''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (''LoEG'') is a

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series (inspired by the 1960 British film ''

The League of Gentlemen ''The League of Gentlemen'' is a surreal British comedy horror sitcom that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The programme is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in northern England, originally based on Alston, Cumbria, and follows the lives o ...

'') co-created by writer

Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', ''V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell' ...

and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999.

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spans four volumes, an original

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, and a spin-off trilogy of graphic novella. '' Volume I'' and '' Volume II'' (released as two six-issue limited series) and the graphic novel '' Black Dossier'' were published by the

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imprint of

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. After leaving the America's Best imprint, the series moved to Top Shelf and

Knockabout Comics Knockabout Comics is a UK publisher and distributor of underground and alternative books and comics. They have a long-standing relationship with underground comix pioneer Gilbert Shelton. History The company was founded in 1975 by Tony and Caro ...

, which published '' Volume III: Century'' (released as three graphic novella), the '' Nemo Trilogy'' (a spin-off of three graphic novella centered on the character of

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), and '' Volume IV: The Tempest'' (originally released as a six-issue limited series). According to Moore, the concept behind the series was initially a "

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" but he quickly developed it as an opportunity to merge elements from many works of fiction into one world. Elements of ''Volume I'' were used in a loosely adapted feature film of the same name, released in 2003 and starring

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in his last live-action role.

Plot

The year is 1898, and

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is recruited by

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on behalf of

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and asked to assemble a league of other extraordinary individuals to protect the interests of the

Empire An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...

Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' ( ...

Allan Quatermain Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel ''King Solomon's Mines'', its one sequel ''Allan Quatermain'' (1887), twelve prequel novels and four prequel short stories, totalling eighteen works. An English professional ...

Dr. Jekyll Dr. Henry Jekyll, nicknamed in some copies of the story as Harry Jekyll, and his alternative personality, Mr. Edward Hyde, is the central character of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde''. In the story, ...

, and

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the Invisible Man ''The Invisible Man'' is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in ''Pearson's Weekly'' in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devote ...

. They help stop a gang war between

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and

Professor Moriarty Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a formidable enemy for the author's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He was created primarily as a device by which Doyle could ...

, nemesis of

Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and ...

. Following this they take part in the events of

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The War of the Worlds ''The War of the Worlds'' is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by ''Pearson's Magazine'' in the UK and by ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan'' magazine in the US. The novel's first appear ...

''. Two members of the League (Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain) achieve immortality, and are next seen in an adventure in 1958. This follows events that take place after the fall of the Big Brother government from ''

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''. Following this, Mina and Allan team up with fellow immortal

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and are shown in an adventure which spans a century, from 1910 to 2009, concerning a plot by evil magicians to create a Moonchild that might well turn out to be the Antichrist. During this adventure

's daughter, Janni Dakkar, is introduced, and some of her adventures are chronicled subsequently. The final volume of the series ends with an immortal Mina escaping an earth dominated by magical entities and various alien invasions to live out her immortal life on a space station with Orlando, Jack Nemo (great-grandson of Captain Nemo) and a clone of Mr. Hyde.

Characters

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

* Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray * Allan Quatermain / Allan Quatermain, Jr. * Prince Dakkar / Captain Nemo I * Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde * Hawley Griffin / Invisible Man I *

Roland Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...

Thomas Carnacki Thomas Carnacki is a fictional occult detective created by English fantasy writer William Hope Hodgson. Carnacki was the protagonist of a series of six short stories published between 1910 and 1912 in '' The Idler'' magazine and ''The New Maga ...

A. J. Raffles Arthur J. Raffles (usually called A. J. Raffles) is a fictional character created in 1898 by E. W. Hornung, brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Raffles is, in many ways, an inversion of Holmeshe is a "gentle ...

* Emma Night

Nemo trilogy

* Janni Dakkar / Jenni Diver / Captain Nemo II * John "Broad Arrow Jack" Ashleigh *

Ishmael Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...

* Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen * Hira Dakkar * Tobias Ishmael * Luala Ishmael * Armand Robur *

Cú Chulainn Cú Chulainn ( ), called the Hound of Ulster (Irish: ''Cú Uladh''), is a warrior hero and demigod in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, as well as in Scottish and Manx folklore. He is believed to be an incarnation of the Irish god Lugh, ...

Hugo Hercules ''Hugo Hercules'' is an American weekly comic strip published in the ''Chicago Tribune'', written and drawn by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner. It ran for five months, from September 7, 1902 to January 11, 1903, totaling seventeen strips. Despite ...

/ Hugo Coghlan * Jack Dakkar / Captain Nemo III * Tacarigua Ishmael

Overview of the series

In a 1997 interview with

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for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as "''The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk''". Moore changed the name to ''Gentlemen'' to better reflect the Victorian era.

Simon Bisley Simon Bisley is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ''ABC Warriors'', '' Lobo'' and '' Sláine''. Early life Simon Bisley began drawing when he was six years old. He is self-taught, with only a short one-year stay at a ...

was originally going to be the artist for the series before being replaced by Kevin O'Neill. The Victorian setting allowed Moore and O'Neill to insert "in-jokes" and cameos from many works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes. The works bear numerous

steampunk Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or ...

influences. In the first issue, for example, there is a half-finished bridge to link Britain and France, referencing problems constructing the

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. Most characters in the series, from the

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schoolmistress

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to minor characters such as Inspector

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, are either established characters from existing works of fiction or ancestors of the same, to the extent that individuals depicted in crowd scenes in Volume I have been said (both by Moore, and in annotations by

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) to be visually designed as the ancestors of the cast of ''

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''. 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. Moore said:

Publisher change

Moore's longstanding, outspoken criticism of

(stemming in large part from what he perceives as mistreatment at their hands over the rights to ''

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'') made his position with DC-owned subsidiary

Wildstorm Comics Wildstorm Productions, (stylized as WildStorm), is an American comic book imprint. Originally founded as an independent company established by Jim Lee under the name "Aegis Entertainment" and expanded in subsequent years by other creators, Wildst ...

(of which ''LoEG'' publisher

is an

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) tenuous from the start. Moore's initial agreement was with WildStorm owner

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, who sold his studio to DC after dealing with Moore, but before any of the ABC projects were published. Moore agreed to honor his contracts with Lee, but made it clear that he wished to continue to have no dealings with DC directly. The fifth issue of the first volume contained an authentic vintage advertisement for a

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with the brand name Marvel Douche. The entire initial print run was destroyed and reprinted because the publisher felt that this could be perceived as an attack on

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, DC's main competition. After several additional complaints over DC interference, Moore decided to wind up his ABC projects, intending to only continue with ''League'' (the only title he, with O'Neill, actually owned). He subsequently took offense at inaccurate comments made by the producer of the

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of his ''

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'', which stated that the author—who had distanced himself completely from film adaptations of his work, particularly after '' LXG''—had commented favorably on a draft of the script. Moore requested that someone involved with the film's production company—and DC Comics parent company,

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—officially retract the comments and apologize. He also claims that his lack of support from DC regarding a minor lawsuit related to the film adaptation of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' was instrumental in his departure. When no such apology was forthcoming, both Moore and O'Neill decided to withdraw future volumes of the ''League'' from DC in protest. Since the duo was still working on the '' Black Dossier'' at the time, it was agreed that it would become the last ''League'' project published by DC/WildStorm, with subsequent projects published jointly by

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and

in the US and UK respectively, who published both '' Volume III: Century,'' and the '' Nemo Trilogy'', as graphic novella trilogies. Top Shelf and Knockabout later released '' Volume IV: The Tempest'' first as a six-issue limited series. Reprints of ''Volumes I-II'' and the ''Dossier'' were published by

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until its shutdown in January 2020.

World of the ''League''

Volume II has an extensive appendix, most of which is filled with an imaginary travelers' account of the alternate universe the ''League'' is set in, called ''The New Traveler's Almanac''. This Almanac provides background information — much of which is taken from the pre-existing literary works or mythology and may be difficult to fully 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.

History of the League

Moore's work includes references to previous leagues and suggests there will be others subsequently. In much the same way that the ''New Traveller's Almanac'', an appendix to the trade paperback collection of ''The League Vol. 2'', detailed much of the geography of the League's world, the third volume, ''The Black Dossier'', set out an extensive history of the world of the League and each of its various incarnations, threading together hundreds of disparate works of fiction into a cohesive timeline.

Awards and recognition

''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' won the 1999

National Comics Award The National Comics Awards was a series of awards for comic book titles and creators given out on an annual basis from 1997 to 2003 (with the exception of the year 2000) for comics published in the United Kingdom the previous year. The votes wer ...

for Best New Comic (International). Volume I won the 2000

Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year. * 1998: (no award) ** ''Sergio Aragones' Dia de las Muertos (Day of the Dead)'' by Sergio Aragones & Mark Evanier ** ''Preacher'' by Garth Ennis ** ''The Son of Man'' (''Hellblazer'' 129-133) ...

. Volume II was nominated for the 2003 award, but lost to '' The Sandman: Endless Nights''. Volume II received the 2003

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for Best Finite Series/Limited Series. ''

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'' listed Volume II as the 9th best comic of 2003. It was included in the 2005 edition of ''The Year's Best Graphic Novels, Comics, & Manga''. ''Time'' also listed ''Black Dossier'' as the second-best comic of 2007.

Influence

Music

The steampunk band

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was inspired by this comic. On "75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)" off the ''

Rising Down ''Rising Down'' is the eighth studio album by the American hip hop band The Roots, released on April 28, 2008, on Def Jam Recordings. The album's title is adapted from William T. Vollmann's book '' Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Viole ...

'' album,

Black Thought Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1973), better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper, actor and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group the Roots, which he co-founded with drummer Questlove (Ahmir Thompson). Regarded ...

refers to

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as "gentlemen of an extraordinary league".

Books

A chapter in the 2005 nonfiction work '' The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture'' is titled "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". In his 2005 book '' The Areas of My Expertise'',

John Hodgman John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as '' The Areas of My Expertise'', ''More Information Than You Require'', and '' That Is All'', he is known for ...

refers to Nemo as "the Sikh" and "the Science-Pirate", as Nemo was referred to in the ''League'' comics.

Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, gr ...

cited ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' as one of the influences for his award-winning short story "

A Study in Emerald "A Study in Emerald" is a short story written by British fantasy and graphic novel author Neil Gaiman. The story is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche transferred to the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Gaiman describes it as ...

Comics

Warren Ellis Warren Girard Ellis (born 16 February 1968) is a British comic book writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-creator of several original comics series, including ''Transmetropolitan'' (1997–2002), ''Global Frequency'' ( ...

has cited ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' as an inspiration for his comic ''

Ignition City ''Ignition City'' is a five-issue science fiction comic book limited series, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Gianluca Pagliarani. It was published in 2009 by American company Avatar Press. Publication history Ellis initially concei ...

''. The comic ' by science-fiction writer

Serge Lehman Serge Lehman (born July 12, 1964) is the primary pseudonym of French science fiction writer Pascal Fréjean. Profile Fréjean has also written under the names Corteval, Don Hérial, and Karel Dekk. He won the Prix Rosny-Aîné with the novel tril ...

has been regarded by critics as the French reply to ''The League''. It uses proto-superhumans and supervillains from European pulp literature of the early twentieth century, but in a whole different perspective as Lehman is not mainly focused on English literature (as Moore does), mixes those real fictional characters equally with real prominent historical figures and builds a crepuscular alternate history story whose aim is to explain on a historical and psychoanalytical level why all European super-heroes disappeared from popular culture and European collective memory with

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Annotations

has produced a series of annotations for each volume which are available online and have also been expanded into book form: * ** ''Heroes & Monsters'' (UK) (

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, 2006), * ''A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (

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, 2004) ** ''A Blazing World'' (UK) (

, 2006) * ''Impossible Territories: An Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier'' (

, 2008)

In other media

Film

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was released in 2003, also by the name ''

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (''LoEG'') is a comic book series (inspired by the 1960 British film ''The League of Gentlemen'') co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999. The series spans four volum ...

''. The film stars

, who plays Allan Quatermain, and features Captain Nemo, Mina Harker, Rodney Skinner aka ''An'' Invisible Man (the film rights could not be secured to ''The'' Invisible Man), Dr. Jekyll and Edward Hyde,

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, and

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agent

Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), ''Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and ''Tom Sawyer, Dete ...

. Though Gray and Sawyer were not featured in the comics, a painting of a young man holding a cane with "Dorian Gray" printed under it appears on the cover of Volume I. In May 2015, 20th Century Fox announced that a reboot is being developed. John Davis said that the reboot will be a female-centric film. As of May 2022, the film is on track by 20th Century Studios, scheduled to stream on

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, with

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writing and Don Murphy, who produced the 2003 film, will return as a producer alongside

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and

Erwin Stoff Erwin Stoff (born 26 April 1951 in Vorona) is a Romanian-born American film producer. He is best known for being the president of company 3 Arts Entertainment, Inc., based in Beverly Hills, CA. Among his credits are ''The Matrix'', '' Beautiful C ...

3 Arts Entertainment 3 Arts Entertainment is an American talent management and television/film production company founded by Erwin Stoff, Michael Rotenberg and Howard Klein in 1991. The company has gone on to produce TV shows such as ''King of the Hill'', ''The Off ...

TV series

In 2013,

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was ordering a pilot for the television version of ''LoEG'' with Michael Green serving as writer and executive producer.

would also executive produce. Neither Moore nor O'Neill are producers on the series. It had also been reported that the pilot episode would still be broadcast, even if Fox opted not to

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the series.Bibel, Sara (July 9, 2013)
FOX Orders 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' Pilot
,

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. Retrieved July 10, 2013.

Interviews

The DVD of the documentary feature film ''

The Mindscape of Alan Moore ''The Mindscape of Alan Moore'' is a 2003 documentary film that chronicles the life and work of Alan Moore, author of several acclaimed graphic novels, including ''From Hell'', ''Watchmen,'' and ''V for Vendetta''.Kevin O'Neill, elaborately detailing the collaboration with

. O'Neill talks about ''League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century'' and his run-ins with censorship.

References

External links

Annotations to the League
(

's annotations to Volumes 1 and 2, ''The Black Dossier'' and ''Century: 1910'')
Annotations to ''Century: 1969''

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