Category:League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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Acclaimed comic book from America's Best Comics (an imprint of Wildstorm) by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Derived from the concepts of the Wold Newton Universe, it features an alternate Victorian era where the heroes of literary fiction are real, and a group of them has been assembled by the British Secret Service to deal with extraordinary threats.

Canon Material

• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (first series) (1999-2000)
• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (second series) (2002-2003)

Connections

During the course of its two series, League made reference to hundreds of other universes. These include:

• Alice in Wonderland, Allan Quatermain, Auguste Dupin
• Barsoom, The Blazing World, Broad Arrow Jack
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Coming Race, Cthulhu Mythos
• David Copperfield, Dick Donovan, Dixon Brett, Doctor Dolittle, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Doctor Nikola, Doctor Syn, Dracula
• Fanny Hill, The First Men in the Moon, Flashman, Flatland, The Floating Island, Frankenstein, Fu Manchu
• Great Expectations, Gullivar Jones, Gulliver's Travels
• Heart of Darkness
• The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau
• James Bond, Jules Verne, The Jungle Book
• Klimo
• Leatherstocking Tales, The Lost World
• Michael Kane, Moby Dick
• Nick Carter
• Oliver Twist
• The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Prisoner of Zenda
• Raffles
• The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sexton Blake, Shakespeare, She, Sherlock Holmes, Space Trilogy
• The Three Musketeers, The Time Machine, Treasure Island
• Utopia
• Varney the Vampire
• War of the Worlds

These connections have made it an integral part of the Wold Newton Universe, not only through its ties to universes already part of the Universe, but also through the numerous new connections it provides.

Resources

• League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Index (Annotations to the series)
• The League of Leagues