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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1

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“A sharp-witted gloss on the scientific and sexual obsessions of Victorian society.”—TIME”Moore has combined his love of 19th-century adventure literature with an imaginative mastery of its 20th-century corollary, the superhero comic book.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY”Swashbuckling, wry humor.”—SPINLondon, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. This can be 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.In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from during time and quite a lot of bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. 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 Strange Gentlemen.
Proving that mainstream comics could be infused with past literary/cultural ideals and still be bestsellers, the The us’s Best Comics imprint took the dilapidated superhero genre and created three vastly entertaining hybrids with Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten. Now, a stunning coup de grace is delivered with this masterful pairing of Victorian adventure fiction’s greatest characters and the old war-horse of the super-group. With the stunning The League of Strange Gentlemen, it would be no exaggeration to say that Alan Moore has produced a near-perfect piece of adventure fiction that is clever, literate, rich with excitement and hard to put down.

It’s 1898 and at the behest of M, the mysterious head of the name of the game Service, Campion Bond is dispatched to procure the services and products of Miss Mina Murray (nee Harker), adventurer Allan Quartermain, “Science-Pirate” Captain Nemo, Henry Jekyll (and his monstrous alter ego) and Hawley Griffin (a.k.a. the Invisible Man). Together, they should combat an insidious threat that allows you to make a decision supremacy of the London skies, but their success may unleash a far greater threat. With no shortage of action, Moore and O’ Neill sustain a high level of suspense, intrigue, mystery and terrific wit that all contribute to an indispensable read. O’Neill’s art, so memorable in Marshal Law, produces a London filled with vivid, magnificent architecture and a malevolent atmosphere ripe with thrills and danger. An unmitigated triumph–pure and simple. –Danny Graydon

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