an opium addict. The duo are forced to flee to a port after Quatermain defends Miss Murray from a group of Arabs who attempt to rape her, killing two of their number. Down at the docks, Nemo emerges from the Nautilus and blasts the pursuing "mohammedan rabble" with a large harpoon gun, rescuing Murray and Quatermain.

Their next assignment is to head to Paris in order to rendezvous with C. Auguste Dupin (a detective from Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue) and capture a beast-man who transpires to be Dr Jekyll/ Mr Hyde. He has been hiding in Paris after faking a suicide, and preying on prostitutes. With Jekyll/Hyde successfully captured and handed over to MI6, the remaining trio head to a girl's school in Edmonton, run by the sado-masochistic Miss Rosa Coote. Rumours abound that many of the female pupils have become impregnated by the Holy Spirit. After a single night's investigation, the trio discover that the "Holy Spirit" is none other than Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, who (much like Jekyll/Hyde) has been hiding since faking his own death. He is, by the way, attacking a girl certainly based on Elanor H. Porter's Pollyanna.

The League is then convened at its headquarters in the secret wing of the British Museum, where they are sent to recover a sample of cavorite from the clutches of Fu Manchu (who is not mentioned by name, for reasons of trademark).

Whilst Nemo decides to remain on board his submarine, the remaining quartet are dispatched to London's Limehouse district in order to discover more about the Chinese "devil-doctor". Murray and Griffin learn from an informant named Quong Lee (a storyteller from books by Thomas Burke) that Fu Manchu is indeed operating within the area and is planning something big, however Lee only gives them information in the form of a cryptic riddle, stating "The waters lap beneath the heavenly bridge. The dragon sleeps below it. My advice to you: do not awaken it". Although Griffin is skeptical, Murray concludes that Manchu's activities must be taking place beneath Rotherhithe Bridge. Meanwhile, Quatermain and Jekyll enter Manchu's lair itself (an opium den/bar), and Quatermain spots the doctor applying caustic paint to one of his victims. The duo are almost sussed as spies, however they manage to escape.

Back on board the Nautilus, the League convenes once more and Miss Murray pulls all the strings of evidence together. She believes Manchu had obviously stolen the cavorite for some nefarious purpose, and states that there is an uncompleted tunnel beneath Rotherhithe Bridge, which would be a perfect place for him to craft some form of aerial war machine without being discovered. Four of the group plan to infiltrate his lair and steal back the cavorite, with Nemo remaining on board the Nautilus.

It is Quatermain and Murray who first manage to get into the Chinaman's lair, and they discover a gigantic flying craft armed to the teeth with guns and cannons (which is obviously the "dragon" which Quong Lee spoke of in his riddle). Although they are discovered by a guard, an unnoticed Griffin is able to kill the guard and Quatermain takes his uniform, allowing him a disguise so that he might get inside the Dragon and steal back the cavorite. Griffin heads back outside to fetch Jekyll in the hopes of creating a diversion. Once inside one of the entrances (some form of office building/warehouse), Griffin infuriates Jekyll to such a degree that he becomes Hyde and begins slaughtering Manchu's henchmen.

Having stolen the cavorite, Murray and Quatermain are re-united with Hyde and Griffin in an underwater glass tunnel, and although they lock themselves in they realise it will only be a matter of time before Manchu's men burst in and kill all of them. Luckily, they are quickly able to come up with a plan and put it into action. Hyde grabs Quatermain and Murray, with Griffin holding onto his neck. Quatermain blasts a hole in the glass roof with his elephant gun and Miss Murray activates the cavorite, propelling the group upwards through the cascading water. Manchu's base is flooded, the Dragon is destroyed, and the Nautilus rescues the group as they fall back down into the Thames.

Bond congratulates the group upon the success of their mission, and leaves the Nautilus with the cavorite, telling them he will take it back to his superior M (another parallel to the James Bond mythos). However, Griffin is oddly absent from the group, having disguised a load of brooms (as himself) using his own bandages, spectacles and clothing. He follows Bond back to the Military Intelligence Headquarters, and discovers that M is in fact Professor Moriarty, the arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty has constructed his own aerial war machine, and with the cavorite he can now put it into action. Griffin returns to the Nautilus and informs the group of what he's discovered. Nemo realises that M is Moriarty, and also knows he plans to bomb London's east-end, wiping out what is left of Manchu's criminal empire.

The League embark aboard the Victoria, a hot-air balloon on Nemo's ship that was once owned by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg, and board Moriarty's ship. Hyde and Nemo begin an attack on the crew (Nemo using a machine pistol, Hyde using his fists), whilst Murray and Quatermain ascend to the top deck where Moriarty is waiting (Griffin has cowardly stripped and remains by the balloon, which is still anchored to the ship). Quatermain guns down Moriarty's guards using his own machine-gun, however the Professor disarms him and prepares to kill him. Just in time, Miss Murray smashes the case containing the cavorite and Moriarty foolishly rushes toward the device, grabs onto it, and propels himself into the night sky. The League leave the ship via the means of the balloon, and once again are rescued by the Nautilus, this time manned by Nemo's first mate Ishmael (the protagonist from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick").

The series ends with Mycroft Holmes congratulating the League for their work, telling them to remain in London should there be more for them to face in the future. The comic itself ends with the scene of Martian ships falling towards Woking, and thus sets in motion the second volume.

The book version of Volume one also includes a short prequel called Allan and the Sundered Veil, which features Allan Quatermain, John Carter, Lovecraft's Randolph Carter, and the Time Traveller from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine.

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Volume two

Volume two opens on Mars, where John Carter and Gullivar Jones have assembled an alliance (including the Séroni from Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis) to defeat the aliens who have been bedeviling the native Martians. These prove to be the aliens from The War of the Worlds, who learn about Earth from spying on the humans on Mars (using the device from H.G. Wells' The Crystal Egg [1]) and launch themselves there.

When the aliens land on Earth, the League is dispatched to guard the crater in which they have landed. They are present when one of the first aliens emerges from the spacecraft, after an onlooker falls into the pit. When a team of men descend into the pit to make peace with the visitors, the aliens unleash the power of their "heat-at-a-distance machine" (i.e. a laser weapon). Before the weapon opens fire, Nemo realises its nature and pushes the group onto the ground, thus keeping them below the deadly beam while the rest of the massed crowd is cooked. Jekyll turns into Hyde and begins to rage, threatening the aliens with violent death. Realising that they can hardly fight the creatures, the League retire to a nearby inn, at which they run into a confident military division who have been sent to defend the crater. Hyde indulges in a somewhat compassionate conversation with Mina, and Griffin (under cover of invisibility) leaves to form an alliance with the Martians.

The next morning, the group emerge from the inn and hear the military shelling the spacecraft, only for the aliens to retaliate yet again with their laser weaponry. The army division is obliterated, as is the inn which the League were lucky enough to exit. A carriageman (William Samson Snr, the father of the Wolf of Kabul) arrives to take the group back to the British Museum, where they shall receive more orders from Mycroft Holmes. He tells Miss Murray to stay at the museum and learn what she can about Mars, also giving her the locations of the British gun emplacements. This puts her in extreme danger, as while Nemo, Hyde and Quatermain return to the crater in order to survey the situation, Griffin stays behind and assaults Murray.

During their reconnaissance, the other three members of the League come close to a Martian tripod, an enormous three-legged war-machine. They quickly return to their coach and are taken swiftly back to London. Upon returning, Hyde finds Miss Murray lying beaten on the floor and realises what has happened. Shortly afterwards, Mycroft Holmes sends Mina and Quatermain on a new mission, giving them very vague specifications concerning their task. In the meantime, Nemo and Hyde patrol London's rivers on board the Nautilus, attacking the Martians and retrieving their engineering when possible.

During their mission in the countryside, Mina and Alan encounter a man called Teddy Prendick, the protagonist from H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau. He is obviously insane and gives them little information, save that in the woods nearby lurks a Doctor whom he once encountered. Their search is uneventful, and they return to a country inn. Quatermain remarks that he'll be damned "if (he) sleeps on the floorboards", while Mina replies that he doesn't have to. This leads to a situation in which the two of them make love, and the comic from this point splits between their love scene, a scene in which Hyde is beating a Martian tripod on board Nemo's submarine, and a quick three-panel "shot" of Griffin telling the aliens they "have to do something to the river". Awakening post-coitus, Quatermain discovers the scars on Mina's neck, and is seemingly horrified.

The next day, Nemo discovers that the Martians have used some sort of red weed on the river, and it has immobilised his submarine. Quatermain tells Mina that he was not shocked by the nature of her scars, but rather his second wife (named Estella, from Haggard's book "Allan's Wife") had similar scars on her own neck, and that he found it odd "that destiny should so distinguish the two women (he) loved the most". They engage in another love scene in the forest, but this time are disturbed by one of Dr. Moreau's animen, who is comically based on the children's comic-book character Rupert Bear, and indeed the rest of his animal-human hybrids are similar to famous characters from children's fiction ( e.g Puss in Boots, Mr Toad, Mr Rat, Mr Badger and Mr Mole from The Wind in the Willows). The wood is identified (by a station nameboard) as being the Wild Wood from The Wind in the Willows, although Quatermain's comment that the woods are "huge" may be intended to draw comparisons with the Hundred Acre Wood from Winnie the Pooh.

Hyde returns to the British Museum and finds Griffin there. Taking full advantage of this chance encounter, Hyde exacts his revenge by brutally beating and then raping Griffin, "because (his) treatment of Miss Murray was uncivil..." Griffin is killed due to these injuries. Mina and Alan meet with Dr Moreau in his secret hideout in the forest, and tell him that Military Intelligence has asked for H-142. Moreau seems disturbed by this request, but obliges nonetheless and offers the duo dinner.

During dinner with Hyde back at the museum, Nemo discovers that the brute has killed Griffin, and attempts to kill him. He is held back by the coachman Samson, who urges him not to kill Hyde seeing as he is their only hope against the Martians. Nemo grudgingly obliges.

The following morning, Murray and Quatermain return to the city with H-142, finding gas-masked intelligence agents waiting for them, along with Agent Bond. They proceed to the riverside, where Nemo and Hyde are waiting for them. Bond says that all bridges apart from London Bridge have been blown up in a bid to impede the invaders, and that H-142 must be "delivered". As the League arrive at the bridge, they see that the Martians have all gathered on the other side. Bond leaves with the cargo crate carrying the hybrid.

Seeing that nothing is stopping the Martians from crossing, Hyde gives Mina a fond farewell, and dances out onto the bridge towards an oncoming tripod, singing happily. The machine attacks him but he survives, charging into its front leg and ripping it off. With the walking machine toppled, Hyde rips open the top hatch and eats the alien inside. The other tripods activate their rays and kill Hyde, followed by a gun retort from downriver. Nemo is curious as to what the guns could be firing, and Bond tells him the H-142 has been fired. Quatermain is confused, and Bond explains indifferently that it was indeed one of Moreau's hybrids, but was in fact a hybrid bacterium, made up of anthrax and streptococcus. Nemo is infuriated, and Bond coolly replies that officially the Martians will have been killed by the common cold, whilst any humans found dead will have been killed by Martians (crossing with Wells' storyline). Angered by the use of British government's heartless use of biological weaponry against its own people, Nemo leaves in the Nautilus and tells Quatermain and Murray to "never seek (him) again" mistakenly believing that they knew the British plan.

A month later, Mina and Allan are walking through Serpentine Park (which Allan says will soon be named after Hyde, thus giving it the name Hyde Park). Mina says that she is to leave for Coradine, a ladies' commune in Scotland, leaving Allan alone on a park bench, and ending volume two.

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The New Traveller's Almanac

Volume two has an extensive appendix, most of which is filled with an imaginary traveller's account of the alternate universe the League is set in. This Almanac is noteworthy in that it provides a huge amount of information (46 pages) of background information - all of which is taken from pre-existing literary works or mythology, a large majority of which is difficult to read or at least appreciate without an esoteric knowledge of literature. It shows the plot of the comic to be just a small section of a world inhabited by what appears to be the entirety of fiction. The travel reports, mostly compiled from log entries by Mina Murray, Prospero and Captain Nemo, (and occasionally quote from them, including Prospero's log written entirely in iambic pentameter) scan over every part of the world in several chapters. The Almanac is written in the style of a declassified document from MI5 taken from a government library. Buried in the exhausting prose of the almanac is various hints at portions of the story not covered by the graphic novel portion of the volume, such as the adventures of earlier leagues, Mina Murray's correspondance with Sherlock Holmes, Mina Murray and Allen Quartermaine's search for the Fountain of Youth, and their investigation of H.P. Lovecraft-style phenomenon and parallel universes for the British government. The narrator is at times intentionally ignorant, obfuscating literary references and plot points so that they serve as easter eggs. For example, the narrator is unaware that Mina is visiting Sherlock Holmes in one portion of the narrative, referring to him simply as "an elderly bee-keeper who resided near the seaside cove of Fulworth". It is only made clear to those familiar with "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane", who know that in it, Sherlock Holmes retires to Fulworth to become a bee-keeper, that Moore is referring to Sherlock Holmes.

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The British Isles

The first chapter describes Britain and Ireland, describing, in addition to sites related to British folklore such as faeries, leprechauns, giants, The Mabinogion, and Arthurian legend, sites from British literature such as:

  • "The Blazing World", a feminist utopia inhabiting an archipelago connecting the north pole to Britain and Iceland, described in "Observations upon Experimental Philosophy" by Margaret Cavendish
  • "The Streaming Kingdom", from Jules Superville’s "L'Enfant de la Haute Mer" (1931), inhabited by the ghosts of drowned people.
  • St. Brendan’s Isle, from Charles Kingsley's "The Water-Babies"
  • Victoria, the Puritan commune from "National Evils and Practical Remedies, with a Plan of a Model Town" by James Silk Buckingham
  • Avondale, the phalanstery from "The Child of the Phalanstery" by Grant Allen, that systematically murders crippled and deformed children at birth
  • Commutaria, the idyllic shire founded by Merlin, from Elspeth Ann Macey’s “Awayday” (1955)
  • Abaton, a mythical Scottish phantom town that can only be glimpsed, from the work of Sir Thomas Bulfinch
  • Baskervillles Hall
  • Thomas Love Peacock's Crotchet Castle
  • Yalding Towers, from E. Nesbit's "The Enchanted Tower" (which contains dinosaur statures that magically come to life)
  • Ravenal's Tower, where the remains of Richard Ravenal from E. Nesbit's "The Wouldbegoods" reside
  • "The White House", the residence of the Psammead from "Five Children and It"
  • "the wish house from Rudyard Kipling's "The Wish House" (1926)
  • Cold Comfort Farm (from the novel of the same name by Stella Gibbons)
  • The witch house in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dreams in the Witch House"
  • the mythical Yspaddaden Penkawr, a castle that gets further away the closer you get to it
  • Exham Priory, from Lovecraft's The Rats in the Walls (in the book, the mansion is infested by demonic rats and leads down into an ancient cavern)
  • Llareggub from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood
  • The floating island from "The Floating Island or a new Discovery Relating the Strange Adventure on a late Voyage from Lamberthana to Villa Franca, Alias Ramallia, to the Eastward of Terra Del Templo: By three Ships, viz., the ‘Pay-naught,’ the ‘Excuse,’ and the ‘Least-in-Sight’ under the Conduct of Captain Robert Owe-much: Describing the Nature of the Inhabitants, their Religion, Laws and Customs" by Richard Head (under the pseudonym "Frank Careless") (1673), inhabited by ninepins-playing Naiads
  • Camford, the setting of The Adventure of the Creeping Man, where Professor Presbury invents a syrum for turning men into apes
  • A description of how the works of Lewis Carroll tie into the world: In 1861, Alice (referred to in the almanac as "Miss A.L.", a reference to the fact that the media usually withholds the names of children and to Alice Liddell) disappears into a portal to a parallel universe (Wonderland) by the shores of River Thames, and washes up soaking wet several months later, after her disappearance created a media panic. Although she had been gone for months, only an afternoon had passed in Wonderland. She recounted how she'd fallen down a puzzling 'hole' that she'd found in the riverbank, only to find herself in a disorienting realm where many laws of physics, even laws of logic, were entirely different from those of our world. She gets sucked into the world again 10 years later while visiting Oxford, via a looking-glass, but returns with her body inverted so that features on her left side are now on her right side and vise-versa. She develops Situs inversus, but does not die from it. She dies from malnutrition, owing to the fact that her amino acids and proteins are now isomers. A being made of isomer proteins is 'incompatible' with Earth's biosphere, which exibits a preferential handedness. An expedition to explore the original riverbank hole was then organized by a "Dr. Bellman," accompanied by a lawyer, a banker, a butcher, a shoemaker, a bonnett-maker, a billiard-maker, and a woman named "Miss Beever" (a reference to the cast of The Hunting of the Snark). They too disappeared, and reappeared again months later, except the baker (who is killed in the Hunting of the Snark); their adventure log is nothing but nonsensical poetry (a reference to Phantasmagoria and other poems by Carroll, including The Hunting of the Snark). The banker suffers the same fate as Alice, as he is found with his clothes inverted in color (a reference to the line in the poem "While so great was his fright that his waistcoat turned white"). All of the survivors are institutionalized, and years later, Mina Murray visits the only living survivor, Dr. Bellman, who gives her a blank piece of paper that's supposedly a map to Snark Island (the same map which Bellman used to navigate the sea to Snark Island).
  • Winton Pond, from Graham Greene's "Under the Garden" (1963), which contains references to both Alice books, is subsequently mentioned in passing.
  • Nightmare Abbey, from Thomas Love Peacock's novel of the same name
  • Alderley Edge, as described in Alan Garner's "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen"
  • The various locations in Bram Stoker's Lair of the White Worm
  • The world of the Vril, from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race. They are enigmatically connected to C.S. Lewis's Narnia. The word for "sin" and "evil" in their language is "Nania" [sp], (an invention of Moore, not Lytton) and the reader is directed to a (fictional) document referring to a British project to grow an apple tree. (Apple trees are a common theme in The Chronicles of Narnia)
  • The underground Coal City from Jules Verne's "The Black Indies"
  • The underground "Roman State" from "Land Under England"
  • Numerous locations and areas from from "Crock of Gold", by James Stevens, such as the leperechaun realm of Gort Na Cloca Mora
  • The setting of Oscar Wilde's "The Selfish Giant"
  • Leixlip Castle, from Charles Robert Maturin's novel of the same name, haunted by faeries
  • Dublin, in which ghost stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu are mentioned
  • The house of Mr. mathers that is a portal to a hellish parallel-Ireland, from "The Third Policeman"
  • The setting of "The House on the Borderland", by William Hope Hodgson, which is also a portal to a demonic world
  • Brigadoon
  • Airfowlness, the meeting-place of the crows from The Water Babies
  • Coradine, from W.H. Hudson's "A Crystal Age". (Where Mina Murray moves to at the end of volume two)
  • The Glittering Plain, from William Morris' "The Story of the Glittering Plain", a valley that grants enterers immortality, but making them unable to leave the valley
  • The Isle of Ransom, from the same story
  • As mentioned above, many sites from Arthurian legend are mentioned in this chapter, (sites that are in fact non-fictional, but the events the sites are noted for are treated as fact rather than legend)
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Europe

The second chapter covers continental Europe

Islands off the coast of Iberia:

Spain and Portugal:

Islands off the coast of France:

France:

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Polar Regions

The sixth chapter covers the Arctic and Antarctica

Islands and seas off the coast of Antarctica:

Antarctica:

Northern Asia:

  • Plutonia from Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev
  • The Arctic entrance to Pluto, a subterranean land, from Voyage au cenre de la terre (or Journey to the Centre of the Earth) by Jules Verne

Islands and other locations in the Arctic Ocean:

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Future works

Alan Moore departed from Warner Bros, including its subsidiaries DC Comics and Wildstorm Comics, as a result of a dispute with the filmmaker over an incorrect allegation that Moore had approved of the film version of another of his comic book works, V for Vendetta, and failed to retract the comment or apologize . As a result, Moore has confirmed that any future installments of League stories will be published by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics. 'The Black Dossier' will be released May 30th, 2006 as of February 3rd, 2006, though there are few details regarding what this TPB will entail.

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Collections

  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I, collects vol 1 #1-6
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II, collects vol 2 #1-6
  • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Black Dossier, collects vol 3
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Source works

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Principal characters

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Secondary characters

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Similar pastiches

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Adaptations

A film adaptation of the comic book was released in 2003, also by the name The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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See also

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External links

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