Written by Alan Moore (Watchmen) and illustrated by Kevin O’Neill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen started getting published in 1999, but only concluded recently. It’s composed of four volumes, a spin-off series, and a bit more material.
The story takes us back to London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth-century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos.
It is an era in need of champions. Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, form a remarkable legion of intellectual aptitude and physical prowess: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The Series ended in 2019.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Reading Order
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume I
Collects League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1 #1-6. - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II
Collects League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 2 #1-6.
Those two-volume are also collected in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus and also in The Jubilee Edition.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
A mix of comic book and prose storytelling, this graphic novel even includes a 3-D section complete with custom 3-D glasses and much more. - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century
Collects Century 1910, Century 1969 & Century 2009. From the occult parlors and crime-haunted wharfs of 1910, through the criminal, mystical and psychedelic underworlds of 1969 to the financially and culturally desolated streets of 2009, the disintegrating remnants of Miss Murray and her League must combat not only the hidden hand of their undying adversary but also the ethical and psychological collapse accompanying this new era.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Nemo Trilogy
Spin-off graphic novels follow the terrifying pirate queen Janni Nemo in her confrontations with unearthly Antarctic horrors, mechanical metropolitan monstrosities, and depraved tropical tyrants. It’s 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her dying science-pirate father, only to accept her destiny as the new Nemo. Now, tired of her unending spree of plunder and destruction, Janni launches a grand expedition to surpass her father’s greatest failure: the exploration of Antarctica.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Nemo Trilogy
Collects Nemo: Heart of Ice, Nemo: The Roses of Berlin & Nemo: River of Ghosts.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: Tempest
Collects League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 4.
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Last Updated on June 16, 2022.