The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 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 in graphic novel format, 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 era.

The title and concept of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 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.

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.

Besides the character of Campion Bond, who could not be called the ancestor of James Bond directly due to licensing issues, every 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.

Sherlock Holmes and Dracula are notably absent from the League's adventures due to their deaths prior to the events of the series, though the former has a brother (Mycroft Holmes) in the League and appears in a flashback sequence, and the latter's connections to Wilhelmina 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.

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 escaped destruction and are the rarest modern comic books in existence. It is estimated that fewer than 100 copies of this book exist, and none were actually circulated.

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.

Alan 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 the first volume of the comic, featuring 18th century heroes such as an elderly Gulliver, dark-caped Doctor Syn, the Scarlet Pimpernel and Fanny Hill among others. A slightly different version of the portrait can be seen in the film version.

Another possible 'Alternative League' is showed in the form of a sketch drawn by O'Neill titled "Les Hommes Mystérieux" showing an ensemble of French heroes and anti-heroes like the Vernian Robur, the Master of the World, Fantômas, Arsène Lupin and the lesser-known Nyctalope. Considering that most of these characters are thieves or conquerors, Les Hommes Mystérieux may actually be a Legion of Doom-style villain team, especially due to the rivalry between France and Britain that has lasted for centuries.

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 next published installment of the story will be called "The Black Dossier", (incorrectly referred to as "The Dark Dossier" during early announcements of its existence) named for a fictional book the plot presumably revolves around. The official website of Wildstorm Comics gives a synopsis of the plot in a press release:

England in the mid-1950s is not the same as it was. The powers that be have instituted some changes. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have been disbanded and disavowed, and the country is under the control of an iron-fisted regime. Now, after many years, the still youthful Mina Murray and a rejuvenated Allan Quatermain return in search of some answers — answers that can only be found in a book buried deep in the vaults of their old headquarters — a book that holds the key to the hidden history of the League throughout the ages: The Black Dossier. As Allan and Mina delve into the details of their precursors, some dating back centuries, they must elude their dangerous pursuers who are hellbent on retrieving the lost manuscript... and ending the League once and for all

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It will contain "a 'Tijuana Bible' insert and a 3-D section complete with custom glasses, as well as additional text pieces, maps, and a stunning cutaway double-page spread of Captain Nemo's Nautilus submarine by Kevin O'Neill." Alan Moore himself mentioned that "he was in a recording studio last week, working on part of it" [2], referring to an LP record, or an audio cd that would be released with the book.

According to an interview with Alan Moore, the Black Dossier "will slip in between volumes two and three". Moore says it's "not my best comic ever, not the best comic ever, but the best thing ever. Better than the Roman civilisation, penicilin, [...] the human nervous system. Better than creation. Better than the big bang. It's quite good." He adds that "It will be nothing anyone expects, but everything everyone secretly wanted." [3] Wildstorm Comics editor Scott Dunbie describes it as "one of the more revolutionary books the industry has ever seen". [4] The release date was originally May 30 2006, but is now listed on Amazon as October 25th 2006.

There are still few details regarding what the plot of volume will entail, although there is much speculation. Alan Moore discussed the possibility of a 1950s League in an interview written prior to the release of the second volume:

I had a really perverse idea the other day, and I'll probably never get around to doing it, but it would be funny to have one series set in the 1950s where you have Sal Paradise from Jack Kerouac's On The Road and his crazy wired-up driver friend, Dean Moriarty, who of course is the great grandson of James Moriarty, or I could say that he is. Then there'd be Doctor Sax, a Kerouac character based on William Burroughs and The Shadow but who owes a lot [to] Fu Manchu. You could set it in Interzone with the Burroughs centipede people appearing all over the place. You could even have a couple of members of the Victorian League still around[5].

Although it is known a good portion of Black Dossier takes place in the 1950s, it is not known whether the above is relevant to the plot of the finished work.

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It has been shown that there have been previous leagues and implied there will be others subsequently. 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."

• 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 spirit, 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.

The second league was formed by Lemuel Gulliver and secretly gathered in Montague House, London.

• The Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn also known as the pirate Captain Clegg, and later known as the Scarecrow, the vicar turned pirate turned smuggler in the Doctor Syn novels (1915-1944) of Russell Thorndike.
• Sir Percy Blakeney and his wife Lady Marguerite Blakeney from the Scarlet Pimpernel novels of Baroness Orczy published in 1905.
• An elderly Lemuel Gulliver, the far-flung protagonist from the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, seen in the portrait with one of the famous miniature sheep at his feet; not to be mistaken for the elderly Gullivar Jones, seen on a magic carpet on Mars (he features in Issue 1 of Volume 2). Edwin L. Arnold created Gullivar Jones, who holds the titular role in Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation (1905).
• Nathaneal "Natty" Bumppo, the hero of the Leatherstocking Tales novels (1827-1841) of James Fenimore Cooper, the most famous of which is Last of the Mohicans. Natty has more pseudonyms and aliases than most literary heroes. In Cooper's novels he is variously called Deerslayer, Hawkeye, and Pathfinder as well as several other names.
• Frances "Fanny" Hill, the eponymous heroine of the 1749 pornographic novel Fanny Hill by John Cleland.

There has been no confirmation of this League at all, aside from the popular belief among fans of the LoEG series that the portraits of the people behind the main 19th Century League on the cover of Volume 1 are in fact a past 19th Century League because they not only are all British (aside from Robur, who is therefore no considered among this League) and they all were active in their own canon around the 1970's. The picture in which this supposed League is portrayed is inside the League's headquarters in the British Museum. In this picture is even the group portrait of the 18th Century discovered in the story of Vol. 1. Also, in this picture, is the actual character Count Allaminstakeo (a mummy), sleeping, as well as a portrait of him.

• Phileas Fogg from Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in 80 Days; Book, 1872) by Jules Verne

Sir Francis Varney.

• Varney the Vampyre; or, the Feast of Blood (Book, 1847) by James Malcolm Rymer.
• Count Allamistakeo from "Some Words with a Mummy" (Short Story, 1850) by Edgar Allan Poe.
• Sapathwa (AKA the Blue Dwarf) from The Blue Dwarf (Book, 1861) by Lady Esther Hope (AKA Percy B. St. John)
• Dorian Gray from The Picture of Dorian Gray (Book, 1890) by Oscar Wilde.
• Jack Harkaway. From the Jack Harkaway Series (Penny Dreadful Series, 1871 – 1904) by Bracebridge Hemyng.

The Victorian League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is led by Miss Wilhelmina Murray (of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula), recruited for Military Intelligence by one Mr. Campion Bond (likely a homage to Margery Allingham's Albert Campion and Ian Fleming's James Bond). they meets in the mesaeum that was built on the remains of Montague House.

• Captain Nemo (the Indian submariner from Jules Verne's 1870 novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island and Journey Through the Impossible)
• Allan Quatermain (the elephant hunter and African explorer of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels)
• Dr. Henry Jekyll and/or Mr. Edward Hyde (from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 short story "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
• Hawley Griffin, also known as The Invisible Man (from the 1897 novel by H. G. Wells. Moore gave Griffin his first name, that of murderer Dr. Crippen).

The year is 1898. Britain lives in troubled times, where fretful dreams settle upon its Empire's brow. If England's to survive them, a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is to be recruited by British Intelligence. A menagerie of the Empire's greatest heroes, adventurers, and foes is assembled.

Despite the boasting and hubris of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, an event of great self-celebration on the part of the British, the general mood among British leaders and opinion-makers in the late-19th century is pessimistic. France is re-emerging as a world power and expansionist European rival, newly-united nations like Germany and Italy are disturbing the familiar world order, British exports are falling, the country no longer maintains a trade surplus, and the supremacy of the British manufacturing and commercial empire is being threatened by the German Empire and the United States. Finally, Britain's diplomatic isolation, which Lord Salisbury approvingly called the "splendid isolation" in 1896, has grown increasingly uncomfortable. Britain has no reliable allies, and it is disliked by many in Europe and America, not least for its actions in maintaining the Empire, such as the Jameson Raid in South Africa in 1895, which was a failed attempt to overthrow the Afrikaner government.

Thus miss Mina Murray is 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. At the time of his capture, he is attacking Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna.

The League is then convened at its headquarters in the "secret annexe" 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 uncovered as spies, but 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 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 that 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 minigun, 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.

Volume two opens on Mars, where John Carter and Lt. Gullivar Jones (of Edwin Lester Linden Arnold's Gullivar of Mars 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 [6]) 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 disintegrated. 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 moments before. 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 Allan 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 reveals that he has been able to 'see' Griffin all along, in a sort of heat-sensing infrared vision he possesses.) Hyde exacts his revenge by brutally beating (breaking one of Griffin's legs in the process) and then raping Griffin, "because (his) treatment of Miss Murray was uncivil..." Griffin ultimately dies from these injuries. Mina and Allan 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. On their farewell at the train station the Doctor casually comments that his nephew is the only human who visits him, seeking inspiration in his subjects. This is a reference to the real-life painter Gustave Moreau. He also makes a distinct reference to the trial of the publisher of Oz magazine when he describes the sexual tendencies of his Rupert Bear hybrid.

During dinner with Hyde back at the museum, Nemo discovers that the brute has killed Griffin when the Invisible Man's death results in the extensive bloodstains on Hyde's clothing becoming visible. Horrified and disgusted, Nemo attempts to kill Hyde, but is held back by the coachman Samson, who urges him not to kill the brute 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 with its heat ray, burning off his skin, but he survives, charging into its front leg and ripping it off. With the walking machine toppled, Hyde rips open the top hatch and begins eating the alien inside. The other tripods activate their rays and kill Hyde with a combined barrage, 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 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 details of 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.

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, called The New Travller's Almanac. 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 are 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 known as "Pool of Fire and Life" or "the Fire of Life," and their investigation of H.P. Lovecraft-style phenomena 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.

The first chapter covers Britain and Ireland, describing, in addition to sites related to British and Irish 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 Supervielle’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 Ysbaddaden Pencawr, 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, because her amino acids and proteins are now isomers. A being made of isomer proteins is 'incompatible' with Earth's biosphere, which exhibits 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, the streets of which are haunted by the ghost of Molly Malone, and where a red-tiled house was haunted by a disembodied hand, as described in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's The House by the Church-Yard (most sources incorrectly give the title as "The Siege of the Red House")
• 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)

The second chapter covers continental Europe.

Islands off the coast of Iberia:

• The former-kingdom of Philomela
• The Capa Blanca Isles of "The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle", by Hugh Lofting
• The island of Mayda from The Alhambra
• Nut Island from Lucian of Samosata's "True History" (where the native fishermen make boats out of gigantic nut-shells)
• Coromandel, from Edward Lear's "The Courtship of Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò" (1877) Note: This not a reference to the real Coromandel, the south-eastern coastal region of India, but a reference to the fictional Coromandel from Lear's famous nonsense poem.
• Lanternland, a mythical island mentioned in François Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
• The island of the Lotus-Eaters
• Ogygia, from Homer's Odyssey
• The surreal island of "Her", from Alfred Jarry's "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician"
• The Imaginary Isle from "La Relation de l'Isle imaginaire" (1659) by Anne Marie Louise de Montpensier
• The island of the Cyclopses, from Homer's Odyssey
• The Great Garabagne, Henri Michaux's "Voyage to Grand Garabagne" (1936) an island where the visitor's despairs come true
• Aiolio, home of Aiolos Hippotade, the god of wind, in Homer's Odyssey
• Monte de las Animas, a former-stronghold of the Knights Templar, mentioned by Gustavo Becquer
• Anostus, from Claudius Aelianus' "Varia Historia", with two rivers called "Pleasure" and "Grief". Beside these two streams grow fruit, the fruit of the former causes a lifetime of joy, and the fruit of the latter causes a lifetime of sorrow.

Spain and Portugal:

• Max Frisch's Andorra
• Montesino's Cave, in La Mancha, where Prospero befriended Don Quixote, containing the tomb of Durandarte, Spanish folk hero
• Exopotomania, from Boris Vian's "L'Automne à Pékin" (1956)
• Andrographia, from Nicolas-Edme Rétif's "Andrographe ou idées d'un honnête homme sur un projet de réglement proposé à toutes les nations de l'Europe pour opérer une réforme générale des moeurs, et par elle, le bonheur du genre humain avec des notes historiques et justificatives" (1782)
• The wizard Atlante's demonic castle, from Orlando Furioso
• The setting of Jorge Luis Borges' "La Muerte y la brújula" (1956)
• Auspasia, the most talkative land in the world, from Georges Duhamel's "Lettres d'Auspasie"
• Bengodi, from The Decameron, which has a mountain of parmesan cheese, and heliotropes that bestow invisibility (which, in the League world, Hawley Griffin used to create an invisibility syrum)
• The libertine Trypheme, from Pierre Louys' "Les Aventures du roi Pausole" (1901)

Islands off the coast of France:

• Papafiguiera, from Béroalde de Verville's "Le Moyen de parvenir. Oeuvre contenant la raison de tout ce qui a esté, est, et sera, avec démonstrations certaines et nécessaires selon la rencontre des effets de vertu", (1610) inhabited by extremely obese people.
• Ptyx, Laceland, Amorphous Island, Fragrant Island and Bran Isle, from Alfred Jarry's "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician"
• Clerkship Island, Ruach the Windy Island, the Fortunate Islands, (including the Isle of Butterflies, inhabited by monstrous butterflies) Pastemolle the pie island, and Breadlessday Island, from Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Leaveheavenalone, from the Kingsley's Water Babies
• Cyril Island, a mobile volcano in Alfred Jarry's "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician", inhabited by Captain Kidd
• Thermometer Island, from "Les bijoux indiscrets", by Denis Diderot, in which the inhabitants have enchanted genitalia

France:

• Flora, which was "murderously beset by witches", from Ferdinand Raimund's "Die gefesselte Phantasie" (1837)
• Lubec, from Béroalde de Verville's "Le Moyen de parvenir", where the inhabitants have removable genitals. Moore explains that it was founded by inhabitants of Thermometer Island. (There are no connections between the two works in reality)
• The haunted castle of Trinquelage, from Alphonse Daudet's "Lettres de mon moulin" (1866)
• The Nameless Castle from Denis Diderot's "Jacques le fataliste et son maître" (1796)
• The Kingdom of Poictesme, from James Branch Cabell's "Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice", (1919)
• Averoigne, from a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith
• the subterranean Grande Euscarie, inhabited by intelligent wooly mammoths from Luc Alberny's "Le Mammouth Bleu".
• The underground kingdoms of the Fattypuffs and Thinifers, the creation of André Maurois
• Baron Hugh's Castle, the setting of the film Les Visiteurs du soir
• Calejava, the republic from Claude Gilbert's "Histoire de Calejava ou de l'Ilse des Hommes Raisonnables, avec le Paralelle de leur Morale et du Christianisme" (1700)
• the sunken cities beneath the Bay of Biscay: Belesbat, from Claire Kenin's La Mer mystérieuse; Disappeared, from Victor Hugo's "La Ville disparue"; and Atlanteja, from Luigi Motta's Il tunnel sottomarino
• Islands off Brittany include Le Douar, from J.-H. Rosny jeune's L'Enigme du "Redoutable"; the Isle of Boredom, from Marie Anne de Roumier Robert's Les Ondins; Magic Maiden's Rock, from Amadis of Gaul; Realism Island, from G.K. Chesterton's "Introductory: On Gargoyles"; and Cork, from Lucian of Samosata's "True History" (which is made of cork, as are the feet of the natives)
• Alca, from Daniel Defoe's The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Anatole France's Penguin Island
• the former island of Asbefore, from Jacques Prévert's Lettre des îles Baladar
• Brocéliande forest and Benoic
• the former Hurlubierean Empire, from Charles Nodier's Hurlubleu, Grand Manifafa d'Hurlubiere
• Morphopolis, from Maurice Barrère's La Cité du sommeil
• the Abbey of Thélème, from "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (the story of how Gargantua named Paris is also recounted)
• Parisian museums are said to contain relics from Aquilonia and the Melnibonean empire, including the hilt of a black sword

Belgium:

• the castles of Bluebeard, the Beast, Princess Rosamund, and the ogre killed by Puss in Boots

Greece:

• Xiros, from Jorge Luis Borges' "The Zahir"
• Devil's Island, Bandaguido, and Bandaguida, from Amadis of Gaul
• Abdera, whose rebellious horses are said to be the ancestors of the Houyhnhnms (this connection is Moore's invention)
• Ptolemais, from Edgar Allan Poe's "Shadow: A Parable"
• Cloudcuckooland, from Aristophanes' The Birds
• islands from Greek mythology, including Aiaia, Scylla, Charybdis, the Wandering Rocks, and Siren Island
• Pyrallis, from Pliny the Elder's Inventorum Natura

Italy:

• The Castle of Otranto, from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
• Portiuncula, from Stefan Andres' Die Reise nach Portiuncula
• Meloria Canal, from Emilio Salgari's I naviganti della Meloria
• Ersilia, from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities
• Torelore, from Aucassin and Nicolette
• the ruins of the Abbey of the Rose, from Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
• the Castle of Udolpho, from Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho
• Goldenthal, from Heinrich Zschokke's Das Goldmacherdorf
• the realm of King Astralgus, from Ferdinand Raimund's Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind
• the Balbrigian and Bouloulabassian United Republic, from Max Jacob's Histoire du roi Kaboul Ier et du marmiton Gauwain

Germany:

• the Duchy of Grand Fenwick
• the Grand Duchy, from "Der goldene Topf" and other stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann
• Weng, from Thomas Bernhard's Frost
• Runenberg, from Ludwig Tieck's "Der Runenberg"
• Horselberg, also known as Venusberg, from the legend of Tannhäuser
• Nexdorea, from Tom Hood's Petsetilla's Posy
• the Palace of Prince Prospero, from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
• Silling Castle, from the Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom
• Cockaigne, from medieval legend
• Violet-eyed prince Titus Groan, from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy.

The Netherlands:

• Vondervotteimittis, from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Devil in the Belfry"
• the island Laiquihire, from Voyage Curieux d'un Philadelphe dans des Pays nouvellement Découverts

Scandinavia:

• Devil's Teeth, from Paul Alperine's La Citadelle des Glaces
• Estotiland and Drogio, from the Zeno map
• Hekla as described in Tommaso Porcacchi's Le isole piu' famose del mondo
• Snaefells Jokull, from Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Daland's Village, the only port where The Flying Dutchman is allowed to land
• Nazar, from Ludvig Holberg's Niels Klim's Underground Travels
• the Dovre Fjell mountains, from Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt
• Capillaria, from Frigyes Karinthy's Capillaria
• the Snow Queen's Castle, from Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen"
• Moominvalley, from Tove Jansson's Moomin books

eastern Europe:

• Klopstokia, from Million Dollar Legs
• Ubu's kingdom, from Alfred Jarry's Ubu plays
• Klepsydra Sanatorium, from Bruno Schulz's Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
• the City of the Happy Prince, from Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince"
• Ruritania, from Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda
• Lutha, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Mad King
• The Castle, from Franz Kafka's The Castle
• The penal colony from Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony
• Wolf's Glen, from the opera Der Freischütz
• Sylvania and Freedonia, from Duck Soup
• Castle Karpathenburg, from Jules Verne's The Castle of the Carpathians (1892)
• Dracula's castle
• the City of Dreadful Night, from James Thomson's City of Dreadful Night
• Selene, the city of vampires from Paul Féval's La Ville-Vampire
• Evarchia, from Brigid Brophy's Palace Without Chairs
• Leuke as described in Greek mythology

The third chapter covers the Americas

off the coast of South America:

• the undersea realm of Pepperland, from the movie Yellow Submarine
• the Riallaro Archipelago, from John Macmillan Brown's Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles and Limanora, the Island of Progress
• Meipe, from André Maurois' Meïpe ou La Délivrance
• Mount Analogue, from René Daumal's Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
• Coral Island, from R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island
• Rose, from Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
• Orofena, from H. Rider Haggard's When the World Shook
• Maïna, from André Maurois' Voyage au Pays de Articoles
• Cook's Island, from E. Nesbit's The Phoenix and the Carpet
• the Mardi Archipelago, from Herman Melville's Mardi and a Voyage Thither
• Bali Hai, from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
• Zara's Kingdom, from Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited
• Marsh's Island, from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
• Noble's Island, from H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Rampole Island, from H.G. Wells' Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island
• Villings, from Adolfo Bioy Casares' The Invention of Morel
• the land of the Houyhnhnms, from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
• Oceana, from James Harrington's The Commonwealth of Oceana
• Utopia, from Sir Thomas More's Utopia
• Spidermonkey Island, from Hugh Lofting's The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
• Speranza, from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
• Herland, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland
• Tacarigua, from Ronald Firbank's Prancing Nigger
• Zaroff's Island, from Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"
• Cacklogallinia, from Samuel Brunt's A Voyage to Cacklogallinia

in South America:

• Babel, from Jorge Luis Borges' "The Library of Babel"
• Roncador, from Herbert Read's The Green Child
• El Dorado, the description of which includes a reference to the film Goldfinger
• the Country of the Blind, from H.G. Wells' "The Country of the Blind"
• Macondo, from Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Ewaipanoma, from Sir Walter Raleigh's The Discovery of Guiana
• Watkinsland, from Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell
• Quivera, from Vaughan Wilkins' The City of Frozen Fire
• Maple White Land, from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
• the Black Lagoon, from Creature from the Black Lagoon

off the coast of North America:

• Buyan, from Russian folklore
• Caseosa, Cabbalussa, and Dream Island, all from Lucian of Samosata's "True History"
• Rossum's Island, from Karel Capek's R.U.R.
• Treasure Island, from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
• Captain Sparrow's Island, from S. Fowler Wright's The Island of Captain Sparrow
• Orphan Island, from Rose Macauley's Orphan Island

in North America:

• Rootabaga Country, from Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories
• Chisholm Prison, from "The Problem of Cell 13", Jacques Futrelle's first Professor Van Dusen story
• Twin Peaks
• Mahagonny, from Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
• Cricket Creek, from Evelyn Sibley Lampman's The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek
• iDEATH, from Richard Brautigan's In Watermelon Sugar
• Yoknapatawpha County, from the works of William Faulkner
• Dogpatch, from the comic strip Li'l Abner
• Lake La Metrie, from Wardon Curtis' "The Monster of Lake La Metrie"
• Rampart Junction, from Ray Bradbury's "The Town Where No One Got Off"
• Gone-Away Lake, from Elizabeth Enright's Gone-Away Lake
• Centerboro, from Walter R. Brooks' Freddy the Pig books
• Sleepy Hollow, from Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• Stepford, from Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives
• Arkham, from the stories of H.P. Lovecraft
• Jerusalem's Lot, from Stephen King's Salem's Lot
• Eastwick, from John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick
• Whiton House, from Edward Eager's The Time Garden
• Hill House, from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
• The lost party from the Jamestown Colony from Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
• Bayport, from The Hardy Boys
• The Mexican villa of Don Diego de la Vega, better known as Zorro
• An ancestor of The Dude from Joel and Ethan Coen's film The Big Lebowski
• Palenville, New York from Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle"

The fourth chapter covers Africa and the Middle East

• Mongaza Island, from Amadis of Gaul
• Mogador, from Alberto Ruy-Sanchez's Los nombres del aire
• the Harmattan Rocks and No-Man's-Land, from Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
• Nacumera, from The Travels of John Mandeville
• Wild Island, from Ruth Stiles Gannett's My Father's Dragon
• Aepyornis, from H.G. Wells' "Aepyornis Island"
• Skull Island, from King Kong
• Hewit's Island, from Charles Dibdin's Hannah Hewit
• the island from William Golding's Lord of the Flies
• The Azanian Empire, from Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief
• Ardistan and Djinnistan, from Karl May's Ardistan and Der Mir von Djinnistan
• Samarah and Alkoremi, from William Beckford's Vathek
• Jannati Shah, from George Allan England's The Flying Legion
• the Kingdom of the Amphicleocles, from Charles Fieux de Mouhy's Lamekis, ou les voyages extraordinaires d'un Egyptien dans la terre intérieure, avec la découverte de l'Isle des Silphides, enrichi des notes curieuses
• Silence, from Edgar Allan Poe's "Silence: A Fable"
• Freeland, from Theodor Hertzka's Freiland
• Bong Tree Land, from Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussy Cat"
• Interzone, from William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch
• Crotalophoboi Land, from Norman Douglas' South Wind
• Ouidah, as described by Bruce Chatwin in The Viceroy of Ouidah
• Deads' Town and Unreturnable-Heaven, from Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drunkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Deads' Town
• The kingdom of Babar the Elephant

The fifth chapter covers Asia and the Australias

• Antangil, from Histoire du grand et admirable royaume d'Antangil Inconnu jusques à présent à tous Historiens et Cosmographes
• Terre Australe, from Gabriel de Foigny's La Terre Australe Connue
• the ruins of Standard Island, from Jules Verne's L'Ile à hélice
• the Jumelles, from de Catalde's Le paysan gentilhomme, ou Aventures de M. Ransau avec son voyage aux Isles jumelles
• Caspak, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot and its sequels
• Farandoulie, from Albert Robida's Voyages Très Extraordinaires de Saturnin Farandoul
• Erewhon, from Samuel Butler's Erewhon
• Altruria, from William Dean Howells' A Traveller from Altruria
• Flotsam, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Cave Girl
• Pala and Rendang, from Aldous Huxley's Island
• Cuffycoat's Island, from André Lichtenberger's Pickles ou récits à la mode anglaise
• Manoba, from Paul Scott's The Birds of Paradise
• Bensalem, from Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis
• New Switzerland, from Johann David Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson
• Yoka Island, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Mucker
• Green Sand Island, Black Sand Island, and Red Sand Island, from Tancrède Vallerey's L'Ile au sable vert
• Formosa, as described by George Psalmanazar
• The Sacred Valley, from Maurice Champagne's La Vallée mystérieuse
• Titipu, from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
• Pnom Dhek and Lodidhapura, from Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Jungle Girl
• Mount Tsintsin-Dagh, from Paul Alperine's Ombres sur le Thibet
• Mount Karakal and Shangri-La, from James Hilton's Lost Horizon
• Pauk, from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Possessed
• Gondour, from Mark Twain's The Curious Republic of Gondour
• Xanadu, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"

The sixth chapter covers the Arctic and Antarctica

Islands and seas off the coast of Antarctica:

• Megapatagonia, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean stretching south from Tierra del Fuego, similar to the Blazing World archipelago north of Britain, inhabited by animal men and an inverse of French society. The capital city is "Sirap." From La Découverte australe par un homme-volant by Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne
• Pyrandia island, in the South Pacific Ocean southwest of the Megapatagonia islands, west of the Antarctic peninsula, home to fire men, from Supplément de l'Histoire véritable de Lucien by Jean Jacobé de Frémont d'Ablancourt
• The Academic Sea, somewhere between McMurdo Sound and the Ross Sea, containing the city of Christianopolis on the island of Caphar Salama, from Reipublicae Christianapolitinae Descriptio (or Description of the Republic of Christianopolis) by Johannes Valentinus Andreae
• The Leap Islands, in LoEG also be part of the Academic Sea, containing Aggregation Harbour on the Isle of Leaphigh, inhabited by enlightened monkey-men, from The Monikins by James Fennimore Cooper
• Tsalal island, in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Enderby Land, from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe

Antarctica:

• Antarctic France, on the Victoria Land Peninsula, from L'Aventurier Français by Robert-Martin Lesuire
• Empire of Alsondons, a subterranean land beneath Mac Robertson Land, from L'Aventurier Français by Robert-Martin Lesuire
• The Antarctic entrance to Pluto, a subterranean land, from Voyage au cenre de la terre (or Journey to the Centre of the Earth) by Jules Verne
• Iron Mountains, probably in Queen Maud Land, from Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
• Present Land from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Edgar Allan Poe (in LoEG Present Land is surrounded by the Iron Mountains)
• Mountains of Madness and the City of the Old Ones, from At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (in LoEG the Mountains of Madness are part of the Iron Mountains)
• Kosekin Country, subterranean land beneath either Queen Maud Land or Palmer Land, from A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille

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:

• Elisee Reclus Island, Cristallopolis (French Colony), Maurel City (American Colony), from Une Ville de Verre by Alphonse Brown
• Vichenbolk Land, island kingdom discovered by Lemuel Gulliver, from Pickles ou récits à la mode anglaise by André Lichtenberger
• North Pole Kingdom, a land populated by civilized dinosaurs living under the polar ice cap, from Le Peuple du Pôle by Carles Derennes
• Polar Bear Kingdom, inhabited by intelligent polar bears who also advertise Coca-Cola, from 20,000 Lieues Sous Les Glaces (or 20,000 Leagues Under the Ice) by Mór Jókai and a parody of the 1993 "Polar Bears" Coca-Cola advertising campaign by Creative Artists Agency
• Mountain-Door to Mandai Country, subterranean land, from Iran by Hirmiz bar Anhar
• Gaster Island from The Fourth Book of the Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel by François Rabelais
• The Sea of Frozen Words from The Fourth Book of the Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel by François Rabelais
• Queen Island from Les Aventures du capitaine Hatteras au Pôle Nord, or (Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras at the North Pole) by Jules Verne
• The Island of Thule, from The Bibliotheca historia (Library of History) by Diodorus Siculus, Geographika (Geography) by Strabo, and The Gothic War by Procopius
• Hyperborea from Inventorum Natura (Natural History) by Pliny the Elder
• The Back of the North Wind, a warm region of the Arctic, from At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
• Toyland, from Little Noddy Goes to Toyland by Enid Blyton, ruled over by Olimpia (from "Der Sandmann," from the book Nachtstücke or Night-Pieces by E.T.A. Hoffmann) and the Creature (from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
• The Arctic counterpart to the Iron Mountains, with an entrance to the subterranean land of either Pluto, Pellucidar (from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs), Atavatabar (from The Goddess of Atavatabar by William R. Bradshaw, or Ruffal (from La vie, les avanture, and le voyage de Groenland du Révérend Père Cordelier Pierre de Mesange by Simon Tyssot de Patot)
• The Real North Pole, from The Purple Cloud by M. P. Shiel
• Peacepool, from The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby by Charles Kingsley
• The home of Santa Claus, described as a shaman clad in reindeer hide whose spirit guides ("little helpers") encourage him to spread joy around the world on the winter solstice. He has also been visited by the Coca-Cola representatives.

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  • Absolute edition (deluxe hardcover): ISBN 1401206115, including Moore's original scripts and additional artwork by O'Neill
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Black Dossier
  • hardcover: ISBN 140120306X (May 30, 2006)
  • Absolute edition (deluxe hardcover): ISBN 1401207510 (September 30, 2006)

• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• King Solomon's Mines and sequels, by H. Rider Haggard
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu and sequels, by Sax Rohmer
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
• The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

• The First Men in the Moon, The Time Machine, and The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells
• A Princess of Mars and its sequels in the Martian novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Gullivar of Mars by Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

• perhaps the most notable predecessor is the 1949 novel Silverlock, written by John Myers Myers; every character in this novel had been lifted from the pages of works dating back to Beowulf and other ancient tales. It is unclear whether Moore drew any inspiration from Myers' book.
• Tarzan Alive, Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, and the rest of the Wold Newton family stories by Philip José Farmer
• Anno Dracula and sequels, by Kim Newman
• The League of Heroes and sequels, by Xavier Mauméjean ISBN 1932983449
• Tales of the Shadowmen and sequels, edited by Jean-Marc Lofficier ISBN 1932983368

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

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen timeline
• Steampunk
• List of Wold Newton Universe characters

• The League Foundation
• Annotations to the League (Notes and annotations in a page-by-page commentary to the comics.)
• Review of LOEG comic written by Alan Moore
• A mirror site for the Commentary
• A fansite, which includes pictorial representations of the Leagues throughout the ages
• The DC Comics Message Board for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• A fansite dedicated to Mina Murray