the league of extraordinary gentlemen volume 1

The man is Dr Henry Jekyll, while the monster is his alter ego Mr. Once on the Nautilus, the monster transforms into a frail, terrified man with no memory of recent events. Allan and Dupin trace the killer to his apartment and find Mina, but are attacked by a large monster.Īfter a brief fight, Allan forces the monster out of the apartment window, and the fall renders it unconscious. Mina poses as a prostitute to lure the killer into a trap, but is kidnapped. Auguste Dupin to investigate a recent string of violent murders. Nemo fends off the Egyptian police with a harpoon gun, and Allan is brought on board the Nautilus to recover from his opium addiction.įor their next assignment, the League travel to Paris and meet with C. As the other man rushes off to tell the authorities, Mina drags Allan through the busy streets towards the docks, where Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, emerges from the sea. Two Arab men enter the den and attempt to rape Mina, but Allan intervenes and kills one of them. Captain Nemo escorts Mina to Egypt, where she finds a heavily intoxicated Allan Quatermain in an opium den. She meets with MI5 agent Campion Bond (the grandfather of James Bond), who gives her the task of gathering selected members for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a secret task force whose job it will be to protect the British Empire from potential threats. In 1898, one year after her encounter with Dracula, Mina Murray has divorced her husband and now works for the British government. The characters and plot elements borrow from works of writers such as Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, H.

The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from Victorian literature (and possibly the entirety of fiction) coexist. It is the first story in the larger League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One 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 in the United States and under Vertigo in the United Kingdom.

The league of extraordinary gentlemen volume 1