Yeah, it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. Alan Moore’s series, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , affords the readers a Steampunk setting for these fanciful creations of Victorian imagination.
The original series, illustrated bye Kevin O’Neill, premiered in 1999 with Jim Lee’s Wildstorm Comics imprint and DC Comics formidable backing. Moore has noted as literary influences such diverse authors as William S. Burroughs, Douglas Adams, Aleister Crowley, and Oscar Wilde.
The value of keeping literary characters available in the public domain is exhibited in not only Alan Moore’s authorship, but with the character’s portrayal across multiple forms of media delivery. It is unfortunate Moore has developed such an acrimonious relationship with Hollywood and we won’t have the chance to see his stories through a collaborative lens, as the movie industry takes his work from the page to the screen.
At any rate, hope you enjoy a ride with some the iconic personalities of modern Western culture.
Source works of the principal characters:
Wilhelmina Murray
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
Archive related media: Movie
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Archive related media: Text
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Illustrated by Charles Raymond Macauley
Dr. Fu Manchu
- The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer
Archive related media: Old Time Radio
The Shadow of Fu Manchu Serial melodrama, based on the stories by Sax Rohmer.http://www.archive.org/details/FuManchuOTRKIBM
Allan Quatermain
- King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Archive related media: Movie
http://www.archive.org/details/king_solomans_mine
Capt. Capt. Nemo (Prince Dakkar?)
- Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island
http://www.archive.org/details/worksofjulesvern05vern
Sherlock Holmes
- Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Archive related media: Audio Book
http://www.archive.org/details/return_holmes_0708_librivox
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