The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Wildstorm/DC Comics |
| Schedule | Irregular |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre |
Alternate history Steampunk |
| Publication date(s) | March 1999 - September 2000 |
| No. of issues | 6 |
| Main character(s) |
Mina Murray Allan Quatermain Hawley Griffin Dr. Jekyll/Edward Hyde Captain Nemo |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Alan Moore |
| Artist(s) | Kevin O'Neill |
| Letterer(s) | Bill Oakley |
| Colorist(s) | Benedict Dimagmaliw |
| Editor(s) | Scott Dunbier |
| Collected editions | |
| Hardcover | ISBN |
| Paperback | ISBN |
| Absolute edition | ISBN |
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. It is the first story in the larger League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series. 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. The characters and plot elements borrow from works of writers such as Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and Robert Louis Stevenson.
The story is set in 1898, one year after the events of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Mina Murray has divorced her husband and now works for the British Government. She meets with MI5 agent Campion Bond (the grandfather of James Bond) at the White Cliffs of Dover, and he gives her the task of gathering selected members for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a secret service task force whose job it will be to protect the British Empire from potential threats. Captain Nemo escorts Mina to Cairo, Egypt, where she searches for Allan Quatermain, eventually finding him heavily intoxicated in an opium den. Two Arab men enter the den and attempt to rape Mina, but Allan intervenes and kills one of them. 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. Nemo fends off the Egyptian police with a harpoon gun, and Allan is brought on board the Nautilus to recover from his opium addiction.
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